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Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:32 am to Carolina_Girl
Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:32 am to Carolina_Girl
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Our women's program has been popular since Staley took over and vaulted us to the level we're at now. If only our football program could rebound.....
Actually CC, I remember well when Pam Parsons had us there in the 70s, one of the top programs in the country.
Of course, we completely disintegrated once Parson was exposed as lesbian ... which was not cool back then.
Sports Illustrated lived on our campus from that point forward and until after the Tommy Chaikin steroids scandal, which everyone was doing but we got busted for it and the NCAA made us the scapegoat.
That took us right up until joining the SEC, so we've always been striving for excellent in all sports ... we just needed the SEC to help push us over the top.
Think about it.
We were the first to a big time baseball program in the conference ... we were playing for national championships in the 70s.
Women's basketball ... we were focusing on it heavily in the 70s.
We were a perennial Top Ten program in men's basketball from the late sixties until the mid seventies ... Holderman screwed that up too, the bastard. Fired a legend in Frank McGuire, hired the reigning NCAA champion coach in Bill Foster, from Duke (they replaced him with Coach K btw).
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Posted on 10/30/15 at 10:38 am to scrooster
There are several current and former SEC WBB coaches that are indeed fine.
Scrooster, you going to Memorial (Nashville Jan 7th) or Memorial (Lexington Jan 14th)?
Is one of your assistant AD's coming to LEX this weekend for Breeders Cup? Heard it on the grapevine the other day.
Scrooster, you going to Memorial (Nashville Jan 7th) or Memorial (Lexington Jan 14th)?
Is one of your assistant AD's coming to LEX this weekend for Breeders Cup? Heard it on the grapevine the other day.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 11:09 am to Cheese Grits
why the downvotes?
Is it because Women's Basketball thread in the midst of football season?
Or because you don't think the coach in the photo is attractive?
Is it because Women's Basketball thread in the midst of football season?
Or because you don't think the coach in the photo is attractive?
Posted on 10/30/15 at 11:17 am to hogminer
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hogminer
Speaking of that, hogminer ... you're right.
Women's basketball illustrates more plainly than any other sport, the importance of the coach and the system and how it plays into long term success.
No doubt, Dawn Staley was a huge hire for us ... look at what she has built here.
But Gino at UConn and Pat Head Summit made UConn and Tennessee the standard by which all others are, and will be, measured for decades to come.
Coaching stability, having a good system ... it really shows in women's basketball and when you watch their teams play you can see it all come together.
But it applies to other sports as well.
The Bear at Bama is another example. Skip at LSU and Tanner at SCAR in baseball. I'm convinced that if Hyman had not gone to A&M Tanner would have won at least one more NC in baseball by now - we were right on the verge of becoming absolutely dominant. And the players are still here, but we have a different coach and a different system. It showed at LSU when Smoke took over for Skip. Same thing goes for Polk at MSU ... look at what happened to MSU when he left.
So the beauty of women's basketball in the SEC is not only magnified by the level of competition, but also by the old school, technical, strategic style of play. It's a very fundamentally sound version of the game that no longer exists on the college or pro men's level. That's a testament to the coaches and their systems.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 11:20 am to CockInYourEar
She's fine as frog hair...would destroy
Posted on 10/30/15 at 11:28 am to Cheese Grits
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Scrooster, you going to Memorial (Nashville Jan 7th) or Memorial (Lexington Jan 14th)?
Is one of your assistant AD's coming to LEX this weekend for Breeders Cup? Heard it on the grapevine the other day.
I was actually thinking of making the Nashville trip this year Cheese. My wife and I got an invite from an old friend from Charleston via facebook who is in the music industry up there, another big Gamecock fan, to stay at his castle and do the Nashville thing for a few days, but we've not decided yet. That's pretty close after the holidaze and I may still be hungover by then.
Definitely not coming to Lexington, KY this year unless something changes.
Trying to think who the assistant AD might be unless it is Waddell maybe? It's not gonna be Speronis or Fink. Charlie Bloom maybe? Not Jeff Davis. I dunno who that could be Cheese. Assistant or Associate? Most everyone had better be busy this weekend, there is a lot going-on down here right now with various aspects of the program. Burke maybe ... going-up to witness how the Cup is operated and run? That would make sense. I just don't know who it could be. I'm guessing. I don't know them all but I know most of them.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 5:20 pm to Tigerbait357
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Too bad Caldwell can't recruit....
I know something she can recruit....
Posted on 10/30/15 at 5:21 pm to presidenthog
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Jimmy dykes going down as the greatest WBB coach ever. already got a tournament win with 9 Scholly players. wait til he gets a full roster.
He'll at least do a great job breaking down in detail why they lost....
Posted on 10/30/15 at 6:02 pm to ksayetiger
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Very fun to watch
meh, maybe if they had to wear volleyball unis. i'd rather watch womens volleyball.
This post was edited on 10/30/15 at 6:29 pm
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