Non-Lady Vol Basketball News 2025-26

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Poultrygeist said:
I wonder how many times Dawn has to state publicly that she's not interested in the NBA or WNBA before folks take her seriously?

When a coach has the level of success Dawn has had I suppose it goes with the territory.
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She interviewed for an NBA job three years ago and SC granted the Knicks permission to interview her this season. I take those actions more seriously than claims she's not interested.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
The Vandy and Pierre news is circulating but on a much lesser scale than you expect for a SEC school.

I think Pierre ends up probably outside of the SEC and returns in 2026 after sitting out the upcoming season.

Tennessee had moved well ahead of teams like Alabama, Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt with the #1 transfer portal and #1/#2 high school recruiting classes.

Vanderbilt was finishing 6th - 8th with Pierre this season in the SEC, this likely drops them slightly to about that 9th spot.
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Since she was dismissed from Vanderbilt, she is likely to receive a waiver from the NCAA to play right away at her new school. The SEC would have to grant a separate waiver and that's not a sure thing. I imagine that she will transfer out of the league.
 
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That’s your uninformed opinion. What waiver did the NCAA grant the guard from LSU that was dismissed from the team to play right away?
Nothing surprises me about the NCAA so I couldn’t care less they make up rules everyday but this player will transfer to a school outside of the eligibility window for the 2025-2026 school year.
If this is allowed then every other player forced to sit out a full season in the past got robbed.
Moving forward, players will note that do what you have to do to get kicked off of the team and get a waiver.

DeerPark12 said:
Since she was dismissed from Vanderbilt, she is likely to receive a waiver from the NCAA to play right away at her new school. The SEC would have to grant a separate waiver and that's not a sure thing. I imagine that she will transfer out of the league.
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KnoxLikeUs said:
That’s your uninformed opinion. What waiver did the NCAA grant the guard from LSU that was dismissed from the team to play right away?
Nothing surprises me about the NCAA so I couldn’t care less they make up rules everyday but this player will transfer to a school outside of the eligibility window for the 2025-2026 school year.
If this is allowed then every other player forced to sit out a full season in the past got robbed.
Moving forward, players will note that do what you have to do to get kicked off of the team and get a waiver.
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It's not uninformed.
 
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VolBall09 said:
They’re toast. Shae is a harpy she’ll never be able to keep a good player there.

Knew there was something funny at the end of the season. They tried to act like she was all in but it was so clear she wasn’t.

We’ve got one roster spot and she’d look great in orange…
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Didn't Pierre initially enter the transfer portal within the transfer portal window? Point is, if she did enter the portal in the initial time frame, would she have to sit at her transfer school, or would she have to submit a potential hardship waiver to play? Could she have eligibility because she did initially enter the portal and then chose to remain at Vanderbilt? I do know teams can continue to take players who entered the portal and that should be unlimited time or until the players choose their new school or withdraw. This is all i could really find, "Different sports have their own transfer window periods, usually between 30 and 45 days, for when players can officially enter the portal each year. Once they’re in, they can stay listed until they pick a new school or decide to withdraw."
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
That’s your uninformed opinion. What waiver did the NCAA grant the guard from LSU that was dismissed from the team to play right away?
Nothing surprises me about the NCAA so I couldn’t care less they make up rules everyday but this player will transfer to a school outside of the eligibility window for the 2025-2026 school year.
If this is allowed then every other player forced to sit out a full season in the past got robbed.
Moving forward, players will note that do what you have to do to get kicked off of the team and get a waiver.
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Hardship waivers are granted for a hundred reasons. Hell, the last time Notre Dame won a title, they barely had enough players to field a team, boom, hardship waiver for Jessica Sheppard, who was supposed to sit out a season due to transfer. Pierre could write the NCAA and claim abuse within the program or a hundred other reasons. The NCAA picks and chooses on a case-by-case basis and has been doing it for as long as I can remember. Because of the new transfer rules, we haven't seen as much in recent years. The previous poster's opinion is not uninformed. It happens all the time. The NCAA has the final say on everything.
 
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Not too long ago I recall NBA teams were showing interest in WNBA coach Becky Hammon. Nothing came of it.
This certainly gives off the sense it’s to generate headlines across national sports media.

chuckiepoo said:
I think she’s plenty tuff, but smart too. Why put up with whiny ass bitches in the NBA that could potentially get her fired a few years down the road?

I’m thinking Knicks’ management just riding the news cycle flavor d’jour.
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DeerPark12 said:
She interviewed for an NBA job three years ago and SC granted the Knicks permission to interview her this season. I take those actions more seriously than claims she's not interested.
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She does that not to further her own career but to promote the idea that men and women of color should be considered for coaching positions at the professional level. She has publicly stated as much but it's not something I would expect those outside of her fan base to know. Here in Columbia we hear all of her press conferences and she has spoken many times on the subject and what her motivations are. She loves Columbia where her family also resides, has a three story mansion overlooking the Congaree River and walks the few blocks to her office and CLA. She is currently the highest paid coach in women's college basketball and has often said USC is her last stop.
 
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Thanks for sharing. This article mentioned exactly what most people have been saying and that’s this player is not eligible to play this year and must sit out the 2025-2026 season. Granted there’s a change made to the transfer rules that hasn’t been instated for other transfers outside of the eligibility window.
It’s ironic that we’ve seen players already in recent years suspended indefinitely or leave their former programs during the off-season or after the season has started have to sit out, yet some expect the NCAA to grant a waiver in this situation. The justification for that would trigger a lot of blow back throughout the NCAA.
In the end, hopefully some people close to the player or coaches at other programs using close connections didn’t give her the idea that there’s a great possibility she would be granted this waiver if she mutually parted ways or was dismissed from the team. That’s kind of tampering in the sense that you are going through this process to bend the rules in favor of gaining an unfair advantage for your program adding player outside of the eligibility window to play this season.
Good sharing this article. Be patient folks the uninformed opinions of this being a case where this player should be granted immediate eligibility, holds no weight.
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KnoxLikeUs said:
Thanks for sharing. This article mentioned exactly what most people have been saying and that’s this player is not eligible to play this year and must sit out the 2025-2026 season. Granted there’s a change made to the transfer rules that hasn’t been instated for other transfers outside of the eligibility window.
It’s ironic that we’ve seen players already in recent years suspended indefinitely or leave their former programs during the off-season or after the season has started have to sit out, yet some expect the NCAA to grant a waiver in this situation. The justification for that would trigger a lot of blow back throughout the NCAA.
In the end, hopefully some people close to the player or coaches at other programs using close connections didn’t give her the idea that there’s a great possibility she would be granted this waiver if she mutually parted ways or was dismissed from the team. That’s kind of tampering in the sense that you are going through this process to bend the rules in favor of gaining an unfair advantage for your program adding player outside of the eligibility window to play this season.
Good sharing this article. Be patient folks the uninformed opinions of this being a case where this player should be granted immediate eligibility, holds no weight.
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You never know what the NCAA are going to do, He!! They don't even know what there going to do. Most of the time it works in a disadvantage for the VOLS. Really don't think CKC will be interested.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Since she was dismissed from Vanderbilt, she is likely to receive a waiver from the NCAA to play right away at her new school. The SEC would have to grant a separate waiver and that's not a sure thing. I imagine that she will transfer out of the league.
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I think she wanted to play at Arizona, but they recruited Cunningham, but now that she is gone maybe she goes there?
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
Thanks for sharing. This article mentioned exactly what most people have been saying and that’s this player is not eligible to play this year and must sit out the 2025-2026 season. Granted there’s a change made to the transfer rules that hasn’t been instated for other transfers outside of the eligibility window.
It’s ironic that we’ve seen players already in recent years suspended indefinitely or leave their former programs during the off-season or after the season has started have to sit out, yet some expect the NCAA to grant a waiver in this situation. The justification for that would trigger a lot of blow back throughout the NCAA.
In the end, hopefully some people close to the player or coaches at other programs using close connections didn’t give her the idea that there’s a great possibility she would be granted this waiver if she mutually parted ways or was dismissed from the team. That’s kind of tampering in the sense that you are going through this process to bend the rules in favor of gaining an unfair advantage for your program adding player outside of the eligibility window to play this season.
Good sharing this article. Be patient folks the uninformed opinions of this being a case where this player should be granted immediate eligibility, holds no weight.
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I’m not sure what your issue is with me, I don’t recall as ever interacting before, but I’m not giving you some opinion out of nowhere, I’m telling you what people in the industry believe is going to happen.

I don’t recall a player being dismissed from a program and then not being immediately eligible somewhere else. You do have to file for a waiver, but it is almost always granted, unless the player was dismissed for some kind of significant violation of NCAA rules. Players that are dismissed for violation of team policy are almost always granted waivers. In speaking to several people in the industry, they expect her to be eligible anywhere outside of the SEC as soon as the waiver is asked for. If the NCAA does not grant it, they will take another loss in court as soon as she files a lawsuit.
 
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Myself and others are laughing at the level of hypocrisy being discussed on this matter. Just hypothetically thinking this is the kind of scenario that unfolds where at the start of July a player is seeking a new program to play for a month prior to the fall semester.
As said before, any player that has had to sit out a full- season due to following transfer protocols outside the transfer window were robbed if this is the loophole.

 
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Poultrygeist said:
She does that not to further her own career but to promote the idea that men and women of color should be considered for coaching positions at the professional level. She has publicly stated as much but it's not something I would expect those outside of her fan base to know. Here in Columbia we hear all of her press conferences and she has spoken many times on the subject and what her motivations are. She loves Columbia where her family also resides, has a three story mansion overlooking the Congaree River and walks the few blocks to her office and CLA. She is currently the highest paid coach in women's college basketball and has often said USC is her last stop.
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She's gong to coach the Trojans before she retires ?
 
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Bingo. There’s literally hundreds of situations like this across collegiate athletics. Happens every single year.
These posters don’t even care actually if the player is granted the waiver it’s just their way to push any foolish theory.
Stating the obvious and mentioning transfer protocols offends them that’s how a thread that has meaningful dialogue ends up those ridiculous rants with smeared with their 5 year old childish insults towards posters with a different perspective on reality.
You’re correct. What about Talaysia Cooper? Rickea Jackson?
Both ended up being in better situations as far as we can see after following the transfer protocols.


Chipperbones said:
So Talaysia Cooper should have gotten herself dismissed from South Carolina so she would not have had to sit a year…
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KnoxLikeUs said:
Bingo. There’s literally hundreds of situations like this across collegiate athletics. Happens every single year.
These posters don’t even care actually if the player is granted the waiver it’s just their way to push any foolish theory.
Stating the obvious and mentioning transfer protocols offends them that’s how a thread that has meaningful dialogue ends up those ridiculous rants with smeared with their 5 year old childish insults towards posters with a different perspective on reality.
You’re correct. What about Talaysia Cooper? Rickea Jackson?
Both ended up being in better situations as far as we can see after following the transfer protocols.
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I don't have a foolish theory and I certainly didn't insult you. But I make my living writing and negotiating contracts for athletes, coaches, and broadcasters. You can take what I say or leave it, but it's literally my job to know the eligibility and waiver processes. A player having a waiver granted means we're all making more money because noone is doing an NIL deal with a player that's sitting for a year.

Rickea Jackson didn't sit out a season, she stopped playing in January but had to wait until March to decide where she was going and was eligible for the next season. There's not a waiver that exists that allows a player to start a season at one school and be eligible at another in the same season.

It was mentioned several times in the media and by our former head coach that if Cooper had gotten kicked off of South Carolina's team she would have been eligible immediately, which was why her having to sit out made little sense. She was one of only six transfer players in D1 basketball that season that had to sit out. The rest either received a waiver of transferred during the portal period.
 
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