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Says Shea Ralph, "People always ask every year: 'Hey, are you going to take a [head coaching] job?" "I try to tell people, and I am being very honest when I say so, that I am not actively searching. I love the job I have."
Since UConn began winning national championships in 1995, something strange has occurred in the women's basketball job market.Geno Auriemma's top assistants the past 20 years — Ralph, Marisa Moseley, Jamelle Elliott and Tonya Cardoza – have discovered that being a lieutenant in Storrs might actually be a better job than being a head coach at just about any other place in the nation.
"It would be hard to make a blanket statement like that, but Shea and I have one of the best jobs in college basketball," said Moseley, who begins her seventh season at UConn.
"And that's because we have the opportunity to win a national championship every year and recruit really good people from really good families that have many of the same motives and intentions.
Moseley, who has a base salary of $161,010, said the benefits or working for UConn are hard to ignore.
"We work in an environment where we are offered a lot of autonomy where we can learn and grow and experience every aspect of the job. If you pay attention, you can pick up a lot of different skill sets while you are here,"
Like Ralph, Cardoza says she often had conversations with friends wondering when she would leave UConn for her own job.
"Jamelle and I used to say it all the time, when people would ask why we didn't go on to be a head coach: 'Well, if I do leave you would want my job because it's the best job in the world.' It's hard to walk away knowing that where you are headed is not going to be like that. But you also carry the dream of hoping to replicate that feeling somewhere else on your own."
Of course, being an assistant at UConn is more than coaching. It's being a part of a national recognized program, one blessed with the type of institutional and community support not a lot of programs get. It's a different life, a cooler life.
[LINK] to John A’s full article
Since UConn began winning national championships in 1995, something strange has occurred in the women's basketball job market.Geno Auriemma's top assistants the past 20 years — Ralph, Marisa Moseley, Jamelle Elliott and Tonya Cardoza – have discovered that being a lieutenant in Storrs might actually be a better job than being a head coach at just about any other place in the nation.
"It would be hard to make a blanket statement like that, but Shea and I have one of the best jobs in college basketball," said Moseley, who begins her seventh season at UConn.
"And that's because we have the opportunity to win a national championship every year and recruit really good people from really good families that have many of the same motives and intentions.
Moseley, who has a base salary of $161,010, said the benefits or working for UConn are hard to ignore.
"We work in an environment where we are offered a lot of autonomy where we can learn and grow and experience every aspect of the job. If you pay attention, you can pick up a lot of different skill sets while you are here,"
Like Ralph, Cardoza says she often had conversations with friends wondering when she would leave UConn for her own job.
"Jamelle and I used to say it all the time, when people would ask why we didn't go on to be a head coach: 'Well, if I do leave you would want my job because it's the best job in the world.' It's hard to walk away knowing that where you are headed is not going to be like that. But you also carry the dream of hoping to replicate that feeling somewhere else on your own."
Of course, being an assistant at UConn is more than coaching. It's being a part of a national recognized program, one blessed with the type of institutional and community support not a lot of programs get. It's a different life, a cooler life.
[LINK] to John A’s full article
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