She said she opted "to forgo the majority of my final year of compensation to support my staff during this incredibly challenging and transitional time overall."
Excellent post. I especially wanted to highlight the part of your post I bolded. For your first observation, I recall her constantly blaming poor results on injuries, or other things that were "beyond her control". She was never able to play the hand she was dealt without a bunch of excuses.
The phrase "record-setting crescendo" is a first-time collocation to my ears. Not exactly sure how the "crescendo" gets measured for proper recordkeeping, but maybe she can elaborate on that in her retirement.
I have always liked her and think she is a good coach. But she played at Colorado, and I think started the program at a school in Idaho? before heading to TCU. So I'm not sure she is east coast likely.
Yeah, a bit weird. I mean, she was Coach P (Palumbo) back when she was at Maine, but once she got married, you would have thought . . . Or, if she liked it so much, she could have kept her maiden name, as many coaches do. Gail, actually, was married when she was at Duke.
I love this collocation and will add it to the verbal repertoire going forward. It and Dawn's Mythical National Championship are two of the (very few) good things to come out of this wretched off-non-season.
The 10 candidates ESPN suggests-Gail tops their list:
How Duke women's basketball can replace coach Joanne P. McCallie
One of the biggest coaching jobs in women's basketball is open, and the Duke vacancy will draw enormous interest. Here are 10 of the top candidates.www.espn.com
I didn't know Duke had job openings for clowns.
I think that @stwainfan hasn't master the art of inserting the
or the emojji yet, give them time as Tennessee fans are still living in 2008 and emoji's weren't strong in the lexicon yet....
I think that @stwainfan hasn't master the art of inserting the
Clearly they had to be mocking Mechelle Voepel whose list really contains one viable candidate, two quasi-candidates and the rest are pure ignorant name droppings. Typical of the lazy journalism we have come to expect from Mechelle.
Duke has already stated they will not interview Gail, who frankly needs to take on a lesser program to rebuild her credentials.
Gottlieb-she's lucky to have left Cal when she did before not being retained,
Joanne Boyle-sorry @Dillon77, but Joanne was not going to be retained and UVa let her leave gracefully, she's not worthy of a P5 pristine program anymore and needs to rebuild her brand,
ANY ND assistant -no way Duke wants to hire from that tree while competing against ND in the ACC, it hurts their brand,
Curt Miller -ZERO recruiting experience and college rules and connection nuances,
Katie Meier-what has she really done at Miami to warrant a move up? Heck if she didn't get Mompremier as at Transfer, they would have been terrible.
Adia Barnes-is clearly a west coast coach with zero east coast connections plus she's building a very good program ready for national prominence year in and year out,
and even Shea Ralph-she's committed to the UConn program and is probably the heir apparent to take over and she's got her husband coaching up here and family.
These all silly names to throw out as names as they simply aren't viable for any number of the reasons and more than I gave.
The others of Langley at Rice has had a nice run but is she really elite enough and has she done enough at Rice to warrant the Duke consideration? At least she coached on the east coast.
Clark-Heard at Cincinnati has done a nice job at two significantly lesser programs but what has she really won during her career? Not thinking she's ready yet for a P5 program. Win the American next year without UConn in it and make some headway in the NCAA Tournament, then we can talk.
Joy Smith at Clemson is a nice alumni name to through out but why would Duke give the program to someone without any coaching experience let alone no assistant experience at Duke?
Jennie Baranczyk at Drake at least has head coaching experience, strong historical conference success and P5 playing experience. Whether she has the east coast connections is the only real question.
Of the names listed by anyone on this thread, Jennie is the only one that is logical.
I guess if Alana Beard wants in as a coach, Duke would have to listen but surround her with some legitimate assistants. But even Dawn Staley who was a significantly more accomplished player had to earn her bona fides at Temple before developing the monster she's creating at SC. That would be pretty big leap of faith for Duke.
Humbly submitted, DefenseBB
I think that @stwainfan hasn't master the art of inserting the
Clearly they had to be mocking Mechelle Voepel whose list really contains one viable candidate, two quasi-candidates and the rest are pure ignorant name droppings. Typical of the lazy journalism we have come to expect from Mechelle.
Duke has already stated they will not interview Gail, who frankly needs to take on a lesser program to rebuild her credentials.
Gottlieb-she's lucky to have left Cal when she did before not being retained,
Joanne Boyle-sorry @Dillon77, but Joanne was not going to be retained and UVa let her leave gracefully, she's not worthy of a P5 pristine program anymore and needs to rebuild her brand,
ANY ND assistant -no way Duke wants to hire from that tree while competing against ND in the ACC, it hurts their brand,
Curt Miller -ZERO recruiting experience and college rules and connection nuances,
Katie Meier-what has she really done at Miami to warrant a move up? Heck if she didn't get Mompremier as at Transfer, they would have been terrible.
Adia Barnes-is clearly a west coast coach with zero east coast connections plus she's building a very good program ready for national prominence year in and year out,
and even Shea Ralph-she's committed to the UConn program and is probably the heir apparent to take over and she's got her husband coaching up here and family.
These all silly names to throw out as names as they simply aren't viable for any number of the reasons and more than I gave.
The others of Langley at Rice has had a nice run but is she really elite enough and has she done enough at Rice to warrant the Duke consideration? At least she coached on the east coast.
Clark-Heard at Cincinnati has done a nice job at two significantly lesser programs but what has she really won during her career? Not thinking she's ready yet for a P5 program. Win the American next year without UConn in it and make some headway in the NCAA Tournament, then we can talk.
Joy Smith at Clemson is a nice alumni name to through out but why would Duke give the program to someone without any coaching experience let alone no assistant experience at Duke?
Jennie Baranczyk at Drake at least has head coaching experience, strong historical conference success and P5 playing experience. Whether she has the east coast connections is the only real question.
Of the names listed by anyone on this thread, Jennie is the only one that is logical.
I guess if Alana Beard wants in as a coach, Duke would have to listen but surround her with some legitimate assistants. But even Dawn Staley who was a significantly more accomplished player had to earn her bona fides at Temple before developing the monster she's creating at SC. That would be pretty big leap of faith for Duke.
Humbly submitted, DefenseBB
Thanks, I was going to bring up Bowling Green. Saw them play in the NCAA's - I think they were in the "other pod" during that period where they did the 8 team thing, in any case they didn't play Rutgers if they were in the same group. And yes, I agree, I think the Drake coach may have her eyes on Iowa, following (literally) in Bluder's footsteps.
