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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4320404, member: 591"] According to an insider, which he definitely is, they did look at some of the obvious high profile folks - Barnes-Arico, Berube, Jolette Law (supposedly urged by Dawn and CVS), Chelsea Newton, of course Chris Dailey, none interested. These coaches either had just signed contract extensions, didn't want to come to Rutgers, or it was just the timing. I think with different timing, Barnes-Arico might have been a possibility, while CD was of course a no-go. He mentioned Ashley Langford of Stony Brook, Toyelle Wilson of SMU and particularly Megan Duffy of Marquette as candidates; while he would have liked them to consider Tammy Reiss of Rhode Island, apparently her contract situation was prohibitive although they did look at her briefly. He hinted, without naming Washington, calling it someone everyone knew from when she was a coach in the B1G. As to changing things - here's the nub. It is difficult to assess the last 10 years that Vivian was there. Clearly, the last year that she actually "wasn't" there has to be discarded. In those 10 years, Rutgers was not really competitive on the national scene, but clearly had a number of successful seasons by most standards. Made some NCAA's, but didn't advance. Collapsed at ends of seasons with some evidence of locker room issues. Had some decent players but the results were less than the sum of the parts, and a lot of those parts eventually moved on, both before and after the portal. A number of those parts, however, reached high places in RU player rankings and did move on to the WNBA, where it is hard to argue that Copper, Laney and Wheeler are doing well. I wasn't a Washington fan at Penn State, but she seems to be blaming internal fallout from the Sandusky affair for some of her issues towards the end, and someone checked and found that this was a rocky period in PSU athletics, so there could be some truth to that. Clearly she recruited a star and had success with her in the early part of her career there, and she certainly inherited a disaster at the end of the Rene Portland reign. I am pretty sure that Rutgers will - once they recover from last season - be competitive and have some decent seasons. Good enough? Don't know. Back on the national scene - definitely not betting - one way or the other - on this. [/QUOTE]

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