How good is the team Coach Caldwell will inherit?

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spojo13 said:
It would be different than her normal system. Maybe she would adapt what has worked for her elsewhere?
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She will have to adapt. Everyone gets gaga over the idea of having a bionic team that presses for 40 minutes and plays at break neck speed on the offense. That approach has never been sustainable at the elite levels. Good teams manage the press and control the offense to slow you down.

Being able to press and run in spurts is great but to compete consistently you have to be good in half court sets on both sides.
 
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alexvol said:
Would like to see her meet with Key and her sister ( Teona who is in the portal ....played @ NC ) tonite and maybe she could convince Key to comeback for her Covid year to play with her sister.
Second ,I would look into the 6'7" center ( forgot her name ) from Portugal who was committed /signed with Va Tech since Brooks went to Kentucky so maybe she will be back on the block.

Hopefully someone will be left over there that has been involved heavily in recruiting and monitoring the portal and our new coach can start the recruiting in a sprint.
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Did Teonni enter the portal? 👀
 
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turbovol said:
The best thing that Caldwell might have going for her is not her "innovative system" or her West Virginia fairy
dust, some of which apparently drifted south to Knoxville and fluttered down into White's coffee a couple of months ago, turning him daft.
Rather, it will be money. NIL cash, baby.

White is smart enough to know that he put he put a big chunk of his credibility on the line with
this very unconventional hire. At the same time, we've entered an unfortunate period in which success seems determined less
by old-fashioned coaching and recruiting acumen and more by how much money your program can raise and use to buy
talent--buy players.

Thus I'm sure that, starting now, White will be dunning the program's donors/boosters like never before--working to help his new, youthful charge acquire some good players and teams. With the right talent she can win games and, in doing so, boost the program and protect/enhance the AD's reputation. With enough NIL payola, Caldwell, like most other coaches, will function half as a coach and half as the scion of a wealthy family with shiny toys. It might seem something of a cynical take--but not if we're to believe all those
who argued that an insufficient bribery fund has been at the root of our recruiting woes. If there's a literal change in recruiting fortune,
then it will be a big benefit to our new coaching ingenue (and tough luck for Kellie).
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This post is simply stupid. You do know that Danny White hired Bobby Hurley and Nate Oats when he was the AD at Buffalo right? Maybe you didn't know that he also hired Lance Leopold for football. Then at UCF he hired Scott Frost, followed by Josh Heupel, and he hired Johnny Dawkins. Then at UT he hired Josh Heupel, and Duane Ross for the track program who both have hit the ground running very quickly.

If you had any sort of understanding of what Danny White looks for in coaches, you might not post such a stupid post. He has always prioritized coaches with "innovative offenses" in all sports. Danny White has many many times explained his coaching search philosophies, and he has always said he prioritizes modern ideas, innovation, and exciting offensive coaches. He has never put much stock into hiring guys from famous coaching trees, former players, or big splash hire names. Everywhere he has been, his coaching choices have flourished and moved on to bigger and better conferences.

Caldwell has an 88% winning percentage. She has won her conference 7 out of 8 years. She has won a national championship and been to 2 final fours at the D2 level. In her first year with a terrible Marshall team she took them to their programs most wins and a NCAA tournament and won the conference going 17-1.
The state of West Virginia loves her and she has brought excitement to Glenville and Marshall's women's programs that didn't have many fans or excitement. West Virginia fairy dust......lol You sound like such a snobby elitist prick in your post. Caldwell's offense and high pressure defense is much more modern and exciting to watch. The days of half court defense, running the shot clock down, avoiding transition type games, and a strong focus on post play and rebounding is over. Caldwell is going to play a very similar style to Nate Oats.....very modern NBA driven. Not a lot of mid range 2's, a lot of 3's, transition baskets and drives to the basket drawing contact or kicking it out for a 3 or an easy lay up due to wide floor spacing.

A modern offense with an exciting brand of basketball along with some new fans and hope is going to do much more for recruiting than your NIL is everything and Danny White is suddenly going to shake down the donor's for the lady vol's program now theory.
 
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alexvol said:
Unconventional hire ....wow .She is anything but unconventional .
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I have to say, our last two conventionals sure were not working the way we wanted. Going and trying to get anything besides "best available" is not a wise strategy. We have gotten a front row seat for that 12 year long lesson now.
 
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Hopefully we will stop playing matador defense that we've played the last 2 to 3 years. If allowed layups is a stat that is tracked, I bet we led the country!!!
 
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I don't think it can be said that the SEC has a who's who of coaches. And I'm not convinced
it's particularly strong in WBB, tho some people seem to think so.

To wit: Alabama finished 4th in the conference this year, with a 10-6 record. That is the first decent
season Kristy Curry has had in her 11 years in Tuscaloosa. Why she is still the coach---why she
even got hired in the first place---is a mystery. Check this out: She had a meager 40% conference
win percentage in seven years at Texas Tech. And yet bama hired her. And what is her win percentage at bama?
The same--40 percent. Look at her record in her first six years at bama: how did she keep her job? She's clearly
not a good coach--and she came in 4th this season.

Texas A&M has a newish coach, Joni Taylor, who just finished her 2nd year after being hired away from Georgia. (What they didn't peek
at Divi. II coaches?) In 7 seasons at Georgia she was a fairly modest/decent 63--48 in the SEC, a 57% win percentage.
Not a record that screams star in the making--but A&M hired her.
She was 2-14 in the SEC in her first year, 6-10 this past season.
Some improvement. In a good state for recruiting. Future forecast: uncertain.

Auburn's coach--longtime assistant to Schaefer--just finished her 2nd year. Bad first year, 500 in the conference this
year and made the NCAA, somehow. They played a pretty weak OOC schedule. Future forecast: uncertain.

Georgia's coach also is newish and also just finished her second year, after being hired away from Central Florida, where
she'd been hired by White. Not a good season--3-13 in the SEC and next to last. Future forecast: Cloudy, chance of heavy rain.

Miss. State: Like the others above, Sam Purcell just completed HIS second season. Hired after working as Walz's
top assistant for several years. Was 9-7 in his first year and made the SEC tourney--good job. Was 8-8 this past season.
Supposed to be a good recruiter: we'll see. His Miss. State bio asserts that that the SEC is the nation's best conference.
Really? This year: One great team, two good teams, two solid teams--and that's about it. Future forecast: partly sunny, maybe.

Got to give credit to Shea Ralph for a 9-7 SEC record in this, her 3rd season. Her first two seasons were bad, but
much improvement this year--and Vandy is the certainly toughest coaching job in the SEC. Getting
over .500 in any sport at Vandy in the SEC is an achievement. She was a Geno player and then a Geno assistant
for 13 years. Not sure how much NIL/bribery support she'll get at Vandy. A program and coach I want to follow.
Future forecast: uncertain.

The rest of the teams in the SEC were pretty bad this season.

Here's Curry's Alabama record. Stay by the phone, Harper. You might get a call from Tuscaloosa!


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2013–14Alabama14–167–9T–6th
2014–15Alabama13–192–1414th
2015–16Alabama15–164–1212thWNIT First Round
2016–17Alabama22–145–11T-11thWNIT Quarterfinals
2017–18Alabama20–147–98thWNIT Quarterfinals
2018–19Alabama14–175–1111th
2019–20Alabama18–128–88th
2020–21Alabama17–108–87thNCAA Second Round
2021–22Alabama20–146–10T–10thWNIT Quarterfinals
2022–23Alabama20–119–7T–5thNCAA First Round
2023–24Alabama24–1010–6T–4thNCAA Second Round
Alabama:197–153 (.563)71–105 (.403)
 
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We were guaranteed to make the SEC tournament with KJH. You can be excited to Kim Stephen’s now. But eventually she has to coach/recruit in the SEC. But hey! She’s undefeated now and has won d2 games!
 
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I'd encourage any Lady Vols who want to stay and play for KC to contact Santi Vescovi for his off-season workout routine. Being in excellent shape is such a bonus for a player when you're engaging a new coach.

Best example is the shape the men's team was already in when Bruce Pearl arrived. They really challenged each other all Spring and Summer, and were ready to do whatever he asked. Overachieved magnificently!
 
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