Tufts is Tough (Carla Berube is head coach)

[FanHam]

Tufts is 9-0 and the scores look like UConn game results, maybe even more lopsided. Is she the most successful branch of the Auriemma/Dailey coaching tree?

2018-19 Schedule

 

[mbr33ct]

Is it time for Carla to move up a division or two? Has she ever received an offer from any other schools (Div 1 or 2)?

 

[Jim R]

Tufts is 9-0 and the scores look like UConn game results, maybe even more lopsided. Is she the most successful branch of the Auriemma/Dailey coaching tree?

2018-19 Schedule

Carla has done very well at Tufts. Their offense is up a notch this year. Let's see how they do against Bowdoin, who normally plays them tough, and then against Amherst, their kryptonite. If they can get past Gromacki's (outstanding coach for Amherst) team, it may be time for her to look for a bigger challenge.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Is it time for Carla to move up a division or two? Has she ever received an offer from any other schools (Div 1 or 2)?

Berube has said in the past that she is very happy with her current job and that she has no desire to coach at a different level.

 

[eebmg]

Great tongue twister.

 

[Jim R]

Berube has said in the past that she is very happy with her current job and that she has no desire to coach at a different level.

Yes, she has, but time, success, and that competitive spirit, sometimes has a way of convincing us otherwise

 

[oldude]

The grass isn’t always greener. Carla is married with two children and continues to be tremendously successful at Tufts, a fine university close to where she grew up. In addition she has had great success coaching USA basketball. Outside of being offered the HC job at her alma mater when Geno hangs it up, I’m not sure there’s another job or enough money anywhere in the country to entice Carla to leave Tufts.

 

[CTrefugee]

She has no heartbeat.

 

[mbr33ct]

She has no heartbeat.

...that's a good thing, right?

 

[SVCBeercats]

Is it time for Carla to move up a division or two? Has she ever received an offer from any other schools (Div 1 or 2)?

She is waiting for Geno to retire.

 

[CTrefugee]

...that's a good thing, right?

You bet !

 

[DaBball]

Will be interesting to see if she can bring them back to the top of the NESCAC. They finished third last season and second a season before. If I’m not mistaken it is the toughest D3 Conference for WBB.

 

[JordyG]

Berube has said in the past that she is very happy with her current job and that she has no desire to coach at a different level.

That'll change with success. Hopefully soon. She can only languish in D3 for so long.

 

[vtcwbuff]

That'll change with success. Hopefully soon. She can only languish in D3 for so long.

Huge assumption to characterize her job at Tuft's as languishing. Maybe she's actually thriving.

 

[vtcwbuff]

She has no heartbeat.

Would have made a great sniper!

 

[Charliebball]

The grass isn’t always greener. Carla is married with two children and continues to be tremendously successful at Tufts, a fine university close to where she grew up. In addition she has had great success coaching USA basketball. Outside of being offered the HC job at her alma mater when Geno hangs it up, I’m not sure there’s another job or enough money anywhere in the country to entice Carla to leave Tufts.

I really like the idea that she is happy where she's at with no need to move into the big time..................she still gets the chance to spread her wings with USA Basketball so she has the best of both worlds............

 

[JordyG]

Huge assumption to characterize her job at Tuft's as languishing. Maybe she's actually thriving.

If LeBron James were playing G league ball and tore it up for 3 years, then said he was comfortable playing in Canton would you say he's thriving or languishing?

 

[Suebird10fan]

According to Massey power ratings, Tufts is the 3rd best D3 team in the country and better than almost 90% of D2 schools and better than almost 1/3 of D1 schools (including Memphis in the AAC). Unlike the regular ratings the Power Rating (2nd column from left on a desktop view) are intended to apply across divisions.

 

[CTrefugee]

I really like the idea that she is happy where she's at with no need to move into the big time...she still gets the chance to spread her wings with USA Basketball so she has the best of both worlds..

She musta' watched Chris Dailey who has also had a fulfilling life and career.

 

[SVCBeercats]

That'll change with success. Hopefully soon. She can only languish in D3 for so long.

I'm thinking she has experienced success since 2007-08. Perhaps this is her idea of success at least until Geno retires.
"Tufts is well established as a national power under Coach Berube. The Jumbos have a 144-16 overall record since the 2013-14 season when they made their first "Final Four" appearance. Berube was the WBCA's NCAA Division III Regional Coach of the Year for three consecutive seasons from 2013-15, and repeated as D3hoops.com Northeast Region Coach of the Year in 2014-15. She was also selected by the WBCA as the New England Coach of the Year for the 2007-08 season, giving her four of those honors overall. The team's final records of 30-3 in 2016-17, 30-3 in 2014-15, 30-3 in 2013-14, 28-4 in 2015-16, 26-4 in 2007-08, 26-5 in 2017-18, 25-3 in 2012-13, 23-7 in 2011-2012, 22-5 in 2008-09 and 21-6 in 2009-10 - all achieved under Coach Berube - are the best win totals in Jumbo history."
"In the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Coach Berube has guided Tufts to two conference titles and eight league championship games overall. The team has a 47-3 record against league opponents from 2014-18 and an 88-17 record against conference opponents since 2007. Berube is a five-time NESCAC Coach of the Year."
"The Jumbos are one of the top defensive teams in the nation each year under Coach Berube. They were sixth nationally in scoring defense last season allowing 48.3 points per game, second nationally in 2017 allowing 43.2 points per game and led the country with a 47.5 mark for 2015-16."

 

[Charliebball]

I'm thinking she has experienced success since 2007-08. Perhaps this is her idea of success at least until Geno retires.
"Tufts is well established as a national power under Coach Berube. The Jumbos have a 144-16 overall record since the 2013-14 season when they made their first "Final Four" appearance. Berube was the WBCA's NCAA Division III Regional Coach of the Year for three consecutive seasons from 2013-15, and repeated as D3hoops.com Northeast Region Coach of the Year in 2014-15. She was also selected by the WBCA as the New England Coach of the Year for the 2007-08 season, giving her four of those honors overall. The team's final records of 30-3 in 2016-17, 30-3 in 2014-15, 30-3 in 2013-14, 28-4 in 2015-16, 26-4 in 2007-08, 26-5 in 2017-18, 25-3 in 2012-13, 23-7 in 2011-2012, 22-5 in 2008-09 and 21-6 in 2009-10 - all achieved under Coach Berube - are the best win totals in Jumbo history."
"In the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Coach Berube has guided Tufts to two conference titles and eight league championship games overall. The team has a 47-3 record against league opponents from 2014-18 and an 88-17 record against conference opponents since 2007. Berube is a five-time NESCAC Coach of the Year."
"The Jumbos are one of the top defensive teams in the nation each year under Coach Berube. They were sixth nationally in scoring defense last season allowing 48.3 points per game, second nationally in 2017 allowing 43.2 points per game and led the country with a 47.5 mark for 2015-16."

I think it's kind of unlikely that they would offer her the UConn head coaching job without any DI coaching experience...............if that is her eventual goal then she needs to show some success as a DI coach or at least become an assistant at a big time program............

 

[mbr33ct]

If LeBron James were playing G league ball and tore it up for 3 years, then said he was comfortable playing in Canton would you say he's thriving or languishing?

I'll spin this around to you, replace Lebron James with UConn and the AAC conference...would you say UConn is thriving or languishing?

 

[Vowelguy]

If LeBron James were playing G league ball and tore it up for 3 years, then said he was comfortable playing in Canton would you say he's thriving or languishing?

Silly comparison.

For one, D1 coaching is a completely different animal. A lot more recruiting, a lot more travel, a lot more pressure. Who says she has to want that?

Was Nancy Fahey languishing at Wash U where she won 700+ games and multiple NCs? Her transition to D1 has been bumpy?

Is Barbra Stevens languishing at Bentley? She’s won 1000 games. She tried coaching D1. Didn’t work out.

Berube is in a great situation. It’s not obvious she should want to leave.

 

[BobbyJ]

I think it's kind of unlikely that they would offer her the UConn head coaching job without any DI coaching experience.....if that is her eventual goal then she needs to show some success as a DI coach or at least become an assistant at a big time program..

IMO, she's forgotten more than many D1 coaches will ever know. I believe there's only about a dozen so called big time programs in the country.

 

[Charliebball]

IMO, she's forgotten more than many D1 coaches will ever know. I believe there's only about a dozen so called big time programs in the country.

you know there's a lot more to being the head coach for the premier WBB program in history then pure coaching skills, forgetting about the pressure of expectations, she would need experience with DI recruiting, administration, pr etc................these are not things you want to learn on the job as her exposure to them at Tufts are at a different level