[RoShamBo]

Please understand that I am not her family, close friend nor am I a source. All of this is a conglomeration of opinions that I have for myself and from mutual friends, coaches, high school staff/teachers, recruiting news/rumors, AAU coaches/players, players/coaches around the state, this site lol, etc..... all rolled into one.

To the best of my understanding, she always wanted to go to UK growing up, but Coach Mitchell waited until late in the process to reasonably try, (maybe it was arrogance, assuming she was a shoe-in or something else) but he did offer. However, Coach Jeff at UL was in the living room from day 1. If I remember correctly, UL even practiced at RCHS before the UK game one year, is that correct? It was something like that, or they invited the team up to watch them, I dont remember but it was some HUGE red-carpet to lay down.

To sum it all up, it appears to me, [her or her family can get on again and tell the whole story if they wish (the dad is a member, but I wont give the info away)] that UK was the first love that broke her heart by not really trying and UL came in, wooed her and swept her off her feet, then at the last minute the first love tried to get her back when they realized she wasn't going to just sign a LOI because she was a fan.

I say all of this not to downplay Coach Mitchell's recruiting OR to say that he saw flaws in her game, etc... TO THE BEST OF MY UNDERSTANDING, UK did not try as hard as they should have and from the outside looking in, they did not really appreciate how good she was OR thought she was a shoe-in at UK. I do not know.

She had a bad game this time but her first collegiate game Hammond had 13 and 10. She has been the teams leading rebounder in 2 of the games, and in less than 17 minutes per game (less than 1/2 of a game per game) she is averaging 5, 5, 1 and 1. If she could stay out of foul trouble, she would be a 10-10-2-2 kind of player, if not better this season.

What has always blown my mind is that Geno Auriemma (UCONN Coach) saw her play and was talking to her and offering her ASAP. Coach Mitchell being a little over an hour away, waited as long as he did to offer. Just looking through some old recruiting news, I do not see anywhere that says UK offered. Maybe they didn't, I would have thought they did, I thought I remembered hearing that.......ah well.

Yeah I was about to say I don't remember UK ever getting too serious about her. I kept up with her after her sophomore year because she was a big story in this end of the state and honestly I really only ever heard about UCONN and UofL trying hard for her. Maybe Mitchell didn't want to compete with Geno or something, but I didn't remember hearing much about her relationship with UK getting too serious during the recruiting process. Weird, the girl can obviously play.