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Message: [QUOTE="dws3665, post: 3610536, member: 10107"] I really like Lawson as a personality, and I enjoy her commentary on games, both in the studio and courtside. I hope she does well and rewards Duke's confidence in her. It's good for WBB to have a strong Duke program, and I hope this hire makes it happen. But I have to say, I'm more than a little surprised that they hired someone with so little WBB coaching experience at all, and virtually no college coaching experience. I hear much being made about how "connections" to top coaches and insights from calling so many games and talking to so many different coaches will help her. Maybe I'm just an Arkansas fan with "PJDTSD," ;) but these are the same arguments that folks who supported the hire of Jimmy Dykes made. (FTR, I was not one of them.) "He's a great announcer/analyst; sure, he's never coached college women, but he knows all the coaches and has called their games; he played for a legend (Eddie Sutton)." Don't misunderstand me -- I"m not saying that Lawson = Dykes -- just that the biggest arguments I'm seeing in her favor sound awfully familiar. Some things that for sure set them apart: there is exactly zero doubt that Coach Lawson will be infinitely better at relating to her players than Dykes was -- the stories his players tell ... sheesh -- and that alone will help her. I also have a strong suspicion that Coach Lawson will be able to put together a staff that isn't just a bunch of "yes-men" and "yes-women." For example, I doubt that she'll hire the JV Boys HS coach from Hillside High onto her staff. (Sorry, that was my PJDTSD flaring up again....) Good luck, Coach Lawson! Rooting for you! [/QUOTE]

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