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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3760519, member: 6927"] This question came up at some point in the past year or two. Pat Summitt is surely the most successful example of a straight-to-HC career path, Obviously, she became HC at Tennessee at a very different time in the sport, when it was not uncommon at all for HCs to be hired without AC experience. At this point this pathway effectively only open to very highly decorated former players who are pivoting into coaching. Staley is undoubtedly the most successful example among currently active coaches. Other examples: [LIST] [*]Sherri Coale: a lot of good years at OU, but none recently. [*]I believe Jen Rizzotti had no college coaching experience when hired by Hartford in 1999. [*]Cynthia Cooper, hired as HC at Prairie View A&M in 2005 (she's now HC at Texas Southern). [/LIST] There have been many instances of (male) coaches being hired with no experience in coaching the women's collegiate game, perhaps the most notorious among them being the hire of Jimmy Dykes at Arkansas. [/QUOTE]