If she can get Crystal out of Tennessee to a dairy farm in Connecticut she can recruit players to one of the coolest towns in the south.
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For the amount of attention being paid to a former Uconn assisstant, one might think VolNation had been (temporarily, we hope!) turned into a satellite office of the boneyard.
If Ralph is able to resuscitate the Vandy program, her hiring just might have some impact on our Lady Vols three or four years down the road.
Yes agreed.... don't know Shea from Adam.... other than as former player and coach at UC.... but no reason she should be anointed to Queen of the Hop..... she has done nothing in terms of track record as head of her own program....A lot of Negavols are turning this into a Shea Ralph and Vanderbilt appreciation Society
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I think it is a weak hire. Wouldn’t you expect Vandy to have hired someone with head coaching experience? I guess Vandy folks can take solace that at least she was not the “hold back” coach for Geno. That poor woman....
I just think a power five program could find an up and coming mid major HC who wanted to get to the “big time”. If you want a cautionary tale, let me introduce you to a gump named Pruitt who not only embarrassed UT every time he opened his mouth, drove a spike through the heart of a program already on life support AND managed to cheat on a large scale and freaking couldn’t even win cheating!!!!What makes it a weak hire? MSST hired someone with head coaching experience who everyone thought was a great choice, and NMP took a top ten team to 9th in the SEC in just a season.
I'd take Shea over NMP any day.
Who is NMP?
I just think a power five program could find an up and coming mid major HC who wanted to get to the “big time”. If you want a cautionary tale, let me introduce you to a gump named Pruitt who not only embarrassed UT every time he opened his mouth, drove a spike through the heart of a program already on life support AND managed to cheat on a large scale and freaking couldn’t even win cheating!!!!
But I digress.
I realized NMP right after I posted. Cleaned it up.Who is the head coach at Mississippi State? Nikki McCray-Penson? The Lady Vol herself that so many UT fans wanted hired over Kellie...
She was a successful mid-major head coach who also spent time on the bench at SC during their title run in 2017. She was the CUSA coach of the year in 2020 before she took $750,000/year to dismantle MSST.
There’s really only one way to go for that Vanderbilt program, so hiring an assistant coach who has established top tier recruiting connections and will bring in a husband that not only has been a head coach but has coached at Vanderbilt before seems like a decent game plan.
On the other hand, there's Adia Barnes at Arizona (she was an assistant at Washington), who in a few years has transformed a program that had no history of success into the team we saw in this year's final 4. I think Ralf will get Vanderbilt back to where the program was under Balcomb and then some.I just think a power five program could find an up and coming mid major HC who wanted to get to the “big time”. If you want a cautionary tale, let me introduce you to a gump named Pruitt who not only embarrassed UT every time he opened his mouth, drove a spike through the heart of a program already on life support AND managed to cheat on a large scale and freaking couldn’t even win cheating!!!!
But I digress.