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Message: [QUOTE="Txhoopsalot, post: 3354486, member: 5143"] My opinion. First, this is all just fan talk. The administration is giving football coach Tom Herman another chance so who is to say they won't stick with Coach Aston awhile longer? Not to mention there is still a season to be completed. I have no first hand knowledge of the inner workings of the Texas administration. Plonsky was the Women's AD at the time both Goestenkors and Coach Aston were hired. Plonsky and Coach Conradt were closely connected. It makes sense that Conradt was in favor of hiring Goestenkors and probably Coach Aston also. With a new AD and no separate women's athletic department, I do not think any fan knows who or what will influence who is hired should Aston be gone. Coach Conradt publicly said she would be as near or far as wanted. It appeared that Goestenkors chose "very far" which was one of her mistakes. Goestenkors would have done well to emulate Mack Brown who made a great point of honoring Texas tradition and former long-time Coach Royal. Whether or not Plonsky, as rumored, advised Goestenkors' not to retain any of the previous staff ( Travis Mays is the one most fans wanted to see stay), Goestenkors could have looked for someone with recruiting connections in the state of Texas and someone who understood the University of Texas. Goestenkors made her own mistakes. Plonsky publicly backed her at every (mis)step. In my view, Coach G did not run the program with the grace and dignity of Coach Conradt. Nor did she show much appreciation for the fans. I seemed to be in the minority, but I was not an early fan of Coach G although I had liked her well enough when she was at Duke. Sometime within a year of Coach G's hiring, I posted my thoughts on what I saw as Coach G's missteps and how she needed to change to succeed at Texas. Nothing I said had anything to do with her actual coaching. I received a lot of immediate negative feedback. Unfortunately, I think my post turned out to be pretty accurate. Goestenkors began to make some positive moves but not soon enough. Coach Aston has done everything right for a Texas coach except have sufficient on court success. This may be a problem for a number of Texas athletic programs right now. Not all great coaches can deal with the University of Texas environment. I agree with Southie's comments about the assistant coaching hires after Travis Mays and Jalie Mitchell. But to be honest, I expected Jamie Carey to be much better. The post coach hire last summer looks good and that involved some luck. [/QUOTE]

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