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If you look around sports in general, there are very few great players who are great coaches - and fewer that have gotten into it recently. The best coaches are more typically the ones who really loved sport, but just weren't at the top level of physical capabilities - too short, too slow, whatever. They made up for their lack of physical skills as long as they could by being the best students of the game, and then they found ways to still be associated with sport by taking any jobs that were available. There are probably more historically in women's basketball, because there was no professional avenue for college graduates, so if they really loved the game and wanted to stay around it, they took assistant jobs on graduation. Now that they can have a viable professional career if they want to start coaching they are 10-15 years behind their less talented but equally committed peers in learning the craft of coaching.
Shea Ralph is an example of that - great college player who because of physical limitations (bad knees) started a coaching career almost 15 years ago and is by training better equip than her teammate Sue, who has spent those 15 years playing, to take on a HC job.
Shea Ralph is an example of that - great college player who because of physical limitations (bad knees) started a coaching career almost 15 years ago and is by training better equip than her teammate Sue, who has spent those 15 years playing, to take on a HC job.