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Diana T. Next Uconn HC?

chrissaran said:
Shea, Jamelle, Jennifer, Carla . . . that's a start.
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Shea - untested as a head coach but knows UCONN system and existing players and recruits in pipeline, back pocket
Jamelle - 113–162 (.411) pass, next candidate
Jennifer - 365–260 (.584) decent but not truly outstanding, keep as yard stick
Carla - 378-94 (.800) keeper!
 
What players say when they are still playing at the highest level can change dramatically when they retire - they miss the 'juice' of competition and they look for ways back into that world. Kobe was an example of that and might well have moved up the chain as his daughter did - it was suggested he was looking at HS jobs at the school Gigi might have attended. So, what DT or Sue say now does not necessarily indicate where their heads will be at in a few years. (Uconn has a good women's soccer team as well ...) The fact that DT and Penny are raising their son might also make a more rural environment attractive.

That said, I would think Uconn would want someone with a HC resume - it is a very different program than it was when Geno arrived and they were just looking to make it respectable. I am leery of Shea as the 'heir apparent' with no HC experience - she is a good assistant but I would have liked to see her put her toe in the water somewhere as a HC. Berube seems like a better choice at this point, Marisa might be attractive in a few years depending on her run at BU. And I would not be against them hiring a man - the dynamic of Geno/CD I think has appealed to a lot of recruits as they move away from their home environment.
 
Setting: A spacious living room. The day is bright and warm, sun fills the room. Sue Bird and her partner Megan Rapinoe are are lounging in sweats, reading the paper and drinking coffee.

Sue looks up and says "I meant to mention to you Meg, I got a call from Uconn yesterday and...

Meg: Who do you know in Canada?

Sue: Canada? No, not Canada, Uconn as in University of Connecticut, where I played basketball. Anyways, Geno retired...

Meg: Geno?

Sue: You know - short Italian guy who was my coach.

Meg: Oh yeah, you talk about him a lot.

Sue, exasperated: Not that much. So they offered me a coaching job and I wanted to ask you...

Meg: Connecticut. That little state that's in New England right? Where is the campus?

Sue: Storrs.

Meg: Storrs? What's in Storrs aside from a campus?

Sue Well, nothing really, but Storrs is part of the town of Mansfield.

Meg: And what is in Mansfield?

Sue: Trees. A lot of trees. Very nice trees. And some farms.

Meg: I like trees, but is there a nearby city of some sort?

Sue: Hartford. The capital city. It's kind of poor and run down, but it has nice suburbs!

Meg: What's the weather like?

Sue: Great! Except winter, which is cold, snowy, sleety and cold rainy, and summer which is really hot and humid. Spring is kind of wet - we call it mud season. Fall is nice. The trees turn colors and...

Meg: Again with the trees.

Sue: Back to the point here, I've been offered this job and....

Meg, jumping up: Oh, look, time to take the cat for a walk.

Meg exeunt stage left.
 
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Setting: A spacious living room. The day is bright and warm, sun fills the room. Sue Bird and her partner Megan Rapinoe are are lounging in sweats, reading the paper and drinking coffee.

Sue looks up and says "I meant to mention to you Meg, I got a call from Uconn yesterday and...

Meg: Who do you know in Canada?

Sue: Canada? No, not Canada, Uconn as in University of Connecticut, where I played basketball. Anyways, Geno retired...

Meg: Geno?

Sue: You know - short Italian guy who was my coach.

Meg: Oh yeah, you talk about him a lot.

Sue, exasperated: Not that much. So they offered me a coaching job and I wanted to ask you...

Meg: Connecticut. That little state that's in New England right? Where is the campus?

Sue: Storrs.

Meg: Storrs? What's in Storrs aside from a campus?

Sue Well, nothing really, but Storrs is part of the town of Mansfield.

Meg: And what is in Mansfield?

Sue: Trees. A lot of trees. Very nice trees. And some farms.

Meg: I like trees, but is there a nearby city of some sort?

Sue: Hartford. The capital city. It's kind of poor and run down, but it has nice suburbs!

Meg: What's the weather like?

Sue: Great! Except winter, which is cold, snowy, sleety and cold rainy, and summer which is really hot and humid. Spring is kind of wet - we call it mud season. Fall is nice. The trees turn colors and...

Meg: Again with the trees.

Sue: Back to the point here, I've been offered this job and....

Meg, jumping up: Oh, look, time to take the cat for a walk.

Meg exeunt stage left.
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I never liked Rapinoe.
 
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Football pays for everything for the Power 5 football teams schools in other sports! So how are these other sports considered Power 5 if they can't pay for themselves and never will be able to except for a few MCBB teams. No Womens team will.
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To be clear, in the first part of my post I was quoting and responding to @trb123; it was his post about DT and Sue not mine. Something went wrong with my quote of trb123 and it wasn't highlighted like it normally is. So in your post to me his quote was attributed to me. My bad.


In the second part of my post I quoted (properly this time) your response to trb123, about the P5. If I'm reading you right you regard the P5 designation as applying only to the football programs of those schools and nothing else.

I do agree with you that football is the money maker for the P5. And that men's basketball can also be a moneymaker for any Div 1 school, P5 or not. And that outside of a dozen or so schools such as Uconn & Tenn WCBB is a money loser as are most of the other sports.

If your perspective is solely as a fan of WCBB then I guess that you are correct, P5 is a meaningless term outside of football. This is after all a Uconn WCBB forum and I would have to agree that you have every right to look at it that way.

But if you’re looking at what P5 schools generate in revenue, and what that revenue allows their Athletic Departments to accomplish, in terms of marketing, infrastructure, facilities and support up and down the gamut of collegiate sports then I would argue (respectfully, without heat) your perspective is too narrow.

Right now the Uconn Athletic Department is hemorrhaging cash. Sooner or later the State will cut back on their support and students will protest the extra fees. And our "front porch" will need maintenance and repair and the cash won't be there, because we are not P5 and therefore don't generate P5 revenue. Our lack of P5 status will then impact every sport that Uconn has.

Just my perspective, no disrespect to you.
 
I know this is all just fun but a recently posted video of Taurasi had her say something like the cold winters in Russia and Connecticut just start to wear on you. I can't imagine that getting better as she gets older and with a family.
 
Watchdog said:
Carla Berube is the likely candidate based on her winning at Tufts and now at Princeton.
Rizzotti hasn't dominated in her league(s) so she's not likely to get this job.
Shea should have left to take a head coaching job
CD is not likely to want the aggravation and she'd need to find another Geno to complement her skills.
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I was starting to give up hope on this thread until I read you. There's so much insanity going on with the other posts, but yours is spot on.
Comparing Geno with no head coaching experience taking over a bad UConn program to Shea or any other assistant taking over the greatest program of all time with no head coaching experience is nuts. Completely different situations.
Of "our" people, Carla is the favorite if she shows she can get it done at Princeton.
Jen, Jamelle & Morgan Valley - Did not get it done at other schools. Non-starter.
Shea - No head coaching experience. Needs to leave to a HC job and succeed if she wants to be considered a candidate.
Sue, Diana, etc - No coaching whatsoever. Being coaches on the court and running a program are 2 different things.
Outside of the family, Curt Miller of the Connecticut Sun could be a possibility. Has college experience, pro experience and (if my memory serves me) was recommended by Geno for that job.
We'll have to wait and see what the landscape looks like when Geno does decide to hang up his whistle.
 
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Setting: A spacious living room. The day is bright and warm, sun fills the room. Sue Bird and her partner Megan Rapinoe are are lounging in sweats, reading the paper and drinking coffee.

Sue looks up and says "I meant to mention to you Meg, I got a call from Uconn yesterday and...

Meg: Who do you know in Canada?

Sue: Canada? No, not Canada, Uconn as in University of Connecticut, where I played basketball. Anyways, Geno retired...

Meg: Geno?

Sue: You know - short Italian guy who was my coach.

Meg: Oh yeah, you talk about him a lot.

Sue, exasperated: Not that much. So they offered me a coaching job and I wanted to ask you...

Meg: Connecticut. That little state that's in New England right? Where is the campus?

Sue: Storrs.

Meg: Storrs? What's in Storrs aside from a campus?

Sue Well, nothing really, but Storrs is part of the town of Mansfield.

Meg: And what is in Mansfield?

Sue: Trees. A lot of trees. Very nice trees. And some farms.

Meg: I like trees, but is there a nearby city of some sort?

Sue: Hartford. The capital city. It's kind of poor and run down, but it has nice suburbs!

Meg: What's the weather like?

Sue: Great! Except winter, which is cold, snowy, sleety and cold rainy, and summer which is really hot and humid. Spring is kind of wet - we call it mud season. Fall is nice. The trees turn colors and...

Meg: Again with the trees.

Sue: Back to the point here, I've been offered this job and....

Meg, jumping up: Oh, look, time to take the cat for a walk.

Meg exeunt stage left.
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I take exception to your description of Connecticut's weather. Besides, Sue and Megan are in Seattle currently. At least we have more than the occasional sunny day. ;)
 
and one said:
Setting: A spacious living room. The day is bright and warm, sun fills the room. Sue Bird and her partner Megan Rapinoe are are lounging in sweats, reading the paper and drinking coffee.

Sue looks up and says "I meant to mention to you Meg, I got a call from Uconn yesterday and...

Meg: Who do you know in Canada?

Sue: Canada? No, not Canada, Uconn as in University of Connecticut, where I played basketball. Anyways, Geno retired...

Meg: Geno?

Sue: You know - short Italian guy who was my coach.

Meg: Oh yeah, you talk about him a lot.

Sue, exasperated: Not that much. So they offered me a coaching job and I wanted to ask you...

Meg: Connecticut. That little state that's in New England right? Where is the campus?

Sue: Storrs.

Meg: Storrs? What's in Storrs aside from a campus?

Sue Well, nothing really, but Storrs is part of the town of Mansfield.

Meg: And what is in Mansfield?

Sue: Trees. A lot of trees. Very nice trees. And some farms.

Meg: I like trees, but is there a nearby city of some sort?

Sue: Hartford. The capital city. It's kind of poor and run down, but it has nice suburbs!

Meg: What's the weather like?

Sue: Great! Except winter, which is cold, snowy, sleety and cold rainy, and summer which is really hot and humid. Spring is kind of wet - we call it mud season. Fall is nice. The trees turn colors and...

Meg: Again with the trees.

Sue: Back to the point here, I've been offered this job and....

Meg, jumping up: Oh, look, time to take the cat for a walk.

Meg exeunt stage left.
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There is a real nice 3 screen drive in movies lol.
 
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and one said:
Setting: A spacious living room. The day is bright and warm, sun fills the room. Sue Bird and her partner Megan Rapinoe are are lounging in sweats, reading the paper and drinking coffee.

Sue looks up and says "I meant to mention to you Meg, I got a call from Uconn yesterday and...

Meg: Who do you know in Canada?

Sue: Canada? No, not Canada, Uconn as in University of Connecticut, where I played basketball. Anyways, Geno retired...

Meg: Geno?

Sue: You know - short Italian guy who was my coach.

Meg: Oh yeah, you talk about him a lot.

Sue, exasperated: Not that much. So they offered me a coaching job and I wanted to ask you...

Meg: Connecticut. That little state that's in New England right? Where is the campus?

Sue: Storrs.

Meg: Storrs? What's in Storrs aside from a campus?

Sue Well, nothing really, but Storrs is part of the town of Mansfield.

Meg: And what is in Mansfield?

Sue: Trees. A lot of trees. Very nice trees. And some farms.

Meg: I like trees, but is there a nearby city of some sort?

Sue: Hartford. The capital city. It's kind of poor and run down, but it has nice suburbs!

Meg: What's the weather like?

Sue: Great! Except winter, which is cold, snowy, sleety and cold rainy, and summer which is really hot and humid. Spring is kind of wet - we call it mud season. Fall is nice. The trees turn colors and...

Meg: Again with the trees.

Sue: Back to the point here, I've been offered this job and....

Meg, jumping up: Oh, look, time to take the cat for a walk.

Meg exeunt stage left.
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Lol @ exasperated "Not that much"
 
JonathanXIV said:
I take exception to your description of Connecticut's weather. Besides, Sue and Megan are in Seattle currently. At least we have more than the occasional sunny day. ;)
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Not to quibble, but CT weather includes all those things. And somehow a lot of just great to be alive days. During my time in CT I jogged, mountain biked and had the beagle out in the woods whenever possible and got to experience the full range of CT weather. The good, the bad and, well you know. Be assured, Seattle's weather is not for me. I'd take CT over Seattle in a heartbeat.
 
Yeah, the sun never shines in Seattle. Nobody should move here. Tell all your friends. :rolleyes:
 
I been saying this for 6 years now and I have no idea why some big time WCBB program has not listened to me. Lisa Thomaidis!
 
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RSHERMVIKES said:
As said above, the greatest women or men players usually don't make great coaches because usually everything about their sport fell into place for them at an early age and it almost came natural where most of their players they're coaching have to bust their butts to have any kind of success!
Ted Williams was the manager of the Washington Senators then Texas Rangers after they moved and was frustrated that he couldn't get the intricate points of Baseball across to his players!
That's why a lot of the best Manager's in Baseball are Catchers, because they faced the whole field and saw how situations occurred!
Great athlete's have to leave their egos outside as it's no longer about them but about their athletes!
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That, and they have to be good at massaging the egos of pitchers.
 
SVCBeercats said:
Shea - untested as a head coach but knows UCONN system and existing players and recruits in pipeline, back pocket
Jamelle - 113–162 (.411) pass, next candidate
Jennifer - 365–260 (.584) decent but not truly outstanding, keep as yard stick
Carla - 378-94 (.800) keeper!
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Do you have any idea how many injuries to key players Jamelle had to deal with? I didn't think so. UConn has had injuries to key players, but they had a lot more talent than Cincinnati. Next time consider all the circumstances when eliminating a candidate.
 
Sue Bird...has expressed an interest in doing color commentary for television: With her understanding of the game and her past history of being an extension of the head coach on the floor I have no doubt that if she had to desire to coach she would be great.

Diane Taurasi...in my opinion is the best to play the women's game. Maya and Breanna may be better in some ways but no one is better with the ball in their hands when you need to make something happen than DT.
Geno always said that DT makes everyone around her better. DT is a huge personality, highly competitive.
Lacks coaching experience...but, I would expect that if there is a will to coach....that her learning curve would be very short. I do think that she is better suited for the WNBA or even the NBA and wouldn't be surprised to see her offered a job with a professional team in either the men's or the women's game.

Shea Ralph...Shea has the institutional knowledge to take over. She has the experience in coaching...I am concerned with her people skills because all I have ever heard is that the players are afraid of her and that she is a bull in the weight room. I am also not sure that if Shea gets an offer for head coach from another D-1 program that is of her liking that she wouldn't take that offer. Geno will be here at least 4 more years...will Shea?

Carla Berube...interesting choice...a lot of experience, part of the UConn legacy, successful coaching record...

Jennifer Rizzotti...also an interesting choice...was one of the ones who got things going at UConn, great coach, lots of experience...

Chris Daley...her job if she wants it.

Geno has choices...but, you have to wonder...UConn is a sweet, tasty morsel and it will attract a lot of interest if and when the job becomes available....time will tell.
 
Why do you feel that need to hire a woman of color together head coach ? do tell please
 
chrissaran said:
Do you have any idea how many injuries to key players Jamelle had to deal with? I didn't think so. UConn has had injuries to key players, but they had a lot more talent than Cincinnati. Next time consider all the circumstances when eliminating a candidate.
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I did. Next candidate.
 
cferraro04 said:
Sue Bird...has expressed an interest in doing color commentary for television: With her understanding of the game and her past history of being an extension of the head coach on the floor I have no doubt that if she had to desire to coach she would be great.

Diane Taurasi...in my opinion is the best to play the women's game. Maya and Breanna may be better in some ways but no one is better with the ball in their hands when you need to make something happen than DT.
Geno always said that DT makes everyone around her better. DT is a huge personality, highly competitive.
Lacks coaching experience...but, I would expect that if there is a will to coach....that her learning curve would be very short. I do think that she is better suited for the WNBA or even the NBA and wouldn't be surprised to see her offered a job with a professional team in either the men's or the women's game.

Shea Ralph...Shea has the institutional knowledge to take over. She has the experience in coaching...I am concerned with her people skills because all I have ever heard is that the players are afraid of her and that she is a bull in the weight room. I am also not sure that if Shea gets an offer for head coach from another D-1 program that is of her liking that she wouldn't take that offer. Geno will be here at least 4 more years...will Shea?

Carla Berube...interesting choice...a lot of experience, part of the UConn legacy, successful coaching record...

Jennifer Rizzotti...also an interesting choice...was one of the ones who got things going at UConn, great coach, lots of experience...

Chris Daley...her job if she wants it.

Geno has choices...but, you have to wonder...UConn is a sweet, tasty morsel and it will attract a lot of interest if and when the job becomes available....time will tell.
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When Geno steps away, so will Chris. They came in together; they will go out together. The perfect ending.
 
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I would hope the days when schools focused their coach search on ex-players from their respective schools. They used to do this all the time and it was the reason that a few coaches dominated WCBB. They didn't have much competition. Gee I don't remember Geno playing for Uconn. Perhaps he wore a wig? I am sure there are many very good ex-players that would make excellent coaches, but the focus on that demographic for hires certainly lowered the standard for coaches for decades.

While I do think that the potential pool of ex-players has increased exponentially along with the game, the focus should be on getting the best coach possible and not maintaining the WCBB version of the "Good Ole Girl" system. Ex-players do not always make the best coaches. Let them prove themselves first.
 
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