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Let's Admit it: Jeff Walz is One of WCBB's Best Coaches

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His team just dismantled an excellent Oregon State team. In eleven years, he's one 298 games? He's got a winning percentage of 76%.

What's impressive is how he's done it with kids in his early years who weren't trumpeted talents. Remember Shoni Shimmel? He made her a great point guard, and with her at the point, defeated Baylor and Britney Griner in the NCAA's. He took Angel McCoughtry and made it to the championship game. And now he's back in the Final Four.

He has a knack for recruiting well, even when in the early years he couldn't get the best talent. And he finds a way to meld these kids together into effective teams. Now that he's getting top talent, he's not underperforming.

Contrast Walz with Baylor, which despite amazing talent, hasn't been back to the Final Four for six years. I think the jury is still out on Dawn Staley, whose teams seem to have difficulty integrating the best big man in the college game.

Just sayin' that Walz deserves his due. Coach Geno once told an interviewer that Muffet McGraw was his "Geno Auriemma." I'm not sure that his "Geno" shouldn't properly be Jeff Walz.
 
Well not too sure Shoni is a good example. She wasn't held accountable as far as getting in shape and was allowed to take the defensive end off. He has a tendency to allow his go to players to slack at the defensive end and not push them to be more of a team player by making them set screens etc.
 
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Oh yeah. See what MD did with him on staff and what they have done since plus his work at Louisvlle. I think most folks on the board just like to poke fun at his all out recruiting.
 
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Fairfield Fan said:
His team just dismantled an excellent Oregon State team. In eleven years, he's one 298 games? He's got a winning percentage of 76%.

What's impressive is how he's done it with kids in his early years who weren't trumpeted talents. Remember Shoni Shimmel? He made her a great point guard, and with her at the point, defeated Baylor and Britney Griner in the NCAA's. He took Angel McCoughtry and made it to the championship game. And now he's back in the Final Four.

He has a knack for recruiting well, even when in the early years he couldn't get the best talent. And he finds a way to meld these kids together into effective teams. Now that he's getting top talent, he's not underperforming.

Contrast Walz with Baylor, which despite amazing talent, hasn't been back to the Final Four for six years. I think the jury is still out on Dawn Staley, whose teams seem to have difficulty integrating the best big man in the college game.

Just sayin' that Walz deserves his due. Coach Geno once told an interviewer that Muffet McGraw was his "Geno Auriemma." I'm not sure that his "Geno" shouldn't properly be Jeff Walz.
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They one because of good defense today. A little unusual for his teams.
 
UConnCat said:
Seems posters on this board have talked about how good a coach Jeff is for a few years now.
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Just think that if we're talking about the very best, Walz is in there. I'd put him ahead of Dawn, ahead of Tara. The jury is out a bit on Reuck and Graves, though they may turn out to be the cream with Walz.

Just sayin'...
 
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He’s a good coach, no doubt, but he has had several years of underachieving and he hasn’t developed talent to the level that many other top rate coaches do. For example, last year they significantly underachieved. He’s done a great job this year, but he isn’t in my top 5 coaches list.
 
CBear01 said:
If not for UCONN a lot of teams would have a lot of titles
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I wouldn't say a lot. We've as far as I can remember, beaten Louisville,Stanford, Notre Dame, Tennessee, can't remember who else but all of those teams have top coaches and would deserve it, but it's only a select elite few. So not a lot.
 
uconnever said:
If not for Uconn he'd probably already have two titles. And this year maybe would be his third if they didn't run into us again. Although Miss st will be tough to beat.
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If you're talking about the final match-ups, than obviously he would have some. But if we're going to pretend Geno wasn't in the equation, Muffet would have 2+ more.
 
Taking Louisville to the FF three times with three different rosters in 11 years is an achievement--without the necessity of comparing it to others' accomplishments or the necessity of undercutting it with Walz's less successful years.
 
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UConnCat said:
Seems posters on this board have talked about how good a coach Jeff is for a few years now.
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Yeah, I don't get the "Let's Admit it..." part of the thread title.
 
Reypl21 said:
If you're talking about the final match-ups, than obviously he would have some. But if we're going to pretend Geno wasn't in the equation, Muffet would have 2+ more.
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That's ok she deserves them. My point is that he would be one of the select few with more than one (possibly) and there are only a select few who has even only one. By the way, I dislike both of those teams but I am being honest.
 
Walz is a great coach. But I will probably never cheer for him. He just rubs me the wrong way.
 
Reypl21 said:
Walz is a great coach. But I will probably never cheer for him. He just rubs me the wrong way.
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I won't be rooting for him either. He really needs someone to buy him a decent shirt. In terms of matching coaching success with sartorial taste, Geno has it all over him!
 
uconnever said:
That's ok she deserves them. My point is that he would be one of the select few with more than one (possibly) and there are only a select few who has even only one. By the way, I dislike both of those teams but I am being honest.
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C Vivian Stringer has disappeared from the top ranks. So, too, Hatchell. Tara doesn't challenge for the NC on a regular basis. Others come and go.

So wonder if the top five coaches list doesn't go Geno above and beyond, then Walz, then Muffet. After that, it's wide open. But that strikes me as the peerless top three.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
His team just dismantled an excellent Oregon State team. In eleven years, he's one 298 games? He's got a winning percentage of 76%.

What's impressive is how he's done it with kids in his early years who weren't trumpeted talents. Remember Shoni Shimmel? He made her a great point guard, and with her at the point, defeated Baylor and Britney Griner in the NCAA's. He took Angel McCoughtry and made it to the championship game. And now he's back in the Final Four.

He has a knack for recruiting well, even when in the early years he couldn't get the best talent. And he finds a way to meld these kids together into effective teams. Now that he's getting top talent, he's not underperforming.

Contrast Walz with Baylor, which despite amazing talent, hasn't been back to the Final Four for six years. I think the jury is still out on Dawn Staley, whose teams seem to have difficulty integrating the best big man in the college game.

Just sayin' that Walz deserves his due. Coach Geno once told an interviewer that Muffet McGraw was his "Geno Auriemma." I'm not sure that his "Geno" shouldn't properly be Jeff Walz.
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He didn't look so great last year.
 
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Fairfield Fan said:
C Vivian Stringer has disappeared from the top ranks. So, too, Hatchell. Tara doesn't challenge for the NC on a regular basis. Others come and go.


So wonder if the top five coaches list doesn't go Geno above and beyond, then Walz, then Muffet. After that, it's wide open. But that strikes me as the peerless top three.
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Tara is top 3 in my book.

Next Schaefer, Rueck, and Graves.

Walz is somewhere after that
 
uconnever said:
That's ok she deserves them. My point is that he would be one of the select few with more than one (possibly) and there are only a select few who has even only one. By the way, I dislike both of those teams but I am being honest.
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I don’t think he’d have any titles. When do you think they would’ve won a title if UCONN wasn’t in the mix?

The two times they lost to Connecticut were 2009 and 2013.

In 2009, Stanford was a better team by most accounts and lost to UCONN in the semis. I think Tara wins a trophy that year with no Geno.

2013....no way do I see him beating Notre Dame who would be the opponent if UCONN wasn’t there to beat ND. ND handily best Louisville earlier in the year and had a loaded roster with Diggins, Achonwa, McBride and Loyd.

Both of those teams were somewhat Cinderella’s and their magic likely runs out over better, more consistent teams.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
C Vivian Stringer has disappeared from the top ranks. So, too, Hatchell. Tara doesn't challenge for the NC on a regular basis. Others come and go.

So wonder if the top five coaches list doesn't go Geno above and beyond, then Walz, then Muffet. After that, it's wide open. But that strikes me as the peerless top three.
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Talk about being a prisoner of the moment.

This is the first postseason since 2013 that Louisville hasn't fizzled out before its time.

Now after 5 years of pulling in blue-chip recruits by the handful, they finally have one good regional weekend and suddenly he's a better coach than Tara and Muffet. Hmm.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
Just think that if we're talking about the very best, Walz is in there. I'd put him ahead of Dawn, ahead of Tara. The jury is out a bit on Reuck and Graves, though they may turn out to be the cream with Walz.

Just sayin'...
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If one were to go by accomplishments, Tara is the third-best coach of all time. Accomplishments being: Total wins, conference regular season and tournament championships, domination of her conference, Final Fours, and National Championships. She's also pretty good at putting a decent team together over the course of a season. And she does all this with probably the toughest admissions standards in the P5 conferences.

Is Walz a talented coach? Absolutely. One of the best in the game? For sure. Ahead of Tara? He's got to go some.
 
Geno, McGraw, Schaefer, Vanderveer are my top coaches in no particular order except Geno first...hard for me to even say his name, rubs me the wrong way as well. Hard to argue though, he led his 2009 squad to the nat’l championship game.

SN: Wonder how this team would be playing differently had Mariya Moore still been there?
 
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