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summertime blues
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 Posted: 12/16/14 12:01 pm ::: |
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| pilight wrote: |
| ClayK wrote: |
I'm actually not a big fan of McCallie, but she's been successful at three different schools, and I just don't consider making Final Fours a black-and-white criterion of doing a good coaching job.
The fact that McCallie won at Maine (which went into the tank when she left), Michigan State and Duke is not something, I don't believe, that an average coach could have done, and the fact that it's happened three times makes her more than a "fluke," it seems to me. |
Her F4 run was a fluke. She's a good coach, but not a great one. She's basically Jim Foster for a new generation. |
Jim Foster is a much better coach and does not tear down players or disparage former coaches as McCallie is reported to do.
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IM in OC
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| Posted: 12/17/14 11:28 am ::: |
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Jody Wynn(and Husband Derek Wynn) at Long Beach State.
It has taken her time, she is in her 6th year at the Beach, to get the players and then have them play her system. The Beach are 9-1 this year and are playing some tough D and playing with a ton of confidence, as a "team".
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FollowtheCardinalRule
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| Posted: 12/17/14 11:45 am ::: |
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Jody Wynn(and Husband Derek Wynn) at Long Beach State.
It has taken her time, she is in her 6th year at the Beach, to get the players and then have them play her system. The Beach are 9-1 this year and are playing some tough D and playing with a ton of confidence, as a "team". |
I mean, the Beach beat a dysfunctional Cal, a sub-par LSU, and--oooh, they beat Pepperdine!
They have a nice record, but I'm not really buying into it, unless Cal suddenly plays like they are the team that reached the Final Four two years ago.
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summertime blues
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| Posted: 12/17/14 1:10 pm ::: |
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| Jody Adams at Wichita State. I'm impressed so far with how well she's doing with what she gets.
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IM in OC
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| Posted: 12/17/14 1:43 pm ::: |
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| IM in OC wrote: |
Jody Wynn(and Husband Derek Wynn) at Long Beach State.
It has taken her time, she is in her 6th year at the Beach, to get the players and then have them play her system. The Beach are 9-1 this year and are playing some tough D and playing with a ton of confidence, as a "team". |
I mean, the Beach beat a dysfunctional Cal, a sub-par LSU, and--oooh, they beat Pepperdine!
They have a nice record, but I'm not really buying into it, unless Cal suddenly plays like they are the team that reached the Final Four two years ago. |
I judged it based on what I have seen in improvements over the past few years. You threw out a post with a few recent results listed and some nice adjectives. Being in Philadelphia perhaps you might take some caffeine and stay up late to watch the team play.
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