[chimera]

I don't post here much anymore but I still follow the team.  This is the first year in decades I wasn't able to attend games.  Strange time for me, for sure.  Wishing Tara all the best in her retirement.  She deserves it.  I started following the team in the late 90's, so I have never known another Stanford WBB coach.  Stanford WBB has always been and will always be my one true sports love.  I follow other Stanford teams, but WBB is The One.  The current college sports environment has killed some of the joy for me, but I can't help but still care.  Tara made it all happen.  She created the program that I gave my sports heart to.  She is also a great person.  I used to have her cell phone number years ago when I wrote for The Bootleg.  She was always generous with her time even to me, a non-pro writing for maybe a few hundred people on a Stanford fan board site.  Glad for her she found a good time to leave, but also very sad to see her go.  

Kate will have her work cut out for her in this crazy time.  Whether she succeeds in keeping the program at the top of the sport long term probably depends much more on how Stanford handles NIL and the portal than on her skills as a coach.  Here's hoping she and Stanford can make it all work.

[chimera]

I don't post here much anymore but I still follow the team.  This is the first year in decades I wasn't able to attend games.  Strange time for me, for sure.  Wishing Tara all the best in her retirement.  She deserves it.  I started following the team in the late 90's, so I have never known another Stanford WBB coach.  Stanford WBB has always been and will always be my one true sports love.  I follow other Stanford teams, but WBB is The One.  The current college sports environment has killed some of the joy for me, but I can't help but still care.  Tara made it all happen.  She created the program that I gave my sports heart to.  She is also a great person.  I used to have her cell phone number years ago when I wrote for The Bootleg.  She was always generous with her time even to me, a non-pro writing for maybe a few hundred people on a Stanford fan board site.  Glad for her she found a good time to leave, but also very sad to see her go.  

Kate will have her work cut out for her in this crazy time.  Whether she succeeds in keeping the program at the top of the sport long term probably depends much more on how Stanford handles NIL and the portal than on her skills as a coach.  Here's hoping she and Stanford can make it all work.