@nwhoopfan should be happy??
I wonder where Langley will be coaching in 2025
Not sure of the (exact) points-of-view behind the questions, but the first one has certainy entered my mind.
Tina Langley did a bang-up job in her years at Rice. Her bio there cites a .673 winning percentage (highest ever for that school) and a WNIT championship. She jump-started -- changed? -- the culture there by recruiting and welcoming some adept tranfers, most notably the Ogwumike sisters (from Pepperdine), Nany Mulkey (from Okla.) and Nicole Iademarco (Ariz. State).
Many of us have promoted her for jobs thoughout the south and Atlantic Coast. After all, she worked hard and long for Maryland and had cups of coffee at Clemson and Georgia. (Also spend years at Toledo, btw).
With Mulkey graduating and the WNIT championship, she certainly followed the adage of "get out while on top."
Will she have the connections to keep prospects in the Pacific Northwest? And get some from outside of there to come, as Oregon has? My thought is that while workng to establish herself with successful High School and AAU programs, she might work on players who enter the portal from that area and want to come home. After all, that worked in Rice with Houston-based players.
To do that, would highly recommend hiring at least one (if not more) staff who know the roads and gyms to travel to.
This will be interesting to watch. She helped at Maryland and made us aware of Rice, so will pout that water right to the 50% mark. Go.
