Kelly and soccer team lay another egg...

[armchair]

I've lost confidence in Kelly as the women's soccer coach. She is just not getting it done. Her team's have a bad habit of fading down the stretch--they did it again this year--and she just cannot gain any traction with the program. They started out the year strong, and then just fizzled completely in the second half of season. Not good. This was supposed to be a good offensive team--and yet they get shut out by two weak to mediocre SEC teams to end the season, and then get shut out and whipped 3-0 by a lesser ranked osu in today's NCAA tournament. They give up a goal early in the game, can't score...and lose. Kelly has a nice pedigree having won four national titles at UNC, but it's not translating here, where her pattern is to win a game and then lose one--and as mentioned, fade down the sretch. Not good.

 

[SDV]

This is a familiar Vols sports thread

 

[GoVols2003]

She wins more than she loses, occasionally knocks off teams she shouldn't, and runs a clean program that graduates its players. For that, I do not see UT making a change simply because there will be very little to no heat to replace her from fans.

She rode her UNC credentials and ties to Mia Hamm early on. Lately, it seems like she probably has not recruited like she once did. Having a freshman walk-on starting at keeper should not happen in the SEC.

 

[carolinaviking]

Tennessee cannot currently attract the kind of soccer talent that UNC does, on the women's side or the men's, and it never has. Perhaps it will someday. Coach Kelly's 'UNC credentials' are as much a function of that school's soccer history as her coaching ability. An average coach with excellent players will always get better results than that same coach with less talented players. The fact that she won four NCAA titles at UNC indicates that she is a great coach whereas the Tennessee women's soccer results indicate that the talent gap between the two schools must be vast to say the least.