Illini Women's Basketball 2021-2022

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pruman91

Paducah, Ky
I've been watching this thread and am thankful there has been a lot of posters posting lately , as I want and think everyone here thinks the same , for ALL of the beloved teams to thrive and be successful........

I really am happy JW is our AD and I think he has done a great job in all areas except for this one team.......I know he had good intentions in improving the women's BB program with the hire of Fahey and her previous record warranted that hire ...............BUT , we now have verifiable proof that she isn't the answer in elevating the women's program to a respectable level........I sincerely hope he isn't letting personal feelings cloud what is and should be apparent to anyone with any sense of college sports......To see her B1G record is embarrassing to me ......I would hope it is to Fahey and Josh also......

it's time , either now , or at season's end to stop the damage and give someone else a chance to bring some sense of stability to this team...............I'm sure the buyout , if any , would be manageable and maybe we could reverse this awkward downward spiral ......I used to record and watch the games i could record , but now it seems as if the team is thought of with little respect for even televising their games................

Time for her to go Josh ........it really really is ...........................

JMHO
 
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Grentz came in with great D1 credentials. Fahye came in with no D1 experience to speak of. They are not two peas in a pod. One was a successful D1 coach and the other... well, I leave that description to you.

Regardless, it is embarrassing situation that needs immediate correction. And, maybe that means replacing the coach... or maybe it means hiring better assistant coaches.

Get it done!
Fahey may not have had any D1 experience but she did have an athletic director in her debt. She was on the search committee that brought Whitman to St. Louis.
 
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Fahey may not have had any D1 experience but she did have an athletic director in her debt. She was on the search committee that brought Whitman to St. Louis.
I might have already tred to state thatnitally I thought Fahey might have been a decent enogh coice, but has anyone recognzed she has gone downhll spectacularly in press briefngs? She was artculate in the begnnng and it just seems she is floundering now...she can't even come close to articulating whats agonizing even to her...we are so behind in knowng how to recruit in this day and age.
 
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I apologize for letters misisng...typng in the dark with crap keyboard.
 
#131      
Last 3 games have been ppd, either for weather or covid protocol. Girls are now 6-7 games behind everyone else in games played, and will have to make up a bunch of games in the next 30 days. Won't allow for much practice/prep times between games. Not that it would matter that much anyway.
 
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The Galloping Ghost

Washington, DC
And we just lost at Wisconsin 70-62. The Badgers were 2-9 in the B1G going into this and our only previous conference victory. Now the last real chance for another conference win comes in the last game of the regular season against Rutgers. This sucks.
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#133      
Somebody has got to get a 5 star recruit...or at least beyond eternal 3 star women who are undersized and already at a disadvantage. There is not one impressive clip of Illinois losing or winning that inspires they are ever going to beat anyone playing better than SIU Carbondale. I don't care if they beat the crappiest Big 10 team... Five star recruit...never gonna happen.. We always look happy just playing like a shiatty girls team from high school...quit yelling at them...theyre having fun. Gottdam, Fahey is making a boatload of money for zero results.
 
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I would say something negative about this women's team but I don't want to get cancelled or banned.πŸ˜‰ (Mark Lye)
 
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Who ever comes in next as women's basketball coach will have to recruit a far different type of athlete. Down thirty points at half is not due to on-the-court coaching but the lack of big 10 athletes. We need a young coach that identifies with these young athletes, brings them to the U of I and then turns them loose on the court. What I have seen here is the dullest of the dull and slowest of the slow. It's Jill's and Jo's not x's and o's.

Must start out with the right ingredients in the cake.
 
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82 to 63......absolutely terrible. Pull the plug...enough....concede the remaining games....
 
#140      

illini80

Forgottonia
When you only have one player averaging in double figures, it’s going to be a problem. And when that player, your leading scorer, is averaging 11 per game it’s a big problem.
 
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When you only have one player averaging in double figures, it’s going to be a problem. And when that player, your leading scorer, is averaging 11 per game it’s a big problem.
The women’s game is definitely different from mens and not saying you don’t need the right type of athletes. But it is more of a confidence driven game. The indecisiveness and players playing as if they’re uncertain is coaching. Plus, they don’t play defense and that has always been the key to competing in both men and women.

Every player that plays, she selected. There are coaches that come into programs and set a tone in which the players buy in and are able to compete very well, especially defensively. So a good coach can get you to winning seasons because they understand that at this level, you can’t change philosophies multiple times in a year or try slowing the game down offensively in hopes that you don’t get blown out. You have to outwork the other teams and make them uncomfortable on the defensive side of the court, then be more opportunistic offensively so they don’t get into their defense making you have to rely on three point shots that lead to long rebounds and fast breaks. So a good coach may not make them elite, but definitely winning and playing respectable.
 
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SKane

Tennessee

Not a legacy of success. Even football has been better.​

Coaching history[edit]​

Totals639–720244–42218
CoachYearsRecordConference
record
Conference
titles
NCAA
appearances
Steven Douglas​
1974–197625–21–––
Carla Thompson​
1976–197933–30–––
Jane Schroeder​
1979–198473–7115–21–1
Laura Golden​
1984–199083–8944–64–2
Kathy Lindsey​
1990–199550–8729–61––
1995–2007210–156101–9115
2007–201269–9327–59––
2012–201761–9422–62––
2017–present35–796–64––
 
#145      

illini80

Forgottonia

Not a legacy of success. Even football has been better.​

Coaching history[edit]​

Totals639–720244–42218
CoachYearsRecordConference
record
Conference
titles
NCAA
appearances
Steven Douglas​
1974–197625–21–––
Carla Thompson​
1976–197933–30–––
Jane Schroeder​
1979–198473–7115–21–1
Laura Golden​
1984–199083–8944–64–2
Kathy Lindsey​
1990–199550–8729–61––
1995–2007210–156101–9115
2007–201269–9327–59––
2012–201761–9422–62––
2017–present35–796–64––
That’s a depressing chart of failures. I thought Jolette Law would do much better. But she hasn’t been a head coach again, which tells you everything you need to know.
 
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