Gabe Lazo Out

[Vols14!]

What's worse, Coach Gabe Lazo leaving or the players?

 

[KnoxLikeUs]

Both (all) needed to go.

 

[Vols14!]

Both (all) needed to go.

I suppose. The optics look quite bad. I'm sure the staff is working hard at getting back on track.

BGO!

 

[volfan__18]

Both (all) needed to go.

yeah let’s field a whole team of mid majors and players who shouldn’t be sniffing the sec, cause i’m gonna almost promise you that’s exactly (sadly) what’s gonna happen. You can’t lose your whole team and expect to be good in the sec. It’s sad but next year will be a dumpster fire.

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

If he was the culprit, why wasn’t he fired sooner?

 

[KnoxLikeUs]

Like the ones leaving… sure I’ll welcome a whole new roster. SEC, SIC. STC. SEE, SBB, I don’t care the 2025-2026 roster was a joke.

yeah let’s field a whole team of mid majors and players who shouldn’t be sniffing the sec, cause i’m gonna almost promise you that’s exactly (sadly) what’s gonna happen. You can’t lose your whole team and expect to be good in the sec. It’s sad but next year will be a dumpster fire.

 

[spojo13]

yeah let’s field a whole team of mid majors and players who shouldn’t be sniffing the sec, cause i’m gonna almost promise you that’s exactly (sadly) what’s gonna happen. You can’t lose your whole team and expect to be good in the sec. It’s sad but next year will be a dumpster fire.

They’ll all be ELITE because Rocky Top is the move. Why anyone bothers arguing with that flip flopping poster is beyond me.

 

[1reVOLver]

Head recruiter, Gone.
Nearly every player, Gone.

Could it be time to say,

Irrational Panglossian fan*, Gone.


* Any resemblance to KLUtz is purely intentional.

 

[volfan102455]

Like the ones leaving… sure I’ll welcome a whole new roster. SEC, SIC. STC. SEE, SBB, I don’t care the 2025-2026 roster was a joke.

Keep telling yourself that. You just saying it over again doesn't make it so.

If it was one or two players and the one coach - fine - but when you literally lose the entire team except 1 player, something else is the problem.

 

[volfan102455]

If he was the culprit, why wasn’t he fired sooner?

My bet is that he wasn't.

 

[glv98]

If he was the culprit, why wasn’t he fired sooner?

Same reason that the players now being identified as culprits weren’t fired. Even if some were problematic, and obviously some were, no excuse whatsoever to leave them on the squad. Should have been sent off even if it meant playing managers or forfeiting and not playing at all. This all shows what happens when the head honcho has zero control.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

New UCF head coach. Mulkey is sulky.

 

[SummittSoul]

Gabe, Tubner’s available

 

[brittannica]

Actually very happy for Gabe. He will be closer to his mom, and clearly head coaching was always a goal of his. IDK if he will be successful, but I really appreciated his efforts to connect with the Spanish-speaking community here in Knoxville and players clearly loved him.

 

[lfvol]

New UCF head coach. Mulkey is sulky.

I guess LSU and Danny White’s former school didn’t buy the narrative he was a cancer.

 

[SummittSoul]

I guess LSU and Danny White’s former school didn’t buy the narrative he was a cancer.

Actually very happy for Gabe. He will be closer to his mom, and clearly head coaching was always a goal of his. IDK if he will be successful, but I really appreciated his efforts to connect with the Spanish-speaking community here in Knoxville and players clearly loved him.

I like it too. Good opportunity on both sides

 

[1reVOLver]

Former Lady Vols basketball assistant Gabe Lazo named UCF head coach​

Cora Hall
April 4, 2026, 12:56 p.m. ET

Former Lady Vols basketball assistant coach Gabe Lazo was announced as the new UCF women's basketball coach on April 4, four days after it was announced he had been hired to LSU coach Kim Mulkey's staff.
Lazo resigned from Tennessee coach Kim Caldwell's staff on March 27, and Caldwell hired former Florida State associate head coach Bill Ferrara to replace him.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/womens-basketball/2026/04/04/gabe-lazo-ucf-head-coach-lady-vols-basketball-lsu-assistant/89466628007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z119761p119450c119450e006400v119761d--xx--b--xx--&gca-ft=137&gca-ds=sophi

 

[LadyVolsDiehard]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's all I can muster.

Gabe is a crazy afer. Roman will definitely follow the circus.

The Big 12 is a mess so Gabe and whoever he adds to that team will probably fair well next season but crazy work!

 

[madtownvol]

Former Lady Vols basketball assistant Gabe Lazo named UCF head coach​

Cora Hall
April 4, 2026, 12:56 p.m. ET

Former Lady Vols basketball assistant coach Gabe Lazo was announced as the new UCF women's basketball coach on April 4, four days after it was announced he had been hired to LSU coach Kim Mulkey's staff.
Lazo resigned from Tennessee coach Kim Caldwell's staff on March 27, and Caldwell hired former Florida State associate head coach Bill Ferrara to replace him.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/womens-basketball/2026/04/04/gabe-lazo-ucf-head-coach-lady-vols-basketball-lsu-assistant/89466628007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z119761p119450c119450e006400v119761d--xx--b--xx--&gca-ft=137&gca-ds=sophi

I had to double check this!!!! Wowza!!!

 

[Volfan2012]

I had to double check this!!!! Wowza!!!

He is their coach now he needs to get all the Lady Vols in the portal and Edwards.

 

[1reVOLver]

I had to double check this!!!! Wowza!!!

And KLUTZ and the other Kim supporters will point to this as the latest shiny object.
They hope it will divert attention from the remarkable count of returning players: 1 and an asymptote to goosegg.

 

[orange beard]

I had to double check this!!!! Wowza!!!

This was planned from the git go!!I liked Laz and will pull for his team now as well!!!!

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

His time at LSU as a coach can be measured in hrs, ha.

 

[knoxvol52]

I guess the Narrative Edwards to LSU just went out the window, what's next Edwards to UCF?

 

[LadyVolsDiehard]

His time at LSU as a coach can be measured in hrs, ha.

Some are saying Mulkey must be upset. HELL NAW. If anything she should be relieved!