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Message: [QUOTE="visitingcock, post: 5307726, member: 6872"] A change of head coaching duties seems to be emerging in women’s college basketball. On November 2024, the U$C Trojans announced that they had hired Amy Boadhead as their GM for the wbb program. She had some rather extensive history of working with shoe companies. Her job duties included brand building, alumnae and donor outreach, dealing with players, NCAA compliance. A-major duty was stressed as NIL coordination GMs had begun emerging prior to her hire for joint men’s and women’s basketball . Broadjhead was the first ( to my knowledge) to be hired as a dedicated wbb GM for a major ( P/5-ish)) program. Since that hiring, Notre Dame and Mizzou have hired joint GMs for men’s and women’s programs. A number of P-5s including UNC, Arizona, Cal, Syracuse, Penn State, and Washington, have hired, or are hiring, GMs for their wbb programs. All have cited NIL as a major duty of the position. Last week, U$C announced that they have hired a new GM, to take Broadhead’s place. No explanation given. The important thing is, the Troggans pear to be committed to the position and others are following their lead. If anybody’s favorite school has made announcements regarding hiring a dedicated wbb GM, please post here so we can track whether this is a trend or series of anomalies. [/QUOTE]