Bone Squad said:
blueeyedbear said:
None of you haters want to hear the truth - You haters continually want to talk about the 3 National Titles she has on her resume .......but you do not want to hear about the 3 - 4 National Titles she should have won and did not (2 with the most dominant player in WBB history) !!
This argument has been made for years and years, both by Baylor fans and other schools' fans. It has always struck me as a failure to see the forest for the trees.
If you've been a fan of college basketball for any significant period of time, you know that the best team does not always win. So insisting a team was supposed to win because they were widely considered the best, and that the coach is a failure if it didn't happen, disqualifies pretty much every hall of fame coach you can think of.
If the worst thing about Mulkey is that she ONLY won 3 national championships (she was supposed to win 6-7!), then what we are saying here is that fell short of the standard set by a long list of....exactly 2 coaches: Auriemma and Summit. So the great indictment then is that she in only the third best of all time, or maybe 4th since she is tied in that category with VanDerveer?
It's just such an odd complaint to make. Maybe it's a pretext for personal animus. I kind of hope that it is. Otherwise, the same logic is going to be dragged out and beaten to death for Collen too. Outshine Geno, or you're basically chopped liver.
Bad take. Performance is judged by the relative opportunity.
If the NY Yankees or NY Mets or LA Dodgers win sporadically despite having [by far] the largest budgets in baseball that result is underachieving. If the KC Royals, Tampa Rays or Oakland A's wins sporadically despite having the lowest budgets in baseball that result is likely overachieving.
Baylor WBB had the #1 budget for over 14 years. The HC was #2 in pay for almost a decade.
Texas is a hotbed of recruiting. Baylor WBB's recruiting budget was in Top 3 every year for almost 2 decades.
Baylor WBB travel was first class: elite 5 Star hotels, great overseas trips, top notch private jets.
The only school close to Baylor in budget & pay was UConn. Baylor was leaps & bounds ahead of Notre Dame, Tennessee, Stanford, etc. on $ for over a decade.
Within that context, comparing relative performance [based upon the financial opportunity afforded] of those schools does not bode well for Baylor. That reality doesn't even begin to analyze how much of Brittney Griner's career was wasted by the stubborn refusal to recruit shooting despite repeated "advice" from both NBA & WNBA coaches and executives.