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Juju Watkins tops list of SoCal's best girls' hoop players - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

I hope her coach* has some influence on where she wants to play in college!
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*Vanessa Nygaard

and hope that declining vanessa's player previous star, charisma osborne, has not left bitterness.

This makes all kinds of assumptions.  We do not know that Stanford "declined" Osborne.  We do not know if she applied or not.  We do not know if she was admitted.  We do not know how she ultimately decided on her school of choice.  We know nothing about her interactions with the Stanford staff or program.  I don't understand why you say things like Stanford picked Jump over Osborne or declined Osborne.  It seems unfair to both Stanford and Osborne, who may simply have liked UCLA better.  Maybe she likes LA.  Maybe it was closer to home.  Maybe she thought their style would suit her better.  Maybe she did not want to play behind Williams for two years.  Maybe she just really digs Cori Close and the "passion play" concept.  If you know any of those things, please fill the rest of us in.

jacob on tos explained in some detail how stanford did not leave room for osborne. to repeat what has been stated by many, osborne was still talking publicly about her interest in stanford when we chose prechtel as our 4th recruit. sure, it's possible jacob was wrong; but he's usually credible.

I am on that board and have never seen anything like that.  Someone I know well is very, very tuned in to recruiting and likewise has never seen anything like that.  I may ask Jake.  So you first maintained that Stanford took Jump over Osborne and now it is Pretchtel??  But of our recruits that year, Jones was last to commit in November.  I just do not think we know, or Jake knows, and absent real evidence making assumptions is kinda not a great idea.  The other point is that even if Stanford decided they needed a different recruit for whatever reason, there is nothing bad or nefarious about that.  Coaches do that all the time.  Not everyone who wants to go to a certain school will get a scholarship offer.  So even if the "declined" Osborne thing is real, there is nothing underhanded, bad, unusual, etc. about it.

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Juju Watkins tops list of SoCal's best girls' hoop players - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

I hope her coach* has some influence on where she wants to play in college!
_______________________________________________________________
*Vanessa Nygaard

and hope that declining vanessa's player previous star, charisma osborne, has not left bitterness.

This makes all kinds of assumptions.  We do not know that Stanford "declined" Osborne.  We do not know if she applied or not.  We do not know if she was admitted.  We do not know how she ultimately decided on her school of choice.  We know nothing about her interactions with the Stanford staff or program.  I don't understand why you say things like Stanford picked Jump over Osborne or declined Osborne.  It seems unfair to both Stanford and Osborne, who may simply have liked UCLA better.  Maybe she likes LA.  Maybe it was closer to home.  Maybe she thought their style would suit her better.  Maybe she did not want to play behind Williams for two years.  Maybe she just really digs Cori Close and the "passion play" concept.  If you know any of those things, please fill the rest of us in.

jacob on tos explained in some detail how stanford did not leave room for osborne. to repeat what has been stated by many, osborne was still talking publicly about her interest in stanford when we chose prechtel as our 4th recruit. sure, it's possible jacob was wrong; but he's usually credible.

I am on that board and have never seen anything like that.  Someone I know well is very, very tuned in to recruiting and likewise has never seen anything like that.  I may ask Jake.  So you first maintained that Stanford took Jump over Osborne and now it is Pretchtel??  But of our recruits that year, Jones was last to commit in November.  I just do not think we know, or Jake knows, and absent real evidence making assumptions is kinda not a great idea.  The other point is that even if Stanford decided they needed a different recruit for whatever reason, there is nothing bad or nefarious about that.  Coaches do that all the time.  Not everyone who wants to go to a certain school will get a scholarship offer.  So even if the "declined" Osborne thing is real, there is nothing underhanded, bad, unusual, etc. about it.