Stanford just eliminated South Carolina (Women's Final Four)

[Homedawg]

Did we really give her a 2.25 buyout? If so that is the dumbest thing ever. Another reason our AD is in over his head.

She makes 750 a year. 750x3 =2.25. Think she's just going to walk away for less? Nope

[Homedawg]

We could have got Johnnie for probably $500K and have been a lot better off.

Hiring Johnnie wasn't the answer and would have been the laziest hire ever. This one clearly didn't work. But Johnnie wasn't it either.

[maroonmania]

Hiring Johnnie wasn't the answer and would have been the laziest hire ever. This one clearly didn't work. But Johnnie wasn't it either.

I would definitely disagree that it would have been lazy if it was something that could have maintained the culture VS had put in place, especially given the fact that the pandemic put any new coach coming in at a huge disadvantage trying to connect with their new team. Anyway the proof will be in the pudding when we see what she does at Auburn. If she is even pretty good at Auburn then I have no doubt she would have been very good taking over for VS at MSU. If not then we will see that too. I personally don't believe you can totally know how good of a HC anyone will be moving up from an assistant's role until they actually do it and have the opportunity to be in charge.

The true lazy hire was in softball where we promoted the assistant coach of a HC we fired because of being mediocre. That is just about the definition of lazy and something you will hardly ever see. I can see an assistant getting the HC job if the HC had a good program but lost the job for off field issues but not because they were running a losing program. Now we appear to be even worse than we were with Steudemann.