Kim Caldwell (Rookie Coach of the Year-WBCA) is named Head Coach of Iconic Lady Vols WBB

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volfan102455 said:
This is his second major hire. Folks that don't have concern seem to forget that the other three most successful coaches, Barnes, Vitello and Weakley were already here. He did not hire them.

And many were originally underwhelmed with CJH though he has turned out to be a good hire.

This hire is as big as the one he had to make for football, maybe even bigger considering the history with the Lady Vols.

Edited to add and this one is not where the house is burning down - Harper had decent success so the hire needs to be able to restore the Lady Vols to the Pat Summitt days.
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No it isn't. Football pays the bills for the other sports. They're not close to the same.
 
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VolFuture said:
Also all I’m gonna say is if we get a sub par coach… ITS ALL YALL LOUD MOUTHS FAULT.

Kellie is highly respected in the coaching world and many coaches appreciate what she did here. She was successful. She was growing and expanding with USA and international experience. That def rubbed many candidates the wrong way. No one wants crazy expectations like a Natty in 3 years. And a league win in 5 with Dawn and Mulkey in the SEC.

We will get what we deserve sadly. I’m holding hope but faith is waivering. No guarantee it’s a small name but…

Crazy the interest was from mid levels with big eyes seeing a pay increase from 200k to 1 milly… ofc they don’t care to come here make a bag and fail.

All this to say… DW hurry the f up
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Holy crap, give it a rest. SHE WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH. She didn’t cut it in recruiting or winning games. One more year was only gonna make it worse. Everyone wanted her to succeed because she played for us but she wasn’t a good enough coach.

Ask yourself this, in all honesty. If Kellie Jolley Harper had never played for the Lady Vols, would she have been considered after Holly was fired? You already know the answer.
 
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VolFuture said:
Also all I’m gonna say is if we get a sub par coach… ITS ALL YALL LOUD MOUTHS FAULT.

Kellie is highly respected in the coaching world and many coaches appreciate what she did here. She was successful. She was growing and expanding with USA and international experience. That def rubbed many candidates the wrong way. No one wants crazy expectations like a Natty in 3 years. And a league win in 5 with Dawn and Mulkey in the SEC.

We will get what we deserve sadly. I’m holding hope but faith is waivering. No guarantee it’s a small name but…

Crazy the interest was from mid levels with big eyes seeing a pay increase from 200k to 1 milly… ofc they don’t care to come here make a bag and fail.

All this to say… DW hurry the f up
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Lmao no. We should be the pinnacle of this sport. There’s zero reasons to take back seats to LSU and South Carolina.
 
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Also worth noting Danny White's track record of hitting big on unknown or "underwhelming" candidates.
- Bobby Hurley was an assistant on his brother's staff at Rhode Island.
- Nate Oats was a high school MBB coach before being hired to Hurley's staff, then White promoted him to head coach.
- Lance Leipold was the head coach at UW-Whitewater where he'd won 6 D3 national titles, but nobody from D2 or D1 had really been interested.
- Scott Frost held various positions on staff at Oregon during their peak in college football.
- Heupel was the offensive coordinator at Mizzou, putting up impressive stats, when he hired him at UCF.

Folks are itching for a big name and this program deserves it but I wouldn't be shocked if he plucks a highly successful young coach from the lower ranks.
 
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BarrythesnoUT said:
Holy crap, give it a rest. SHE WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH. She didn’t cut it in recruiting or winning games. One more year was only gonna make it worse. Everyone wanted her to succeed because she played for us but she wasn’t a good enough coach.

Ask yourself this, in all honesty. If Kellie Jolley Harper had never played for the Lady Vols, would she have been considered after Holly was fired? You already know the answer.
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Again we go round round round roundie round round

There are correct hires and incorrect ones… go read my other posts..

I’m fine we moved on but u have to wonder but y’all hate nuance
 
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To my point.. what makes this a bad job?

Already top 3 in a P5, and admin willing to pay, NIL that is getting better, on par or slightly above facilities, top 10 fan attendance, good recruiting geography…

Makes u wonder what the negative could be… I have answers y’all don’t wanna hear
 
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butchna said:
Prefer Baranczyk…don’t hate either option.
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Unsettling to me that the best win for Kellie last year was against Oklahoma without Rickea and that would be the coach we hire… and I think Kellie had her fair share of wins against this coach when they were both in the same conference… so, this ain’t it for me.
 
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spojo13 said:
Don’t even put that out there 😕

It would mean that Danny sees our program as a total gut job that needs a few years to get rebuilt instead of an iconic brand that just needs the right hire,
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Exactly…

But many names keep falling off the board. The board isn’t empty but these “DW is god” apologist are annoying

I still have faith. But there’s nuance and discussion as to why our perception is so bad.

there are correct and incorrect hires but we will see
 
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VolFuture said:
Exactly…

But many names keep falling off the board. The board isn’t empty but these “DW is god” apologist are annoying

I still have faith. But there’s nuance and discussion as to why our perception is so bad.

there are correct and incorrect hires but we will see
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No one knows who was on the board, yet alone knows who is off the board.
 
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VolFuture said:


To my point.. what makes this a bad job?

Already top 3 in a P5, and admin willing to pay, NIL that is getting better, on par or slightly above facilities, top 10 fan attendance, good recruiting geography…

Makes u wonder what the negative could be… I have answers y’all don’t wanna hear
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@volman128 tried to tell y’all that if this IS indeed true, it’s because Holly and Kellie ran the program into the ground.

There’s also more parity in the game.

Still hoping Danny gets it right.
 
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VolFuture said:


To my point.. what makes this a bad job?

Already top 3 in a P5, and admin willing to pay, NIL that is getting better, on par or slightly above facilities, top 10 fan attendance, good recruiting geography…

Makes u wonder what the negative could be… I have answers y’all don’t wanna hear
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What are those answers?
 
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