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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3916690, member: 199"] Look around at all the disappointments of great players and great assistant coaches when they get HC jobs - some of that is the support they get from school/AD, but it is also a very different job. You are a salesman selling primarily yourself to the recruits you decide are right for your program, and you are a CEO hiring and managing a large staff, and then you are a coach designing an approach to the game, laying out the process to achieve that goal, and delegating the responsibilities to implement that plan. As a player you showed up when and where you were told, worked through practice, played in games, and designed a workout and nutrition plan that suited you and made sure you followed it (in college they did that for you, as a pro you do it yourself.) As an assistant/associate coach you implement the plan your HC devises, you make suggestions during games, and you sell your HC to the recruits that your HC decides are right. Jen did really well at Hartford for quite a while - her record as a HC is solid .579 - nothing to jump and down about, but not bad. Her record in her American East and A10 is .631 so well above 'average.' Her record in the A10 isn't as good .551 but still above average. Problem is she replaced Tsipis who had just gone 46-16 in the A10. Of course he went 7-7 before he got transfer Jonquel Jones and then left for Wisconsin where he has gone 14-74 without her and gotten fired. Before him the previous coach had gone 19-37. So GW without JJ isn't exactly lighting up the A10. [/QUOTE]

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