So who do you hire?

#26
#26
Don't think Walz will want to leave what he has built in Louisville (and has been built for him in terms of facilities and support).

The above list is pretty good. I'd like to add Becky Hammon and Kelly Harper to the mix.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
She has no coaching experience
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Maybe not experience as a coach, but every other kind you can think up. I personally think she has the ability, when she breaks down players and games (before during and after) the woman knows basketball. Now, for me all she has to prove is can she pass on what she knows to players. I think she can. For her the key will be her support staff. If they have experience on the "front line", then that will be a tremendous help in learning to "coach" what she knows and I think, what she can become.
 
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Lol. There are a lot of scared fans and athletic directors at top schools right now and there should be. It’s easy to say that a coach “won’t leave”, “is happy”, etc but trust and believe, there are some coaches at some big programs who are definitely keeping an eye on this situation. Money talks and to many of the coaches at these programs, Tennessee has always been a dream job. Any time a school can not sniff a final four in a decade and still haul in the number 1 recruiting class??? That says a lot about the NAME and not necessarily the recruiters. As I said WEEKS ago, I’ve heard they are going to break open the bank for a hire and that was over a month ago before shyt got real. The list of potential names I received in confidence is QUITE a list.

Many of the top coaches would at least LISTEN, if nothing more than to get their current schools to give them raises and all UT needs is a chance to pitch what they are offering. Somebody is going to accept the challenge. Hell, its an easy job to coach if you can actually coach...no real pressure to win (from the AD) , great fan base, etc. Look how long they allowed Holly to screw up? Lol. Hopefully those current schools have their checkbooks ready or there are going to be some REAL sad fans. Lololol. Holly’s firing could really shift women’s college basketball in a major way because if a coach of a top program is hired, then that program will have to try to throw money at another top coach to keep their program stable and so on and so forth...a real domino effect. IT could really be a mess, but good for us Lady Vol fans!
 
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Rocky-Top 10EC said:
I truly believe we can hire anybody we want. It is the holy grail for women's basketball. I can see Fulmer's phone ringing off the hook with potential hires and those are out there that would love to coach here.
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Not true - for a number of reasons including the fact that UT is no longer the "holy grail" of WCBB. That passed with Coach Summitt.
 
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tenecvol4 said:
Get out the checkbook and negotiating skills and call Becky Hammon !!!!!!!!!!!! Turn around program in 2 years !!
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Not even 2yrs, within a yr a good coach will get up there with the players in place. Unless there's no players that's y is always hard, but Lady vols case the have great incoming class as well as the ones already on team.
 
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I saw in presser last night that Holly said "I am so daggone competitive" and said also her team had "no desire to play defense the 3rd and 4th quarters"... On God's green earth, how are those 2 statements consistent.... you would think she would play walk ons if she wasn't getting effort from the starters.... but she has always excused lack of effort... as she says she cannot coach effort ... which is false. As sorry as I feel in a way for the players.... the Tennessee program is EXACTLY where it chooses to be..... I have seen the past 8 years how Holly cannot coach..... (I am high school coach, tho not college level)..... add to that Tennessee promotes football and for WCBB has operated on the "good enough" theory.... as long as they are competitive, then the box is check marked. All these big names Tenn fans want to rescue the program.... why? Jeff Walz and Kara Lawson Becky Hammon aren't coming... and what they need is a TEACHER to coach them up.... focus on fundamentals.... the basics.... they can do that for 300K if they want.... hey the circus is entertaining every day.... but sometimes it is sensory overload
 
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sisaq said:
Not even 2yrs, within a yr a good coach will get up there with the players in place. Unless there's no players that's y is always hard, but Lady vols case the have great incoming class as well as the ones already on team.
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You can't assume that the incoming class will still come to Tennessee when a coaching change is made. Coaching changes screw up recruiting classes regularly.
 
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Rocky-Top 10EC said:
I truly believe we can hire anybody we want. It is the holy grail for women's basketball. I can see Fulmer's phone ringing off the hook with potential hires and those are out there that would love to coach here.
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TN is a powerhouse program known nationwide. Anyone would love to coach there especially when it's not hard to recruit.
 
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We don't have to have a big name. There are great coaches, hungry, proven grinders out there. Remember that little Troy University team that came here year before last and scored all those points. Love their style. Check their social media all the time. Just saw a NCAA piece on them (Bracket Buster) Power 5 teams will be looking at her hard. They are #1 in the nation in rebounds and #5 in scoring 2 years in a row. She built that program from I think I read the bottom of the NCAA to tournament appearances. Grinder.
 
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brassie said:
Not true - for a number of reasons including the fact that UT is no longer the "holy grail" of WCBB. That passed with Coach Summitt.
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Totally agree.... i know many LV fans say it is the holy grail.... but based on what?

As of right now they are running on the fumes of past glory, which stopped more than a decade ago..... and the South Carolinas, Miss States, Oregons, Oregon States, Baylors, Notre Dames, and many more are passing them like they are standing still
 
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djtee said:
Top choices Kara Lawson , Kyra Elzy, Bridgette Gordon these former players have won and know how to win
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Kyra Elzy is the only legitimate candidate of those three because she's associate head coach at Kentucky. Kara Lawson and Bridgette Gordon have never coached before.
 
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brassie said:
Not true - for a number of reasons including the fact that UT is no longer the "holy grail" of WCBB. That passed with Coach Summitt.
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Your nuts to not think a very good coach wouldn't come here. PLEASE, we brought the womens game into the 21st century. Plenty of tradition and championships and a good coach would have no problem at all recruiting here. Please, don't tell me you really don't think we can get a coach much much better than the one we have know. And yes we have all the resources to get back to the top, it's not like it's that high of a mountain that this program can't now reach. That's comical. GBO!
 
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vettefool said:
Right, hire someone who has never coached before.
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This is my fear. That the powers that be and this fanbase are still into making EMOTIONAL decisions instead of SMART decisions. Emotion is how we just got 7 years of slow and methodical train wreck placed upon us. Remember the morons on VN talking up Tyler Summitt to be HC? Pre impregnating a player of course.

Get T-H-E B-E-S-T coach $$$ can buy. That has little to nothing to do with thier Alma mater, their sex, their color, their history of coaching here, or any other irrelevant thing. This is a blue blood of wcbb. The best candidates out there will be listening acutely.

Thankfully, our AD showed with the FB hire that he gets this. He went after "the best he could get under the circumstances" regardless of where they played and where they were coaching. He wasn't dumb enough to listen to the stupid fan talk @ bringing Tee in for a HC interview.
 
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