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FB RECRUITING: Quick update on 4-star official visitor

Quashon Fuller will be on campus as an official visitor this weekend, that’s old news and if you didn’t know now you do. What wasn’t known was that he’s bringing his mother along for the visit. At least that is the plan right now.

What’s the significance of a recruit bringing their parent on a visit you may ask, well let me tell you that it’s very significant. In the recruiting game, if a prospect is lucky to score a round trip all expense paid trip to a school they don’t plan to sign with, they usually come solo. That’s so they can listen to the staff’s pitch all day then hit the town at night with thier host and party.

When mom and/or dad come with the prospect however, that suggests that the visit is being taken seriously. When parents accompany a prospect it’s typically to meet the people who will be in charge of their son for the next three to four years as well a get a feel for the campus and the academic side of things.

I know that Fuller’s mother is the major adult decision maker in his recruitment so all signs point to Louisville being in serious consideration. You may think, “of course his mother is a major decision maker” but in my experience that isn’t always the case.

I’ll update the board when I get confirmation that Fuller and his mother have arrived as well as any other developments on the visit as they occur.

WBB falls to Irish 82-68

Lack of rebounding, second chance points and refereeing. Three things that ultimately brought the Cards their first loss of the season. Two are correctable.

For "no way!" scenarios, the awakening of Arike, and other observations on what I'll call the tale of two halves, let's block out and grab the ball in:

FIVE THINGS ABOUT THIS GAME:

5) Go get the ball.
Getting outrebounded 48-32 isn't going to put many "W"'s on the board for you. Granted, when the entire Belknap Campus is sitting on the bench with foul trouble, it makes a difference but the Irish had almost as many defensive rebounds as Louisville had total rebounds. That's not good. Second chance points 19-5 in favor of the Irish. Ouchie!

4) What game Are you guys watching? Trying to kick Arica in the face. No contact, no foul. Falling down like a fainting goat with no contact and then getting awarded a intentional foul? . Arike Ogunbowale is a talented played but she plays dirty. 28-15 was the final foul tally. A stat Louisville didn't want to win. It's a shame when the refs take over a game.

3) Sealing the deal. Despite all the chicanery going on out on the court, the Cards managed to pull within two with less than two to go. A time out. Notre Dame comes out and scores, and scores again. Unfortunately, the Irish performed better down the stretch, in crunch time than the Cards did.
If I see Brianna Turner driving down the lane and sinking that seven-foot jumper one more time...please erase my brain of those bad visions. It's a shame that Ogunbowale decided to wake up in the second half, but, that's what she does. And, the Cards couldn't stop her.

2) Quote of the night. On the foul situation, Jeff Walz did get a good quip in when he said.
"It was getting so bad, I thought I was going to have to put my five-year-old daughter in the game." Glad it didn't come to that. Arike probably would have sucker-punched Lola.

1) Thanks For Coming. Now, leave. The iciness of the post game handshake between Walz and McGraw caught my attention. There is no love lost between these two. Especially now, after Notre Dame got every break, every call and capitalized. Hey, let them dance in January. I hope Louisville is dancing in March.

Wait a second, the Cards are getting off the bus after the ride back to Louisville and Jaz Jones just got whistled for blocking Arica's path to the luggage compartment. "Ay, ya, yi, yi...Lucy. who let Eric and his whistle on the bus?"

This was not a night to remember.

-- Sonja --
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Between Stoops at UK, Brohm at PU and Neal at WVU

Satterfield is in big trouble when it comes to recruiting in the state of Kentucky.

https://www.kentucky.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mark-story/article224023720.html

These kid don't know who Satterfield but they all know Neal, Stoops, and Brohm.

At least Hoosier nation will get the help it desperately needs from Neal/WVU that it can't get from UL.

And before you delete this, know that I live and work as an operator in the Louisville area and follow Kentucky HS very closely.

Rewatching the 2014 UL-ND football game

Good grief the talent we had, the discipline and aggression.
I completely forgot that the Notre Dame defense was led by Van Gorder, nothing changed, he was clueless then.
Reggie wasn't that bad at quarterback and we had a really deep stable of running backs and wide receivers.
Say what you want about Grantham, that defense really brought it.

Knowing we open up with ND next season, I am not expecting any great upset, I just hope we see a much better product than we saw this season
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