Transfer Portal (Spring 2025) is now open

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2:44p, 4/11/25
But also happy for her. Hopefully she can go to a team with great guard play and that plays at a slower pace! Guards who can find her in the post more efficiently will help her out a ton
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2:45p, 4/11/25
Updated Roster

Lauren Ware - Sr
Kyndal Hunter - Sr
Lemyah Hylton - Sr (Miami)
Kaitlyn Duhon - Sr (Auburn)
Janae Kent - Jr
Vanessa Saidu - Soph
Chaney Spencer - Fr
Anita Franccini - Fr


Departures
Aicha Coulibaly - out of eligibilty
Sahara Jones - out of eligibilty
Jada Malone - transfer
Amirah Abdur-Rahim - transfer
Erica Moon - transfer
Sole Williams - transfer (Florida State)
Taliyah Parker - transfer (TCU)
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taylorswift13_
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2:55p, 4/11/25
We're bringing back 18.2 ppg from last years team
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3:49p, 4/11/25
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I am also surprised to see Jada enter the portal, I really enjoyed seeing her play and thought she was playing much better this year. Good luck to her.
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In reply to taylorswift13_ • 7:46p, 4/11/25
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taylorswift13_ said:
surprised me a lot! Outside of basketball, she was a great representative for this school and for the Mays Business School. She was involved in many student organizations and was a leader for student athlete representation. This one is shocking as she was currently in a masters program

I'm shocked and for all the reasons you named. Just wow. Cancel the season already.
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In reply to taylorswift13_ • 7:59p, 4/11/25
taylorswift13_ said:
But also happy for her. Hopefully she can go to a team with great guard play and that plays at a slower pace! Guards who can find her in the post more efficiently will help her out a ton

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In reply to Lemmys Rickenbacker • 8:10p, 4/11/25
I'm ecstatic for her! Along with Sahara Jones, Jada Malone is the only other Aggie who was signed by Blair that stuck with Joni for this long. She got her Aggie degree and has been an excellent representative, probably one of the most involved student athletes on campus. She's been the epitome of loyal, and I'm glad she's leaving this dumpster fire of a program and I hope she can play for a winning coach and winning program. Not everyone wants to fight for 15th place in the SEC. Portal is only open about a week and a half more and Joni hasn't shown these girls that she's gonna turn this around or build a winning team. Why should these girls trust Joni Taylor in their last season of college eligibility that things will be different when no one wants to come play for her and most girls have transferred out. Would you want your daughter playing here
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Lemmys Rickenbacker
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In reply to taylorswift13_ • 8:51a, 4/12/25
taylorswift13_ said:
I'm ecstatic for her! Along with Sahara Jones, Jada Malone is the only other Aggie who was signed by Blair that stuck with Joni for this long. She got her Aggie degree and has been an excellent representative, probably one of the most involved student athletes on campus. She's been the epitome of loyal, and I'm glad she's leaving this dumpster fire of a program and I hope she can play for a winning coach and winning program. Not everyone wants to fight for 15th place in the SEC. Portal is only open about a week and a half more and Joni hasn't shown these girls that she's gonna turn this around or build a winning team. Why should these girls trust Joni Taylor in their last season of college eligibility that things will be different when no one wants to come play for her and most girls have transferred out. Would you want your daughter playing here

Malone is free to do what she feels best for her, I just don't encourage the team I like to lose players despite what I think of the coach
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12:56p, 4/12/25
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Would you want your daughter playing here
I have a daughter and yes I would want her playing for Joni. Joni is a kind and caring person. I know that Joni would have my daughter's best interests at heart. Would my daughter have a college career that involves a lot of championships if she is playing for Joni, I guess that is TBD or maybe even no. However there are a lot of elite coaches (and we know the names and the accusations) that have pretty bad reputations from their players, they use them up, mentally abuse them, but hey they win.

So to answer this question...it depends what you actually want for your daughter if you have one and whether you actually know Joni personally to make this judgment. As fans we can certainly be upset with the results on the court and criticize those, but the question leads us to need to disparage Joni in a more personal and incendiary way.
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greg.w.h
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1:44p, 4/12/25
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I haven't lit into Joni, Gap, but let's suggest that kids in college are able to toughen up and focus on success not just being loved. Said differently, why should we want your daughter to play for us if she can't lift the program above what we saw last year? Not aimed at your daughter of course. But unless we are building competitors (if not champions) the value of intercollegiate athletics is debatable.

With that said, I thought Joni would be good for Texas A&M but I didn't know her personally at all. I'm less sure I was right now than I was then. Tell me why we should retain her based on basketball outcomes?
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In reply to Gap • 3:11p, 4/12/25
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I'm not sure I've seen personal attacks that don't involve results? That's confusing to me. Nobody is arguing that Joni is not a good person. That's the bare minimum of what should be required at this university. She can be a good person AND recruit and win. But as good of a person as she is, the reality is, it appears not many want to play for her. The question is….why?

Listen, I think we all want to be wrong about Joni and staff. Going into year 4 she's given us no indication anything will change. $1.5 million a year to be a good person? Sign me up for that!
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3:11p, 4/12/25
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I'm a good person. I'll do it for a million.
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6:21p, 4/12/25
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What about your niece?

Maybe your neighbor of freind's daughter?
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In reply to Captn_Ag05 • 6:27p, 4/12/25
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Captn_Ag05 said:
I'm a good person. I'll do it for a million.
I'll up you one and only do it for $900k. And I want another $1M for NIL. What is your NIL ask?

But of course, it has nothing to do with my daughter or a her being a good person. Our problem is just the results being fans and supporters of the program.

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In reply to greg.w.h • 6:33p, 4/12/25
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greg.w.h said:
Tell me why we should retain her based on basketball outcomes?
I can't and haven't made that case on retaining her. I thought at some point in February that she would not be retained based upon performance.

But I do think that you have posed the proper and actual real question above.
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12:19p, 4/13/25
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10 more days in the portal, and the current roster is demostrably worse than the 16th placing team in the SEC last year.

I'm afraid that Joni has allowed the roster to deplete itself to the point that remaining impact players in the portal will pass on A&M as the risk is too high for them to take a chance on a team coming together in 10 days.... unless they get paid.

Looks like Trev has 3 valid options:

1. Give up on 2025 and allow the team to implode with Joni at the helm.
2. Send Joni down the road and absorb the 1.5M buyout, and begin a search now for a replacement, which will also result in a bottom tier finish in the SEC, and maybe leave us with an assistant coaching for the year.
3. Try to salvage something by giving Joni the $1.5M as a NIL piggy bank to try to salvage the last 10 days of portal.

Seeing those options, my guess is we're likely to take option 1 and wander in the wilderness for another year, and Joni will be relieved somewhere mid to late season.
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12:35p, 4/13/25
At this point, it may have become a game of chicken. Don't think Trev will blink first. But Joni has done irreparable damage to her professional reputation.
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7:18p, 4/13/25
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I think the silence means she's secured a few more transfers that she's not announcing yet due to NIL $$ OR, we are dead in the water. Those are the only two options.
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2:58p, 4/14/25
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Interesting…

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10:09a, 4/16/25

WOW!!!!



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In reply to WBBALLFAN84 • 10:33a, 4/16/25
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WBBALLFAN84 said:

WOW!!!!



Wow is right, but I wish Jada nothing but the best out there in West Texas.
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11:13a, 4/16/25
Tech finished 4-14 in conference, 12th in the big 12
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In reply to taylorswift13_ • 11:35a, 4/16/25
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taylorswift13_ said:
Tech finished 4-14 in conference, 12th in the big 12
Does that tell us anything about why Jada would leave one last place finishing team for another that finished bottom half?

I'm afraid it does.
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12:08p, 4/16/25
I saw a post out there that she had prospects from kstate, TCU, Baylor as well. Maybe she just went somewhere with the best fit for her?
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12:16p, 4/16/25
Anywhere but here
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In reply to jrdaustin • 12:18p, 4/16/25
I believe this year with having the collective go into effect a coach has to carry 15 players? If so definitely dead in the water
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12:58p, 4/16/25
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I love when recruits post photos of themselves here and then hashtag #notcommitted, almost as if they are embarrassed to admit they were here. Lol
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In reply to aggiedrjdub • 3:36p, 4/16/25
That's the norm when recruits post on a recruiting visit.
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In reply to WBBALLFAN84 • 3:38p, 4/16/25
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I've seen several not hashtag that. It might be the norm, but it just seems like a slap in the face to me.
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In reply to Wbball95 • 3:41p, 4/16/25
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Wbball95 said:
I believe this year with having the collective go into effect a coach has to carry 15 players? If so definitely dead in the water
Don't have to carry 15 and can give scholarship money to all.

But settlement still isn't finalized.
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In reply to greg.w.h • 3:53p, 4/16/25
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I feel like she can just have walk-ons fill the remaining spots if that's a condition of the collective. Not ideal, but something she can do.
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In reply to aggiedrjdub • 4:27p, 4/16/25
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aggiedrjdub said:
I feel like she can just have walk-ons fill the remaining spots if that's a condition of the collective. Not ideal, but something she can do.
The settlement as proposed doesn't allow walk ons. The judge asked to grandfather existing walk ons and the NCAA lawyers did not propose adjusting the roster spot approach or numbers.
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In reply to greg.w.h • 5:45p, 4/16/25
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Ah ok good to know. Thx!
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8:58p, 4/16/25
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Don't we have a few transexuals that we can slide in under the wire? 8 roster spots filled, maybe 5 to go in less than two weeks of the portal signings. Joni is going to have to get high in the behind to even field a team.
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10:25a, 4/17/25
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6 days left and not a peep from the program.

This is astounding!
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