Wow!  Whats goin on?  3 openings in this conference?  Lakeland, Clarke, and Dominican. Who is going to get this positions?

Wow what a bracket.  Who's going to come out of it?

Best of luck to John Ross and his Calvin women!!!

Quote from Illinihoops4

QuoteI'm sure in house applications will be thrown in, but I'm sure that Jane will hire a female for the position.

I have no problem with that if they are the most qualified candidate!

Whoa Whoa Whoa!  I am new to this site (per a friend) and I wasn't trying to question Coach Endress's ability.  Sorry if it seemed that way.  I was just trying to figure out why a program like Augustana who has a D1 ex head coach on the men's side (per their website), hired someone with not as much experience. 

Quote from Illinihoops4

QuoteAs far as experience goes, she's already taken a team to the NCAA tournament- one that was a below .500 team when she took over.

I was just wondering how many players she lost off the Edgewood team that went to the tournament? Since they had a down year afterwards in her second year.

Did she coach somewhere prior to Edgewood, maybe I am missing something???   Sorry if I am.



Quote from skafkas

QuoteMy understanding is the Bauer (North Central) cleaned house last season and I respect her desire to establish the kind of program she wants.

How many years has she been there?  I may be wrong but wouldn't those kids be her own recruits that she brought in?


Quote from Gregory Sager

QuoteYou don't turn around a rock-bottom program in one year. The usual rule of thumb is that a head coach gets four years to make progress in reversing a program's fortunes.

Note to North Central's AD:  TIME IS UP!!

Wow I didn't know Lakeland's coach had been that successful!  Any ideas on who might be up for the job, hopefully they will get someone with more than a couple of years experience to take carry on her winning tradition!

Congrats to Calvin on a great year!!!

I would also like to congratulate Wheaton IWU on great seasons, you have so much to be proud of!!  Unfortunately though, I don't think the rest of the conference prepared them for their first round oppenents (other than Millikan,NP , and a well-coached Carthage team).  Whats up with Augie and North Central?   How can North Central be so bad in women's hoops when they are good in almost every sport?  Is their scholarships not as good as their men's.....could be a title IX issue?  Augie used to be one the best teams and now they can hardly find someone on their schedule that they can beat.  They have won a grand total of 15 games the past three years.  I would think that when the program hits rock bottom, they would try to work a little harder to bring in a qualified coach to turn the ship around.  You can't tell me that if the men's job opened up, they would hire someone with so little experience! 

We need to do whatever we can to strengthen the bottom teams in the league so that next year we have someone in the sweet 16!