"This year's portal window is just 30 days, as opposed to the 45-day span that athletes had in prior years to enter their names. But so long as players enter within the 30-day window (March 25-April 23) they face no firm deadline on when they must commit to a new school."

Ok Joni, let's get out there and bring in some good talent. We've got to build this roster with quality and depth. It can be done. Here's hoping!

And so it begins.

The one point guard we had (Moon)…gone. The most talented girl on the roster (Parker)…gone.

Well, Sole Williams is now in the portal. Joni is going to have to hit the portal to field a team.

Good Lord. Why would anyone come play for these coaches?

WHERE IS OUR AD, we literally don't have a team!

Aceswimmer09 said:

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WHERE IS OUR AD, we literally don't have a team!

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seems he was content with this, anyone with a brain would have observed the catastrophe of a season we had and assume there was no saving this program. But like soccer, he's just watching it implode

aggiedrjdub said:

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Who is left?

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you me and taylor. I vote taylor for PG

3 on 3 is the new thing right

She is an absolute head case. Maybe she'll pan out, but it's a real clown show.

Aceswimmer09 said:

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WHERE IS OUR AD, we literally don't have a team!

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Trev Alberts might be the Nico Harrison & Patrick Dumont of athletic directors (the guys who destroyed the Mavs).

Trev is like a dead-fish who doesn't know how to do anything that requires courage. Looking like the worst athletic director in the history of Texas A&M so far. He's a soy/beta or whatever some people call them.

I mean you didn't hire Shaefer because the timing didn't work out and this school isn't going to put huge money into WBB.

That said, Taylor is letting this program burn and seems to be neglecting basic job duties like fielding a team.

Does she just not care? I mean yeah we don't have major NIL for WBB but she is not even trying to get even walkon or D3 type players.

What's she's doing to this program requires her immediate termination and the destruction of her future career. She hit the lotto here will never have to work again and is probably enjpying a relaxing time doing nothing but getting paid

Ag1188 said:

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Aceswimmer09 said:

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WHERE IS OUR AD, we literally don't have a team!

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Trev Alberts might be the Nico Harrison & Patrick Dumont of athletic directors (the guys who destroyed the Mavs).

Trev is like a dead-fish who doesn't know how to do anything that requires courage. Looking like the worst athletic director in the history of Texas A&M so far. He's a soy/beta or whatever some people call them.

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He's a fund raiser and accountant in effect. The PlayflySports deal was something he did at Nebraska, too.

In all honesty, he has bigger fish to fry than WBB or soccer. If he can't get the internal NIL $20+ million per year funded and a process that passes muster with the third party Deloitte oversight group then our primary funding for our sports…football…could crater.

But the lack of any public comment just means this isn't his biggest fire. But Joni is getting roasted by it. One hopes we have a team at the TMF working contingency plans at least for backfilling the roster.

I'd take a 10 person team with interesting players who are durable and well conditioned. Let's just say this last year was what goes wrong if you don't have the ability to adapt.

AggieSports said:

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Wow…pretty crazy stat!

Four players entering the portal doesn't constitute a "mass exodus"—that's now the average

—  Raoul (@Raoul_000) March 26, 2025

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4 leaving with 5 seniors/grad transfers potentially also leaving, and only 7-8 available during the season to play due to constant injuries is a mass exodus for our program. The remarkable stat for us the last few years is how we continue to lose starters (guards mostly). They simply do not like playing for this staff. With those that have entered so far, you could almost tell they had ZERO interest in being on the floor for Joni. There was no fight in them; they gave up in the last half of the conference season.

Unless we somehow get 5-6 DIFFERENCE makers (AC level talent) that would come in and start, we have no pieces left in the program that would allow us to finish any higher in conference than we did this year. We will finish last again.

greg.w.h said:

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Ag1188 said:

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Aceswimmer09 said:

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WHERE IS OUR AD, we literally don't have a team!

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Trev Alberts might be the Nico Harrison & Patrick Dumont of athletic directors (the guys who destroyed the Mavs).

Trev is like a dead-fish who doesn't know how to do anything that requires courage. Looking like the worst athletic director in the history of Texas A&M so far. He's a soy/beta or whatever some people call them.

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He's a fund raiser and accountant in effect. The PlayflySports deal was something he did at Nebraska, too.

In all honesty, he has bigger fish to fry than WBB or soccer. If he can't get the internal NIL $20+ million per year funded and a process that passes muster with the third party Deloitte oversight group then our primary funding for our sports…football…could crater.

But the lack of any public comment just means this isn't his biggest fire. But Joni is getting roasted by it. One hopes we have a team at the TMF working contingency plans at least for backfilling the roster.

I'd take a 10 person team with interesting players who are durable and well conditioned. Let's just say this last year was what goes wrong if you don't have the ability to adapt.

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I agree with all of this, greg. The question I pose is, why continue funding the WBB at all then? Certainly, from an accountant's perspective, cut your losses (WBB and Soccer) and save money and move on. There is no value in paying a coaching staff over $2 million per year, NIL funds going to athletes, free education/meals/lodging, etc, if we cannot be competitive. We could be like Oklahoma State that does not have a volleyball team because they cannot effectively fund it. While I agree that he has bigger fish to fry, why not just abandon the program and put the funds into MBB, Women's Tennis, Volleyball and men's and women's golf. Football, baseball, and softball will be fine.

Cut the programs.