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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3002099, member: 6927"] I wonder if anyone's ever done a study to see which subgroup is more successful statistically: first-time head coaches with strong assistant-coaching experience, or those with previous head-coaching experience? It seems axiomatic that previous HC experience is better than none, but examples abound of successful AC-to-HC transitions (Geno, Walz, Mulkey...), and lots of HCs have been unable to re-create their success a new school. Matt Bollant went from averaging 30 wins a season at Green Bay to a total of 22 wins in his 5 years at Illinois. Kristy Curry went from being an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech (when they went to two consecutive Final Fours in the late '90s) to a highly successful HC at Purdue to more modest success at Texas Tech to her current job at Alabama, where she's failed to go to a single NCAA tournament in 5 (going on 6) seasons. [/QUOTE]