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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3936831, member: 199"] I think there are two issues at play: 1. WCBB head coach was for a fairly long time a sinecure for a lot of schools : don't do anything to make waves, win a little, and you have a job for life. And recruiting was not a generally national but regional and local, with very little attention, or media, or competition because honestly not that many schools were serious about it. That probably started to change about 30 years ago, but was still working its way out of the system 20 years ago. And now, most D1 colleges are demanding performance of their coaches (though they still tend to wait until contracts end rather than doing buyouts.) 2. When Geno was hired, he was the second choice, and with a much worse resume, but he was cheaper than the first choice. He had a resume as a HS assistant coach followed by 4 years as an assistant at a good college. Oklahoma hired a HS head coach 25 years ago. So major universities were still hiring 'unqualified' coaches in 1996 to head their WCBB programs. But around that time something else was happening ... real money was being handed out to a few WCBB coaches and then ten years later in 2007 Texas actually outbid Duke for a WCBB coach paying reportedly $1+M. The money that flowed into the WCBB coaching positions went from subsistence (Geno in 1987) to substantial (GG in 2007.) You didn't actually have to love women's basketball to make a career in it that could pay you a substantial salary. And in some ways it was actually easier than men's CBB with women's players staying in school for 4 years and still less recruiting competition. And so more men were became interested in the jobs. [/QUOTE]

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