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guest44 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:06 pm Hire the coach from Columbia

BillyLP wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:12 pm

guest44 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:06 pm Hire the coach from Columbia

Ha, I thought about that, too, but she's a Columbia grad who is from and has only coached in the Northeast. She isn't coming here.

BillyLP wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:49 pm My choices to replace her, in order:

1) Kim Cameron - Assoc. Head Coach, previously head coach at Michigan Tech for 8 seasons with 4 NCAA Tourney appearances. Would be the best choice to keep the roster intact and keep recruits who have signed (and we have a really, really talented class coming).
2) Kari Pickens - Head Coach at Ashland, where she replaced Fralick after serving as an assistant coach for several seasons. Has a ridiculous 139-15 record in four seasons and has her team in the National Championship game this Saturday.
3) Kate Achter - Very successful player here so she gets the tradition, has slowly gotten her programs better every season she has been head coach, but has never come into a situation where something was already headed in the right direction.

footballguy51 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:31 pm

BillyLP wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:49 pm My choices to replace her, in order:

1) Kim Cameron - Assoc. Head Coach, previously head coach at Michigan Tech for 8 seasons with 4 NCAA Tourney appearances. Would be the best choice to keep the roster intact and keep recruits who have signed (and we have a really, really talented class coming).
2) Kari Pickens - Head Coach at Ashland, where she replaced Fralick after serving as an assistant coach for several seasons. Has a ridiculous 139-15 record in four seasons and has her team in the National Championship game this Saturday.
3) Kate Achter - Very successful player here so she gets the tradition, has slowly gotten her programs better every season she has been head coach, but has never come into a situation where something was already headed in the right direction.

I wouldn't want Kate Achter for the exact reason you stated. She's a proven builder of programs to dig them out of the basement, but has she taken a program to that top level? We are at the top of the conference right now. Until Kate proves she can get a team to that elite level, I wouldn't want to bring her here. She's an alumnus; our track record is to give alumni entirely too many chances because we don't want to cut them loose.

threestooges wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:39 pm I would be happy with any of the coaches mentioned, including Kate Achter. Loyola was 18-12 in her final year there, after she inherited an absolute dumpster fire. She got a raw deal at Loyola -- they had no reason to let her go other than their own delusions of grandeur. She inherited another dumpster fire at Detroit, & by the end of the year had them playing much better than anyone could have imagined in her first season.

That having been said, I'd still probably prefer Pickens or Cameron over Kate. I know I'll be checking in on Ashland's game tomorrow afternoon -- 3:30 p.m. on CBSSN.

If I was BG's AD or SWA, I would reach out to Karl Smesko at FGCU & see if he has any interest. I'm guessing he's never leaving Fort Myers unless it's for a Big Ten program, but the guy has had amazing success there, and he's an Ohio native -- from the Akron area, got his bachelor's degree at Kent State and his master's at Walsh. He coached one season at Walsh & won a national championship, and his record at FGCU is 582-105. Again, I doubt he would leave there for a MAC job, but why not reach out to him just in case?