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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3602403, member: 7492"] Hey [USER=6620]@Dillon77[/USER] 1st off, I hope you and yours are staying safe and secure during these interesting times. Thanks for the comments back and we do have very different perspectives on the candidates. While [B]Katie Meier[/B] has made Miami sort of relevant, the issue is the "sort of" as she's won 1 league title and has never really accomplished anything in the NCAA Tournament. That's great she's the most accomplished Duke alumni in coaching in WCBB but I don't think she would lead Duke back to the promise land. She hasn't shown that kind of coaching ability. I have watched quite a few of her games these past 2 years and I am not impressed with her game coaching. Kudos to her accomplishments thus far but I am not a believer. Yes, I am aware White is from the ND tree himself and is especially why he needs to stay away from that tree again and especially for this job posting. Duke brand is not just the basketball "division" but the overall cache' of Duke, which I think, would be less than thrilled to take ND "2nd choices" to run their program. I AM NOT saying that [B]Beth Cunningham [/B]will not be a great coach somewhere, because like you, I think she did a great job at VCU and shows enough skills to achieve success anywhere. But with ND passing on her and then letting Ivey select a close associate while allowing Ms. Cunningham to move on, it's a bad optic for Duke and for their alumni. Same goes for the other mentioned ND alumns, most notably, [B]Meg Duffy[/B] who is still too new in her next level role but who I do think if this opening even occurred next spring with a year passing since the Ivey regime, Meg would be a viable candidate. There are no other ND candidates worthy of the Duke job than these two. Likewise with [B]Joanne Bernabe-McNamee[/B], taking from another school in your conference is sort of "bad form" especially when there is not an alumni connection (see Meier). Would Duke really do that? I haven't seen that happen in WCBB ever so it would be first. I do like JBM and hope she continues her success at BC. It was great fun this year watching that team hustle its way to their best season ever in the ACC. No way Walz or Brooks would be brought to Duke. That just is not logical on many levels for me. What I do think is a mistake is NOT hiring the best candidate now as you miss out on another year of recruiting and building those contacts with Freshman, sophomore and junior HS players by hiring an "interim" coach. Look, this is Duke, why wouldn't Drake, Dayton's, BC's or what about Carla want to go coach this program? The uncertainty is when sports would return, but it will return so opportunity rewards the bold... You did mention the Dayton coach in your post though Mechelle was too lazy to think of a candidate like her. Geno obviously likes her as we are scheduled to play them again. I just do not know anything about her and any coach Duke goes after better have shown the ability to coach up and succeed in the NCAAT which has not really occurred yet for Green. Arico-Barnes is a real intriguing candidate though. I went to the Mohegan November games last year where UConn-Ok and FSU-Michigan played and sat next to some of Kim's family at Mohegan. It was a great dialogue and very nice family however I get the impression that she's been granted the resources to continue to evolve that program and she's very happy there. Given their lack of institutional success historically, I do think some coaches like the idea of being THE ARCHITECT of a P5 team to which the program builds upon. She has that opportunity at Michigan. Would she want to follow in Gail's and even JPM's footsteps or blaze her path as she's currently doing? Good question. [/QUOTE]

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