Originally Posted by
StarkVegasSteve
Look I understand that most think Penson is a terrible coach, and her track record so far has proven that. But this team was setup for failure and you could see it last year. They didn't play hard on defense, they wouldn't hustle, hell Vic broke one of his cardinal sins and had to play zone because they were so poor on defense. I've been trying to preach it for two years but the program that we had was built on tough grinders who played elite defense. Mix in an AA center and a couple of 3 and D players and you had unprecedented success. However, Vic got away from that and started star chasing towards the end. Now, Vic is a good enough coach to be able to still scheme and make it look ok and still have some success. But any other coach not named Graves, Aureimma, Staley, or Welz isn't going to be able to do that. If you give this coach time she'll make it a respectable program that can put together a tourney run every 2-3 years. Once you gain elite status in WBB it's really hard to ever lose it.