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Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - Jskass - 04-02-2017

http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/uw-womens-basketball-coach-mike-neighbors-nearing-return-to-arkansas/



Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - TheFarm07 - 04-02-2017

He does lose Plum, Osahor and Collier as the article points out and it doesn't appear that he has a great recruiting class coming in. The Pac-12 will be tough as always, so if he wants to go back to his roots, this might be a good time for him.

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - 81alum - 04-02-2017

Yes, but I still think he is making a mistake.  Seattle has become a great WBB town, as the 10k sellout for our game demonstrated.  That will be very difficult to recreate.  Arkansas had attendance of 659 in Fayetteville this year for the finale against Kentucky.

Personally, I find Seattle to be one of the world's great cities, and to leave it for Fayetteville...?  But he has some Arkansas roots, so maybe this is about family for him.  That is the most plausible explanation.


Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - M T - 04-02-2017

Maybe people were asking why, with possibly the best offensive threat & defensive threat in the country, he didn't have a better finish.


Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BobK - 04-03-2017

http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/glory_posts/the-dream-job/#sm.000116igw2olmdrfs5f274ecxwf3a



Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - TheFarm07 - 04-03-2017

(04-02-2017, 11:30 PM)MT link Wrote:Maybe people were asking why, with possibly the best offensive threat & defensive threat in the country, he didn't have a better finish.

He did lose to a team that took down UConn for the first time in 3.5 years and made the national title game, so it wasn't like it was a bad loss.


Looks like the deed may be done:

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/19065791/mike-neighbors-named-arkansas-women-coach

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - fullmetal - 04-03-2017

Well...that makes Tara's job a bit easier.

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BobK - 04-03-2017

https://mobile.twitter.com/raoul_000/status/849095308843810816

Hope she stays home

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - 81alum - 04-03-2017

(04-03-2017, 08:18 PM)BobK link Wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/raoul_000/status/849095308843810816

Hope she stays home
Oh my yes.  It will take me a little while to absorb the implications of that. 

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - fullmetal - 04-03-2017

???  oh dear.

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - neya - 04-04-2017

or to u.sc?

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - 81alum - 04-04-2017

Well, for years we have known that Kate could get a head coaching job elsewhere if she wanted one.  Our walk-on/national champion/professional player with ridiculously strong Stanford family ties, along with an MBA and JD,  has now been with us for 10 full years.  After about 4-5 we thought the time was ripe for her to do what  Bobbie Kelsey did and move to head coaching, although of course we hoped to keep her.  But she did not move on and seemingly was happy here.  During several of those years she had to regularly answer questions about whether she would move on, and I think the jist of it was that she seemed to be happier here as an assistant than she thought she would be elsewhere.  Plus she had a young family.  And some of us strongly suspect that she was being cultivated to take over for Tara when Tara was ready to retire.

So I wonder if this speculation is because something has changed and Kate has newly put herself on the market, or whether this is just wishful thinking on the part of Washington.  If something has changed, then what?  Kate got a promotion this year--was that Stanford bidding to keep her here?  Did Tara tell her that she (Tara) has decided not to retire for many years?  Did Kate decide that getting some head coaching experience would help her land the Stanford job when Tara does retire?  Was Kate open all along, but she was simply being extremely selective?  (As I said earlier, the Washington job would be, in my opinion, a very good situation--far superior to many other offers that could come along.)  Now that Kate's family is not quite as young, is she more open to moving?  Or is all of this hot air or a rumor that will go nowhere? 

I would be very, very sorry to see Kate leave, but I cannot for the life of me feel anything but warmth and support for her no matter how this turns out.  With 3 Stanford degrees and a whole family of Stanford ties, plus a decade of superb coaching, there may not be another human being on the planet who is more steeped in all things Stanford than Kate.

Put it this way--Kate is even more "Stanford" than Mike Neighbors is "Arkansas."

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BobK - 04-04-2017

brobdingnagian questions and at present no answers. 
Is it Stanford ? USC ?  Or UW?

Bobby Kelsey was naned an assistant for the LA Sparks yesterday. 

Kate is now following USC players on twitter





Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - pefloresjr - 04-04-2017

(04-04-2017, 10:19 AM)BobK link Wrote:of exceedingly large proportions questions and at present no answers. 
Is it Stanford ? Under Stanford Control (again) ?  Or UW?

Kate is now following Under Stanford Control (again) players on twitter

Yikes!  ???

Cheers,
Pete F.

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BobK - 04-04-2017

per twitter Kate interviewing today at USC.

Time to think about new assistant maybe.

3 of the 6 hired in the last 10 years are Stanford grads



Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BostonCard - 04-04-2017

I think we can cross off any chance that Tara pulls a Dunning, so that's good news.  My hope is that some of Tara's assistants/former players go off and gain head coaching experience elsewhere, succeed, and then can be hired back once Tara does retire, hopefully in Dunning-like fashion after winning a national championship (and taking over the D1 WBB win record).

BC

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BobK - 04-04-2017

As you know not that many Stanford athletes go into coaching. 

Head coaches are Steding, CTT and Molly Goodenbaur.  Recently Azzi. 

More? 

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BostonCard - 04-04-2017

Bobbie Kelsey (at least was), and perhaps soon Kate Paye.

BC

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - BobK - 04-04-2017

Trisha Stevens also was 😀

Re: Possible Pac-12 WBB Head Coach opening in Seattle? - 81alum - 04-04-2017

But lots of Assistant coaches. 
Nicole Powell
Charmin Smith
Milena Flores
Lindy La Roque
Mel Murphy (high school head coach)
Markisha Coleman (high school head coach)
Susan King Borchardt (professional sports performance coach)
Jamie Carey
Vanessa Nygaard, (high school coach and AD)

And quite a few others in sports administration.