Ashley Mac resurfaces

[Sam Hill]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=2074998

Glad to see she's found work. I'll bet she's a college head coach one day if she wants to be.

[Houston Caldwell]

No doubt about it, Sam.
The Alabama job, although an assistant's job, is probably a salary improvement over the Rhythm job. It's easy to forget that Ashley is only 23 or 24 years old.
Ashley established an important principle coaching the Rhythm; if you can coach, you can coach, irregardless of age or sex. Basketball is basketball. Pat Summitt, in the 1970's, was Lady Vol Head Coach AND a player.
I see Ashley Mac as a long-term college or WNBA head coach, starting while she's still in her 20s. She covered herself with honor as the Nashville coach, and will continue to.
It seems like only yesterday we were debating whether Ashley was being set up for failure as a 22-year old female head coach of a men's team. There were failures in Nashville, all right, but none of them were Ashley's. Ashley proved she has first-class coaching ability and first-class character.
Dan Bucher, another high-quality young person with his life ahead of him, is now teaching and coaching at a missionary school in the Phillipines. Hopefully someone will give him a shot in the world of Sports Management again where he is not compromised by having to defend the poor decisionmaking of family members.

[Sam Hill]

Pat Summitt, in the 1970's, was Lady Vol Head Coach AND a player.

Not at the same time, though, right?

[Houston Caldwell]

Actually, believe it or not, at the same time. And after she completed her playing eligibility, she played on the US Olympic Women's Basketball team while serving as full-time coach of the Lady Vols. At that time, Women's Basketball was not a revenue sport in the manner it currently is, and rules evidently permitted this.

[meyes]

This is an intereesting last line to a story in The Pensacola News Journal

"Rumor has it Larry Brown is interested in the Rhythm job."

Surely this is not the same Larry Brown currently coaching the Pistons. But he does have an ABA background and health problems. Maybe this would be a way to move into semi-retirement (shorter schedule).

(I know better than to suggest being in the ABA is the answer to health problems.)

:wink: [/quote]

[Houston Caldwell]

If that's accurate, I know it's not the money, that's for sure.

[ABARedWhiteBlue]

This is an intereesting last line to a story in The Pensacola News Journal

"Rumor has it Larry Brown is interested in the Rhythm job."

[/quote]

I'm guessing it was typed with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

[Sam Hill]

This is an intereesting last line to a story in The Pensacola News Journal

"Rumor has it Larry Brown is interested in the Rhythm job."

Surely this is not the same Larry Brown currently coaching the Pistons. But he does have an ABA background and health problems. Maybe this would be a way to move into semi-retirement (shorter schedule).

(I know better than to suggest being in the ABA is the answer to health problems.)

:wink:

Jeez, meyes, that whooshing sound was that sarcasm going straight over the top of your head.

[meyes]

If that was sarcasm, it was poor journalism.
Nowhere did I see anything to indicate the piece was an editorial or column. Sarcasm or attempts at humor are not appropriate in a news (sports) story. I read the story as a trained (and very good and ethical) journalist.

[Sam Hill]

That's why the guy's in Pensacola, Florida.

[meyes]

Sam, you may be right there. :wink: