This is a dual use board. I saw your exasperation and had no idea who it was aimed at. In fact, in the whole thread the only way I knew it was softball was that someone noted that our opponent was Duke. A lot of us glance in here to see how the teams are doing. Please don't assume we know what you're talking about.
Duke is in their 6th year of playing softball. Last year Duke, in their 5th season of fielding a team, won a Regional and advanced to a Super Regional.
Notre Dame has never won a Regional under a head coach that has been at Notre Dame 22 years.
So much for striving for excellence in all things. Whatever Notre Dame is doing with the softball program is not working and it needs to be overhauled. Softball players are by and large in Notre Dame's demographic wheelhouse but it seems nobody in the athletic administration gives a damn about excellence in the softball program.
There are plenty of girls that would crawl through glass to go to ND. It's amazing that they haven't been able to get more high level talent (especially pitchers) signed. For a sport that there is no real viable pro career, it's criminal for ND to not have a top flight team.
the futility of the last 22 years.
Swarbrick could have fired a coach who took a program to the Final Four and replaced her with a coach who has top recruits knocking on her door and does nothing with them.
No program has underachieved more than women's lacrosse with the talent they have gotten in the last 10 years.
on with respect to Halfpenny, but regarding Coyne, Swarbrick was right to move on from
Her.
embedded in the women’s lacrosse world who are from a diehard ND family. Multiple relatives were recruited and offered by Coyne towards the end of her tenure. Both didn’t even entertain the offer due to the coaches at the time and the environment and culture within the program. I’ll leave it at that.
Also, Coyne hasn’t exactly set the world on fire since leaving ND. 27-56 at George Washington over 4 years and now at St Francis.
looking up for the WLAX team.