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Alabama announced their spring schedule.Clemson announced their spring schedule and they will be visiting Knoxville on April 7.
Tigers Announce 2024 Spring Schedule
CLEMSON, S.C. – The Clemson Tigers are ready to get back on the pitch as they announce their 2024 spring schedule, with one away match and four games set to be played at Historic Riggs Field.The Tigers will open up spring competition by hosting Georgia Southern on Saturday, March 2 at 6 p.m...clemsontigers.com
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Tennessee soccer history cont.Tennessee soccer history cont.
2010 Season
Another bad season for Angela Kelly and the Lady Vols.
Back to back seasons of going out in the first round of the SEC Tournament and no at large bid for the NCAA Tournament.
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Photo of the season opener against Western Kentucky at Regal
Tennessee soccer history cont.
2011 Season
A season highlighted by wins over SEC opponents Florida, Arkansas, and Vanderbilt, had the 2011 Lady Vols soccer team poised to make a run at the Women's College Cup.
With the conclusion of the 2011 season, Angela Kelley stepped down as head coach of Tennessee soccer following her 12th season.
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After two of the worst years under Angela Kelly, the 2011 was a a fun team to watch and exceeded their expectations, especially after the SEC coaches predicted the Lady Vols to finish 4th in the East.
Finally made it back to the NCAA Tournament
Started out 7-1, ranked near the Top 10 and had 5 straight shutouts.
This video was from their 5th straight shutout.
These girls were ballers.
Next we will discuss Angela Kelly leaving Knoxville.
If I remember the Kelly story right it was during Dave Hart's time no fan of women and she over played her hand. Went to him tell him Texas had made her an offer and expected him to give her a raise. The story goes he shook her hand and congratulated her on her new job which she really had no plans on taking leaving her speechless. And that was that.
She was offered a 20% raise and a five-year contract by Texas. She gave Tennessee the opportunity to match it, but Dave Hart declined, in part because she was coming off a first round NCAA tournament loss at home, which followed two seasons of not making the tournament at all in 2009 and 2010, and one prior making it with a losing record as a result of winning the 2008 SEC tournament.
Pensky came to Tennessee because Maryland, at the time, was in a financial crunch and was not giving the non-revenue sports the full support they needed to compete with the other top-tier programs in the ACC. That financial crunch is the biggest reason they ended up leaving the ACC for the Big Ten.
History of Tennessee soccer cont.
The end of the Angela Kelly era.
Kelly had been with the Lady Vols since its inception in 1996.
First 4 years she was an assistant. She became the head coach in 2000.
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Past posts discussing the reason Angela Kelly left for Texas.
SOC's Angela Kelly Accepts Head Coaching Position at Univ. of Texas
SOC's Angela Kelly Accepts Head Coaching Position at Univ. of Texas - University of Tennessee Athletics
Dec. 17, 2011 By Brian Davis, Assistant Media Relations Director KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - After 12 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee soccerutsports.com
Excerpt:
After 12 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee soccer program and 16 overall as a member of the program's coaching staff, Angela Kelly announced on Saturday that she is leaving the Lady Vol program to accept the head coaching position at the University of Texas.
This was recorded after being knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by OSU. I can’t tell if she knew if her time in Knoxville was over or not.
History of Tennessee soccer cont.
The end of the Angela Kelly era.
Kelly had been with the Lady Vols since its inception in 1996.
First 4 years she was an assistant. She became the head coach in 2000.
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Past posts discussing the reason Angela Kelly left for Texas.
SOC's Angela Kelly Accepts Head Coaching Position at Univ. of Texas
SOC's Angela Kelly Accepts Head Coaching Position at Univ. of Texas - University of Tennessee Athletics
Dec. 17, 2011 By Brian Davis, Assistant Media Relations Director KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - After 12 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee soccerutsports.com
Excerpt:
After 12 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee soccer program and 16 overall as a member of the program's coaching staff, Angela Kelly announced on Saturday that she is leaving the Lady Vol program to accept the head coaching position at the University of Texas.
This was recorded after being knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by OSU. I can’t tell if she knew if her time in Knoxville was over or not.
The Pensky move to FSU always pained me but also made sense for him both financially and professionally. It would have been nice to try to retain him though since I question Joe Kirt’s ability to be a head coach at this level. All the insight into Angela Kelly is great. Texas isn’t a demonstrably better soccer program so the logistics of her departure never made sense to me. Also gives a bit of insight into the basketball program’s trajectory as well in some ways.All these years later, I'm still conflicted by this and how it played out.
Dave Hart had just been hired in September of that year and had completed an internal review of all of the programs on campus. Not like an investigation, but basically a SWOT analysis of the coaches, teams, facilities, etc. He had an unwritten policy that missing the tournament in three straight seasons was an automatic dismissal (though he would leave Dave Serrano dangling for longer because he wouldn't spend real money on baseball), and he didn't count winning a conference tournament as making it if the team wouldn't have without it.
So he had Kelly by that analysis as someone he would have fired after the previous year. But Joan Cronan had hired her, believed in her and had stood by her through the struggles. Many of the issues over those three seasons were ACLs, including a top-5 recruit that tore hers the summer before enrolling and never played a minute for UT, but the results were what they were. She also had Pat Summitt in her corner. They had a relatively mediocre season in 2011, but hosted an NCAA Tournament game under the then-new 32 first round sites deal. The recruiting was ok, but not nearly on the level it was when she was pulling top classes every year. I think a lot of people in the department thought the program had peaked. Remember, this was all the December before Hart purged so many LV employees in the department consolidation.
I think when Texas made an offer, Kelly didn't want to leave and saw the offer as validation that she was still a big name in coaching and proof to a skeptical Hart that she could still build a winner. It was a reverse Rick Barnes situation, just with the schools reversed. She also didn't have Pat Summitt at full strength to advocate for her. So she presented the offer of an increased pay package AND a four-year contract (when UT didn't do deals longer than three years outside of FB and M/WBB) to Hart and he told her it was a good offer and she should take it.
The Pensky deal was a little different, UT could have acted earlier to extend him and he might not have listened to FSU. The person that botched that was later let go by White for a list of things that included that. But if FSU had reached him, I still don't know that UT would have matched the financial package FSU put together for him. FSU HAD to have him and everyone knew it.
All these years later, I'm still conflicted by this and how it played out.
Dave Hart had just been hired in September of that year and had completed an internal review of all of the programs on campus. Not like an investigation, but basically a SWOT analysis of the coaches, teams, facilities, etc. He had an unwritten policy that missing the tournament in three straight seasons was an automatic dismissal (though he would leave Dave Serrano dangling for longer because he wouldn't spend real money on baseball), and he didn't count winning a conference tournament as making it if the team wouldn't have without it.
So he had Kelly by that analysis as someone he would have fired after the previous year. But Joan Cronan had hired her, believed in her and had stood by her through the struggles. Many of the issues over those three seasons were ACLs, including a top-5 recruit that tore hers the summer before enrolling and never played a minute for UT, but the results were what they were. She also had Pat Summitt in her corner. They had a relatively mediocre season in 2011, but hosted an NCAA Tournament game under the then-new 32 first round sites deal. The recruiting was ok, but not nearly on the level it was when she was pulling top classes every year. I think a lot of people in the department thought the program had peaked. Remember, this was all the December before Hart purged so many LV employees in the department consolidation.
I think when Texas made an offer, Kelly didn't want to leave and saw the offer as validation that she was still a big name in coaching and proof to a skeptical Hart that she could still build a winner. It was a reverse Rick Barnes situation, just with the schools reversed. She also didn't have Pat Summitt at full strength to advocate for her. So she presented the offer of an increased pay package AND a four-year contract (when UT didn't do deals longer than three years outside of FB and M/WBB) to Hart and he told her it was a good offer and she should take it.
The Pensky deal was a little different, UT could have acted earlier to extend him and he might not have listened to FSU. The person that botched that was later let go by White for a list of things that included that. But if FSU had reached him, I still don't know that UT would have matched the financial package FSU put together for him. FSU HAD to have him and everyone knew it.
What does what I had to say there have anything to do with the basketball program?The Pensky move to FSU always pained me but also made sense for him both financially and professionally. It would have been nice to try to retain him though since I question Joe Kirt’s ability to be a head coach at this level. All the insight into Angela Kelly is great. Texas isn’t a demonstrably better soccer program so the logistics of her departure never made sense to me. Also gives a bit of insight into the basketball program’s trajectory as well in some ways.
Nothing directly, It just gives insight into the history of the athletic dept. For example, I didn’t even know who Dave Hart was let alone that he had these unspoken metrics for performance by coaches/teams. Or that he oversaw the combination of men’s and women’s athletic departments (also new info to me). A lot of my work is on organizational behavior and strategic management so I’m always interested in what’s happening at higher levels. It’s also only my second year here so there’s a ton I don’t know.What does what I had to say there have anything to do with the basketball program?
Well, there have been two completely different leadership teams and organizational structures since then, so I’m not sure how he did it is particularly relevant to the current situation. But I do think that two years without a tournament appearance in any sport is likely to result in a dismissal.Nothing directly, It just gives insight into the history of the athletic dept. For example, I didn’t even know who Dave Hart was let alone that he had these unspoken metrics for performance by coaches/teams. Or that he oversaw the combination of men’s and women’s athletic departments (also new info to me). A lot of my work is on organizational behavior and strategic management so I’m always interested in what’s happening at higher levels. It’s also only my second year here so there’s a ton I don’t know.
Well, there have been two completely different leadership teams and organizational structures since then, so I’m not sure how he did it is particularly relevant to the current situation. But I do think that two years without a tournament appearance in any sport is likely to result in a dismissal.
Oh, I agree it might not be directly relevant to our current situation since there have been other admins since then. Again, was just commenting on how this scenario kinda fills in some pieces in the decades-long Lady Vols story, which I appreciate. I tell my students all organizations are in some ways a story, and so this is a chapter I knew nothing about and it’s cool to learn more about leadership, priorities, etc.Well, there have been two completely different leadership teams and organizational structures since then, so I’m not sure how he did it is particularly relevant to the current situation. But I do think that two years without a tournament appearance in any sport is likely to result in a dismissal.
History of Tennessee soccer cont.
The end of the Angela Kelly era.
Kelly had been with the Lady Vols since its inception in 1996.
First 4 years she was an assistant. She became the head coach in 2000.
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Past posts discussing the reason Angela Kelly left for Texas.
SOC's Angela Kelly Accepts Head Coaching Position at Univ. of Texas
SOC's Angela Kelly Accepts Head Coaching Position at Univ. of Texas - University of Tennessee Athletics
Dec. 17, 2011 By Brian Davis, Assistant Media Relations Director KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - After 12 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee soccerutsports.com
Excerpt:
After 12 years as the head coach of the University of Tennessee soccer program and 16 overall as a member of the program's coaching staff, Angela Kelly announced on Saturday that she is leaving the Lady Vol program to accept the head coaching position at the University of Texas.
This was recorded after being knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by OSU. I can’t tell if she knew if her time in Knoxville was over or not.
Year | School | Position |
1996-98 | Bullis School (Potomac, Md.) | Boys' Soccer Head Coach |
1998-2000 | George Washington University | Women's Soccer Assistant Coach |
2001 | Loyola College | Men's Soccer Assistant Coach |
2002-04 | Maryland | Men's Soccer Assistant Coach |
2005-11 | Maryland | Women's Soccer Head Coach |
2012- | Tennessee | Women's Soccer Head Coach |
Year | School | Record | Pct. | Conf. | Pct. | Final Rank | NCAA Tournament |
2005 | Maryland | 5-11-3 | .342 | 3-5-2 | .400 | --- | --- |
2006 | Maryland | 5-9-4 | .333 | 1-6-3 | .250 | --- | --- |
2007 | Maryland | 6-9-3 | .417 | 1-8-1 | .150 | --- | --- |
2008 | Maryland | 7-10-1 | .417 | 3-7-0 | .300 | --- | --- |
2009 | Maryland | 14-6-2 | .682 | 4-4-2 | .500 | 11th | Sweet 16 |
2010 | Maryland | 18-2-3 | .848 | 7-2-1 | .750 | 10th | Second Round |
2011 | Maryland | 12-6-4 | .636 | 4-4-2 | .500 | 11th | Sweet 16 |
Total | 7 Years | 67-52-20 | .554 | 22-36-11 | .381 | 3 Rankings | 3 NCAA Berths |