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

[brittannica]

The real question is, if Kim Caldwell is hired are we also hiring her husband who also has one year of D1 coaching experience?

 

[spojo13]

Worked out for Gottlieb

Are you talking about the 3 years at UCSB as head coach? Or the 8 years at Cal as head coach, where she took them to the Final Four? She didn’t just show up at USC with 1 year experience

 

[Volfan2012]

The real question is, if Kim Caldwell is hired are we also hiring her husband who also has one year of D1 coaching experience?

I suggested that he might be the new Jon and we keep Williams and Joy.

 

[Decker Moss]

If it is Kim Caldwell, I think keeping Coach Sam is essential for current players and the few that were committed. Hopefully she can be a better closer than Kellie.

 

[spojo13]

The real question is, if Kim Caldwell is hired are we also hiring her husband who also has one year of D1 coaching experience?

He’ll just report to his good friend, Danny, like Jon did.

 

[UTSuave’]

Stop telling people to go somewhere else, everyone has a right to their opinion. This is a social media forum the mere fact that you’re here indicates you have an opinion. Go play Hall monitor and hope someone listens.

First of all..chill… and second of all don’t talk to my mother that way..are you crazy? Shes queen of all the forums and owns a brand new 2024 “banhammer ” so watch it buster..


@SweetasSoda

 

[UTSuave’]

This is a joke

HAS TO BE

 

[UTSuave’]

“Everything you read on the internet is true.” -Abraham Lincoln

You’ve obviously been bamboozled rookies

 

[Batman1948]

Dude no way?….ok guys let’s talk about it..give me some feed back…because I’m imagining her s**t getting sent to the moon on every possession

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Turn that around and see what happens if the WNBA drafts a man. See how that works.

 

[508mikey]

Looks like Coach Kim Caldwell is accepting…

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[Coach Jumper]

So you are okay with setting the expectations for the Lady Vols as "low"?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I am not.

not at all.
I just think that a coach coming in with no expectations is exactly what we need right now.
As long as we have a "name coach",,we will keep our lofty goals.

Pat Summitt (RIP) has been gone for 8 years and she is still as if she was sitting in the stands and being answered to. Don't take me wrong, I sat with this fine Lady/Coach for half a game and spoke with her a few times more, so I cherish what she was. She is why I have coached girls exclusively for over 40 years

You see
With Holly there were expectations, as with Kellie.
With Kim there will be no immediate expectation....tons of scrutiny, but no hard fast Mendoza lines.

To me this would be brilliance on Danny's part.

Hire Kim, keep Sam, let Kim fill in the gap and see if she IS for real

 

[Ulect]

We'll see what happens, but you don't fire a coach for the Lady Vols and then settle for a coach that has 1 year of D1 experience and lost in their first game every by 41 points. If she is the hire, then it tells me we no longer have the influence to get a seasoned coach.

You mean the first NCAA tournament for Marshall since 1997 and that team had the most wins this season with a all time record for Marshall. You do know it took that head coach Kenny Brooks 4 seasons in Virginia Tech to even get into the NCAA tournament and this was his 8th season for him while for Caldwell it was her 1 season for Marshall when they faced each other... Give me a break

 

[Volstylexx]

not at all.
I just think that a coach coming in with no expectations is exactly what we need right now.
As long as we have a "name coach",,we will keep our lofty goals.

Pat Summitt (RIP) has been gone for 8 years and she is still as if she was sitting in the stands and being answered to. Don't take me wrong, I sat with this fine Lady/Coach for half a game and spoke with her a few times more, so I cherish what she was. She is why I have coached girls exclusively for over 40 years

You see
With Holly there were expectations, as with Kellie.
With Kim there will be no immediate expectation....tons of scrutiny, but no hard fast Mendoza lines.

To me this would be brilliance on Danny's part.

Hire Kim, keep Sam, let Kim fill in the gap and see if she IS for real

The truth I see in this is that it would allow Danny to effectively kill off what remains of the Lady Vol mafia. They will pull their support and those last few ties to the Pat Summit era will be done. This could ultimately help create a more cohesive team environment where the coach and the team grow and evolve together.

 

[spojo13]

You mean the first NCAA tournament for Marshall since 1997 and that team had the most wins this season with a all time record for Marshall. You do know it took that head coach Kenny Brooks 4 seasons in Virginia Tech to even get into the NCAA tournament and this was his 8th season for him while for Caldwell it was her 1 season for Marshall when they faced each other... Give me a break

Yes bc we all know winning in the Sun Belt is just as hard as winning games in the ACC…..he took James Madison to the tourney before he got to Virginia Tech. Should we expect Kim to take 4 years when she moves up like Kenny did?

 

[AngryButchJones]

A lot of freaking out and arguing over something that no reputable source has claimed has happened or is going to happen.

Guess that's the slogan of all message boards though.

 

[Coach Jumper]

Dude no way?….ok guys let’s talk about it..give me some feed back…because I’m imagining her s**t getting sent to the moon on every possession

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this is dumb
though it may not seem much,, the difference in circumference (28.5/29.5) and the heavier ball does not translate backwards.

Meaning if I shoot/dribble/etc with a men's ball (29.5) it improves my all around game with the women's ball (28.5)...How ever if I am trained with a smaller/lighter ball it vastly detriments my game.

I'll put it in layman's terms,,,I personally,, can easily palm a 28.5 ball,,,the 29.5 ball,,,,Nope

 

[Ratvol]

I think Kellie played it right. She hadn't made that shot all year, maybe in her career. She protected the paint and all the regular shooters. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of coaches would have played it the same way. Lucky shot, unlucky LVs.

If she had played it right, she would have contested the inbounds pass. Doesn’t take much to guard their big. Foul if necessary. She had a foul to give plus it would have ate into the 1.1 seconds.
Either way, Kellie will not make that mistake again at UT. She B Gone.
I loved her as a player but not a coach.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

Ummm... proven records?

Carla Berube has a 100-17 record at Princeton over the last 4 years for an 86% win percentage. She's 44-2 in league play for a 96% win percentage. Add in her D3 experience (since that matters to a lot on this board) and she's 484-113 as a coach (81%).

Lisa Fortier is 265–63 (.808) as a head coach and 154–22 (.875) in league play. She's beaten more top 5 teams in her career than Kellie did at TN.

You're going to tell me you take Marshall's coach over either of those?

Out of curiosity, do you have their records vs power conference teams, maybe SEC?

Recruiting and playing against different levels is a big deal. You are what your record says you are stratified too, maybe more so.

Feedback on support of boosters who can and will donate to both AD and collectives is a new KEY driver. Proven is history, could be on the downward side on the charts.

 

[brittannica]

Or triangle.

nothing worse than a triangle of data

 

[Volstylexx]

I say Tennessee is still on it's top target at this point. Loose lips sink tight ships. We've heard nothing in regards to candidates who have interviewed, been offered, declined, etc. To me, this says we haven't entered that stage of the hiring process with multiple people (meaning we haven't been turned down). If we had offered multiple coaches it would have leaked somewhere. It always does. You would see announcements on extensions with comments from the schools we were trying to poach from.

 

[Decker Moss]

Pure fantasy story here. No rumors or knowledge. When most head coaches are on the hot seat they are usually told to change their assistant coaches. (Like Barnes at Texas). It would be wild if the assistant coaches, besides the husband, stayed and the head coach was let go. I can’t think of another instance of that on the women’s side, unless the AC was promoted to HC, and would definitely signal it is not an experienced P5 coach. It would also show who DW thought the main problem was.

 

[Volstylexx]

Out of curiosity, do you have their records vs power conference teams, maybe SEC?

Recruiting and playing against different levels is a big deal. You are what your record says you are stratified too, maybe more so.

Feedback on support of boosters who can and will donate to both AD and collectives is a new KEY driver. Proven is history, could be on the downward side on the charts.

Well I know off the top of my head Fortier's Gonzaga has beat Tennessee (twice) and Stanford (twice). Berube's Princeton team beat Kentucky in the ncaa's the year they had just knocked off unbeaten SC in the SECT.

 

[Coach Jumper]

A lot of freaking out and arguing over something that no reputable source has claimed has happened or is going to happen.

Guess that's the slogan of all message boards though.

"reputable sources" over time in this site have become very targeted.
Get it wrong and everybody forgets the 5 things you got right.

I personally, have heard Kim's name from one person, whom I talk with.
And that is the only name I have heard from that person...until I hear another,,,I'm riding that pony

 

[spojo13]

Out of curiosity, do you have their records vs power conference teams, maybe SEC?

Recruiting and playing against different levels is a big deal. You are what your record says you are stratified too, maybe more so.

Feedback on support of boosters who can and will donate to both AD and collectives is a new KEY driver. Proven is history, could be on the downward side on the charts.

I know Fortier beat us last year and made the sweet sixteen this year. She beat Stanford, Utah, and Alabama who we lost to. Record against Power 5 was 4-3 this year.

 

[VolFuture]

I say Tennessee is still on it's top target at this point. Loose lips sink tight ships. We've heard nothing in regards to candidates who have interviewed, been offered, declined, etc. To me, this says we haven't entered that stage of the hiring process with multiple people (meaning we haven't been turned down). If we had offered multiple coaches it would have leaked somewhere. It always does. You would see announcements on extensions with comments from the schools we were trying to poach from.

Yes exactly the salty ones who got turned down always come out the woodwork

Maybe DW makes them sign NDAs