blackie said:Not trying to be disrespectful, your opinion is as valid as mine. But, I think the board got almost obsessed with Mollie Miller. She may indeed be a very fine coach looking back 10 years from now. But I don't think you would find any top 20 program, much less top 10 that would go after someone who has only 1 year experience at the D1 level. Heck, not even Oklahoma who went almost a month in their search pick her or even gave any indication of doing so.ABC BEAR said:
Not sure what to make of the new coach. Much of her career indicates she was there during someone else's success. Her husband's record at louisville was strong but his tenure at Arkansas was unimpressive and ultimately he was let go by the Razorbacks and replaced by ESPN analyst jimmy Dykes.
I would like to have seen a hire with more floor coaching and recruiting experience. I know everyone is supposed to be impressed that she comes directly from the WNBA but I am more inclined to value the floor style and winning percentage of Molly Miller. Just my opinion.
As far as recruiting, I suspect that Collen with her experience as an NCAA assistant coach has more years recruiting experience than does Miller. Collen also brings the perspective that high level recruits may be looking for because of her WNBA background.
I'm not sure where this Miller stuff got started, but it got into the feedback loop frequently found on message boards. Someone throws out a name. Then some twitter nerd tweets it out as if it were fact. Then more message board people treat it as fact because they found it on twitter. And the cycle just feeds on itself. Certainly Miller would be a cheap hire, but I think she would be eaten alive right now by what she would face at the Power 5 level.....Just my opinion.
We just need to let things play out and see how it goes. I would say the same thing regardless of the hire. We have seen flops at UT, TT, Tennessee, and ND, just to name a few when legends get replaced. Some of them tried long-term assistants, some tried bringing in a name coach. We have no control over it anyway. Just let it play out.
The Molly Miller hysteria was ridiculous and had little to do with what candidate was best for Baylor. It was a joke by many because mocking Baylor WBB fans became a sport for some on here as a means of getting back at anyone who defended Kim.
Now that the hire has been made you won't hear from some of those posters again on the WBB board.