[Mick]

Balanced article on the Mamlet years. Lack of communications is concerning to me. Her lack of experience with D1 sports should have disqualified her from the role. Some coaches had issues

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/HI...589894.php

I do recall standing next to Coach Kosty at the Junior Olympics, and he had a list of the Top 50 recruits in the country. Four were highlighted. I asked if those were his key targets, and he replied "those are the only four of the Top 50 who can get into Stanford." An NCAA MVB team needs five recruits a year. Kosty would have to score all four, and an additional recruit to maintain a program, much less be successful. And let's not forget that there are men's volleyball teams at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, USC, UCLA, UCI, UCSB; to say nothing of Olympic feeder schools like Hawaii, BYU, Long Beach State, Ohio State, Penn State and Pepperdine. And there are lesser, but still competitive programs at MIT, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego.

BTW, at the last Olympics, Kawika Shoji, four year setter at Stanford, was the team captain, and his brother Erik was the libero. Basically, they were the Lopez twins of Men's Volleyball.

[Mick]

Balanced article on the Mamlet years. Lack of communications is concerning to me. Her lack of experience with D1 sports should have disqualified her from the role. Some coaches had issues

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/HI...589894.php

I do recall standing next to Coach Kosty at the Junior Olympics, and he had a list of the Top 50 recruits in the country. Four were highlighted. I asked if those were his key targets, and he replied "those are the only four of the Top 50 who can get into Stanford." An NCAA MVB team needs five recruits a year. Kosty would have to score all four, and an additional recruit to maintain a program, much less be successful. And let's not forget that there are men's volleyball teams at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, USC, UCLA, UCI, UCSB; to say nothing of Olympic feeder schools like Hawaii, BYU, Long Beach State, Ohio State, Penn State and Pepperdine. And there are lesser, but still competitive programs at MIT, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego.

BTW, at the last Olympics, Kawika Shoji, four year setter at Stanford, was the team captain, and his brother Erik was the libero. Basically, they were the Lopez twins of Men's Volleyball.