If this is the case, I expect to see a new WBB coach next season
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Cohen is fine when he hires head coaches. He's the terrible when hiring assistants.
He needs a win/loss record and development track record to make a good hire while he's absolutely terrible at seeing the qualities that make good coaches good. I have some theories on the reasons for this but I'll keep them to myself.
My observation, however, is that he doesn't hire assistants that have an edge. As a HC Cohen had an edge but for whatever reason he doesn't hire head coaches that demand that.
He seems to value creativity, organization, and nice guys over people that can command the room and impose a respectful fear to the players.
I like some things about Cohen...but he’s making it hard to defend him at this point.
And just like politics should stay off this board they should also stay out of our athletic department decision making. But unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Nicki had a great player resume but she had basically Moorhead HC resume. It was a bad, bad hire for a program sitting in one of top in the nation. We were #2 in nation previous 4 year stretch only a few wins behind Uconn. We were one of top programs in nation and we hire a HC with little to no HC experience?? There were some major risks if Cohen had done his homework.
No one has answered my question. Did we interview Johnny for the WBB HC position, or did she choose to go with Vic to UT?
Was there another proven P5 women's basketball HC willing to come? I don't know. I would have preferred Harris over what we did but there would have been risk with that as well because Johnnie Harris had no HC experience. NMP had 2 twenty plus win years at ODU but that is CUSA so its certainly not the competition level of the major conferences.
Whether Leach was a good hire remains to be seen.
The hire was good based on a 20 year track record. Even Howland had a very solid track record.
Moorhead, Cannizzaro and McCray-Penson had no such track record. The talent level MSU recruits at in Baseball makes the hire of Lemonis look good so far. He looks to actually be stepping that recruiting level up, but apparently he was already a solid recruiter before coming to State.
Not sure we will be back at level Vic took our women’s program. I’ve seen several Sec programs having recalling good years only to turn into average at best.
Tn, Ga, Om, LSU and now probably MSU.