Method Man said:
morethanhecouldbear said:
Method Man said:
CTbruin said:
So much incorrect info here
Yes, she was a very successful coach. But extremely high maintenance and hard to work with according to many.
She as well as us are better off with her departure.
Can someone please explain why?
We are not better off without her - to think that or suggest it is to embrace stupidity.
As of right now I agree with you.....but to Coach Collen's credit she has brought home a BIGXII Championship.
If she can get us back to the Final Four we officially (if we are not already there) become a Blue Blood in Womens Hoops.
Plenty of schools have had to replace a legend, and lot of them kept on rolling. This is a new position for Baylor University because we've never replaced anyone as successful as Mulkey.
I met Coach Mulkey when I was in school....and yes she can be intense....but I never really cared as long as she was bringing home those BIGXII Titles and National Championships.
Really elite athletes and coaches tend to have a very big ego....its part of what makes them so successful. The complaints of Coach Mulkey being mean or wanting things to be her way.....thats the price you pay for having a premier coach.
Which WBB schools are you thinking of that kept on rolling? The ones I can think of took a dip right after the legend left, whether it was due to illness, retirement, or otherwise. I am thinking of, just to name a few, Tennessee (Summitt), Notre Dame (McGraw), Texas (Conradt), Duke (Goestenkors), Texas Tech (Sharpe), La Tech (Barmore), and if I had to bet, I would bet UConn faces the same situation when Geno is finished. Same goes for Tara at Stanford.
For some the dip was brief, at least to get back into the championship contending conversations, but none of those teams have really gotten back to where they were at their best. Notre Dame didn't even make the tournament the year after Muffet retired, but they are coming back but nowhere near what they were in her heyday. Baylor obviously dropped off, but if CNC can continue the recruiting and transfer portal as she has been thus far, there is certainly reason to believe that our drop will not be as bad as it could have been considering the disastrous roster situation she inherited because pretty much all the players KM had brought in as transfers flew the coop before Nikki had time to settle in. Yes, she was left a great one in Smith, but beyond the starting five that bench had a lot of empty chairs. I remember at the time some here were concerned as to whether we could even field a team that first year. And last year lack of depth completely destroyed the girls' legs by the time tournament time came around.
There is a reason why those teams mentioned above and yes, Baylor, is going to find it hard to reach the sustained and consistent heights they reached during the time the legend was coaching. It is not so much because of who is put into the coach's chair. The reason is parity in the game which has just gotten going full bore over the last 5-10 years. For most, if not all of those teams I mentioned above, the competition level outside of themselves was just not there when they were building their reputation. After the top 10, perhaps 15 teams there was a tremendous drop off. That no longer exists, and with the portal and the proliferation of great players at the high school level, I just don't see any team that is going to be as consistent at reaching the FF as was the case with Tennessee and UConn in the past.
So while some of the teams that had legend WBB coaches leave are still names we recognize in today's conversations, I think it is not accurate to say they just kept on rolling. They all had their hiccups immediately after the legend's departure. Football is a different story. There are several schools you might could list that just kept on rolling without a dip. But I just can't think of any in WBB where that has been the case.
