To some degree coaches need to figure out how to compete with the players they have - in the AAC she was never going to compete with Uconn or USF based on talent and fluid basketball - so just like her former coach CViv she used hard nose defense and ugly ball. Be curious to see what talent she gets at Georgia and if it changes her style.
Although Vivian always had talent. The hard nosed defense / ugly ball was a chosen style, but the talent level was never in doubt.
I think there was only a fairly short window where her talent matched up with Uconn - Vaughn, Carson, Ajavon, Pondexter - during the 2004-5 through 2006-7 seasons Rutgers was 5-6 against Uconn, and they had only one other win back in 1998. They never played a game closer than 10 points after their last win and most were 20+ point Uconn wins. Without Carson, Ajavon, and Pondexter the offense was almost always a struggle. 2008 was the last E8 and 2009 was the last S16.
Emma Adler of "The Next" touched on a few of my reactions, as did you:
Yes, but I wasn't referencing Rutgers / UConn specifically. Vivian's style against everyone was defense first and a certain amount of what you can call ugly ball (particularly, on offense). And she recruits to athletes that can play that style.
In the ASU thread, I did state that. And, I also clearly mentioned that Blair was very underpaid, and no doubt Joni would be getting paid more than what Georgia was paying her as she didn't leave to take a pay cut. I also talked about A&M reaching out to Waltz and reportedly offering to pay near $2 million a year. So, the A&M job is clearly not relevant to what I stated about schools possibly saving money.
New Miss St coach hiring assts from other SEC schools?
That is my hope for at least one assistant.
Oh, a snide one/zinger from South Beach?So ... another P5 team going pinch penny instead of pursuing excellence!
