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

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She led her alma mater Glenville State to the 2022 Division II national title and has earned seven NCAA Tournament berths. Caldwell won the Pat Summitt Trophy for the 2021-22 season as the WBCA’s NCAA Division II coach of the year.

Marshall ranked in the top five nationally in seven statistical categories. They led the nation in 3-pointers attempted and third in 3s made per game with more than 10 per game. The Herd ranked fourth nationally in averaging 85.3 points a game.

The Herd ranked second in forcing 24.2 turnovers per game while setting a program record for most wins in a season. Marshall hadn’t won at least 20 games since 1990-91.

White said Caldwell has a winning formula with a “high-octane offense and pressure defense” that produces results...
 
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Ball is ball.

She has shown an ability to overachieve. If she can recruit at a high level, she can win. We needed a coach who has shown an ability to win at a Pat Summit level and she's done that. She's had much more success in her career than Kellie Harper when we hired her. Hopefully it translates to a more competitive league with better athletes.
 
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volfan__18 said:
Bull crap. Kellie is a beast in the portal and i’m sure she would have got people to make us better. It’s on the this new coach to get players out of the portal and she has no excuses. Get out there and get them.
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lol. Harper’s HS recruiting was trash. She is leaving with a subpar roster. Yeah buddy she sure was a beast in the portal but couldn’t coach herself out of a wet paper bag.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
I was wrong; you're right about Schiano's case. The pushback (and much of it on suspected moral grounds, of which, unlike coaching, we all have experience) negated the hire.

But that's also an example where the fans' (lack of) buy-in denied any possibility for that coach to have success here, before buying tickets was an option.

It's a hackneyed comparison, but still accurate: the relationship between a coach and the fanbase is like a marriage. Some fans want a trophy wife (big name coach) who will boost our reputation in public (regardless of how she acts in private), others want a sturdy farm wife who's productive in the win column, even if she isn't the prettiest girl at the dance. And some most value a wife who's a good mother, raising kids into responsible adults. (ADs think all these ways regarding their coaching hires, with the added issue that ADs are polygamous--their "wives" have to also get along with and support each other in the same house!)

Most of us would love to have all three in one coach. And that's why we (who are now the old timers) got spoiled having Pat as the coach who established this program. But many forget that she grew into that ideal, and most of her growth was before there was a spotlight on her or the program. She got to make her coaching mistakes when there were few witnesses. That's a blessing no Tennessee coach will ever again enjoy.

I'm admittedly guilty of presuming Danny White will not make such an obvious blunder as courting a Schiano, mostly because DW has been very attentive to the atmosphere, the culture, and the undergirding values of what he has built inside the UTAD. Danny may have only made one major hire, but everything else he's done inside the building, and the relationships he's established with other leaders at the university, he owns.

That's where his reputation has been established so far. I cannot imagine him violating or destroying what he's built around him with a hire he created the need for.
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I can give your another instance Jerry Green and his Walmart remark.
 
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Marshall was 1-2 against p5 opponents this year. They beat Florida team by 3 points. Lost to a pretty bad wake forest team by six points and then lost to Virginia tech in the tournament by a lot. Not bad for a mid major if we are being honest.
 
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barney said:
Marshall was 1-2 against p5 opponents this year. They beat Florida team by 3 points. Lost to a pretty bad wake forest team by six points and then lost to Virginia tech in the tournament by a lot. Not bad for a mid major if we are being honest.
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Tennessee beat Florida by 7 points so like idk how big the gap in talent really is lol
 
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