Definitely still possible if she gets the players we need out of the portal. We have no freshman coming in next year, so we have no choice but to get transfers, with losing 4 starters.


She mentions a need for, playmaking gaurds, swing players at 3, and a couple bigs.

Obviously we need to be aware that Marcalya Johnson will miss time next year due to recovery from torn ACL. It's more like will she redshirt which wouldn't shock me because torn ACL's are so hard to come from. The last thing that I would do in that situation is to rush back too quickly. They need to be smart about that situation. Or course I know that this is pending transfer portal.

ACL recoveries are drastically quicker than they were a decade ago. Today's athletes are just different. Obviously the recovery varies from athlete to athlete. But I wouldn't be shocked if she's back by December. Now is that worth wasting a possible RS to fully heal? I'm not sure

I think she is a top coach. I want to see if she is a top recruiter. Time will tell. High school recruiting has not been good.

Yes, we beat Duke early on but what everyone forgets is that Duke had two of their best players out with injuries. Would it have been different....who knows?

chorne68 said:

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I think she is a top coach. I want to see if she is a top recruiter. Time will tell. High school recruiting has not been good.

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Nikki, is that you?

chorne68 said:

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I think she is a top coach. I want to see if she is a top recruiter. Time will tell. High school recruiting has not been good.

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Appreciate the opinion but the evidence isn't there IMO.

LTBear19 said:

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People are not making judgments based on just a handful of games.

Those assessments are based on 5 years worth of games/evidence.

Doesn't matter how much players love a coach. At the end of the day, college basketball is a results-driven business. And for what CNC is reportedly making ($1 million+/year), the results are definitely not there.

As for NIL, we need to stop acting like we are scraping to get by, and are digging under couch cushions for pennies.

Based on what AP mentioned in another thread (that his inside sources have confirmed that our NIL is comparable to a Top 20 program - and possibly Top 15), we should easily be a regular participant during the second weekend in March.

We've made it past the 2nd round once in 5 years.

Meanwhile, we're getting lapped by TCU, who's made consecutive Elite 8's after they were holding open tryouts just 2 years ago (23-24 season).

And now our fanbase is experiencing regular blowouts against teams we would have never imagined getting beatdowns from (Texas Tech and Colorado both ran roughshed over us).

But the main issue many of us have a problem with is that CNC struggles to make in-game adjustments once things start to go off the rails.

She's also guilty of not making adjustments when it comes to approaching games (she refused to give Nelms and Deng more playing time, when they both would have spread the floor for everyone, thus providing the help that many on here claim Scott lacked).

If CNC can't do a better job of managing personnel, and continues to make questionable decisions during critical games, then what good is more NIL going to do?

You'll still have the same problems that you're having now - just with a more expensive roster.

At the end of the day, some of us are just tired of hearing excuse after excuse being made for our underachieving coach.

5 years of mediocre results (particularly when the results seem to be getting worse with each passing year) will get any fanbase to question a coach and consider change.

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So it boils down to your definition of mediocre. A conference championship, the last two years playing for the conference title in the last game and all five years winning a first-round NCAA game says way better than mediocre to me.

Also, several of you keep talking about more minutes for Deng. First half of the season, I would agree. But she hit a wall late in the year where her shot was off and her defense not up to par. If she wasn't going to be a threat to score, her defensive shortcomings would limit her playing time. I, too, would have liked to see Kayla get more minutes.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I think Nicki is a very good coach who simply needs more resources to build a better team.

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Once again, the mantra on this board is "Fire the coach." If you think her players don't like her coaching, then explain why Bella, Buggs, Jana and Kyla have stayed four years when at least three of them easily could have gone elsewhere. For those of you questioning her ability, have you ever attended a practice to observe her coaching? If not, you're making judgment based only on the results of a handful of games.

I have said before that complaints about roster construction are fair; this year's team basically had no one other than Taliah who could shoot beyond 6 feet from the hoop. Ting and Jana had their moments, but no one outside of Taliah could be counted to get a clutch basket when you needed it. Despite that, the team went into the last regular season game with the chance to win the conference, just like last year. Complain all you want about losing to TCU, which frustrates all of us, but TCU's NIL budget dwarfs ours. This year, Olivia Miles made more than our entire team. Same last year with Sedona Prince and Haley Van Lith. Give Nicki those resources, then compare. Otherwise, it's apples to oranges.

A couple of random thoughts from watching the tournament:
* LSU, with all kinds of NIL resources and at least three future WNBA players and their Hall of Fame coach and playing on their home court, advanced exactly one more round than we did, losing to the same team we did.
* End if season Duke was a far different and far better team than the one we beat in Paris.
* Olivia Miles is a great player but a world-class punk. She whines about every call against her and every one she thinks she should get.

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Very well said, but sadly thoughtful, intelligent, sensible, and factual posts don't do well here. The inmates have been running this asylum for quite some time now.

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AP needs to give us the numbers for NIL and a source that can be verified. Heck I can throw out numbers and say I have an informed inside source. The history of these message boards and the media in general is that inside sources are not worth the bytes they take up unless and until they are verifiable.. It also may be that the source is well-meaning and upright but is clueless as to what other schools have available to them and as such passes along information in good faith but doesn't really ring true, but passes it along to ones like AP anyway.

A lot of assumptions are being made by everyone. A lot of arguments about the program are being based on those assumptions. I understand not wanting to provide a source, but the eye test says that if we have all this money, we are not using it, because of the players we see different between our team and others. If we saw the numbers we might all agree as to the situation, either good or bad.

Many of the other complaints are noise, based on opinion, many of which many of us do not concur with. It doesn't make any of us idiots or clowns, but people who just see things differently. Most of us can state that opinion without classless and derogatory comments directed toward the poster, but there are some here that cannot. That is what the ignore button is for.

I don't think any of us are actually experienced D1 coaches, As such, I am not going to join into the voodoo doll game of nitpicking things in games when I don't know the story behind the picture. Every player fault should not be placed at the feet of the coaching staff. I have seen the great coaches guilty of many of those same complaints. I will agree with those here who talk about the roster construction. That is valid and it may have developed out of a sense of loyalty to players who came here when things were really bleak. That is noble, but it is not business. But it is easy to understand why it was done if that is the case, but once again all we have is speculation and assumptions.....as we are not in the true loop for information on which to make a factual opinion. We now have close to a clean slate, so if that was the case, it isn't any longer. It will be easier to see a pattern. But with NIL, what you want and what you can get still clouds the outcome.

We are not bad. We are not terrible.....and neither are many of the teams that have been accused of being so on this board. We have an NCAA tournament and conference record in just the last few years that fans across the country would gladly take. Our coach is not terrible nor great or elite, but the outside world beyond this message board considers good. Baylor does not have any awe around its name or its WBB program once we lost KM. We have not been the subject of classic movies nor have a fight song that resonates with even non sports fans in the country. We play in a conference that is generally considered weaker than the other P4s. Yes, I think we could have gotten a better coach than NC if we could see how the next years would have played out. But that isn't the way it works. I'm not sure there were many that wanted to replace a legend that would have been better and there still is a significant chance we could have gotten a lot worse.

Some will accuse me and others of defending this coach. I don't care who is the coach. The coaching situation will sort itself out one way or another and we will have no say in any of it. My comments have always been in trying to see the reality of where we sit, where we got ditched when KM left and the overall situation we are in, try to see why something might have appeared as it did, and because of it try to be objective and not emotional about how things go. And none of my posts have ever demeaned the poster themselves. But....some people think that is the position of an idiot. So flame away once again. I have no doubt that you will.

This is and has always been the problem with zbksckie. If a posters information doesn't align with what he believes to be true than it's not credible. Been that way since day 1. But his and others are if the opinion Baylor woman's Nil is horrific. So someone saying it's top 20 such as AP completely blows up his/her theory about not being able to compete financially.
Baylor's been able to land big fish in the portal. It's fairly obvious to anyone who pays attention that the lady Bears is at minimum decent

Bear2393 said:

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She is paid like a top ten coach and should perform like a top ten coach.

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Oh, be careful to not say this on the Men's Basketball site...