Would you like to see Kim Caldwell Retained?(Poll)

[Volstylexx]

Measuring the pulse on the fan base with Coach Kim Caldwell

 

[chuckiepoo]

Don’t you have a vested interest in her demise? Still haven’t seen the link to your video…

 

[Eastknox865]

Should have hired Kara Lawson from the beginning. I said this a few years back she is the perfect fit. KC isn't going to make it here

 

[1reVOLver]

The poll is missing a few options.

O One more year, then reevaluate
O Replace her with Maria Crone Eel Yuss
O Let her finish her contract, but make her promise to
run a triple option offense or pitch out to the tailback

 

[1reVOLver]

Measuring the pulse on the fan base with Coach Kim Caldwell

The fan base has a pulse after the last seven games?

Amazing.

 

[KrazyVolFan]

Cutting her loose, telling every coach out there you got 2 yrs to show what ya got. I'm not talking NC but competitive. I just don't think your gonna have the interest in the job you need. I hope it works out with KC but don't think it will unless major changes happen.

 

[Volfan2012]

I think the poll is showing it is about 60/40 that she needs to stay. I think the one more year is the best option with put up or get out as the criteria.

 

[brittannica]

I can't answer this until I see how many of our players hop in the portal.

 

[Volfan2012]

Cutting her loose, telling every coach out there you got 2 yrs to show what ya got. I'm not talking NC but competitive. I just don't think your gonna have the interest in the job you need. I hope it works out with KC but don't think it will unless major changes happen.

That is the reason she will be back not going to fire a two year coach as long as they made the NCAA. I really expect a couple of Assistants to be gone and suspect they will try to add a really x and o's type Assistant. She really has to change the system and she has to be more unpredictable and able to adjust play during games.

 

[Volfan2012]

I can't answer this until I see how many of our players hop in the portal.

I'll actually be fine if we can retain Civil, Hurst, Latham, Boyd and the two incoming freshman. I will be ok if Prawl and Cooper leave and the Twins love to see them back, but not a deal breaker if they leave as well. That means you need six portal players and I would try for two posts, three shooters, and experienced point guard. If everyone stays still need three players JMO post and shooters.
Even if everyone stayed the team does not look great without some three point shooters and another strong post. Portal magic is going to be needed and with all the bad publicity going to be hard to pull off.

 

[TNnative]

Measuring the pulse on the fan base with Coach Kim Caldwell

Go buy a defibrillator. You are gonna need it.

 

[brittannica]

I'll actually be fine if we can retain Civil, Hurst, Latham, Boyd and the two incoming freshman. I will be ok if Prawl and Cooper leave and the Twins love to see them back, but not a deal breaker if they leave as well. That means you need six portal players and I would try for two posts, three shooters, and experienced point guard. If everyone stays still need three players JMO post and shooters.
Even if everyone stayed the team does not look great without some three point shooters and another strong post. Portal magic is going to be needed and with all the bad publicity going to be hard to pull off.

Six portal players is a lot imo if you need quality players, and we know they are likely to see the court.

 

[Volfan2012]

Six portal players is a lot imo if you need quality players, and we know they are likely to see the court.

We have ten total players counting the incoming freshmen. If three leave you need six players. Certainly a lot. Even if all ten were coming back you need three as you need a roster of at least 13 to play her game. It is a very bad position to be in we missed on a lot of freshmen in the last class sure they wanted at least four.

A good start would be to grab Paris Clark she is better than Robertson so that would fill one position.

 

[VolFan_stuck_in_the_901]

I'll actually be fine if we can retain Civil, Hurst, Latham, Boyd and the two incoming freshman. I will be ok if Prawl and Cooper leave and the Twins love to see them back, but not a deal breaker if they leave as well. That means you need six portal players and I would try for two posts, three shooters, and experienced point guard. If everyone stays still need three players JMO post and shooters.
Even if everyone stayed the team does not look great without some three point shooters and another strong post. Portal magic is going to be needed and with all the bad publicity going to be hard to pull off.

Do we have an idea what Latham and Boyd's plans are? I assumed that Boyd would leave due to lack of playing time this year (10-ish minutes a game)

 

[Volfan2012]

Do we have an idea what Latham and Boyd's plans are? I assumed that Boyd would leave due to lack of playing time this year (10-ish minutes a game)

Had a poster on here that said Boyd was definitely leaving so we'll see what happens. I would say that Latham is likely to stay. The chance of our retained roster being more than seven seems highly unlikely and that is with the two incoming freshmen.

 

[JL1231]

The poll is missing a few options.

O One more year, then reevaluate
O Replace her with Maria Crone Eel Yuss
O Let her finish her contract, but make her promise to
run a triple option offense or pitch out to the tailback

One more year, then reevaluate.

 

[Special Ed]

Don’t you have a vested interest in her demise? Still haven’t seen the link to your video…

Her demise?
I hope no one out there is wishing her dead. In spite of the underwhelming performance this season, that's a little harsh.

 

[BruisedOrange]

I can't answer this until I see how many of our players hop in the portal.

Problem is, we don't really know if certain players hopping into the portal might BE the answer. And there would be no way for us fans to know until the next season is played out.

I'm not advocating for one diagnosis over another.

I'm just trying to maintain a distinction between what actually caused this season's problems (which none of us truly knows), and whichever explanation satisfies each fan's frustration.

It's gonna be the same with any assistant coaches we lose. We won't actually know if they're leaving for family reasons, professional reasons, or personal reasons. We won't actually know if they're responding to a better opportunity or abandoning a sinking ship. But the fact of their leaving will be used to buttress each fan's pet explanation for what went wrong this season.

There's nothing wrong with fans having, expressing, and publicly debating their opinions on what's causing a team's issues. We're all on the outside looking in, emotionally invested, with a natural desire to know more. We've also all been denied our annual feel good dopamine hit from making progress back toward the kind of reasonably successful Lady Vols season we became accustomed to enjoying until 16 years ago--and still feel (let's admit it) entitled to enjoy.

What I'm contending is that we cross an important line when we start calling for decisions to be made--for the course of people's lives (adults and kids) to be changed--based on our sincere, but only partially-informed, opinions. There's an important reason why our history and culture periodically remind us of the dangers in doing this. Since we were kids ourselves we've been reminded of it from the stories of the Salem witch trials, The Oxbow Incident, and in To Kill a Mockingbird.

We're at our best as a people (or as a tribe of VFLs) when we self-regulate, aspire to higher standards, and treat people as we'd like to be treated. We're at our worst when we demand (from behind anonymity) that people pursuing their own dreams should make us feel better about ourselves. That's not healthy for us as individuals, and it doesn't create a healthy culture for attracting the kind of high performing, high character athletes we'd all love to see wearing orange in the future.

[tilt at windmill/off]

 

[brittannica]

I'll actually be fine if we can retain Civil, Hurst, Latham, Boyd and the two incoming freshman. I will be ok if Prawl and Cooper leave and the Twins love to see them back, but not a deal breaker if they leave as well. That means you need six portal players and I would try for two posts, three shooters, and experienced point guard. If everyone stays still need three players JMO post and shooters.
Even if everyone stayed the team does not look great without some three point shooters and another strong post. Portal magic is going to be needed and with all the bad publicity going to be hard to pull off.

totally agree we need some portal magic. We definitely need three point shooting, and we definitely need posts. I think if we lose a number of players, we are going to need even more in terms of both skills and absolute number of players. I question our ability to get it done because of the way this season has turned out both on and off the court.

 

[rickyyrs]

That is the reason she will be back not going to fire a two year coach as long as they made the NCAA. I really expect a couple of Assistants to be gone and suspect they will try to add a really x and o's type Assistant. She really has to change the system and she has to be more unpredictable and able to adjust play during games.

I hate the press she does. It gives up easy lay ups to the other team. In close games that is the difference in wins or losses.

 

[madtownvol]

Not cool that you hid out all of last season when things were positive and now are doing a lot of premature grave dancing during this one when times are tough.

 

[glv98]

Six portal players is a lot imo if you need quality players, and we know they are likely to see the court.

I know many people think new players will be the Magic Bullet. But remember new players means starting from scratch in the world's most difficult athletic system. Kim already changed the expected date for being able to perform this system from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Sure hope the next group is faster learners because another disastrous non conference season would be incredibly damaging.

Her demise?
I hope no one out there is wishing her dead. In spite of the underwhelming performance this season, that's a little harsh.

Holly Warlick

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

One more year, then reevaluate.

Yes, I would have voted for this rather than 'one more year then fire her'.

 

[glv98]

One more year, then reevaluate.

What would she need to do next year to be successful enough to stay? Has she actually helped herself by dragging the bar so incredibly low this year? Does she just have to not get blown out 10 times and not set record losing streaks and margins of loss next year? That would definitely be an improvement over this nightmare season. And she could blame the 'cancer' players.

Or will she have to pick up where she left with an S16 team in her first season? Does she reset back to the original goal, which was go further than Kelly Harper could? Or does next year simply have to not be this year?

 

[FanDude]

Coach Caldwell talks like the players need to have more consistent attitudes and more aggressive play. Didn't she say they had too much quit in them? Something like that. Well, isn't it her job to recruit good players and to coach those qualities into them?