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I don't know enough about college tennis to say how good Frankie Brennan is. But there certainly is a parallel to women's basketball. He was a long time assistant promoted to replace a legendary coach, probably without much of a search outside of the Stanford campus.

The problem with the Frankie Brennan analogy is that Lele Forood herself succeeded a legendary head coach (the elder Frank Brennan) who had won 10 NCAA championships in 21 years. She had been his assistant coach for 12 years when he retired and she became head coach. Admittedly, her career as head coach did not fully measure up to Frank Brennan's: she won 10 NCAA championships as head coach, too, but over 24 years instead of 21.  ;)   Or maybe the lesson of Frankie Brennan is that too much inbreeding eventually catches up to you? But seems like too small a sample size for him so far, and same for Kate?

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I don't know enough about college tennis to say how good Frankie Brennan is. But there certainly is a parallel to women's basketball. He was a long time assistant promoted to replace a legendary coach, probably without much of a search outside of the Stanford campus.

The problem with the Frankie Brennan analogy is that Lele Forood herself succeeded a legendary head coach (the elder Frank Brennan) who had won 10 NCAA championships in 21 years. She had been his assistant coach for 12 years when he retired and she became head coach. Admittedly, her career as head coach did not fully measure up to Frank Brennan's: she won 10 NCAA championships as head coach, too, but over 24 years instead of 21.  ;)   Or maybe the lesson of Frankie Brennan is that too much inbreeding eventually catches up to you? But seems like too small a sample size for him so far, and same for Kate?