Crisis In The Cornfields: Whose Job Is It Anyway?

[ChipperF1]

Nebraska will announce their new womens basketball coach at 3 pm CDT today in Lincoln.

All current signs seem to point to current Creighton head coach Connie Yori or former Colorado State head coach Tom Collen.

I have a feeling we are leaning Yori. She made a very public visit to Lincoln over the weekend.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=38&u_sid=430852

[HuskerFan86]

My bet's on Yori...

[HuskerFan86]

and it looks like I was right.
http://www.huskers.com/sports/basketball/w/02-03releases/wbbrelease20020626.htm

[swok34]

Welcome to the new coach.... http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/nu.gif

Anyone else realize that Fennelly stands as the sole "male coach" of Big XII women's basketball?

[YCN]

I feel sorry for what's happened to Tom Collen, though. Here is a man whose only controversy was that he couldn't say definitively that he had those dual masters degrees, which he had.

Now he's being shunned like someone with Creutzfeldt-Jakob or Chronic Wasting Disease.

This is a good coach, who belongs with a quality team. Somebody please - immediately! - GIVE THIS MAN A JOB!

[metromaniac]

I have been confused why he didn't fight a bit harder to prove his resume was correct during the Vandy debacle. wouldn't you or I say," I know I have two of those things!!!" Why didn't he fix it then and demand the right to prove otherwise?

Was it a clerical error in reality? Something is weird here in this scenario.

Regardless, he is a heck of a coach and should and will get a good job. Probably now only after another stop along the road.

[mred]

Originally posted by metromaniac:
I have been confused why he didn't fight a bit harder to prove his resume was correct during the Vandy debacle. wouldn't you or I say," I know I have two of those things!!!" Why didn't he fix it then and demand the right to prove otherwise?


I think he honestly thought he might have been wrong the whole time. He insisted that the "mistake" was an honest one. From what I gather, he went to Miami (OH) to figure out why he was wrong, and when Miami looked into it they realized that they were the ones who were wrong.

[OhMandy]

Anyone else realize that Fennelly stands as the sole "male coach" of Big XII women's basketball?[/B][/QUOTE]


That is interesting but let's face the OSU and Neb coaches should have been fired or forced to resign or leave however you want to put it. They weren't getting the job done and in the high stakes game of WBB in the Big 12 you can't fall behind.

I do think Tom Collen deserves a job at a big time school. I think he'll get a job soon. There are a few big time schools who maybe looking for a coach next year and he'll be at the top of the list. If, I mean, when ucla has another terrible year next year, Olivier should be fired and Collen would be a great coach there.

[TXSNOS]

Nebraska players' reactions to new coach: http://www.journalstar.com/sports.php?story_id=9407

TXSNOS

[BenEClone]

"Those who stay will be champions," http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/rolleyes.gif - I'm somewhat skeptical, but, its a start.

"Yori did say she would extend a phone call to two of the departed transfers, Katie Robinette and K.C. Cowgill, about the possibility of returning to Nebraska." - ChipperF1, what do you think about this? I don't know if you're excited about what Cowgill has done, but, any program would like to have Robinette's talent. It would seem that in order for the team to get along after a return, these two would need to blame their departure on Sanderford.

[ChipperF1]

"Those who stay will be champions," - I'm somewhat skeptical, but, its a start.

I'm very skeptical, because those who stayed still suck.

As for IntoxiKatie Robinette (that will be the new official Chipper Nickname for 2002-2003). If she wants to come back, why not? The kids has massive talent, and I think Connie would put her in a position to use her skills best, however the $64,000 question is Does the team want her back? Based on what I read in the papers, its ambivalent at best, and "don't let the doorknob hit you where the Good Lord split you" at worst.
There is the matter of should Robinette play at all. My feelings have been well documented here (1 year suspension minimum), but she'll see action most likely if she comes back and submits to whatever punitive measures the university sees fit.

K.C. Cowgill? Lets just say I hope she finds a new place to play.

To be honest, it doesn't matter if Cowgill or Robinette comes back. The problem with Nebraska isn't so much talent as it is coaching and committment. The coaching part may or may not pan out. Its too early to tell. My wish is that Connie Yori takes a hardline with this team early in the process and makes fall camp a killing field. She needs to know who she can count on, and who she can't. Get rid of the uncommitted, the disaffected and the sissified immediately. Of course that would probably mean culling out half the team.

The kids have a summer to get their heads screwed on right. And they are saying "the right things" in the press. But they did that last year too and still looked uncommitted, uncaring, and sissified. Any success this season will have more to do with those 10 kids than it will Connie Yori and her staff.

Those who commit can be champions.

[CYMAN]

Robinette Question - Chipper is of the opinion that KR should have a year long suspension for her OWI. Here in Iowa a Univ of Iowa all conf FB player was arrested for the same thing and it was announced that he would get no suspension and most people seem to be OK with that. Is this just a difference in opinion on the punishment for the offence or for those that are familiar with the situations are they really that different?

[ChipperF1]

"it was announced that he would get no suspension and most people seem to be OK with that. Is this just a difference in opinion on the punishment for the offence or for those that are familiar with the situations are they really that different?

Sounds like a difference of opinion.