to condemn Tia. She has been victimized by the previous situation. I watched the Kstate game on the tube the other night, she is hunting bear with a cap gun. The team is slow, does not shoot well, and are not great ball handlers. A recipe for disaster. At the moment, I am not sure her system matches her players very well. I agree with 206, she will need to adjust a lot to make it work. I think recruiting this year and next will tell the story. If she starts landing the good local kids, and picks up a few good ones elsewhere, life will improve. If not……… sooner or later she has to win.

We need to evaluate at the end the season, but looks like she doesn’t have it. It was a Turner hire, does it surprise you? Unlike Ty, she works hard, but the teams execution is horrible, the passion is missing, it sounds like the players don’t like her. It would be best to part ways and bring in a big time women’s coach. We have gone from good to really bad since she has been here and I don’t see signs of improvement. You can tell when a coach is a right fit.

It doesn’t cost that much to bring in a really top notch women’s basketball coach, so we should just buck up and do it. Even though women’s basketball is not the most high profile sport, they represent the UW. We must strive for excellence in acamdemics, students, facilities, professors, and athletics or we might as well change the name to WSU.

What a bafoon! That guy may have been strong on compliance but that was all he was strong on. That was the wrong decision to make with June and he was further made to look stupid by his total support for Willingham while he continued to drag the program down. The best thing that could happen for Washington Athletics is him being shown the door.

Can’t coach on game day. WTF Buzz is that. The players are her recruits. Has taken a Perennial Baketball power to it’s knees. She can’t recruit and in the hell, can’t coach. It is an embarassment watching women’s basketball at Hec Ed. Thanks Toad Turner for your infinite wisdom.

      The team has been a big disappointment. Much of the problem is playing a different style with JDs recruits. As for bigdawgdaddy the recruits are not hers yet. The first year were 5 JD recruits 4 of whom left due to fit. Of those the only one who would have helped this year was Kate Redmon. Also JD recruited poorly and that is why you have no balance in classes, 2 Sr, 6 Jr, 2 So (Rogers xfer RS), 5 Fr. JDs typical game plan was recruit suburban white shooters launching 3 pointers against no defenses competition. Even her bigs were more prone to launch the 3 (Lalum at 6’5"). The UW under JD was going to be at best mediocre. On a football parallel it would be like Michigan last year playing the spread with Carr’s recruits or Nebraska under Callahan west coast playing with Solich’s power option recruits.
      This is not going to set well with many of you, but what TIa needs is time. Although this is her second year, it is her first with her recruits since bball has different timelines for commits, ie you recruit next years class last year. LoRo has finished his class for 2009, and will have the 2010 class by October of 2009. Tia was hired too late (in Apr 07) to get anybody except those who had committed to JD, and they mostly wanted out. The problem TIA has is she might not get that time by getting blown out in record setting fashion and losing to much lesser teams such as Weber St, Northern Colorado, which causes the howls from those who only read the headlines from the papers.
      Her starting lineup includes only an occasional recruit of hers (Rozier, Young, Williams) but most of the reserves are her players. I think she did make one huge mistake in setting up her staff, and that is for a first time head coach, she needed to surround herself with Xs and Os minds. Instead she hired almost exclusively great recruiters like herself, Applin, Loree Payne (Husky connection but only 4 years removed) and her friend from her Iowa playing days, who also left last year and was replaced by Spoelstra (not sure is Spoelstra is that XO mind).
       What do I think? She needs time to get her players in , but she might not get that time due to the historic losses. Next years class consists of only 2 schollies, Augustavo (SWF 3 pt shooter) and McNeil. She has no point guard capable of running the show, Rozier, Morton and Mosiman (hurt) have all played well at times and also have stunk up the place too. So it might be until year 4 that the team is finally all hers with the type of recruit she needs to run her style (she will have 5 or 6 to hand out in 2010). Will she get that 4th year, I would give it to her only because of the atrocious imbalance she was handed by JD, but at the same time they need to start showing progress and quit getting blown out by good teams and losing to Seattle Pacific like they did in Tias first year. She needs to hire an X and O coach unless Spoelstra is that person this year.
       BTW, even in the wins the stats are ugly, beating WSU by 20 but still had 29 turnovers. I won’t criticize the present players individually, but if you go watch a few of their games, you will shake your head at the non athleticism and inability to play a fast paced offense ( a lot of those turnovers are caused by bigs not anticipating the pass from the guards). Sami Whitcomb is probably the only player who is capable of playing at that speed. There are also a few of her recruits that fit there too. Liz Lay, Mollie Williams are a good start. Young needs to pick up her defense and intensity,
      In the end , it might not work out for Tia, and she might very well have to be replaced, but I would hope we give her 4 years and show us what her recruits are capable of. As far as the comment that her players don’t like her: BS. And further that she can’t recruit, shows me how uninformed the poster is. Have you watched any of the games in person. No more on this rant.

I am tired of the assesment that you bring a program to it’s knees before it gets better. That migh work at WSU or Northwestern. No way with four(4) years. No SIGNIFICANT improvement after year 3. It’s Adios. After the TW fiasco, I am tired of giving money with promise, hope and minimal improvement. Losing to Stanford by that score is not acceptable…no matter what the excuse. Period.

So what does TW and your giving money have to do with the wbball program unless you give to the wbball program. TW is gone, Tia might be next and oh we give money too.

"bigdawg

So what does TW and your giving money have to do with the wbball program unless you give to the wbball program. TW is gone, Tia might be next and oh we give money too."

I give yearly to Husky Athletics, with the majority going to football, plus season tickets. I agree with you JB on Turner. They were other problems going on in theHusky Athletic Department besides football. Losing to Stanford by that score is not acceptable…no matter what the excuse. Period. I didn’t say fire her, but I want some signifcant improvement.