Here's a Link. Thumbs Up, Too. But I Have A Question....
by dillon77 (2019-06-15 07:31:55)
Edited on 2019-06-15 07:48:11

In reply to: Nice article on Coach  posted by Traditionnevergraduates

Post Reply Return to McGraw's Bench

...for the group.

By and large, most of the material was well covered during the time leading up to and including the press conference in Tampa.

Nonetheless, the contrasts/comparisons/similiarities that the SI author makes (which makes sense given the MM - Gina point/counterpoint), have a thread in a tizzy over at the Boneyard. Honestly, if anything makes a BYer think they're not the center of the universe, hyperbole results. Geesh. It's a beautiful day...take a walk.

HERE IS THE POINT/QUESTION for the board and it revolves around MM's former male assistants. It stems from this paragraph.

“Well, I expected some sort of comment would come out of Connecticut [when I said that]. For the record, they didn’t,” McGraw says. “Carol Owens and Niele Ivey got all those good players. You can have a staff with one man on it, and people assume, oh, he must be doing the recruiting, or he must be doing Xs-and-Os.” McGraw used to employ a male assistant because she thought it was valuable for her players to see a woman supervise a man. These days, though? “We’ve been to five Final Fours with our all-female staffs.”

My memory of the role McGuff played isn't that good, but I believe his tenure was while Niele was playing. Didn't realized Carol was a recruiting heaad back then.

But the fuzzy point is later on; specifically Jonathan Tsipis' last few years with the team. Wasn't he the recruiting coordinator? And if not the formal one, he was involved in scouting recruits. I know I've read articles on Maddie Cable specifying that Tsip was the main guy in her recruitment (one reason why she ended up in Wisconsin as a grad assistant). And I think he was involved with Kayla McBride, as well.

Does anyone else have similar/contrasting points of view?

MM seems to be on very solid relationships with former staffers who are now coaches, both female and male, and I'd hate to see a somewhat hazy point get in the way of it.

Thanks to any with institutional memories for getting back to us on this.



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