No reason to try to change anyone's perception/dislike of Kim's antics. They come from deep in side a woman who still wants to put on a uniform and play and her antics are the way that mental/physical energy is vented.
However, though it might not be obvious to those who only see the highlight clips when she goes over the edge, this team of no-names (at least last year when they were a support casst for Sims, has now actually begun to mellow Kim. She's STILL over the edge, but not nearly as much, and her in-game relationship with her players is completely changing for the better because she seeing a bunch of over-achievers who are willing to work as hard as she does.
Probably that's just age. Her son is a soph baseballer at LSU and many of us believe as soon as he's done Kim will sail off into a sunset somewhere and find another challenge. Her bball fire will burn until she separates herself with a third NC (to rise above the other four schools that have 2).
Kim does NOT aspire to be a career Geno I am convinced. She knows Geno and previous Pat are models that are one-time deals. She's payed too well, her kids are gone (daughter getting married this summer) and I don't see Kim, still a young coach by many standards, making a career of it trying to be the sequel to La Tech, Tennessee, UCONN, and then Baylor.
In fact, her personna is such that if she could do so and be fair to her team/recruits, I think she has the makeup to walk away ANY time she gets fed up with having to be "made up" for the cameras, putting up with critics of her Louisiana crude in your face way of talking into a mike, and all the politics that go on around D1 athletics.
She's NOT a candidate for television commentary. She IS a candidate for buying a beach house in Florida where she takes her yearly 10 week vacation in late summer during recruiting lull and presseason prep.
If/when she is fortunate to make a final game, win or lose, if the loss is fair and legit, I don't expect to see her stick with it too long. And if she should win that final game, if her team is senior laden, I'd bet that's all it would take for her to let it all go.
Too many words. She IS, (and she brings it on herself with her antics) one of the most misunderstood coaches in the nation. She has cared for her players (inside the NCAA limits) in ways that have never been publicized, and deep in side is a caring, great lady. She just doesn't show it externally.
And no, I'm just a prof fan; I'm not her PR agent.