Lady Vols Unranked In Both Polls

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Well the Lady Vols are unranked for the first time this year. I don’t that we can throw all the blame on CKC, or even their players. This mess falls squarely upon AD White. He hired a coach with no D1 experience at the highest level. She came with a new way of playing the game. Her scheme was to press the ball constantly, throw up a bunch of threes and ware the opponent down until they are dog tired by subbing hockey style. It is a style that has never been adopted by other major DI programs and a good chance it never will. Defences started playing zones daring the Lady Vols to shoot threes, however, especially major D1 programs, the Lady Vols threw up more bricks than threes. Players lost focus and as the season went on, they seem to ware out before their opponents.

After the failures to revive the Lady Vols by hiring two of Pat’s own former players, AD White went out and made an unconventional hire which was a gamble. CKC believes in her system and I give her kudos for that, however, it does not seem to work against major D1 programs like the top of the SEC. AD White has placed CKC in a no win situation especially after she said that she can only coach one way. He was willing to take a risk that CKC’s system would revive the Lady Vols. Great coaches have the ability to change up their system to meet the demands dictated by how other opponents play. We are at a turning point, CKC needs to change her system or find players who can get the job done. However, whatever the situation is the buck stops at AD White’s desk. I really believe that AD White needs to have a heart to heart talk with CKC.
 
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Well the Lady Vols are unranked for the first time this year. I don’t that we can throw all the blame on CKC, or even their players. This mess falls squarely upon AD White. He hired a coach with no D1 experience at the highest level. She came with a new way of playing the game. Her scheme was to press the ball constantly, throw up a bunch of threes and ware the opponent down until they are dog tired by subbing hockey style. It is a style that has never been adopted by other major DI programs and a good chance it never will. Defences started playing zones daring the Lady Vols to shoot threes, however, especially major D1 programs, the Lady Vols threw up more bricks than threes. Players lost focus and as the season went on, they seem to ware out before their opponents.

After the failures to revive the Lady Vols by hiring two of Pat’s own former players, AD White went out and made an unconventional hire which was a gamble. CKC believes in her system and I give her kudos for that, however, it does not seem to work against major D1 programs like the top of the SEC. AD White has placed CKC in a no win situation especially after she said that she can only coach one way. He was willing to take a risk that CKC’s system would revive the Lady Vols. Great coaches have the ability to change up their system to meet the demands dictated by how other opponents play. We are at a turning point, CKC needs to change her system or find players who can get the job done. However, whatever the situation is the buck stops at AD White’s desk. I really believe that AD White needs to have a heart to heart talk with CKC.
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Nobody reading all thee blah blah blah BS
 
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I think that if someone is the coach, they get the glory and the blame. As well as a fairly big paycheck. No sympathy here for any coach or player in today's market. I don't know whether the current coaches in any sport will really work out, short or long term. The business is so different than when past championships were being won.

As far as Danny White, I am not sure that any coach can sell you on their "system" working or not anymore and be accurate. If you don't have players, regardless of the system, then it's not going to work. Unless you have an unlimited bankroll, choices have to be made about who gets $ for NIL. The more good/great teams you have/want, the more overall you will have to spend. It comes down to making the best educated guess you can for an athletics director. Win some/lose some, but hopefully with quality people who don't get you on probation.

Even then, it all has to be divided up. Could we have had a better FB team if another $500k was spent there instead of BB/WBB/SB/etc. ? Maybe, maybe not. Would another $250k help get WBB the players needed to win? Maybe.

It could be that things that we historically dominated - WBB - are just that. History. The current model is about spending significantly where your top revenue producers are, and for all the greatness that WBB was or could be, it won't be a top revenue producer. That makes it harder for everyone.
 
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Well the Lady Vols are unranked for the first time this year. I don’t that we can throw all the blame on CKC, or even their players. This mess falls squarely upon AD White. He hired a coach with no D1 experience at the highest level. She came with a new way of playing the game. Her scheme was to press the ball constantly, throw up a bunch of threes and ware the opponent down until they are dog tired by subbing hockey style. It is a style that has never been adopted by other major DI programs and a good chance it never will. Defences started playing zones daring the Lady Vols to shoot threes, however, especially major D1 programs, the Lady Vols threw up more bricks than threes. Players lost focus and as the season went on, they seem to ware out before their opponents.

After the failures to revive the Lady Vols by hiring two of Pat’s own former players, AD White went out and made an unconventional hire which was a gamble. CKC believes in her system and I give her kudos for that, however, it does not seem to work against major D1 programs like the top of the SEC. AD White has placed CKC in a no win situation especially after she said that she can only coach one way. He was willing to take a risk that CKC’s system would revive the Lady Vols. Great coaches have the ability to change up their system to meet the demands dictated by how other opponents play. We are at a turning point, CKC needs to change her system or find players who can get the job done. However, whatever the situation is the buck stops at AD White’s desk. I really believe that AD White needs to have a heart to heart talk with CKC.
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Yeah i think he does need to have a talk with her. Changing them out like a hockey line is not working. It might work against less talented teams in smaller colleges. Then when you do have a player get hot from the field. You take them out every 3 or 4 minutes. The press give up way too many easy lay ups.
 
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