Transfer Portal (Spring 2025) is now open

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wehnerhigh20
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Less than a week to go and how many spots do we still have left to fill? This is gonna be an ugly, ugly season
Captn_Ag05
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Does the portal to get players close in 6 days or just for players to enter?
taylorswift13_
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The deadline os just for them to enter… we can add all the way until the fall semester starts but it's soon to be slim pickings if it already isn't with the better girls already making their decisions. The more time that passes, the more difficult it would be. With the current state of our roster who wants to join this ship
Kbeauty63
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FWIW - remember, Aicha didn't sign until I think June/July. So, I'm hoping for more transfers in
Wbball95
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Amirah to Houston. Just announced.

Also want to add players are also withdrawing from the portal which means pickings will be very slim.
taylorswift13_
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Houston won 5 games last year… these girls are going anywhere just to leave Joni
wehnerhigh20
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Or these programs have more NIL to offer
fitzwatema
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wehnerhigh20 said:

Or these programs have more NIL to offer
I am guessing this is what's happening.
trackaggie76
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JT made time to attend the WNBA draft for AC!
JazzyFran
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She wasn't there for AC. She was there for Alabama's Sarah Barker. I saw AC post from College Station.
taylorswift13_
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I'll post both arguments

Really great of her to support a player she recruited and coached

Also….

Why are you at a draft party in New York for a player you last coached over 3 years ago instead of supporting one on your current roster or out recruiting when you have 7 roster spots to fill
JazzyFran
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The second one was my argument.
JazzyFran
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Sometimes players want to go where they are the missing piece. This staff has no idea on how to use talent. They have squandered so many kids eligibility. Texas Tech brought in a point guard which I haven't seen here. You are dead in the water without a good pg just like last year. Houston has a new coach. He was at Kentucky a few years ago before he left for personal reasons.
taylorswift13_
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Seems wild to me, the first player of your Aggie tenure to get drafted. She suffered a gruesome season ending injury trying to carry this team to any meaningful level because you failed to surround her with talent and ran off her other valuable teammates. This is the best moment of her career to this point, potentially being drafted to the WNBA and as a coach you're not there by her side… now I know why 14 girls have left the portal in her 3 years here. Just cause one girl you coached in 2022 had a higher chance of being drafted, doesn't mean you betray your own player on her night. Speaks to me like a coach who's in it more for herself than her own players… I've been vocal about Joni in the past but this sets a new low
taylorswift13_
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And you're right on this, I'm just looking at records and not giving coaches the benefit of the doubt, some coaches are trying my to upgrade their roster any coach with a plan and vision is an upgrade for our girls
JazzyFran
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You are exactly right. I thought that was horrible on every level you mentioned!! Clout chasing
taylorswift13_
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Joni rather be on TV, than be there for her own Aggies, I'm appalled
Wbball95
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I don't agree JT didn't have talent on the team. No she didn't have a pg but not having a vision is huge. They ran the same plays every time down the floor, never called time outs, didn't make adjustments, played favoritism with playing time instead of putting the players who are making runs and trying to win on the floor. Although they may not be top of the totem pole in the conference they should have finished better. Your players leave for better schools and thrive there. TCU, FSU, Rutgers, Cincinnati, Tech, etc. all with winning records regardless of how conference play ended.
Wbball95
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UCLA, Florida…list goes on.
taylorswift13_
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Yeah i agree, the not making adjustments or having any cohesion or flow on offense stuck out. It seemed we were lost every time we had the ball on that side of the court. We had no ball movement and little movement off the ball, we had no guards who could pass and that hurt us. Not sure how we've made any improvements in that regard. We have one proven post player and not sure what else.
taylorswift13_
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Can some of our volleyball players dribble a basketball
taylorswift13_
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We have all summer to add girls, but who's going to want to come to an incomplete team or a team that was just thrown together. We have no one to lead the offense, we have no shooters, we have 1 post player
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I'll see a new post on the thread, and think "Finally! We have a commit!"

Then I scroll to the end to find that we've added no one... And half the time someone is posting a commit to another school.

This is excruciating.
taylorswift13_
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At this point I just assume it's us losing a player lol, even though there's only 4 left from last year
aggiedrjdub
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Maybe we are in for 5 or 6 surprises? I'm not convinced the 2 freshman make it to campus at this point and you have to imagine that if they do they won't be playing (or shouldn't be). That means we currently have an "experienced" roster of, hold on tight now, 6.

What is so confusing to me is we see all other programs doing well. (Soccer results tbd, but as poorly as the last few seasons have gone, we are seeing recruits and a social media presence). Bucky has come in and recruited the highest rated recruit that has ever stepped foot on A&M campus for men's basketball. What is going on in the women's program? Only God knows. I don't even think Joni knows at this point.
Ag4eva95
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I wouldn't want Joni coaching them even if they could. She'd destroy their career
Wbball95
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Vanessa hasn't played much so really 5 experienced players.
wehnerhigh20
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Kay Naegeli said:

Another loss…




From bad to worse
Gap
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Without naming names, there were a couple of young players that I wish had stayed during the "rebuild". However, they went into the portal very early. There are a few veterans that I hoped stayed because they have proven they can play at this level. Losing players that were overwhelmed at this level isn't really a bother. The issue is adding players that will help us be competitive. We need that to start soon...please.
taylorswift13_
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Updated Roster (3 days before portal closes)

Lauren Ware - 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 (Texas Tech)
Amirah Abdur-Rahim - transfer (Houston
Sole Williams - transfer (Florida State)
Taliyah Parker - transfer (TCU)
Erica Moon - transfer
Kyndall Hunter - transfer
taylorswift13_
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Joni has lost 15 players to the portal across 3 off seasons… that's more portal losses than conference wins
aggiedrjdub
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Girl got that Aggie ring and said "PEACE OUT" deuces yall haha
taylorswift13_
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If Lauren Ware wants to play at the next level, I'm sure we'll hear that she enters the portal in the coming days. No way she wastes her 6th year in whatever concoction of a team this will be or for a coach who won't even be by her side come draft day.
taylorswift13_
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Players that have left Texas A&M under Joni Taylor, could be a solid squad

Sydney Bowles - Florida State
Mya Petticord - Rutgers
Janiah Barker - UCLA
Tineya Hylton - Cincinnati
Kay Kay Green - Charlotte
Jada Malone - Texas Tech
Maliyah Johnson - Ball State
Eriny Kindred - Florida
Erica Moon -
Sole Williams - Florida State
Kylie Marshall - SMU
Kyndall Hunter -
Taliyah Parker - TCU
Amirah Abdur-Rahim - Houston
taylorswift13_
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Year 4 and Vanessa Saidu is the only high school recruit signed by Joni Taylor that's still on the roster, and she's played 50 minutes in 2 years…
 
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