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| on the eve of the draft? that's just messed up. my sympathies, mystics fans. can't win for losing.
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CamrnCrz1974
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:30 pm ::: |
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No way Pat coaches...no incentive.
And if Pat does coach for the Mystics for the entire 2005 season, I will change my signature to this: Admiral Needa is my daddy.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:42 pm ::: |
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| on the eve of the draft? that's just messed up. my sympathies, mystics fans. can't win for losing. |
That is whacked, now if they'll get rid of Chasity, I'll be a Mystics fan again.
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sambista
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:48 pm ::: |
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jim lewis
cathy parson
nancy darsch
darrell walker
tom maher
marianne stanley
michael adams
seems like there were even more, huh? darrell walker . . . how many games was he there for? sheesh. the team with every advantage . . . and then there's pat summitt . . . so close, yet sooooooo far away . . . at the mystics fans' expense, the liberty fans might actually be able to buck up.
hey, reb, why you trashin' my girl, chas? she just needs a good team/coach.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:50 pm ::: |
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| CamrnCrz1974 wrote: |
No way Pat coaches...no incentive.
And if Pat does coach for the Mystics for the entire 2005 season, I will change my signature to this: Admiral Needa is my daddy. |
Pat seems like the kind of person who is motivated by a challenge. I'm wishing her incentive to be the challenge of taking a team in which no one has any faith all the way to the championship.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:53 pm ::: |
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| Pat seems like the kind of person who is motivated by a challenge. I'm wishing her incentive to be the challenge of taking a team in which no one has any faith all the way to the championship. |
if the vols had done less well this season, she might've been ready for such a challenge - man, that story would write itself! but cam's prolly right. too much of a crapshoot, that.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:54 pm ::: |
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i have to tell ya Mystics F/O you have done a great job.you have run this franchise into the ground.You should be proud.
it take a lot of talent to do what you have done in a short period of time,so keep up the good work and we will be back to 3-27 before you know it.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 5:57 pm ::: |
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hey, reb, why you trashin' my girl, chas? she just needs a good team/coach. |
Oh Bibb, she's really good when she decides to show up, but the problem is, she doesn't show up that often. Why is she your girl? She's not impressed me, if she wants to play she's good, but she mails it in too often for my tastes.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 6:18 pm ::: |
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| her time in d.c. hasn't been memorable. the chas i know and love played in cleveland. dunno if her numbers bear it out, but i thought her best play was her last season there. seemed she was just hitting her stride when cleveland fell apart.
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That's effed up, people. This guy quits a WNBA head coaching position to be an assistant on a college team?
What's that say about the W? And the day before the freaking draft! You Mystics fans. Wow. First they trade away Chamique Holdsclaw for Cheez-It, and now this.
That really stinks.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 7:58 pm ::: |
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cheez-it! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-hahahahahahahahahahaha!
sorry, mystics fans. it really is tragic. but boy, that was funny.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 7:59 pm ::: |
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| cheez-it! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-hahahahahahahahahahaha! |
Caune has been calling her Cheese Knees since last year!
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| Posted: 04/15/05 8:13 pm ::: what it says |
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That's effed up, people. This guy quits a WNBA head coaching position to be an assistant on a college team?
What's that say about the W? And the day before the freaking draft! You Mystics fans. Wow. First they trade away Chamique Holdsclaw for Cheez-It, and now this. |
All it says about the W in general is that top-level college assistants, at least in the MEN'S GAME-- and Adams is becoming a MEN'S assistant-- can make as much or more than a W head coach. I wish it weren't that way, and eventually it may not be, but that's no surprise.
The Terps head coach for whom Adams will work played alongside him, I believe in college, and they've been close for a while. Adams (unlike, say, Van) had no particular commitment to the women's game before the Stics tapped him, and (unlike BL) neither made headlines for his great performance as a head coach, nor seemed to bond especially well with his players. Adams gets a raise, gets to work with a longtime pal, and gets out of what's going to be a quite difficult season (no SDS, no Claw, no Fantastic Four draft pick to save the team).
Think of it as the Mystics' sneaky way to be sure they get to draft Currie. (Or Augustus. Or Young.)
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| Posted: 04/15/05 8:19 pm ::: Re: what it says |
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| jammerbirdi wrote: |
That's effed up, people. This guy quits a WNBA head coaching position to be an assistant on a college team?
What's that say about the W? And the day before the freaking draft! You Mystics fans. Wow. First they trade away Chamique Holdsclaw for Cheez-It, and now this. |
All it says about the W in general is that top-level college assistants, at least in the MEN'S GAME-- and Adams is becoming a MEN'S assistant-- |
Okay okay okay.. that I didn't know. I thought he was a women's basketball coach and he was going to Maryland's women's program. This, I guess, makes more sense now in terms of money and career.
Never mind!
At least they still got Cheez-It.
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WTF? Go out a little on a Friday eve, get back, and there's no 'Styx coach? On the eve of the draft? That's weird! Dial F for Freakin' Mystics!
-Dales-Schumann
-Mique
-Michael Adams
Did someone issue a general evacuation order for the Booth?
I don't buy the men's college ball = money-power-etc. line. No coach leaves his team on the eve of the draft unless its mega bucks, he's fired, or its personal. I think its personal between Adams and either Pollin, Hargrove, or both. Don't know what Adams was making, but Tom Maher was making good money when he coached the 'Styx. Well over what some assistant universtiy coach would make. Wouldn't be surprised if Adams if taking a pay cut. My hunch is there is a story here. Maybe Adams wanted more control, input on personnel matters, and Hargrove coming in meant he had less. Maybe its connected to the draft. Whatever it is the timing makes it suspicious. And no one can blame Mique for this one.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 10:09 pm ::: |
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| And no one can blame Mique for this one. |
Don't bet on that. I think it was BeckyFanClub on the ESPN board, that figured Mique was partially responsible for it, last night. I think she was serious.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 10:54 pm ::: push me pull you |
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| No coach leaves his team on the eve of the draft unless its mega bucks, he's fired, or its personal. |
I think this sucks for the Stix and it's wrong for any coach to do. But we shouldn't forget there's a "pull" as well as a "push": reports suggest Adams really wanted to work with Gary Williams (men's coach at Maryland), and it's about the only top DI men's job he could have had without selling his house and leaving the DC area (especially since the UVA men have just hired a coach, and it wasn't him).
At the least it suggests that he didn't feel very attached to the Stix, either because of the way the Mystics front office treats its coaches, or because of the way he saw his players.
If that's the way Adams saw his team, though, his team perhaps shouldn't be too sorry to see him gone.
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| Posted: 04/15/05 11:52 pm ::: |
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Even Carolyn Peck gave her team a couple of weeks before the draft when she quit.
My guess is that Meadors will be the coach for this season. It's too late to do anything else.
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| Posted: 04/16/05 6:52 am ::: |
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| And no one can blame Mique for this one. |
Don't bet on that. I think it was BeckyFanClub on the ESPN board, that figured Mique was partially responsible for it, last night. I think she was serious. |
Can you find that post? I am really interested in how she ties Meek to this, but I couldn't find the post. I think if Meek was responsible for it, she'd still be in Washington.
This action by Adams adds support to my theory that he charmed Pollin into firing Stanley and giving him the job (I guess when you are out of work, you'll take anything). The man has no scruples.
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| Posted: 04/16/05 6:59 am ::: |
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[quote="bluewolfvii"]WTF? Go out a little on a Friday eve, get back, and there's no 'Styx coach? On the eve of the draft? That's weird! Dial F for Freakin' Mystics!
-Dales-Schumann
-Mique
-Michael Adams
Did someone issue a general evacuation order for the Booth?
I don't buy the men's college ball = money-power-etc. line. No coach leaves his team on the eve of the draft unless its mega bucks, he's fired, or its personal. I think its personal between Adams and either Pollin, Hargrove, or both. |
general evacuation? LOL, it's getting to seem that way! I prefer to think of MCI as the Bermuda Triangle of the WNBA...enter at your own risk.
but don't kid yourself about his reason for leaving. this twerp NEVER cared about the women's game...nada...and jumped at the chance to get back into REAL basketball (read "men"). the loyalty of Abe was clearly one-sided. before Abe gave him a break, adams was hanging around the Run & Shoot trying to catch on with high school teams. So now that his old college coach gary offers him a job, you think he's going to turn that down to coach GIRLS? hell no. good riddance. he wasn't fired and he didn't care that it was on the eve of the draft. he never did and doesn't now give a sh*t about the W. would that he had been fired.
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