Cooper

[Butch s]

But Kim is doing a great job. I believe in her now more than ever.

Wait til year 5 when she gets all her players here

 

[morristown vol]

Danny White,you rolled the dice and lost.Fire Kim now or just play with 5 walk-ons.
No wants to play for her.

 

[Butch s]

I can't see an AD at any school, keeping a coach that no one wants to play for...And paying her 1mil on top of that...crazy just crazy

Yep. If you’re DW you just have to fire her, correct ???

 

[VolXr1]

<< Tennessee Lady Vols Forum

Of the 77 points that Tennessee averaged this season, they are losing 70.6 between graduation and transfers...and that's only if Civil stays (unlikely).

They're literally losing their entire team. That's not particularly easy to replace.

I obviously wasnt counting the graduating players. Clearly was meaning the ones transferring out. But cool.

Tell me 1 player thats transferring out that isnt replaceable? I'll say losing Hurst (potential wise) hurt but other than that. They isnt a huge loss. Could say Cooper but like I said & plenty of others. She's lazy. Took horrible shots. Turnover prone. Id rather have someone that takes care of the ball and hustles over someone that doesnt hustle & is just out to get their points any day but im sure you LV & message board fanatics know more than D1 coaching staffs.

 

[Butch s]

I don't think he has any choice but to keep her. No good coach in their right mind would come here at this point.

This sounds about right at this point, sadly

 

[hayyou]

SHE WAS A GOOD PLYER BUT VERY LAZY AND LOAFED A LOT.

 

[madtownvol]

Dominating the conversation during the tournament? It occurs to me that may not be a bad thing. Just need to hire the best and brightest spin doctors. I heard there were some locally seeking career adjustments.

With all due respect to Lvocd, LV basketball is clearly not dominating the national conversation. Crooks transfer is the one getting mentioned on ESPN, not Coops. The good news is that LV b-ball is no longer sliding toward irrelevance; it is now officially irrelevant. Our big splash hire is an assistant coach from a program who had a worse season than we had. So, we remain an upward move for those at bottom feeder programs (for now at least). I have no doubt the Big O is working on an exit strategy to a school where her talents will be recognized on the national stage.

But, the LV diehard fan base is the only group squawking in protest. The broader fan base for WCBB is talking about the final 4 and player of the year Sarah Strong.

One narrative that is getting a lot of traction in the UT social media world is a very misogynist one of "Kill the LVs and give the money to Barnes (and baseball)." That re-allocation may be the actual direction that DW is heading (i.e., not actually killing the program but just letting it be a perfunctory check mark on the Title IX box with minimal funding). So, in that sense, Kim may be the perfect coach for implementing this agenda. This year shattered all fan expectations so there will be more acceptance each yeat of the LVs being at the bottom of the SEC. I would not be surprised if MIzzou finishes ahead of next season.

 

[VolFan_stuck_in_the_901]

So what was Maria Cornelius getting at on The Summitt when she said "the more I hear, the more I realize why ADDW is giving her another year"?

 

[chuckiepoo]

I know many of you don't want to hear it but if they don't want buy into culture and buyin. Until then pave it forward.

 

[And1]

So what was Maria Cornelius getting at on The Summitt when she said "the more I hear, the more I realize why ADDW is giving her another year"?

The fact you have to pay a subscription to read her cryptic messages is laughable.

 

[J-Dog 1313]

With all due respect to Lvocd, LV basketball is clearly not dominating the national conversation. Crooks transfer is the one getting mentioned on ESPN, not Coops. The good news is that LV b-ball is no longer sliding toward irrelevance; it is now officially irrelevant. Our big splash hire is an assistant coach from a program who had a worse season than we had. So, we remain an upward move for those at bottom feeder programs (for now at least). I have no doubt the Big O is working on an exit strategy to a school where her talents will be recognized on the national stage.

But, the LV diehard fan base is the only group squawking in protest. The broader fan base for WCBB is talking about the final 4 and player of the year Sarah Strong.

One narrative that is getting a lot of traction in the UT social media world is a very misogynist one of "Kill the LVs and give the money to Barnes (and baseball)." That re-allocation may be the actual direction that DW is heading (i.e., not actually killing the program but just letting it be a perfunctory check mark on the Title IX box with minimal funding). So, in that sense, Kim may be the perfect coach for implementing this agenda. This year shattered all fan expectations so there will be more acceptance each yeat of the LVs being at the bottom of the SEC. I would not be surprised if MIzzou finishes ahead of next season.

Let's put a pin in your post. I am hopeful that next year's squad will equal or exceed this year's number of SEC wins and finish ahead of Mizzou. GBO.

 

[chuckiepoo]

What are the frustrations from the players? Is CKC personally? Her system?

He just hates Danny White. Made him look really bad one time. Something about eating a cat turd. There’s a video on youtube…

 

[RespectAPA]

It's remarkable to me that anyone in this thread is trying to slant this as even vaguely a good thing. She wasn't perfect. She had flaws. But we are absolutely better with her than without her.

This loss makes Kim's journey to earning a year 4 vastly harder. Hell, if Edwards decommits she probably won't even get a year 3.

It won't be impossible for her to retool and put together a team that can go >.500 in conference play, with how many people are in the transfer portal in this modern era of the game, but it'd be a heck of a lot easier to do with Edwards, Civil, and Cooper than without.

 

[madtownvol]

Let's put a pin in your post. I am hopeful that next year's squad will equal or exceed this year's number of SEC wins and finish ahead of Mizzou. GBO.

Oh no!!! If it turns out I am being overly pessimistic, I surely will be exiled to Siberia by the Vol Nation bad prediction police squad!! Woe is me......

 

[CBR07]

Such a shame this program is where it is , after what was built. Disgusting

 

[mudcat1973]

Please tell me the boosters are coming up with a plan to get this woman out next year and the AD put in his place.... like what is going on right now should be infuriating everyone including Candace Parker

you have come a long way
From saying sports j YouTube is nutter than I am if he thinks .
Danny's seat might get warm.
if the Women's Basketball team
struggles
and the football team has a poor season this coming fall.

Nuts are leading the way!!!

 

[chuckiepoo]

These developments both break my heart and make me furious. What competent player, who could play at another division one program, will reasonably want to take a chance on coming to Knoxville to play for an inexperienced coach with a unique “system”who just lost her entire team? This is particularly concerning given the absolute silence from the coach, the athletic department and the schools’ administration about how they intend to approach and solve the dilemma. Silence is not golden in these circumstances. Someone in authority needs to speak up and explain what happened and how it is going to be remedied. It is nearly impossible to believe that there is going to be a long line of young athletes willing to risk their futures on what appears to be a sinking (or sunk) ship. Limiting public comments to “every ‘ting gonna be alright” is irresponsible.

Dey flown da coop, mahn…

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Don’t let the door hit her in the ass out the door. This will be 3 schools in four years.

Thank you, I’m glad someone else called it out.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Personally, I’m glad Cooper is leaving. Yes she was a heck of an offensive player. But her defense was nonexistent 95% of the time, she was lazy as he!!, and definitely was NOT a team player. It was all about 55. That was the problem with the majority of our team….selfish.
There are a few that I hate to see go, but to have a good team, you have to have: 1st - players that want to win for the Lady Vols & 2nd - players that play hard, with good attitude & no quit in them.
My $0.02

She can’t move her feet on defense, so she gambles for steals, and she would just jack up shots in garbage time while we were getting blown out, to make herself look good by getting her stats.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Wait til year 5 when she gets all her players here

…ouchie.

 

[LVBB_Legacy]

You know we still finished tied for 6th in the SEC final standings last season, right? We still LONG ways from the bottom. Kim waxed Kellie's Mizzou team by 40 last season still I think. Relax. We gonna be fine.

...and I guess Kim used up all her coaching mojo in that game on Feb. 12th, the last win of the season....a month before the end of the season.

 

[VolatileVol]

How do you define fine? It looks like a train wreck. This is unless CKC can keep Civil, bring in O and the other freshman and recruit a bunch of high percentage three shooters who can play fact pace women to woman defence. Playing hockey style, she is gonna need 10 of them. Most five-stars want to be coached up to the next level and most teams believe that your best five players should be on the floor most of the time. I am not saying hockey-style basketball will not work but you need a certain type of ball player with similar talents and skillsets where they are interchangeable who play with the same intensity and you have very little fall off.

On their worst nights, they are still better than half the league. I'm not a fan of the modernized "Curry ball," but let's not pretend Bama hasn't done very well with the same gameplan on the men's side recently. The style is the best way for underdogs to play (we are underdogs now). It allows you to land 5 star athletes you wouldn't otherwise land trying to play defense like Barnes does. These kids don't want to play defense anymore, but that group last year under Caldwell quit so many times I would have canned the entire team long ago. Wanna fire Caldwell? Fine. Just stop pretending the players we paid to play last year were actually playing hard. Because they certainly were not. And, that's 100% on them and them alone.

 

[LVBB_Legacy]

The 6-0 junior averaged 16 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 3.6 apg and 2.7 spg this season

Will be one of the biggest gets from the portal. She’s going to change someone’s program next year.

Just think what her stats would have been if she got to play an entire game!

 

[chuckiepoo]

With all due respect to Lvocd, LV basketball is clearly not dominating the national conversation. Crooks transfer is the one getting mentioned on ESPN, not Coops. The good news is that LV b-ball is no longer sliding toward irrelevance; it is now officially irrelevant. Our big splash hire is an assistant coach from a program who had a worse season than we had. So, we remain an upward move for those at bottom feeder programs (for now at least). I have no doubt the Big O is working on an exit strategy to a school where her talents will be recognized on the national stage.

But, the LV diehard fan base is the only group squawking in protest. The broader fan base for WCBB is talking about the final 4 and player of the year Sarah Strong.

One narrative that is getting a lot of traction in the UT social media world is a very misogynist one of "Kill the LVs and give the money to Barnes (and baseball)." That re-allocation may be the actual direction that DW is heading (i.e., not actually killing the program but just letting it be a perfunctory check mark on the Title IX box with minimal funding). So, in that sense, Kim may be the perfect coach for implementing this agenda. This year shattered all fan expectations so there will be more acceptance each yeat of the LVs being at the bottom of the SEC. I would not be surprised if MIzzou finishes ahead of next season.

Yep. I’ve considered such a scenario. The vast desert wasteland ahead…

 

[chuckiepoo]

So what was Maria Cornelius getting at on The Summitt when she said "the more I hear, the more I realize why ADDW is giving her another year"?

Careful there. I’m not sure, one way or the other, but i do know MC is not above serving as a mouth piece for the administration. Just lightly salt.