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LadyLionsFan
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Posted: 06/04/15 4:08 pm ::: Any news on Sierra Calhoun |
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Back on January 4th., five months to the day, Sierra Calhoun decided to quit the Duke University women's basketball team evidently with plans to transfer to another school. While there have been a ton of women players transferring after the 2014-15 season.....what makes the Sierra Calhoun transfer situation bizarre is the extreme length of time that has passed.
Most of the players transferring only took a few weeks to decide if that long. Jenny DeGraaf a Penn State transfer took only about 2 weeks from the time she tweeted that she was transferring until she announced her new school UNC-Wilmington. Usually one month seems to be able the norm.
There has been a lot of speculation on the Duke University women's hoops Scout forums about what made her leave school in such a hurry...announcing her decision just an hour or so before their next basketball game. A lot of the posters mentioned that Calhoun was allegedly the victim of some type of abuse and as a result she left school and is trying to get the NCAA to waive the mandatory one year period of not playing if she transfers to a Division I school. IF this is true then is it possible that the NCAA has been doing an investigation into the allegations to determine if the rule should be waived in her case. This would explain why five months have gone by with virtually no new information coming out. Some have even opined that perhaps Calhoun has quit basketball altogether...I find that really hard to believe that such a talented player who was starting as a true freshman for Duke, ranked #10 at the time of her announcement would just quit the sport. I won't speculate as others have done, but I will point out that Duke's women's basketball team has had I believe 10 players transfer out in the past 7 years. That number seems excessive. Something is not right.
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#Occasionalwnbafan
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Posted: 06/05/15 12:46 pm ::: |
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LadyLionsFan
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goforit77
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Posted: 06/05/15 1:42 pm ::: |
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But they have to take the Dad too...I hope MM can handle him
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 06/05/15 2:08 pm ::: |
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goforit77 wrote: |
But they have to take the Dad too...I hope MM can handle him |
Maybe they can assign Daddy Mitchell the task of dealing with Daddy Calhoun. That should keep both of them busy and out of McGuff's hair leaving him free to do his job.
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LadyLionsFan
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Posted: 06/05/15 2:17 pm ::: |
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Well, she can't keep transferring over and over. So I don't think there will be any real problems. McGuff is a good and rising coach. OSU women will be a force in the B1G sooner rather than later.
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Fighting Artichoke
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Posted: 06/05/15 4:52 pm ::: |
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goforit77 wrote: |
But they have to take the Dad too...I hope MM can handle him |
MM? Were you thinking of Mathew Mitchell or Muffet McGraw? OSU's head coach is Kevin McGuff.
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goforit77
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Posted: 06/05/15 7:00 pm ::: |
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Fighting Artichoke wrote: |
goforit77 wrote: |
But they have to take the Dad too...I hope MM can handle him |
MM? Were you thinking of Mathew Mitchell or Muffet McGraw? OSU's head coach is Kevin McGuff. |
Whoops...Typo...But either one could probably handle Daddy Calhoun...
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summertime blues
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Posted: 06/05/15 7:43 pm ::: |
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goforit77 wrote: |
Fighting Artichoke wrote: |
goforit77 wrote: |
But they have to take the Dad too...I hope MM can handle him |
MM? Were you thinking of Mathew Mitchell or Muffet McGraw? OSU's head coach is Kevin McGuff. |
Whoops...Typo...But either one could probably handle Daddy Calhoun... |
Whatever. They probably deserve each other.
_________________ Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom
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greatgator
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Posted: 06/07/15 4:11 am ::: |
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Given the odd timing of her departure and re-enrollment, when will Sierra be eligible to play?
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bacabuck
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Posted: 06/07/15 8:25 am ::: |
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greatgator wrote: |
Given the odd timing of her departure and re-enrollment, when will Sierra be eligible to play? |
'16-'17 season.........3 years to play 3.
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 06/07/15 10:20 am ::: |
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bacabuck wrote: |
greatgator wrote: |
Given the odd timing of her departure and re-enrollment, when will Sierra be eligible to play? |
'16-'17 season.........3 years to play 3. |
You sure they're not applying for immediate eligibility?
That's being granted frequently these days.
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summertime blues
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Posted: 06/07/15 11:31 am ::: |
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I would have thought she might be eligible in January 2016 if she didn't play second semester at Duke.
_________________ Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom
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LadyLionsFan
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Posted: 06/07/15 12:21 pm ::: |
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I have no idea about when she will be eligible, but FWIW, I see a lot of upside for some players to RS a year. It allows them to grow and mature personality wise, academically, spiritually, physically (weight room) and so on. They also can still practice with the team and continue to hone their skills. For those coming from a bad situation at their last school, it allows them to kind of put that all behind them and move forward with their life.
So the Calhoun's, including Daddy Calhoun might want Sierra to step back, take a year off from the competition and get reenergized. Just my 2 cents.
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greatgator
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goforit77
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Posted: 06/07/15 4:31 pm ::: |
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Sierra is a good kid caught in the middle....I hope she can find what she needs at OSU.
As for her Dad.....Maybe he has learned his lesson....I have heard that he was beyond stunned when Geno declined. If he hasn't learned he will not take kindly to Sierra playing second fiddle to Kelsey Mitchell.
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PhillyCat
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Posted: 06/08/15 10:58 am ::: |
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I don't completely understand the references to Omar Sr as some kind of Daddy Dearest. It does sound like he's protective of his kid but getting her out from under McCallie was clearly something he thought to be necessary. There are some who think he was being a good parent even if Sierra didn't agree. There have been enough transfers and talk on this board to make me think all is not well within McCallie's program. BTW, Omar Jr plays for the UConn men and I haven't heard that he's caused any problems for Kevin Ollie, and Omar Jr is not getting lots of playing time either.
I don't know for sure if Omar Sr approached Geno but I have no reason to doubt it if others here say it happened. If it did happen, I'm not surprised Geno said no and the reasons likely had little to do with Omar Sr.
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summertime blues
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Posted: 06/08/15 4:51 pm ::: |
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I doubt Papa Calhoun is ANYTHING like Mommy Davis. I do think he's a bit of a stage dad, but a lot of parents of talented kids are. Some are worse than others. I myself might have been tempted to smack Coach P if I thought she was abusing my kid, but I have so little use for her to start with that I would discourage my child from considering any program she was associated with, so that would not happen. That said, I do think sometimes dads are a little more protective of daughters. Daddy's princess and all that.
_________________ Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom
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PhillyCat
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FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 06/10/15 3:17 pm ::: |
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That's quite a change in regard to academics. I wonder if she was in over her head a bit at Duke.
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Queenie
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Posted: 06/10/15 4:50 pm ::: |
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Just what I needed, another reason to loathe Ohio State and dislike their coach.
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bacabuck
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Posted: 06/11/15 2:59 pm ::: |
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Happy that you are getting your needs filled........The Buckeyes are getting their needs filled too.
Even with everyone in good health, we are not going to scare ND or Geno, but all others better worry.
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Fighting Artichoke
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Posted: 06/11/15 3:11 pm ::: |
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Queenie wrote: |
Just what I needed, another reason to loathe Ohio State and dislike their coach. |
Perhaps coach Joe was too nice, so Sierra decided she would rather go to OSU and listen to "McGruff."
Note that the author twice referred to McGuff as McGruff. Obviously not a WCBB fan.
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