Juli fulks loses first game in two years
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If you’re just going to make bland hires and not even try to build a great women’s program, hire the hot chick from Grand Canyon or give this hometown winner a crack at it.
I’ll never understand the type of thinking that makes you revert back to Matthew Mitchell, hiring Elzy, or whatever the hell Mitch will think up next.
Either play to win big or hire someone like this and see what happens. But hiring people that you can clearly see aren’t going to move the needle and can only create a stagnant / poor program I don’t get it.
I’ll never understand the type of thinking that makes you revert back to Matthew Mitchell, hiring Elzy, or whatever the hell Mitch will think up next.
Either play to win big or hire someone like this and see what happens. But hiring people that you can clearly see aren’t going to move the needle and can only create a stagnant / poor program I don’t get it.
I don’t completely get that argument. I guess recruiting is different but most coaches start out in high school coaching or as an assistant. Basketball is basketball. Just more talent to deal with in D1
I fixed for you and I may be wrong wrong but I would guess most kids at the NAIA level are happy to be getting their education paid for and probably aren't used to being sought after like top level D1 kids are.
The Sacred Heart Coach is getting ready to win 4 state titles in a row, hire her if she guarantees she will bring her star player with her, they would at least be good for a couple of years.
There are two Juniors in KY right now that would instantly turn the program around in two years if UK would hire the right coach.
Kim Caldwell of Marshal is the answer. @jeffky knows I've been pushing her a little bit lately.
1. Spent 7 years in DII at Glenville State. Went 68-4 with a National Championship and Final Four in her last 2 years there.
2. Took over at Marshall prior to this season. They were 17-14/9-9 last year under the previous coach. They are 26-6/17-1 this year and just won the Sun Belt tournament, leading them to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1997.
3. She plays a very exciting brand of basketball, averaging 86.4ppg this year (3rd most in the country) after averaging 63.7ppg last year.
The type of coach is very similar to Fulks, but the gamble is less as she has already shown she can coach and win at the DI level. She is going to be a star.
Pay the new coach a $200,00 base salary plus a bonus based results achieved and adjusted for the funds lost or made for the year.
Any AD that uses the excuse she is only DIII, when she clearly has shown the ability to coach, is more focused on "built-in" excuses to defend a rejection of the hire ... more of a political decision to protect himself. Any coach who can "coach" is gold. Recruiting will take care of itself ... IMO.
I'm not sure if you are speaking in general or specifically about Transy, but I want to clear up what division of college athletics Transy competes in. Transy is not NAIA. They compete in NCAA division III. Division III does not give athletic scholarships, so those players aren't going to school for free unless they were intelligent enough to get a full academic scholarship.
She sounds like someone we should definitely be looking at. I don't know what happens a lot of times outside of men's basketball and football, but does the fact that she has only been there one year make it unlikely she would take another job? I know a lot of times the assumption is a coach won't leave after only being at a school for one season.
I was talking in general for non Power 5 D1 schools and not necessarily Transy.
It would be a huge bump in salary...probably 3 or 4 times what she is making now. I actually just saw this 3 page thread on a Marshall message board about her and the UK job opening. I would imagine she would give it bigtime consideration.
https://www.herdfans.com/12thman/index.php?topic=117954.50
You have sold me on the idea she should be at, or near, the top of our list.
Why do you have to be sexist?? Is it a pre-requisite that the head coach of a Basketball program be HOT?
What the actual ****??
Women aren't objects...Men suck and I am one. I have too much respect for people to objectify them.
Grow the **** up and learn some damn respect!
How would you like for someone to talk about your mother, sister or daughters like that??
Precisely. If you can coach, you can coach..period.
Never go full Karen.
She's pretty.
Men like Pretty women.
Take a deep breath.
She looks so impressive Mitch just decided to go in another direction.
I just hope Mitch thinks this out and just don’t jump on it like he did Elzy. I understand the circumstances were a little different when he hired her but he could’ve let her have the interim tag the whole season and then looked for a seasoned coach after that season was over. With the transfer portal the way it is the new coach can put together a competitive team the first year until she gets in and can start recruiting. Heck she could possibly bring some players with her pending on where she’s coming from.
Damn you’re heroic as hell. I never thought about it like that. I really, really appreciate what you’re bringing my way here. Everybody needs a good kick in the pants and you did it.
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The Johnson girl at Sacred Heart can go anywhere she wants, the Macy girl at Bethlehem I would think would be a strong possibility to UK with the right hire.
True but at the D3 level other things are in play. As stated most kids at D3 are there for the education. And Transy actually has an advantage. They are a high level academic institution that a lot of kids would like to attend. Now throw in that athletes there likely get more aid than your typical student and it attracts a slightly higher level caliber of D3 athlete. So Fulks is actually playing with a better team than most. No I understand she’s a very good HC, but jumping to an SEC level DI program would not be an easy task. Can she do it? Maybe. But is she the best candidate? Probably not.
I’d definitely pursue someone that has D1 experience and has some dealing with NIL.
