Gator Women @ Missouri, 8pm thurs, Jan 31!

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Originally Posted by gatorbogey

womens' BB at UF has always been mediocre to bad.

so, it would be doubtful if we were to instantly turn it around. doubt we could get the best coach (like lacrosse did, who was looking to expand the sport to a new region), nor would it be cost effective to do so, since i doubt we'll get over 4k [ever] in the stands for a game <--- maybe i'm wrong about that, but throwing $$$'s at a coach now wouldn't make business sense, just to get a few more wins. [we did try the route of getting a nat'l title winning coach here and that failed].

so the new tack is to get someone in for the long haul to build the program incrementally. and i think amanda's doing that. she showed she could win w/ peck's players reasonably well. but recruiting lagged. now recruiting seems to be going well, so now we just need to get the young team 'seasoned' w/ game experience.

watching them play, i like the style and the hustle. they do seem to get down on themselves a bit for a missed shot. need to overcome that. and they just need to improve in all aspects of their play. all aspects need alot of improvement. i think next year they will be drastically improved and the year after that, they should seriously contend for a conference title at the very least.

Voice of reason, rep.