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[QUOTE="MSSportsGuy, post: 2690592, member: 6485"]
Great players don't always make great coaches, witness the NBA for multiple examples. A head coach is as much a CEO for a major program as just X/Os and recruiting. Some are up for the job and some aren't. Staley has navigated the waters quite well as she took a bottom feeder SEC team and made them a powerhouse with the right support from the AD.

To be fair we now have a new era of women's basketball superstars that wasn't seen before. Some great players from the 80s and early 90s may have been successful staff members at schools but with the drastic increase in exposure of not only players but the college game itself, I will be curious to see how many schools start going for the "flashy hire" of choosing a known name like Whalen or Thompson. The UT board has repeatedly said Catchings or Lawson should replace Holly and neither has even been an assistant.

However, how impressive is it to be able to send a Bird, Catchings, or Whalen type player into a top kids' living room or campus visit for a sales pitch? I suspect the game will see more of it.
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