I bet Iowa would have liked another shot at LSU. But, still, there has to be someone better than Queens (NC). South Carolina, Stanford, Iowa, UCLA didn’t have trouble finding decent teams to play
Because Kim is scared, she can't beat quality teams without a massive talent advantage is why. She would lose the vast majority of those games if she did schedule them.
It is COMPLETELY Kim’s fault as she is NOTORIOUS for scheduling weak teams AT HOME and is proud about. Just use Google and look at last years comments or 2 years ago and her comments.
First of all, wbb at the highest level is NOT "new to LSU fans". We'd been to five final fours and won the SEC numerous times before Kim got there AND before SC was any good. What Kim did is wake up a sleeping fan base that had been put to sleep by Nikki Fargas' terrible tenure. Now that we have an AD who cares and a coach who's as good as anyone in the game, the fans are back.
It may not officially be in her job description, however as Geno and other coaches have said many times in past years, without more exposure to the game, which gets more fans, WBB will not grow as much as everyone wants. In the recent article about Aaliyah's homecoming game, he explains why he does it, the impact for the city and opposing team. Same with DT and KLS out west, Stevie's game @ Colgate, among others.
Well said on the part about the history of LSU women's basketball. I will ignore the comments about Coach Fargas/Caldwell.
Heck even under Coach Fargas/Caldwell, LSU was NCAA tournament bound. But LSU has been a staple in women's basketball forever. Under Sue Gunter, in the 80s & 90s, LSU was a force. Same with Pokey Chatman, even though she had short run, but LSU has always been a women's basketball mover/shaker.
How is she not promoting the sport? When she plays those so-called less skilled programs, she is helping those schools with a little exposure and much needed cash for their programs. Those schools, especially the HBCUs on the men's side of basketball and I am sure on the women's side, would welcome the chance to get an invite to play LSU. Or once the schedule is finalized and coaches see that they have a program like LSU on their schedule, this could help with recruiting. Like I said before, Coach Mulkey is helping to grow the game of basketball in her way and the growth of the game is in good hands.
The good basketball programs are always remarkably willing to play each other. Mulkey has always been an exception. It's too bad for the fans, but it is how she likes to rolll.
Apologies I hope its not a deadly insult.
Her scheduling at Baylor was always not good but no doubt it’s been much worse at LSU than it was at Baylor. Even at Baylor she faced UConn/ucla/Stanford/played in some high profile tournaments playing ranked teams even if it wasn’t a lot. At LSU it’s been the polar opposite. Is it because she in the SEC now? Does she not feel confident in her current crop of players? No clue but last years title probably only threw fuel to the fire to continue to schedule that badly.
Exactly! Kim has said............on NUMEROUS OCCASIONS that part of the reason she came back to LSU was to not only help LSU regain it's previous glory, but to also help GROW THE GAME in the state of Louisiana. To all you bellyachers, let her do it HER WAY. It is successful.............The coaches of McNeese, ULL, MVSU, and Coppin State have ALL expressed their gratitude to coach Mulkey for giving them the opportunity to expose their kids to high level competition AND attention to their programs. What other P5 teams have scheduled away games AT an HBCU this season? I guess it's only growing the game if Dawn plays an HBCU and blows them out by 80, right?
Every top team plays a couple lower level teams; LSU has 10 cupcakes in it’s first 14 games and only 2 on the road and of the two road games, one was two hours from the LSU campus. Here’s South Carolina:
..............................and that's great for South Carolina. However, that has NOTHING to do with LSU's scheduling, nor their likelihood of making the final four or winning the NCAA tournament again this season. In fact, I don't think SC's schedule will result in much in comparison to LSU, when January 25th comes around. LSU will still more than likely win that game. With that being said, Dawn is scheduling similar teams, but also sprinkling in some top ten matchups. That's great! But, that is not Kim's way, and there's nothing wrong with that...........................................................although there appears to be so many who have psychological discomfort with it.
You are not new to WCBB so I am surprised by your naive post here. VERY few coaches schedule good (let alone “strong”) OOC games.They view the sole goal of the OOC to get the team ready for conference play, heck, @JellyBean just posted how impressed they were with Minn at 10-1. Most fans and many Athletic Directors seem to be clueless on the scheduling of bad OOC games to merely pad the wins, put together a sham resume for the NCAAT bid.
Mulkey does it because she knows she needs all the help she can get. If she were to schedule a legit OOC like SC/Stanford/ND/UCONN etc her record would be near .500 if not worse, hence she schedules the way she does. Only out talents opponents, hence her historic underachievement as a post season coach.
It was Christmas Eve when I posted, trying to spread Peace on Earth and Joy to Mankind, Don’t worry, I’ll be cursing Kim by New Year’s Day
Your name ten coaches question is as insulting as your attitude. Look at the top SOS list from Massey and your answer will fall out.
IMO they won't be top 4 because while I expect them to be in the top half of the SEC standings, I think 2 other SEC teams (in addition to SC) will finish above LSU. Its a much weaker team than last year with less size, less perimeter shooting, less speed, there isn't anything they did to improve their roster or depth.
Dawn. Geno. Cori. Tara. Brenda. Jeff. Kevin. Lisa. Aaron. Pat/Holly/Kelly. Year after year after year. What's my booby prize?
Knock it off
Thank you! I've been getting troll vibes because 99% of what they say is just waaaay over the top.
