Article: Decline of Lady Vols Goes Beyond Holly Warlick

[samanderson]

I don't know how much of this is the staff but the program, good or bad, falls squarely on the coach. Producing results is what coaches are judged by and that's how they are hired and fired. In this era of political correctness you need to cast aside the notion you can't fire a female coach and evaluate and judge them the same as the men; we ARE all for equal opportunity aren't we? Well, look at the FACTS, then make the right move. For one, I'm tired of hearing all of these lame excuses.

This. And Holly strikes me as a coach waiting around and fully expecting fruits from a labor yet to be exerted.

 

[OldMikey]

She was rewarded that she had a player like Massengale
Who not once her senior season showed up in a big game. Look back at the stats. Warlick's problem is no PG until Te'a came along and she is still a work in progress.
Holly needs new assistant coaches

 

[Batman33]

She was rewarded that she had a player like Massengale
Who not once her senior season showed up in a big game. Look back at the stats. Warlick's problem is no PG until Te'a came along and she is still a work in progress.
Holly needs new assistant coaches

How would these assistants have fared with CPS?

 

[Tenacguy50]

She was rewarded that she had a player like Massengale
Who not once her senior season showed up in a big game. Look back at the stats. Warlick's problem is no PG until Te'a came along and she is still a work in progress.
Holly needs new assistant coaches

She needs new assistant coaches alright...AT ANOTHER SCHOOL!! FIRE HOLLY DOOLEY WARLICK NOW!!!

 

[teacherdean]

Except it's a load of crap. Parity has nothing to do with this program's demise, and anyone who thinks a high level of success can't be sustained hasn't been paying attention the last 30 years....

I agree that parity has played a part but bad coaching and recruiting has played a bigger part.

 

[Darth_Vol]

I agree that parity has played a part but bad coaching and recruiting has played a bigger part.

I keep hearing this word parity. What parity??? It's still UConn, and then the same handful of teams (ND, Maryland, Stanford, Baylor) in the Final Four every year. The only drama in women's basketball is who will finish second to UConn, who btw is dominating the sport at a level no team in history (including Tennessee) has ever reached in this supposed era of parity.

I'm so tired of this lame "parity" excuse, along with the "Holly can't recruit because she doesn't cheat" BS. And just to be clear, this isn't directed at you or anyone here....

 

[reverseosmosis]

I'm surprised the Lady Vols basketball program hasn't joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff after what's been done to it.

 

[Tenacguy50]

I keep hearing this word parity. What parity??? It's still UConn, and then the same handful of teams (ND, Maryland, Stanford, Baylor) in the Final Four every year. The only drama in women's basketball is who will finish second to UConn, who btw is dominating the sport at a level no team in history (including Tennessee) has ever reached in this supposed era of parity.

I'm so tired of this lame "parity" excuse, along with the "Holly can't recruit because she doesn't cheat" BS. And just to be clear, this isn't directed at you or anyone here....

I think Holly Warlick is so inept she couldn't recruit if she did cheat.

 

[T.J.]

I think Holly Warlick is so inept she couldn't recruit if she did cheat.

That's funny!:lolabove:

And very true. :good!:

 

[brassie]

I agree that parity has played a part but bad coaching and recruiting has played a bigger part.[/QUOTE]

I would argue that it is the biggest part and also another measure of the coaches ability. Not to just bring in talent but to recruit those players that fit the coach's vision for the program.

Both UT and UConn have done well when they had a superstar surrounded by a good supporting cast. UT has not had that type of player since Parker left. I thought that Russell might be one but so far that hasn't worked out.

 

[Voldon18]

Parity hasn't stopped UConn. Holly and her assistants are the problem here. Holly is not a thinking woman's or man's coach. She's left scratching her head at every corner. No offense. Predictable defense with a decline in fundamentals on both sides of the ball (passing skills, boxing out and shooting) in this, the first season with 100% Warlick recruits. And mainly, a clueless coach throws her (or his) team under the bus at every turn in the road = Holly Warlick.

If a change isn't made next month, the 2016-17 season will be an epic fail worse than what we're experiencing currently. We'll have walk-ons with significant pt, especially with Holly's penchant for clearing the bench every five minutes. If Holly can even attract walk-ons!

Dumpster fire doesn't begin to properly describe the LV situation. As long as Holly is HC, no quality high-school players will come to Tennessee. Lame duck Hart needs to act the day after this season ends.

Fire Holly and promise the current players a strategist will replace her. If not, the bottom of the heap here we come.

 

[arkyvol]

It does go deeper than Holly. It may be a Tennessee pathology--living in the past. It happened with General Neyland. After he hung it up, Vol fans were convinced that the old magic was in the General's obsession with the single wing. Thus his successors hung on to it way beyond reason. It cost them one fine coach (Bowden Wyatt), and the two best h.s. quarterbacks in the country in 1962, both Tennessee boys, Steve Sloan and Steve Spurrier (the name might sound familiar). The same thing is happening with Pat. She's gone. She ain't coming back. Deal with it.