Recent content by mcdoug

This is the question, I think. IMO Kellie is a good enough coach to keep MO competing for the top half of the league every year with sweet sixteen potential every two or three years, but that may or may not be good enough long term. In any case, I think a school like MO is Kellie's best bet if...

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"Aspen Blues" by Erin Hanson, one of my favorite contemporary painters.

Exactly where did I say that was good for TN? Pretty sure I said it wasn't.

I've been hard on Kellie, but the fact is she averaged almost 22 wins a season in a very hard job. Her job performance at UT would have been just fine for all but a few programs, but, unfortunately for her, TN is one of those few. I'm not ready to break out the worry beads for CKC just yet. I...

Agreed about the player development. I think Jill did have a nagging injury, and I don't think she'd played the 5 very much before TN, but I could be wrong about that. I might be wrong about this too, but I often thought Kellie's teams weren't as fundamentally sound as they needed to be. Too...

Does Immaculata still field a team?

Exactly. Pretty sure you're right about Geno against Pat, and I remember thinking at the time that Geno's teams were significantly better offensively than Pat's.

Thanks to you! I had forgotten about Donovan. Much as I hated the gators, his teams were a really, really well coached bunch. Kim will almost certainly have to modify her system a bit to deal with bigger, more athletic opponents, but I'm confident she has the smarts to do that.

Fair point. Sad that we never got a chance to find out. IIRC, she was moving toward a more modern game just before her career was cut short.

Interesting stat, one that seemed intuitively correct to me but I hadn't actually checked. Kim is the sort of hire I expected all along for reasons that have been mentioned ad infinitum. For the record, I think the coach we need should meet the first two criteria, but not necessarily the...

To me, the best thing about this hire is that Kim is not connected to the Pat era. Pat's legacy will always be with this program, but UT has wasted 12 years trying to resurrect a legend without success. IMO, neither Holly nor Kellie sported resumes commensurate with this job, but apparently...

Maybe, but my understanding is that the NIL problem was not going to be fixed so long as Kellie was the coach. So which is it? In any case, IMO. the debate is over, the decision is made, and revisiting the Kellie era is pointless.

Gotcha. For some reason I got the impression from Maria that Kellie was directly involved, but she must have meant with the AD. So for me then the question is why was Kellie's recruiting poor before NIL?

I see your point and that might very well be true, but it's also possible that Kellie's lack of promotional skills is the reason for the weak NIL position. A coach with better skills in that area might be able to sell her vision for the program to big donors more effectively than Kellie did...