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[QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3963567, member: 2117"]
What makes you trust someone with WNBA experience more than someone with mid-major/P5 assistant experience?

Historically speaking, WNBA head coaches who've transitioned over to the collegiate level have largely struggled.   I don't believe there is one success story.

Going through the wikipedia page: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association_head_coaches'](link)[/URL] here are the ones I recognized who coached collegiately after coaching in the W and all struggled:

-Stephanie White (coached in WNBA finals, train wreck at Vanderbilt)
-Van Chancellor (4 WNBA championships, had one good season at LSU before it derailed
-Cynthia Cooper (1 WNBA season coaching, never found much success coaching collegiately)
-Suzie McConnell (former WNBA Coach of the Year with similar track record to Collen, 1 good season with 2 bad ones after, then collegiately only made 1 NCAA tournament in 11 years of coaching)
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