Poll about supporting the new coach

Will you be willing to give 100% support to the Lady Vols regardless of who Fulmer hires?

  • Absolutely. I will give whomever the next coach is my full, unconditional support.

    Votes: 41 32.8%

  • I may be a bit skeptical if the next coach isn’t a former Lady Vol

    Votes: 5 4.0%

  • I will feel like I am betraying Pat if I support a male in the historically woman-filled role.

    Votes: 6 4.8%

  • I believe the program could benefit by hiring “outside the family”

    Votes: 24 19.2%

  • I amso excited about next season that I will help “pack TBA” in Game 1

    Votes: 6 4.8%

  • I just want the best damn coach.

    Votes: 82 65.6%
  • Total voters
    125
#2
#2
More options needed. As: I'll back them if they are a good hire and prove to be successful. So, since many of the Fire Holly crowd felt that way because we didn't win the SEC or the NCAA title, that will be the new coach's goal. In the first year. Win it the first year, we're good to go. Drag it down like Kiffen, Dooley, Butch and now the new one...Pruitt, you need to go.:cool:
 
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Hey, not to be an @ss, but we all need to decide whether or not we’ll fully support them BEFORE the season starts. Support, in this case (IMO), really needs to be on an “Until You Prove My Support Unworthy” basis.

What I hope is that the historically formidable Lady Vol fanbase comes together, regardless of who is hired, to absolutely blow the socks off the world of women’s college basketball by reclaiming TBA’s place as the ultimate place to see the very BEST that women’s college basketball has to offer.

It can happen, friends. But we may all be need to be willing to make compromises to get there. I’m not talking about morality compromises — NEVER! But if you’ve never imagined seeing the Lady Vol program led by someone outside the Tennessee family, or someone who is not woman but is there to lead other women, then the task that Fulmer faces is made a zillion times more difficult by
 
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Slydell said:
I doubt that Tennessee will pay what it will take to get him here. Their history shows that.
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I believe that determining how much salary can be offered to the next LV HC is the first order of business for the UT athletic department. This will enable them to eliminate any potential HC with equal or above salary. No one is going to take the HC job for a cut in pay.
 
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Honestly, fans support winners and quickly forget about everything else.

Particularly younger fans (i.e. the student body), they mostly don''t know or care about all the history being dredged; they just want a good team and will quickly jump on the bandwagon if the LVs look like they are on a return to glory.

No smart marketer would cater to the whims of a seriously aging fan base (they will come around anyway; get the new fans in the seats).

Right now these issues may seem like HUGE deals but it Walz comes in and next year the LVs are back at the top of the SEC, seriously competing against top 5 competition and back in the Sweet 16/elite 8 mix, the tide will turn in his favor massively.
If there is not a flood transfers, with Walz at the LV helm, that is a very doable scenario.
 
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#14
One option isn't listed that is important to me is personality and the culture the new coach brings. It's the biggest reason I'm skeptical of Jeff Walz. His extremely high transfer rate, tiffs with other coaches, and getting suspended for bashing refs in the media doesn't scream good culture. Plus the reports of him working hard behind the scenes to campaign for the job while his team is in the NCAA Tournament is pretty sleazy. At the end of the day, winning should be the top priority, but these other factors make me nervous about the prospect of having Walz taking over this storied program.
 
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Another voting option should be added:

"I believe that no matter how I vote, the purpose of this poll is to express support for hiring Jeff Walz."
 
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I don't think you want Tennessee to hire Jeff Walz anyway[/QUOTE]

Jeff has a bad history with the Lady Vols. And after you add in the fact that he is a male, those two things just really rub folks the wrong way.
 
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While I do support the hiring of Jeff Walz let me say this.

1. Winning will cure all.
2. You should want a coach that cares enough to rip refs when they are wrong. What would Pat have done? Lay down?
3. Jeff is a winner. If he is against you then he is trying to beat you, not make you happy. What I have learned is you want those type people on your side not against you.
4. We would be lucky to land a coach like this.
5. We all want the same thing, to get our program back.

6. All the people who think this has to be a tree hire are just normal fans who dont know jack about basketball. Thats why you are fans and there is nothing wrong with that, just you dont need to be involved in a hiring process. However social media has given everyone a voice( including me) and sometimes thats a bad thing.....
 
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#19
Hesitant about the culture he'll bring and his recruiting acumen, but I'm coming around on the idea of Jeff Walz.
 
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#20
fatal1 said:
I personally would like to see kellie jolly get a shot at the job look at what shes doing with no big time players.
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No. She is a mid major coach. She’s right where she needs to be. We need a PROVEN power 5 coach. Her record at N.C. State was dismal.
 
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LVsinceJV said:
Hesitant about the culture he'll bring and his recruiting acumen, but I'm coming around on the idea of Jeff Walz.
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What if he hired a former Lady Vol as his assistant? One just left him for a head coaching job.

Again with the shady stuff. He was suspended one game because he criticized a ref. First of all we all know how bad the refs are in WBB and second this shows me that he is standing up for his players. Second, what team beside the Lady Vols have a 100% grad rate? It should be stressed to him how important it is but you can’t hold the program hostage over it. And transfers. Every school has them now. He is no nonsense coach, some kids want to be coddled. I would rather have hard working motivated kids. Finally his shadiness. I want some proof of these vague things he’s done. To me we’re just trying to find excuses.
Please look at the final poll of the season for WBB. Of the teams in the Top Ten, which proven, successful coach of those teams do we have the best chance of getting? Very few. Of those couple, who has the best ability to take a huge and important WBB program and make them immediately a contender? To me their is only one choice. Jeff Walz
 
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#23
mike099 said:
Some folks think fewer players would leave with waltz and he could recruit better than KJ Harper.

If Walz is not coming I would rather have jolly than Ivey from ND
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Kellie Jolly Harpers' relative advantage over Ivey is that she does have head coaching experience.

Ivey's relative advantage over Harper is that she is a from a system that has proven to be more effective in todays game than the LV "effort" model. Ivey also has WNBA experience which opens even more perspective on coaching and probably provides some recruiting cachet.

On balance, I think the LVs need to get out of the family; incest leads to a weakened gene pool. We need new blood in the system.
 
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POLOinDC said:
I don't think you want Tennessee to hire Jeff Walz anyway
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Jeff has a bad history with the Lady Vols. And after you add in the fact that he is a male, those two things just really rub folks the wrong way.[/QUOTE]

Rick Barnes has bad history w UNC and the legendary Dean Smith too. When you are in the underdog position, you have to scratch, claw, and push limits to overcome the blue bloods. I like coaches who lay it all on the line for THEIR team against the giants.

Secondly, and I can't believe that I'm entertaining this at all, but WHO is it that gets rubbed the wrong way by a coach being male? To even discuss this is borderline idiotic. I mean this fanbase stood squarely behind a coach who by every account is a lesbian. At least until the winning fell off. If the fanbase in TN is tolerant enough for that, then WHO in Hades is it who discriminates based on actual biological gender? UConn is proof that this is not @ winning.

Disclaimer:. Walz looks great to me, but if their is another better option, then I'm all for them!
 
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