Horns247 Board

K.

As I said before, eh. I hope she is a great hire that far exceeds all of our expectations, but there is not an proven coaching/winning/recruiting re cord there to justify it. Win about 30 game s next year and prove us wrong. Good luck to all involved.

I am completely underwhelmed. Maybe it will work out, but I don't like it because the whole process (i.e. no other interviewees or candidates) stinks. May I be proven wrong, but it smacks of cronyism at it's worse.

Meh whatever.

I'm asking this in dead seriousness and not to be an ass, but are things so different in women's basketball that a 47 year old coach with only 5 years head coaching experience (none of which was in a big conference) and a 0-1 record in the NCAA tournament is "a real up and comer?"

By that age, Barnes had been at Texas for 3 years, had been a head coach for 14 seasons, and had 9 trips to the NCAA tournament.

I think this is a hire strongly encouraged by Jody Condradt. Reading threads and posts from fans who follow Texas Women's Basketball Coach G was not well received by the old fan base and she did little to cultivate a relationship. This hire will bring the "old" fans back (so they think) Texas is averaging 4,000 less than Baylor and 2,000 less than aggie. That is an embarrassment. I think everybody knows she will work hard and be here 100% of the time. Coach G spent too much time doing other things like the US Women's team etc. One thing is for sure we have no place to go but up. It can't get much lower....................not saying this is the correct hire at all. We needed to go in a different direction and I have real doubts this is a good hire.

Same here. Unbelievable.
I sure hope it works out.

Is she married?

The interview was a three way with Conradt guaranteeing that we will get back to licking everyone we play.

Frankly all of the vague lesbian references have no business being in the shadows and hush hush. The reality is that when only a certain part of the population is even considered as candidates for a role, the best and the brightest are inherently excluded at least in some part. In this instance, the apparent requirement that the candidate be a lesbian for eligibility with a Longhorn women's HC role, for new hires, means other viable candidates are being excluded and discriminated against. It's not unlike keeping black athletes out of mainstream sports for decades across pro and collegiate sports, only I guess this issue can't be discussed. It's absurd. The notion that Conradt, a fossil, has any influence on this hire, is a laughing shame.

Women's AD at Texas is like wealthy family grandkids. Too much money, too little supervision, too little accountability. Plonsky can do what she wants and she is doing it. One interview for the biggest women's HC role at Texas? No problem so long as things unspoken remain as such and the AD is flush with cash. Want to kill the culture in left field at baseball games? Great, just make money. Corruption, style, personal agendas and the almighty dollar have taken ownership in the female part of the AD at Texas and at the expense of production, accountability, and merit. We have what we pay for.

If Plonsky is the next AD at Texas, we'll go into the toilet so fast it will make our heads spin. So long as she can point to ever increasing revenues because of the ever expanding Texas population and the power of the brand as the state school, we'll probably be living with production rot and brand erosion until there is nothing left but a ground floor rebuilding project. It should scare every single one of you shitless.

It took one day in the showers for Sheryl Swoops to transfer to Tech. Pretty much been downhill for the women's program since then.

bierce, not really. I have just heard she is very well thought of by Mulkey, Conradt, etc