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We have to play at Alabama tomorrow at 1 pm, which will be a loss. We're 2-6-1 and trending to 2-7-1 this time tomorrow. 

I agree there is a lot of Connie Clark to Angie Kelly. Connie's recruiting philosophy of not offering recruits who had committed elsewhere was stupid.

 

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9 hours ago, Mile High Horn said:

We have to play at Alabama tomorrow at 1 pm, which will be a loss. We're 2-6-1 and trending to 2-7-1 this time tomorrow. 

I agree there is a lot of Connie Clark to Angie Kelly. Connie's recruiting philosophy of not offering recruits who had committed elsewhere was stupid.

 

Connie Clark at least had some success. She made the college world series 5 times. This soccer coach hasn't accomplished anything of that level in the postseason. 

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2 hours ago, avidhornslurker said:

Connie Clark at least had some success. She made the college world series 5 times. This soccer coach hasn't accomplished anything of that level in the postseason. 

There's not a single position where you can bring in an otherworldly talent that can make the same kind of difference in soccer as a pitcher can in softball. There may not be another individual position with more difference making ability in team sports than the pitcher in softball. She had two otherworldly talents at pitcher early in her tenure in Christa Williams and Cat Osterman. That's how she made those college world series (Blaire Luna was the primary pitcher in 2013 - also very good - but Williams and Osterman were the Canady of their day). The offense was always incredibly anemic. It's almost more of an indictment she couldn't bring home a ring with that kind of competitive advantage (to be fair 1998 was the start of the program). That was also before the pitching mound was moved from 40' to 43'.

That said, you're of course correct. Connie Clark did achieve success at first. She was still an incredible underachiever with the resources at her disposal. Angela Kelly is at another level of underachievement, but that's in part because she couldn't just magically bring in a star player at one position that could dominate the competition to put the rest of the team on their back. The fact that both coaches completely wasted what should have been a monstrous talent advantage given how much talent this state produces, and the kind of resources the university was willing to dedicated to both sports, especially following the Title IX court settlement, is almost criminal.

Thankfully, Mike White is how in charge in softball, and he's kicking ass. I look forward to seeing who our next soccer coach will be. It's been absurd how long this has been allowed to go on.

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