Kim knew exactly the kind of players she needed to make her system work at Glenville and Marshall and exactly how to get them. But I doubt she understood how trying to replicate all that in the SEC would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. In many ways her expectations might have been as unrealistic as many of the LV fans.
A friend of mine was having great success in local Friday night, small stakes, poker games. He developed a system of play that won him $50 to $100 every week so he decided to try the poker room at a well-known casino and play for higher stakes. In his first visit he almost broke even. In his second– and last – visit he got his clock cleaned. The Peter Principle exists in endeavors outside the corporate world.
The names of sports coaches who revolutionized how the games were played – Camp, Rockne, Wooden, Wilkinson, Summitt, etc. are on the Hall of Fame lists. It's possible that, with the right adjustments, Kim can make her system work well enough in the SEC to at least call it a success. Or she might be given enough time at the helm to ditch the system and use her undeniable talent and ambition to adapt her coaching style to achieve better than mediocre results as she grows as a D-1 coach.
I could ask ChatGPT to make a list of the current top WBB coaches and how many years of D-1 coaching experience they had before they reached an NCAA Final Four as a head coach. But I don't have to. Because I know the answer is a lot more than three.
