Oliviyah Edwards requesting out

[Volfaninfl2]

Still think Kellie Harper got a raw deal.
I will always think her husband as an
Assistant was her downfall. Jmo

Unfair

 

[Volstylexx]

What are the views which were the main concern of the players? Coaching incompetence? Mistreatment of players? Verbal abuse? Playing style? An indifference by Caldwell to their status/value as players and people?

It's hard to get a read on what exactly has gone wrong here with all the innuendo and talk. Clearly, the buck stops at the top, but some issues may be fixable and others probably won't be. If Caldwell doesn't have the knowledge, temperament, and people skills to handle high D1 basketball, then this is all fruitless. If she's merely very, very green, then there's some optimism. I tend to lean to the former, but I don't know much of anything other than what I see and hear from a distance.

Until the players speak out more, we won’t know, but I trust the players. They have zero reason to collectively make up a big lie.

 

[madtownvol]

Until the players speak out more, we won’t know, but I trust the players. They have zero reason to collectively make up a big lie.

People point to last season as evidence that the problem must be with the players but forget that Latham, Boyd, and Wynn all wanted out this season (Wynn's situation was of course unique).

I would bet that there is no big smoking gun other than CKC not being a good people person. You can see some signs of that in her press conferences. She has a my way or the high way orientation.

I'll speculate that when things aren't going well, she tends to take it out on her players - hey "this is your fault for not running my system right! and that creates a me versus them dynamic, as demonstrated by that image of Coop burying her head in the jersey and CKC ignoring her.

I bet she delegated "the people stuff" to Gabe and Roman to focus on what she likes to do and then got mad, when the players were more connected to them than her.

 

[TartanTurff]

White Danny going to let the program incinerate for a year, making the rebuild and attracting a top flight coach significantly harder and extremely more expensive, this is what he gave a chunk of baseball revenue share to? C'mon Danny think in the real world

 

[midtnvol2]

I believe the players. And former player Sara Puckett. Theyre not all lying.

The fact that zero players have stood by Kim says everything. We knew there was a divided locker room, but I never imagined no players were on the coaches side.

Thank you for saying the quite part out loud. The fact that as of today no current player or current player in the portal has uttered one word of support for CKC is very telling. Everyone is bashing the players, but Iwill say this, as a HS player you do not get recruited from a power 5 school and offered a scholarship + NIL if you don't have a high basketball IQ and success against top tier talent. These kids DO know what bad coaching looks like and what good coaching looks like. They want a good coach to help them get to the WNBA.

 

[mudcat1973]

Until the players speak out more, we won’t know, but I trust the players. They have zero reason to collectively make up a big lie.

Prawl Wynn
have defended the assistant coaches

 

[Deebowbear]

People point to last season as evidence that the problem must be with the players but forget that Latham, Boyd, and Wynn all wanted out this season (Wynn's situation was of course unique).

I would bet that there is no big smoking gun other than CKC not being a good people person. You can see some signs of that in her press conferences. She has a my way or the high way orientation.

I'll speculate that when things aren't going well, she tends to take it out on her players - hey "this is your fault for not running my system right! and that creates a me versus them dynamic, as demonstrated by that image of Coop burying her head in the jersey and CKC ignoring her.

I bet she delegated "the people stuff" to Gabe and Roman to focus on what she likes to do and then got mad, when the players were more connected to them than her.

if so at the end of day she’s the boss suppose to what has been ask not what they want to do

 

[Mr.Vol2U]

Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. The fact that as of today no current player or current player in the portal has uttered one word of support for CKC is very telling. Everyone is bashing the players, but Iwill say this, as a HS player you do not get recruited from a power 5 school and offered a scholarship + NIL if you don't have a high basketball IQ and success against top tier talent. These kids DO know what bad coaching looks like and what good coaching looks like. They want a good coach to help them get to the WNBA.

If she was so bad how come mostly everyone that could come back last year came back this season?! The only two that didn’t return was the two who didn’t get much playing time. No players said anything negative about her. Hell they were giving her hugs and all.

 

[midtnvol2]

If she was so bad how come mostly everyone that could come back last year came back this season?! The only two that didn’t return was the two who didn’t get much playing time. No players said anything negative about her. Hell they were giving her hugs and all.

In all the games I saw when things fell apart, players were not talking to her and she wasn't talking to them during games. They wern't cheering each other on. Body language shows they were checke out. If they like her so much according to you, why have they all left??