"Working hard" is not the probative question here. What matters in the end is the product on the court, the development of the players, and the trajectory of the program. All three of which she gets negative marks on.
I‘m not worried about Dawn leaving South Carolina. She‘s been gradually moving all her family to South Carolina and proclaimed just before this past season that she’ll be retiring at USC. She doesn’t have any interest in coaching pros too. More worried about schools of some levels considering Law or Chmiel.
It wasn't about her W-L record. Anyone with a functioning eyeball could see that her program had topped out 2-3 years ago and that the trajectory since then was not good.
Not if they want their players to develop to their full potential or at least be a lot better than they were before entering college.
Kinda like Holly Warlick of Tennessee. Both likeable coaches as people, but didn’t keep the programs heading in the right direction so both got the axe.
Aston did not inherit the program Warlick did. Aston made Texas relevant again, and on the verge of becoming a consistent Top 10-15 program. Unfortunately, she couldn't maintain what she built.
I was comparing the coaches and their subsequent failures moreso than where the programs started when they took over. Also Texas wasn’t an obscurity when Aston took over. Look back and you’ll find that Texas had started the season ranked up until the 2011-2012 season (the season before Aston took over). Yes she brought them back into it, but they only had 1-2 seasons of actual prosperity.
I guess. No doubt Karen had further to climb, and she did. And, she probably leaves the program in better shape than when she inherited it.
I was just naming nba female assistants with no justification behind, but she did get to a final four..Aston didn’t..so yea
I would be shocked, shocked if that happens in this economic climate. Although Texas's athletic department apparently doesn't rely on either student fees or state support, so it's in a better position than almost any other AD, its football team generates almost 75 percent of its revenue ($145m), and there's no guarantee there will be a football season this year, let alone one with fans. If there isn't, Texas's athletic department budget will be shot through. And it's almost certainly going to generate less in revenue from TV ($20m), and we know conference payouts will be at least half what they were last year from the NCAA. In that kind of climate, what AD thinks it's time to allocate almost 50% more for a head coaching position?
I honestly don't know what you're getting at. If there is lost revenue from unplayed football games in 2020, it affects ALL schools across the board (although not necessarily equally). Texas won't base the salary of its new women's head coach on what will or won't happen regarding football come August.
Here's what I'm getting at: as I posted elsewhere:
So, you think the Texas AD has not already forecasted and budgeted for an increase in salary to be paid to the women's basketball coach over the next 12 months? Trust me -- him not extending Aston's contract is not a cost-savings move; it's a move that he knows will require more outgoing revenue, including those 3-4 months of overlapping salary where Aston has to be paid until end of August, and new head coach has to be paid starting in probably one month.
Coaching contracts don't run 12 months. They run 3-6 years. And all those other 3-6 year budgeted plans that universities had as of two months ago have gone up in smoke. There is no reason to think that whatever the Texas athletic director thought they were able to set aside for the WBB coach will still be available now. And I wouldn't be surprised if the athletic director isn't already getting calls from main campus seeing if they can squeeze additional revenue from the AD back to the rest of the university. That money has to come from somewhere.
Every school with a women's basketball program was going to pay salaries (over the next 3-6 years) regardless if they keep an existing coaching staff, or hire a new coaching staff. Luckily for Texas, we don't have to buyout Aston's contract because it only had 5 months remaining.
