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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3495362, member: 6927"] Well, she was an assistant at Villanova for four years (1997-2001) before being hired at Drexel. I'm guardedly optimistic about this one. Not a "wow" hire, but I'll go with "solid". Drexel isn't a perennial NCAAT team like Gonzaga or FGCU, but they've been consistently in that next submaximal layer of the mid-major sphere. It's all too easy to underestimate what it takes to even be a perennial WNIT team when you're operating at that level of resources and exposure. I think a 306-204 (.600) record isn't at all bad when you factor out her first four years, when she went 54-63 while building the program from virtually nothing. Before she was hired in 2003, Drexel was both highly mediocre and unstable: She was their 4th HC in a 12-year period that included only one winning season. (Drexel had also just moved in 2001 from the America East to the Colonial — a significant step up in strength of conference.) So after her first 4 rebuilding years, Dillon logged a record of 252-141 (.641) and finished in the top 2 of the CAA in five of the past six years. As an analogous "alumna hire" it reminds me somewhat of Marquette's hiring of Carolyn Kieger, but with a couple big differences: (1) Kieger had no HC experience; she'd been an assistant at Miami for 7 years; (2) Kieger built a high-octane, guard-oriented offense at Marquette that was not exactly known for expending energy on the defensive end. My biggest misgiving is not over Dillon's record per se, but over style of play. I was hoping for more of a departure from Perretta's heavily defensive style of play, but this hire doesn't point in that direction. Drexel was #17 in the nation in scoring defense this season (55.4 ppg) but #254 in scoring offense (60.7 ppg). I'll be interested to see if that style continues. [/QUOTE]

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