Harper new Tenn coach?!

[ProSkeptic]

There was a coach named Holly
Replaced by one named Jolly
After their first loss
with her husband as the boss
The fans'l ride em outa town on a trolly

Great limerick! May I humbly suggest changing the last line to:

“Vol Nation exclaims ‘What folly!’”

 

[noirwestern]

I want to know if that coach Jumper chap gets any residuals for being the inspiration for this ad campaign?

 

[LadyVols9]

LV9 So happy for you that the CHW era is over.... it was bad bad really bad.... true... i am more hopeful and positive for you all than many are on Vol Nation..... If she can teach the game and garner respect amongst the players.... then good start....

Looks like Evina may stay.... if so good.... she and Holly apparently had issues.... but my interest is where will she play? what position... May be wrong but when recruited didsnt she have agreement that she would play one position or not play a certain position..... deeper you go into competition the more refined your basketball machine has to be....

Anyway good luck.... With the (my take) less than full commitment to Womens hoops at least financially.... i think Harper was good hire....

Thanks buddy! I always enjoy your posts. It's hard to even read Volnation. LOL some of those fans have no clue. we shall see about evina. i believe holly told her she could play PG but i am not 100% sure. i watched the press conference today. kellie and holly could not be more different. kellie has a natural enduring head coach quality. unfortunately, can't same the same about holly. i wish her the best though. time will heal a lot of the wounds. winning will help too! ha.

 

[futuretitles]

Whole team and Evina all at coaches press conference today. Have heard both that Evina and the whole team is staying, but have also heard could be 1-2 transfers. Leaning more towards all staying but time will tell soon.

 

[DefenseBB]

Husband assistants are not all that weird - or at least unusual. June Daugherty had her husband at her Washington gigs, U of A's assistant coach Salvatore Coppa is Mr. Adia Barnes. I can assure you, he isn't running her team, but he will get up and whisper to her, something you don't see the other assistant coaches do. One of our opponents in the WNIT had (I think) a husband and wife, and there have been and are others.

The one I find odd is Tennessee softball with a husband and wife co-head coach. Who's the boss?

Even odder is Tennessee has an nepotism rule that will need to be waive for her to hire her husband!

 

[DefenseBB]

Coach Jumper desired to be on the support staff of the new hire....He is a good guy that has a vast knowledge of basketball.....

Yeah and all you have to do is ask him and he'll tell and tell you and tell you...

 

[DefenseBB]

That really invites bad karma to wish poor outcomes for others. We'll see how UConn does when Geno retires and being stuck in the American conference.
The bad blood between the programs is ancient history.

NO it isn't. given the stupidity that happens over on VN, I doubt there will ever NOT be bad blood, especially when UT continues it's march into irrelevance. We have long memories here....

 

[stwainfan]

 

[Big Shoulders]

Only childish posters, of both boards, will keep the bad blood alive....
The rest of us will concentrate on basketball....

 

[Bayareahusky]

Saw the intro presser just now.... very good job KJH.... I especially liked that even though I thought very little of Holly's coaching acumen.... Kellie was still kind gracious and loyal.... says a lot about her....

KJH fielded all questions.... never got rattled.... the questions were polite, but still a solid job.....

 

[Volup1]

Even odder is Tennessee has an nepotism rule that will need to be waive for her to hire her husband!

It won’t be waived. If Kellie wants Jon to work with the team, Jon will have to be hired by and report to, the Athletic Department, rather than to Coach Harper herself.

 

[stwainfan]

Saw the intro presser just now.... very good job KJH.... I especially liked that even though I thought very little of Holly's coaching acumen.... Kellie was still kind gracious and loyal.... says a lot about her....

KJH fielded all questions.... never got rattled.... the questions were polite, but still a solid job.....

Yes I thought she did good. I think she is more like Pat than Holly. By the way she talks and carries herself. I will say she has more talent to work with here. If things go well this can be a really good hire.

 

[futuretitles]

Jon will be able to work. Tennessee head softball coaches are husband and wife and that program is a perennial power.