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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3333191, member: 1220"] Alston and Goenstenkors are an example of how coaching involves a lot of different variables and skills. Goenstenkors was a failure at Texas because she could not recruit at Texas. Alston was a successful recruiter but was not good at most of the other aspects of coaching. I believe Alston was hired because her perceived recruiting abilities were a reaction to Gail's perceived shortcomings. Sometimes it involves being at the right place at the right time. Circumstances will often dictate either success or failure. Gail was not a bad recruiter, rather she just did not have the connection in Texas or in the Western US. An entirely different situation than she had at Duke. She should have stayed at Duke, but I suspect that that situation was transitioning and beginning to go south., which is one reason she decided to leave. Coach P stepped into a storm the consequences of which gradually led to where the program is today. I know many Duke fans would not agree, but they lack objectivity mainly because they were a part of that storm. [/QUOTE]