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Congrats to Coach Guth for a fine run at Yale and best of luck to her at Loyola Chicago. Pat on the back to Yale for the classy send-off.

It will be interesting to see what direction Yale goes:
  • Guth was an assistant at Northwestern before taking over the Bulldog HC post;
  • Harvard just hired Carrie Moore, who worked under Kim Barnes Arrico at Michigan.

So, will Yale do the distinguished "up and coming" assistant route again? Or maybe look at other non-Power 5 programs where the Ivies would be considered a jump up? Stay tuned.
 
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Dillon77 said:
Joins a more prestigious league and doesn't even have to move cities! Good job.

Got the Jags into the NCAA's with a senior/grad-student (Macee Williams) led team.
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He must really be up for a challenge.
It would be amazing if he's able to achieve similar accomplishments at Butler.
He deserves a lot of credit for taking the leap.
It's just what the Big East needs.
If he's successful then it will get noticed and he'll be moving up again in the future.
 
sun said:
He must really be up for a challenge.
It would be amazing if he's able to achieve similar accomplishments at Butler.
He deserves a lot of credit for taking the leap.
It's just what the Big East needs.
If he's successful then it will get noticed and he'll be moving up again in the future.
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I don't think it would be "amazing" if he has similar accomplishments at Butler (given a few years). He'll be recruiting in the same area with the same contacts and he's a good coach.
 
mudcat said:
I don't think it would be "amazing" if he has similar accomplishments at Butler (given a few years). He'll be recruiting in the same area with the same contacts and he's a good coach.
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He would need to take Butler from being the worst team in the Big East to the NCAAT.
What makes it even tougher is that IUPUI has as enrollment of over 29,000 while Butler only has an enrollment of 5.000.
It wouldn't be easy to attract many good WBB players to such a small school with such a poor record.
It's easier said than done in the tougher Big East.
 
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cancontent said:
fairfieldstags.com

Carly Thibault-DuDonis Named Head Coach of Fairfield Women’s Basketball - Fairfield University Athletics

A veteran of two Final Fours and one of the nation's top recruiters, Carly Thibault-DuDonis has been named the Head Coach of the Fairfield University Women's Basketball
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MInnesota is losing another assistant coach. One thing it seems Whalen has had success with is getting her assistants HC opportunities.
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Or perhaps her father helped a bit with his connections, as well?
 


Not sure how true this is but Coach Yo got what she needed out of it bringing in Austin. Who is the next assistant she can bring in to land a major star player from the portal?
 
cancontent said:
fairfieldstags.com

Carly Thibault-DuDonis Named Head Coach of Fairfield Women’s Basketball - Fairfield University Athletics

A veteran of two Final Fours and one of the nation's top recruiters, Carly Thibault-DuDonis has been named the Head Coach of the Fairfield University Women's Basketball
fairfieldstags.com fairfieldstags.com

MInnesota is losing another assistant coach. One thing it seems Whalen has had success with is getting her assistants HC opportunities.
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Wow! I am old. I taught Carly when her family first moved to CT and she was in the seventh grade!
 
KnightBridgeAZ said:
Or perhaps her father helped a bit with his connections, as well?
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Not sure why that has to be the first thought. She's put in time based on what I've read. She also had Minnesota playing well when Whalen was ill, possibly better than Whalen to some from what I've gleaned on the Minnesota forum.
 
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cancontent said:
Not sure why that has to be the first thought. She's put in time based on what I've read. She also had Minnesota playing well when Whalen was ill, possibly better than Whalen to some from what I've gleaned on the Minnesota forum.
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Very deserving of a job, not at all surprised. I wondered more specifically about the Connecticut connection - I assume they at one time lived in Connecticut while he was at the Sun - and her job being at Fairfield.

It does not hurt in the coaching business to have "connections". It might be the coach you played for, other coaches for whom you were an assistant, or your family.
 
The Big South takes another hit.. After taking Longwood to its first ever NCAa tournament... The coach moves up to the A10

 
KnightBridgeAZ said:
Very deserving of a job, not at all surprised. I wondered more specifically about the Connecticut connection - I assume they at one time lived in Connecticut while he was at the Sun - and her job being at Fairfield.

It does not hurt in the coaching business to have "connections". It might be the coach you played for, other coaches for whom you were an assistant, or your family.
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I didn't interpret it that way as I wasn't aware Fairfield is in Connecticut. My apologies.
 
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Karen Lange was previously at Georgia with Joni Taylor.

georgiadogs.com

Karen Lange - Women's Basketball Coach - University of Georgia Athletics

Since being named Georgia's associate head coach in 2015, Karen Lange's ability to teach, motivate and challenge student-athletes has been apparent during he...
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Joni hasn't yet announced her Texas &M coaching staff, but adding her husband probably meant there was not a job for Lange. Chelsea Newton also expected to move from Georgia to A&M.
 
Coaching has to be one of the most closed professions out there in that it really does take a connection or stroke of luck to get into it. One of the guys I knew in college has been a pretty successful high school coach but spent probably a decade trying to break in to even the lowest ranks of men's basketball at the college level (Juco assistants, NAIA assistants) and told me years ago he never even got an interview. I know his story is similar to thousands out there and that it's all about connections but it's funny to see the never ending musical chairs with the same names over and over, rarely seeing any new faces break through.
 
MSSportsGuy said:
Coaching has to be one of the most closed professions out there in that it really does take a connection or stroke of luck to get into it. One of the guys I knew in college has been a pretty successful high school coach but spent probably a decade trying to break in to even the lowest ranks of men's basketball at the college level (Juco assistants, NAIA assistants) and told me years ago he never even got an interview. I know his story is similar to thousands out there and that it's all about connections but it's funny to see the never ending musical chairs with the same names over and over, rarely seeing any new faces break through.
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It might help if a person is from Connecticut's "least greatest city" where dribbling was invented. LOL!

I know of 3 coaches who are from CT's 7th largest city.
Peter Roby who coached the Harvard men from 1885 - 91.
Tory Verdi who currently coaches the UMass Minutewomen.
Tom Thibodeau who is currently the head coach of the NY Knicks.

What does the city have to with it?
FWIW Rebecca Lobo's grandparents lived there, and we all know what Rebecca Lobo started.
Or maybe it's something in the water.
See the BY thread below for another angle to the story.

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The Invention of Dribbling

The internet will tell you that the first team to dribble a basketball was Yale University in 1897. But if you search Google for- Dribbling invented in New Britain, Conn - the results will produce a Hartford Courant article that includes the quote below. "...In the golden age, innovation...
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With all these retirements, firings and new hires, hopefully someone will give my daughter a chance.
 
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triaddukefan said:





Well I guess ur username is quite accurate ;)
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I was about to wish our abandoned child good luck and then I noticed their new HC is a Clemson grad so yeah.. Nevermind. :p

(Coastal was once a satellite campus of Carolina's and we sorta left them on the side of the road and now they are their own school)
 
St. Louis University just hired a new women's coach. Don't remember her name and have never heard of her.
 
donalddoowop said:
St. Louis University just hired a new women's coach. Don't remember her name and have never heard of her.
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I posted it on the page before. Her name is Rebecca Tillet.. Comes over from Longwood University in Virginia. Took them to their first Big South Championship and ncaa tournament appearance in school history.
 
Her departure one year ago was kept very quiet; most of us assume it was to help family in New Mexico.

But, Elena Lovato is back at Texas with a new title.

 
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