Coach Warlick ousted at Tennessee

[ScarletteK80]

Not a big surprise. Be interested to see who replaces her. Thoughts??
https://www.rockytopinsider.com/2019/03/27/report-lady-vols-part-ways-with-head-coach-holly-warlick/

 

[eso1989]

Warlick bleeds Tennessee Orange, I feel bad about this. It wasn't easy taking over the way she did and despite the rough patch this year, was very successful in her tenure. That said, she wasn't getting the top 10 recruits and there seemed to be a lot of drama. A change of leadership was probably needed, but they better have someone very good lined up to take over this storied program. There will be LOT of pressure on the next coach whoever it is...

 

[BeKnighted_rivals]

Rumor is that they're looking at Jeff Walz. I wonder if he'd leave Louisville.

 

[scarlettb]

Rumor is that Jeff Walz will be their next head coach.

 

[ea_1]

Not often you see a head coach with a 72% winning record, three Elite Eight appearances, and two P5 conference championships in a seven-year span get the boot.

 

[BeKnighted_rivals]

Not often you see a head coach with a 72% winning record, three Elite Eight appearances, and two P5 conference championships in a seven-year span get the boot.

Yeah. But if you look at her record, the Elite 8s all came in the first four seasons, and the last three years were 2nd round, 2nd round, 1st round (with some question about whether they'd get into the tournament). For Tennessee, that's a trend you can't let continue.

 

[rufeelinit]

Wasn't Jolette Law on her staff?

 

[LtCol144_rivals]

Wasn't Jolette Law on her staff?

She left while the going was good. She is at S Carolina.

 

[RU MAN]

Not often you see a head coach with a 72% winning record, three Elite Eight appearances, and two P5 conference championships in a seven-year span get the boot.

The Tennessee AD doesn't mess around. Tennessee is still used to being a blue chip program like UCONN. Coach Warlick may have won 72% of her games but the program expects to have a winning percentage in the upper 80's-90%.

 

[HeavenUniv.]

BeKnighted, As an athletic program, we have wasted tens of millions of dollars the last thirty years on coaches from many sports who did little to nothing to bring our programs up to an elite or at least Top 20 levels. As you mentioned with Tennessee and someone mentioned Nebraska on another board, these universities will not tolerate average or poor performance. If you can't get your act together within five years, you are gone. The university and fans will not put up with it. How many coaches were allowed to collect paychecks from Rutgers for years and sometimes decades and they did NOTHING. As you look around our sports programs,both sexes, you will still see some here We even allowed an Athletic Director ,who made mistake after mistake, remain for DECADES who wasn't even a good golf coach. We are in the Big Ten Conference and we need to start acting like it.

 

[RUJMM78]

BeKnighted, As an athletic program, we have wasted tens of millions of dollars the last thirty years on coaches from many sports who did little to nothing to bring our programs up to an elite or at least Top 20 levels. As you mentioned with Tennessee and someone mentioned Nebraska on another board, these universities will not tolerate average or poor performance. If you can't get your act together within five years, you are gone. The university and fans will not put up with it. How many coaches were allowed to collect paychecks from Rutgers for years and sometimes decades and they did NOTHING. As you look around our sports programs,both sexes, you will still see some here We even allowed an Athletic Director ,who made mistake after mistake, remain for DECADES who wasn't even a good golf coach. We are in the Big Ten Conference and we need to start acting like it.

Spot on comments .Losing has been ingrained into the athletic department for decades.The only thing hat has changed has been coaching staffs and players.Playing in a power conference like the B1G requires increased urgency in winning especially for the money generating programs like football and mens basketball.