Kim Caldwell Vol Club Confidential

#52
#52
dazzleme said:
Lawd have mercy. I've never seen anything like this message board. 😂 People taking sh*ts on people's posts. The argumentativeness, the hostility. Gawd, the negativity is otherworldly sometimes. Alien.
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It's why I'm likely leaving I had a question with no hidden agenda and wanted an honest answer and was unnecessarily attacked. It's not worth my time.
 
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Knoxvol14 said:
Totally random but why does AP all of the sudden care about women's basketball? Shouldn't he be a fan regardless of who the coach is? He likely watched football regardless of coach
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The involvement of Spyre mostly, as they are pretty obviously the source of much of his information. If there hadn't been a coaching change, the combination of Spyre getting involved in LV NIL and On3 launching their women's sports site would of pushed AP to cover the LVs more regardless imo.
 
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I just wanted to clarify a couple of things about CALDWELL based on her interview. You heard her say that she rarely calls timeouts. That is true. She probably calls fewer timeouts than any coach in the nation. There are reasons for this, she never wants to hinder the flow of the game as it is being played by her players. She wants her players constantly impacting the game without interruption. This is why the opposition is dead tired by the time the third quarter is drawing to a close. Also, she tells her players to use their timeouts if they get into trouble during the game itself. Rather than turn the ball over or lose possession, she wants them to call a timeout. One other thing you need to know. She places great TRUST IN HER PLAYERS. Her idea is to just LET THEM PLAY. She will teach them the game and she will let them go play as they have been told. They will know what to do. It will take some time for them to adjust to all this FREEDOM, but as the season goes on they will adjust and be even more productive.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Presence. Didn’t pause for an umm once. She can close.

One other note. Barnes knows hair dressers? He’s sporting that late seventies grad hairline… 😉
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I'm betting that's a hairdresser who other important UT women use because there's a trust and understanding that whatever's said in that shop never leaves that shop. (Also that you won't be questioned about your use of timeouts or inbounds defense.)
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Her hair, expressions, and responses were immaculate in her that brief interview.
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You're just smitten! 😄

(...like a lot of us, especially when she looked straight into the camera with those big, almond-shaped eyes. Bet they're green or hazel. I mean, I really don't very often look at women that way unless I like who they are first... and I admire everything I've heard or learned about our new coach.)
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
None of that matters, it wasn’t here. If she can win us the conference this year I would give her all the credit in the world.
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All of that matters. It demonstrates the caliber of coaching she has produced in the last 8 years. Grow up and apply some sense of reasoning to your thoughts and posts. Maybe your expectations are based on your own experiences.
 
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As a man once said about a great coach, he can take his players and beat your players, and he can take your players and beat his players. And so it is. This is the measure of great coaches. CALDWELL, may or may not be a great coach, time will tell. But I think we can say that CALDWELL will get the most out of the players she will have this year. Their degree of success will be measured by the sum of their talents as manifested by her teaching ability as a coach teaching her system. There is every reason to believe, that based on her past record, CALDWELL will succeed in this to a greater or lesser degree this year. As a MARSHALL ALUM, I have no hesitation in telling you that TENNESSEE will more than hold their own against the SEC competition, just as MARSHALL held their own against the SUN BELT competition. This is based on what we both know to be a fact about her history. We don't need to exaggerate or speculate on these facts as we are aware of them. The basketball is the same, the court is the same size, and players are players. All that is left is for time and circumstances to reveal the true measure of HER GREATNESS. She will have her teams ready to beat her opponents, will the coaches of her opponents teams be equal to the task?
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
All of that matters. It demonstrates the caliber of coaching she has produced in the last 8 years. Grow up and apply some sense of reasoning to your thoughts and posts. Maybe your expectations are based on your own experiences.
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All I care about is what she does here, if she builds a winning roster we will win. None of what she did before matters to me unless it translates here, if she continues her streak of conference championships next season I’ll give her all of the credit she deserves.
 
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greenwolfe@gmail.com Ran said:
As a man once said about a great coach, he can take his players and beat your players, and he can take your players and beat his players. And so it is. This is the measure of great coaches. CALDWELL, may or may not be a great coach, time will tell. But I think we can say that CALDWELL will get the most out of the players she will have this year. Their degree of success will be measured by the sum of their talents as manifested by her teaching ability as a coach teaching her system. There is every reason to believe, that based on her past record, CALDWELL will succeed in this to a greater or lesser degree this year. As a MARSHALL ALUM, I have no hesitation in telling you that TENNESSEE will more than hold their own against the SEC competition, just as MARSHALL held their own against the SUN BELT competition. This is based on what we both know to be a fact about her history. We don't need to exaggerate or speculate on these facts as we are aware of them. The basketball is the same, the court is the same size, and players are players. All that is left is for time and circumstances to reveal the true measure of HER GREATNESS. She will have her teams ready to beat her opponents, will the coaches of her opponents teams be equal to the task?
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...and I'm pretty sure it wasn't because they fed raw numbers into a computer that she was awarded the 2021-22 Pat Summitt Trophy as WBCA's NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year "for demonstrated devotion to the development of college athletes and making a positive impact on their lives."
 
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DarkPhoenix said:
All I care about is what she does here, if she builds a winning roster we will win. None of what she did before matters to me unless it translates here, if she continues her streak of conference championships next season I’ll give her all of the credit she deserves.
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That may be what you care about, but that is not what your negative posts say. You constantly deny that she and her system has any chance to succeed in the SEC or the NCAA tournament and give no credit for her coaching abilities.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
That may be what you care about, but that is not what your negative posts say. You constantly deny that she and her system has no chance to succeed in the SEC or the NCAA tournament and give no credit for her coaching abilities.
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I never said her system won’t work, please show me where I said that. I said the top players won’t want to be subbed every 2 mins like other posters said she likes to do. But I’ve never watched a game so I was going on what others have said, everything is based on the players, and I’ve always said that. If we have champions ship caliber players we will win, and if not we won’t win and that’s it.
 
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greenwolfe@gmail.com Ran said:
As a man once said about a great coach, he can take his players and beat your players, and he can take your players and beat his players. And so it is. This is the measure of great coaches. CALDWELL, may or may not be a great coach, time will tell. But I think we can say that CALDWELL will get the most out of the players she will have this year. Their degree of success will be measured by the sum of their talents as manifested by her teaching ability as a coach teaching her system. There is every reason to believe, that based on her past record, CALDWELL will succeed in this to a greater or lesser degree this year. As a MARSHALL ALUM, I have no hesitation in telling you that TENNESSEE will more than hold their own against the SEC competition, just as MARSHALL held their own against the SUN BELT competition. This is based on what we both know to be a fact about her history. We don't need to exaggerate or speculate on these facts as we are aware of them. The basketball is the same, the court is the same size, and players are players. All that is left is for time and circumstances to reveal the true measure of HER GREATNESS. She will have her teams ready to beat her opponents, will the coaches of her opponents teams be equal to the task?
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Coach Bum Phillips first and then once said about Bear Bryant...this is to me the ultimate compliment for a coach
the phrase as I remember it was
"He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n"
 
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