In reply to: This is about more than this one year posted by Murcer68
She develops players and has coached on the big stage. Did her team get run ruled twice this weekend? She would be a great hire.
EDIT: The job she has done at Northwestern is truly remarkable. Northwestern is a much tougher place to recruit to than Notre Dame.
I would rather have Northwestern's record and make 2 WCWS. Whether you make the tournament 17 of 17, or 12 of 17 years doesn't matter to me. What matters is how far you go. Translate it to other sports - the NY Giants won 2 Super Bowls since 2007, but in no other season won a playoff game. And last year they were outright awful. Do you think they would trade their 2 SB wins in exchange for making the playoffs each year and winning one playoff game each year and never advancing to the SB? You are entitled to your opinion, but we obviously have different ideas on what constitutes success.
he does in baseball where a change is required. As for softball last 5 years have clearly been better for ND (194-87) with Northwestern (143-117) making only two NCAA tourney/no SRs in 5 years. NW's CWS/SR run was 12 years ago when the SEC wasn't so dominant (only 6 teams made it in 2006 vs 13 in 2018) and the Big 10 was a strong softball conference. The dynamics have changed and ND is currently clearly better than NW. Also Northwestern never won it all like the Giants, they just fell short later than ND back then and now are getting less chances toeven compete in the NCAAs than ND.
Edited to add more facts and historical perspective