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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 4262997, member: 7748"] CTT has 500 career wins so I wouldn't qualify her successful career as fairly. In the most recent listing I could find 2020 there were 76 coaches in the entire history of woman's college basketball who achieved 500 victories. So I think we could drop the fairly. You're absolutely correct Ray Anderson and the administration at Arizona State University has no interest in either a high profile coach, a very successful coach, or a very prominent one. They're just not willing to pay that price. CTT fostered a pisitive culture here but unfortunately did not cultivate a significant donor base. I think it would have been difficult to cultivate such a base anyway and very very few programs have that. ASU has average or slightly below average support for women's basketball. The Valley of the Sun has a wide range of sports activities for fans and unlike the program down I-10 there is not been a growing enthusiasm for women's basketball at the collegiate level. Even with Diana Taurasi and until recently Brittney Griner the Mercury didn't have significantly above average attendance. So with a limited budget Ray Anderson invested some time in a search and while I hope Adair with his number one choice I have a suspicion that he was probably turned down more than once. [ATTACH type="full"]74916[/ATTACH] A founding member of the Black Coaches United, Adair has been recognized by the organization, as well as Advancement of Blacks in Sports (ABIS), as one of the top women's basketball coaches in the country. Adair prides herself on being known as a game-changer as it relates to social justice and creating a safe space for athletes to find and use their voice; where she was a guest on ESPNW's "Around the Rim" with LaChina Robinson and Delaware's UD Winning Women in Athletics: Trailblazers and Changemakers Webinar Series. She is Delaware's representative on the CAA United for Change committee along with being the head coach representative at the Student-Athletes Against Social Injustice Task Force educational session. [/QUOTE]

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