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Hire Tammi Reiss from Rhode Island

I'm a vol, but I also keep up with URI sports as a second team.

What she has done at URI is nothing short of a miracle.

I mean Rhody women's basketball was a hopeless wasteland, like perennial 20+ loss type of program and in two full seasons (not including 11-8 covid year) she won 22 games there for the first time ever and they now sit at 9-1.

They play a very smart well executed brand of basketball.

She has about as much charisma as you can possibly imagine, probably works as hard as anybody and has the background where she could handle coaching at a place like this.

Played at UVA, played in the WNBA, assitant coach in the WNBA, assistant coach all over the country including UVA and Syracuse. Also been in two movies lol.

Just wanna see what yall think.

I do hope Kellie turns it around though I do love her.
 
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Boo vols said:
Kelly can’t recruit period so don’t use that
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Who recruited the 15 players we have on the team? May not be the players you want but they were all recruited in some form by Harper even the ones that are left over from Holly had to be recruited. So she has recruited players as the roster is full.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Who recruited the 15 players we have on the team? May not be the players you want but they were all recruited in some form by Harper even the ones that are left over from Holly had to be recruited. So she has recruited players as the roster is full.
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And that might answer the question. Is her recruited/re-recruited 15 the best she can do? She’s a 20 year veteran and this area is a struggle for her.
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
Hire Tammi Reiss from Rhode Island

I'm a vol, but I also keep up with URI sports as a second team.

What she has done at URI is nothing short of a miracle.

I mean Rhody women's basketball was a hopeless wasteland, like perennial 20+ loss type of program and in two full seasons (not including 11-8 covid year) she won 22 games there for the first time ever and they now sit at 9-1.

They play a very smart well executed brand of basketball.

She has about as much charisma as you can possibly imagine, probably works as hard as anybody and has the background where she could handle coaching at a place like this.

Played at UVA, played in the WNBA, assitant coach in the WNBA, assistant coach all over the country including UVA and Syracuse. Also been in two movies lol.

Just wanna see what yall think.

I do hope Kellie turns it around though I do love her.
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Didn't Tammi sing Stand By Your Coach?
 
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Intriguing.

Freak instructed us to not dream of other women until after the season is over. He is playing the grinch role.

Go Kellie!
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
Hire Tammi Reiss from Rhode Island

I'm a vol, but I also keep up with URI sports as a second team.

What she has done at URI is nothing short of a miracle.

I mean Rhody women's basketball was a hopeless wasteland, like perennial 20+ loss type of program and in two full seasons (not including 11-8 covid year) she won 22 games there for the first time ever and they now sit at 9-1.

They play a very smart well executed brand of basketball.

She has about as much charisma as you can possibly imagine, probably works as hard as anybody and has the background where she could handle coaching at a place like this.

Played at UVA, played in the WNBA, assitant coach in the WNBA, assistant coach all over the country including UVA and Syracuse. Also been in two movies lol.

Just wanna see what yall think.

I do hope Kellie turns it around though I do love her.
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Let's go for it. If we could get the coach from a such POWERHOUSE program that has not made it to the NCAA tournament since 1996 and lost in the first round of the 2022 WNIT to Quinnipac, wowza!! is all I can say!!! Break out the checkbook.....
 
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madtownvol said:
Let's go for it. If we could get the coach from a such POWERHOUSE program that has not made it to the NCAA tournament since 1996 and lost in the first round of the 2022 WNIT to Quinnipac, wowza!! is all I can say!!! Break out the checkbook.....
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I got 25 cents I will put in on that even if that investment may be fool hardy of me I am ready to take the gamble.
 
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madtownvol said:
Let's go for it. If we could get the coach from a such POWERHOUSE program that has not made it to the NCAA tournament since 1996 and lost in the first round of the 2022 WNIT to Quinnipac, wowza!! is all I can say!!! Break out the checkbook.....
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Wow omg so funny!

Yeah taking one of the worst programs in women's college basketball with zero resources to 22 wins in two years isn't impressive at all.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Who recruited the 15 players we have on the team? May not be the players you want but they were all recruited in some form by Harper even the ones that are left over from Holly had to be recruited. So she has recruited players as the roster is full.
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And what is she doing with them except coaching the team out of this years tournament
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
Wow omg so funny!

Yeah taking one of the worst programs in women's college basketball with zero resources to 22 wins in two years isn't impressive at all.
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When we consider the conference and schedule that RI plays, this post is indeed comical. Lots of people were upset that Kellie only had mid major success when she was named LV HC but the RI coach has yet to show at the NCAA or the WNIT for that matter. So, an out of blue post of "let's hire this relatively unknown coach from an off the map program over our current coach", who just took her team to the NCAA Sweet 16 is not one to be treated with deference and respect. There are coaches in the power 5 conferences who have also orchestrated big turn arounds in their programs. If and when the times comes for the LVs to hire a new coach (and I don't see that happening for a while), I am pretty confident it will be a coach with a national rep and power 5 success.

So good on you for being a big RI fan and a supporter of their coach (that part is super cool and i wish you the best this season) but as they say let's keep it real.
 
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creekdipper said:
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win....
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Neil Finn and Crowded House!!!

Another song from his earlier band Split Enz is also fitting for this board:

I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes you can tell that I'm not lying
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
 
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