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

[Volstylexx]

Delete.

lol it’s been discussed non stop for 24 hours

 

[backdoorcutvol]

Danny White getting dragged online in these replies about Stephen. I haven’t seen this level of outrage by TN fans online since Schiano Sunday. He’s (hopefully) sitting in his hotel in ATL laughing right now.

If fans don’t trust DW go pull for someone else. I’m going to support whomever he hires, home run or base on balls.

 

[spojo13]

Helen Watson hired Pat.

Yep was being sarcastic

 

[JohnnyPayne]

Johnny thinks finding a coach for an SEC program is like going last minute Christmas shopping. My wife knows that when I’m gone a long time, I’m not finding anything.

Making a hire for a program like this, with all the variables involved, isn’t a matter of hearing to Sears or Kay Jewelers and just picking up something. Homeboy thinks that just because there hasn’t been an announcement, Danny is getting rejected by everyone. Johnny thinks the Roane State coach just turned down the job. Tons of people out there hate making more than 2 million bucks a year I guess.

So not like when Alabama hired a football coach within 2 days? Got it.

 

[volforlife10]

If fans don’t trust DW go pull for someone else. I’m going to support whomever he hires, home run or base on balls.

i’m sorry, but hiring a coach that has spent one year in D1 basketball would just be laughable. stevens is a good coach, but she needs WAY more experience in D1 ball before she can coach at a program like tennessee. why fire kellie who has proven she can atleast compete with the bigger schools, for a coach who has shown absolutely nothing in D1 basketball. it was time for kellie to go, but DW can do better.

 

[MustardVol]

Well, I'll be hornswoggled.

 

[lvocd]

All jokes aside, it doesn't matter if the hire is underwhelming on paper. Doesn't matter if it's a home run on paper. All that matters are results. If we're no better off 5 years from now than we were under KJH, it was a mistake. If we are, then obviously it was the right decision. People can bitch all they want, but it doesn't accomplish a damn thing. Myself, I'd rather be hopeful than choose to be miserable.

Truth.

Our season is over, so in between any games anyone still wants to watch, we're all mostly just trying to push back anxiety and boredom by obsessing over the hire.

This too shall pass.

 

[OrangeInKy]

So not like when Alabama hired a football coach within 2 days? Got it.

Who cares what Alabama did?
Also, everyone’s season was over.
Just because some do it quickly doesn’t mean that a school is getting rejected left and right like you claim. (I notice you’re not even trying to pretend like you know someone who is a source), you’re just throwing junk out there and acting like a genius. You’re making an asinine assumption. You have no facts. You have no information. You have no source. You’re so in need for validation and affirmation that you keep repeating your assumptions and claiming you’re justified since no announcement has been made. It’s just dishonest what you’re doing. You are lying. You’re repeating something you don’t know to be true. You just made it up.

 

[VolBall09]

All jokes aside, it doesn't matter if the hire is underwhelming on paper. Doesn't matter if it's a home run on paper. All that matters are results. If we're no better off 5 years from now than we were under KJH, it was a mistake. If we are, then obviously it was the right decision. People can bitch all they want, but it doesn't accomplish a damn thing. Myself, I'd rather be hopeful than choose to be miserable.

Real talk

 

[Volstylexx]

That’s alright. It honestly doesn’t matter what I nor anyone else says on here. What matters is getting in this homerun hire completed. I’m sure it will be a no brainer, unite the fan base, and result in an elite 8.

Home run hire from Marshall?

 

[VolBall09]

Same publication who said yesterday that a big time coach (Mulkey) wanted the coaching job.

Just a low budget paywall site trying to get penny while the getting is good. They know they can clickbait desperate Lady Vol fans into that 24hr subscription every time they make another idiotic article lol.

 

[WVU05UT09]

If fans don’t trust DW go pull for someone else. I’m going to support whomever he hires, home run or base on balls.

Its easy to say that now.

Check back when the LV are playing on Day 1 of the SECT needing to win the whole thing to keep the streak going. You still all in at that point?

 

[GBO119]

i’m sorry, but hiring a coach that has spent one year in D1 basketball would just be laughable. stevens is a good coach, but she needs WAY more experience in D1 ball before she can coach at a program like tennessee. why fire kellie who has proven she can atleast compete with the bigger schools, for a coach who has shown absolutely nothing in D1 basketball. it was time for kellie to go, but DW can do better.

Because Kellie was terrible and should have never been hired. Caldwell wins. Her win percentage over 7 years is .875. She took a bad Marshall team and in one year had their best season Ever. 18-1 and won their championship.

 

[OrangeInKy]

Home run hire from Marshall?

Johnny thinks she turned us down too. Danny is down to his 75th choice now. It’s shocking how many coaches hate making over 2 mil a year at the most prestigious woman’s bball program in the land.

 

[JohnnyPayne]

Who cares what Alabama did?
Also, everyone’s season was over.
Just because some do it quickly doesn’t mean that a school is getting rejected left and right like you claim. (I notice you’re not even trying to pretend like you know someone who is a source), you’re just throwing junk out there and acting like a genius. You’re making an asinine assumption. You have no facts. You have no information. You have no source. You’re so in need for validation and affirmation that you keep repeating your assumptions and claiming you’re justified since no announcement has been made. It’s just dishonest what you’re doing. You are lying. You’re repeating something you don’t know to be true. You just made it up.

I wasn’t the one who claimed that hiring an SEC coach should not be a quick process. I was responding to that claim that it’s completely false by using Alabama as the easiest example. I actually DON’T care what Alabama does.

 

[Vols2015]

There are only three viable, genuine big fish that I can think of--Hammon, Waltz, Freese. After that there are some good catches--coaches at major programs who've been successful but are a level below the above three--but could not be called "big fish." If it's Freese I'd be thrilled; she and Hammon are the two I've been hoping for. Freese is a big-time winner. We need a brass tacks coach--someone who is more demanding; the best coaches usually are. She might be something of a personality risk: I don't pretend to know her or her coaching style, but she's always struck me as tough-minded, for sure, somewhat old-school, super-competitive, and maybe someone who's not overally prepared to humor some of the today's kids with their "I gotta show my identity and build my brand" nonsense. Everybody comes with risks of one kind or another--often multiple. She's also at a stage of her career where a change of location would really serve to energize her. This is a program that desperately needs a serious kick in the backside--and she (along with Walz, who seems similar in personality) is a coach who could provide that. We'll see.
'

I have to go with Frese and Walz. They are much more experienced on the college level, specifically Frese with her having won a national championship.

 

[JohnnyPayne]

Its easy to say that now.

Check back when the LV are playing on Day 1 of the SECT needing to win the whole thing to keep the streak going. You still all in at that point?

This is my point exactly. People think I’m negative. Because this is what’s coming up…

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

Anyone believe me that we’ve been rejected several times yet? DW made a shortsighted move. Fortunately for him, football doing well is all that matters.

Don’t believe anything you say for a second quite honestly. However, it would concerning if we didn’t get told no at least once as that would mean DW was settling.

 

[alexvol]

i’m sorry, but hiring a coach that has spent one year in D1 basketball would just be laughable. stevens is a good coach, but she needs WAY more experience in D1 ball before she can coach at a program like tennessee. why fire kellie who has proven she can atleast compete with the bigger schools, for a coach who has shown absolutely nothing in D1 basketball. it was time for kellie to go, but DW can do better.

Then laugh ....you are free to do so ......

 

[Batman1948]

She won’t bring in top recruits if it’s her, we will be back here again in about 3 years.

5 year contracts are the norm

 

[JohnnyD1024]

Its easy to say that now.

Check back when the LV are playing on Day 1 of the SECT needing to win the whole thing to keep the streak going. You still all in at that point?

There was gonna be a good chance of that happening if we kept Kellie too.

 

[AllVols3]

Because Kellie was terrible and should have never been hired. Caldwell wins. Her win percentage over 7 years is .875. She took a bad Marshall team and in one year had their best season Ever. 18-1 and won their championship.

Is that you Ms Caldwell. I hope they don't hire her. I don't think she's ready for that pressure cooker. DW does the hiring and I'll support whoever he hires, until he has to fire them(2-3 years if her, imo).

 

[alexvol]

Home run hire from Marshall?

You people are amazing ......A successful coach can come from anywhere ....well maybe except grade school.

 

[alexvol]

Is that you Ms Caldwell. I hope they don't hire her. I don't think she's ready for that pressure cooker. DW does the hiring and I'll support whoever he hires, until he has to fire them(2-3 years if her, imo).

Does it matter what you think .....asking for a friend....

 

[OrangeInKy]

I wasn’t the one who claimed that hiring an SEC coach should not be a quick process. I was responding to that claim that it’s completely false by using Alabama as the easiest example. I actually DON’T care what Alabama does.

Yes you do. You care if people believe you and you care what Alabama does and you’ve been lying on here.

The point I was making is that finding an SEC coach isn’t always that simple. Most people know this. Also, Bama got rejected a couple times. It was also different circumstances. The point being made was that your assumption is pure stupidity. You are claiming it’s “obvious” UT had been turned down “several times”. You’re assuming that because no coach has been made. That’s why you’re getting that ratio work.