[81alum]

Reading an espnW article about Class of 2017 recruit Naje Murray and found this interesting tidbit on why Stanford is not on her list:

"Among college teams, she used to cheer for Stanford, but she said Stanford's style of play is too slow for her now."

The link to the full article:

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article...e-st-marys

Interesting, but I would not put much stock in that comment.  There are a number of reasons Stanford might not have been interested in recruiting her, and when a player discovers that Stanford is not interested, it is a lot easier to manufacture a reason that the player is not interested in Stanford.  Normally that happens when it becomes clear that a player can't make it in academically, but it could be for other reasons too, given that Naje sounds like a very good student.  The only thing that we can say for certain is that there was not a meeting of minds between Naje and Stanford about having her play at Stanford.

The comment itself is wildly inaccurate if you look at our Notre Dame game, but I supposed it would seem all too accurate if you look at our first loss to ASU or the loss to UCLA.  But the triangle is gone, so I'm not sure what she might have been talking about.

[81alum]

Reading an espnW article about Class of 2017 recruit Naje Murray and found this interesting tidbit on why Stanford is not on her list:

"Among college teams, she used to cheer for Stanford, but she said Stanford's style of play is too slow for her now."

The link to the full article:

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article...e-st-marys

Interesting, but I would not put much stock in that comment.  There are a number of reasons Stanford might not have been interested in recruiting her, and when a player discovers that Stanford is not interested, it is a lot easier to manufacture a reason that the player is not interested in Stanford.  Normally that happens when it becomes clear that a player can't make it in academically, but it could be for other reasons too, given that Naje sounds like a very good student.  The only thing that we can say for certain is that there was not a meeting of minds between Naje and Stanford about having her play at Stanford.

The comment itself is wildly inaccurate if you look at our Notre Dame game, but I supposed it would seem all too accurate if you look at our first loss to ASU or the loss to UCLA.  But the triangle is gone, so I'm not sure what she might have been talking about.