"Tennessee made a classic succession mistake, the same one that Alabama football and North Carolina men’s basketball have made at various points: It hired people who understood the program rather than people to run one. Holly Warlick got the job in 2012 after serving on Summitt’s staff. When Tennessee fired Warlick in ’19, Kellie Harper got the job because she had played for Summitt. This doesn’t mean Warlick and Harper are bad coaches. But Tennessee is too great a job to give to a career assistant, as Warlick was, or a coach who got fired from her only major-conference coaching job, like Harper was at North Carolina State."
Truer words have never been spoken.