OT Shea Ralph Vandy

[BRS24]

You know what would be fun? A Ralph and Berube combo at UConn.

 

[mainerhuski]

Shea should get the offer before anyone else. If she turns it down, I’m not sure where to go from there. Carla Berube perhaps? If they wanted to be daring I would take a look at Molly Miller at Az St. She has won big everywhere she’s been.

I love Sue, Dee, Maya etc as much as anyone but they have no coaching experience and just because you were a great player does not mean you would be a good coach. They need Shea! If they get the right coach, maybe we can minimize the post legend doldrums and keep UConn at or near the top. I’m for Shea, then (it sounds ridiculous I know) I would look at Molly Miller. She’s young, dynamic, and a brilliant coach.

I expect some of the assistants who are well-versed in “Geno & Chris’ way” to be promoted. They also know the players & potential recruits.

 

[Gael]

You know what would be fun? A Ralph and Berube combo at UConn.

Berube has a stellar won-loss record at DIII Tufts and now at Ancient Eight Princeton, one of the richest universities in the world.

But Ralph has far more experience recruiting elite D1 basketball players—at UConn, Vanderbilt and even PItt—and recruiting is the first, second and third most important coaching skill in women's college basketball.

I don't see Ralph leaving a program she personally resurrected from the dead to follow an a once-in-history god at UConn, unless the financial incentives are simply overwhelming. In addition, lots of folks, particularly southerners like Ralph, consider Nashville to be one of the most desirable cities in the country to live in.

Maybe Ralph would be somewhat incentivized to leave the badlands of the SEC for the soft grass of the Big East if success there becomes too hard for her, but that would probably mean her program is stumbling on the Via Dolorosa, in which event she would become less desirable to the UConn AD.

I've always thought Diana Taurasi would make an excellent recruiter and X/O technical coach, notwithstanding her lack of coaching experience. Her personal charisma is gravitationally attractive, like Geno's, and no one has had more experience in playing at the highest levels and for the best coaches in the world.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Berube has a stellar won-loss record at DIII Tufts and now at Ancient Eight Princeton, one of the richest universities in the world.

But Ralph has far more experience recruiting elite D1 basketball players—at UConn, Vanderbilt and even PItt—and recruiting is the first, second and third most important coaching skill in women's college basketball.

I don't see Ralph leaving a program she personally resurrected from the dead to follow an a once-in-history god at UConn, unless the financial incentives are simply overwhelming. In addition, lots of folks, particularly southerners like Ralph, consider Nashville to be one of the most desirable cities in the country to live in.

Maybe Ralph would be somewhat incentivized to leave the badlands of the SEC for the soft grass of the Big East if success there becomes too hard for her, but that would probably mean her program is stumbling on the Via Dolorosa, in which event she would become less desirable to the UConn AD.

I've always thought Diana Taurasi would make an excellent recruiter and X/O technical coach, notwithstanding her lack of coaching experience. Her personal charisma is gravitationally attractive, like Geno's, and no one has had more experience in playing at the highest levels and for the best coaches in the world.

Gael- - - -DT has always said she didn't want to coach she wanted to own a team!