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| Great news for Duquesne, albeit likely bad news for Pitt, PSU and WVU.
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| Posted: 04/12/07 3:09 am ::: |
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| Great news for Duquesne. And good for SMS. It's also great news for the Atlantic 10. If Susie can build Duquesne into pretty good team, that just adds another contender to a conference that already has GW, Temple, Xavier, and to a lesser extent Saint Joseph's, Charlotte, and Richmond.
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| Posted: 04/12/07 10:09 am ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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Maybe.
What we have here is a woman with no college coaching experience at all. Her coaching experience is primarily professional, and she was pretty poor at that.
Not sure why so many think she will be such a success. There certainly isn't much besides name recognition to suggest that she will be.
I wish her well, I just don't see it happening.
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bluewolfvii
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| Posted: 04/12/07 10:29 am ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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| PUmatty wrote: |
Maybe.
What we have here is a woman with no college coaching experience at all. Her coaching experience is primarily professional, and she was pretty poor at that.
Not sure why so many think she will be such a success. There certainly isn't much besides name recognition to suggest that she will be.
I wish her well, I just don't see it happening. |
Coaching and basketball are in McConnell Serio's gene pool. She has extensive coaching experience with the most storied prep team in Pittsburgh history winning championship after championship. She is a former WNBA Coach of the Year. We don't know what she would have accomplished had she continued on with the Lynx with Augustus on the roster, but what she accomplished her first season was pretty darned impressive.
Suzie has her work cut out for her at Duquesne, but my guess is that she'll do just fine. Especially with the hotbed of local talent that has been bled out of this region for years.
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PUmatty
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| Posted: 04/12/07 1:13 pm ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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| PUmatty wrote: |
Maybe.
What we have here is a woman with no college coaching experience at all. Her coaching experience is primarily professional, and she was pretty poor at that.
Not sure why so many think she will be such a success. There certainly isn't much besides name recognition to suggest that she will be.
I wish her well, I just don't see it happening. |
Coaching and basketball are in McConnell Serio's gene pool. She has extensive coaching experience with the most storied prep team in Pittsburgh history winning championship after championship. She is a former WNBA Coach of the Year. We don't know what she would have accomplished had she continued on with the Lynx with Augustus on the roster, but what she accomplished her first season was pretty darned impressive.
Suzie has her work cut out for her at Duquesne, but my guess is that she'll do just fine. Especially with the hotbed of local talent that has been bled out of this region for years. |
She also made the play-offs only one year, was responsible for what many consider the worst trade in WNBA history, fielded teams that more often than not looked lost and hopeless on the court, coached players that demonstrated little to no development or improvement, got fired mid-season and has zero recruiting experience.
We don't know what she would have accomplised with Augustus, but since Augustus isn't as good as Smith was when each played for the Lynx, I see little to no reason to think the team would have been much better.
But good luck to her at Duquense. I am very glad she will be there instead of Penn State. I would like to see Big 10 schools do better.
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| Posted: 04/12/07 1:15 pm ::: |
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| This could hurt Illinois too. Grentz recruits heavy in the Pittsburgh area.
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| Posted: 04/12/07 1:30 pm ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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| PUmatty wrote: |
| She also made the play-offs only one year, was responsible for what many consider the worst trade in WNBA history, fielded teams that more often than not looked lost and hopeless on the court, coached players that demonstrated little to no development or improvement, got fired mid-season and has zero recruiting experience. |
One minor quibble: The Lynx advanced to the postseason in each of her first two seasons (2003 and 2004)...
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| Posted: 04/12/07 4:03 pm ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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| bluewolfvii wrote: |
| Coaching and basketball are in McConnell Serio's gene pool. |
I suppose SMS and Pete's kids will have even stronger coaching genes in them, unless those are some seriously recessive set fo alleles. In fact, I'm going to go search now
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But good luck to her at Duquense. I am very glad she will be there instead of Penn State. I would like to see Big 10 schools do better. |
I agree, good luck to her at Duquesne, but I was really hoping to see her at PSU. It will be interesting to see how she does at the workload involved in recruiting for a mid-major college team.
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| Posted: 04/12/07 5:00 pm ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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| bluewolfvii wrote: |
| Coaching and basketball are in McConnell Serio's gene pool. |
I suppose SMS and Pete's kids will have even stronger coaching genes in them, unless those are some seriously recessive set fo alleles. In fact, I'm going to go search now
I agree, good luck to her at Duquesne, but I was really hoping to see her at PSU. It will be interesting to see how she does at the workload involved in recruiting for a mid-major college team. |
Heh. I'd love to do a chart on the McConnell and Serio coaching trees.
This is a good hire for Duquesne. Let's get a good hire for Penn State and complete the re-tooling of Keystone State Div.I women's college hoops!
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| Posted: 04/12/07 5:13 pm ::: Re: McConnell Serio to be offered Duquesne job |
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Um, recruiting?
SMS is a legend in the Pittsburgh area - long a hotbed for PSU and WVU and Pitt. |
No worries. Agnus will continue to collect the picked-over, "not quite ACC talent" in MD/VA/DC.
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