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Post by skrapheap on May 9, 2012 13:48:13 GMT -6
[ But... For the general public, when Milwaukee hires Assistants from Madison, it has the APPEARANCE of us trying to "catch up"to Madison. That's what I meant. Fair enough. And since most of the general public will never darken the door of the Klotsche Center to watch a Women's basketball game, i don't really give a rip how the choice appears to them. Although, if Coach Rechlicz is as active in the community as she says she wants to be, she may win some of those skeptics over, particularly if she turns out to be a successful head coach.
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Post by ghostofdylan on May 10, 2012 7:04:00 GMT -6
What was the hurry with this hire?
Shouldn't we be focused on putting an athletics director in place first?
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Post by apaladino on May 10, 2012 7:44:22 GMT -6
What was the hurry with this hire? Shouldn't we be focused on putting an athletics director in place first? + 1000
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Post by skrapheap on May 10, 2012 8:38:23 GMT -6
What was the hurry with this hire? Shouldn't we be focused on putting an athletics director in place first? + 1000 i don't have the exact figure at hand, but wasn't the AD search rather a long process? How long would you have been willing to wait to resolve the WBB coaching situation? And how would you have handled things in the interim?
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Post by davedome on May 10, 2012 9:23:01 GMT -6
The main question should be: "Is this the best hire, nation-wide that UWM could get"? There was no one with more experience or better qualified? We'll support her regardless, and hopefully she'll do fine but the hire is a joke. If you're going to hire someone with no head coaching experience, why not get the 2nd, 3rd or 4th assistant off a perennial top 10 team?
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Post by PantherU on May 10, 2012 9:42:04 GMT -6
All of this is well and good, if you think that Kyle Rechlicz was the first choice.
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Post by ghostofdylan on May 10, 2012 9:59:15 GMT -6
It's May 10, fellas.
To the best of my knowledge, the current semester hasn't even ended yet.
We had until well into the summer to find Sandy's successor.
From the outside, it appears as though we searched all of 83 miles.
Don't you want the as-yet-unnamed chief athletics administrator working with as many of "his" own hires as possible?
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Post by uwmfutbol on May 10, 2012 14:18:53 GMT -6
I don't pretend to be the most knowledgeable on women's basketball, but this seems both rushed and poorly planned. Isn't Wisconsin women's basketball pretty bad?
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Post by PantherU on May 10, 2012 14:22:34 GMT -6
Just met Kyle Rechlicz. Great first impression. I'll have an article out sometime next week on her.
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Post by apaladino on May 11, 2012 10:07:52 GMT -6
Was Whitewater's Keri Carollo even approached about the opening!?!
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Post by Hack on May 24, 2012 12:41:24 GMT -6
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Post by skrapheap on May 25, 2012 9:48:51 GMT -6
There was only one senior lost to graduation at the end of this year.
It will be interesting to see if any of the current players leave. At the very least, they need to make sure Angela Rodriguez and Ashley Green stay around.
Coach Botham had gotten four to sign for next seaaon last fall, and Coach Rechliz mentioned in the news conference announcing her appointment that she was going to be talking to those players to make sure they will be attending. This is important, as this new signee got a release when the coach who recruited her to SIU-Edwardsville left that school for another job.
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Post by mcdadenets50 on Jun 15, 2012 19:49:49 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2012 21:34:15 GMT -6
That is quite the loss but it's probably for the best for her. This is quite similar to when Kyle Kickert left the men's team to transfer to UIC after Ric Cobb was fired in 1999. Both were Chicago-area natives who went through coaching changes so its understandable.
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Post by PantherU on Jun 16, 2012 10:00:25 GMT -6
That is quite the loss but it's probably for the best for her. This is quite similar to when Kyle Kickert left the men's team to transfer to UIC after Ric Cobb was fired in 1999. Both were Chicago-area natives who went through coaching changes so its understandable. I watched her get lit the hell up by Green Bay at the Kress this season. Totally could not defend the post against anyone. Slow feet, slow reaction time, negligible lateral movement. The post is much better off without her. The team from my freshman year of 05-06 had 4 better post players - Traci Edwards, Katie Fournier, Kim Wypiczynski and Dana Schultz. Each of them had the offensive tools that Lindfors had, and at least played solid defense. My guess is she saw the writing on the wall when Jordyn Swan committed.
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