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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4572697, member: 11664"] The NCAA's expansion of the coaching staff is a clear sign that WCBB has become a much bigger business than it ever has before. The additional costs, international recruitment efforts, transfer portal responsibilities as well as coaching all of the players is being acknowledged as requiring more effort & more staff to remain competitive on the court & to be financially sustainable. That should be the major consideration at this point in Geno's career, how to keep Geno from retiring sooner rather than later by doing everything possible to make his job easier and not more difficult. UConn should take advantage of the new rule or it could fall behind in being able to prepare players for elite competition. Geno relies on his staff, and if he could use more staff then he should be able to get it as way to spread out more of the responsibilities. Geno has alluded to shortcomings with the staff as part of the problem with this year's team. With more incoming players next year UConn should hire more staff. Other schools are doing it and they have much younger coachers. As the nature of the game & the business of WCBB changes, if a school stands still it's like falling behind. The NCAA will soon begin paying prize money for women's March Madness, & WCBB will become an even more important way for successful programs to earn money to pay for sports. Especially for schools that don't receive huge amounts of TV money. [/QUOTE]