Penn90
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04-17-16 07:22 PM - Post#206235
Sheryl Swoopes hire not working so well.
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penn nation
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Re: Interesting Grace Calhoun Note 06-09-16 04:54 PM - Post#207542
In response to Penn90
And a bit more...
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palestra38
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Re: Interesting Grace Calhoun Note 06-09-16 05:12 PM - Post#207545
In response to penn nation
It's tough to criticize an AD who brings in one of the highest profile women's basketball players of all time to a small school like Loyola. You put good assistants behind her and go out and recruit.
Can't say that anyone knew that Swopes was a trainwreck.
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Buckeye Quake
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Re: Interesting Grace Calhoun Note 06-09-16 09:22 PM - Post#207550
In response to palestra38
I'm more concerned with her basketball hire here.
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SRP
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06-11-16 01:38 PM - Post#207564
In response to Buckeye Quake
Swoopes sounds like she would be great on reality TV. A former player for her said that after a year of experience a lot of the problems in Swoopes's life, described in the ESPN documentary about her that she had her team watch, made sense because "drama" was part of Swoopes's behavior.
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gopenngo
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06-12-16 12:50 AM - Post#207577
In response to SRP
Maybe Rodman should have reached out to Grace here. We'd probably be better on the boards.
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penn nation
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07-08-16 06:08 PM - Post#208190
In response to gopenngo
In case you missed it over the holiday weekend:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-lo...
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dperry
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07-12-16 01:28 PM - Post#208260
In response to penn nation
Well, we can't complain too much about that sort of thing:
Two sides of Coach Kelly Greenberg
One wonders if women's basketball has more of these kind of coaches, or whether women are just less willing to put up with this kind of crap.
David Perry
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dperry
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07-12-16 01:40 PM - Post#208261
In response to dperry
Speaking of which:
Nebraska
and
Duke
David Perry
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TheLine
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07-13-16 10:09 AM - Post#208275
In response to dperry
One wonders if women's basketball has more of these kind of coaches, or whether women are just less willing to put up with this kind of crap.
Given incidents we know about on the Men's side I think it's easy enough to figure out the answer to that.
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Tiger69
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07-18-16 03:54 PM - Post#208516
In response to TheLine
Allowing a coach the power to threaten a player with loss of scholarship is one of the strongest arguments against athletic scholarships and in favor of the Ivy policy of assistance based on financial need.
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palestra38
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07-18-16 04:32 PM - Post#208521
In response to Tiger69
As long as all schools are able to compete on the same playing field, I have always agreed with you. However, endowments and class size make it impossible to offer the same kind of generous need based financial aid for the non-HYPr schools to all students. So we have to have a convention of sorts to discuss how to make the system fair for everyone (and that includes entry into the FCS playoffs).
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