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    Quote Originally Posted by Masterofreality View Post
    Hire Mel Moore! They like to poach Xavier coaches like Scott Googins!
    And Eric Toth!
    "Xavier born and Xavier bred, and when I am gone I will be Xavier Dead!"
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    https://gobearcats.com/news/2023/3/7...eadership.aspx

    Will be interesting to see if we are competing for candidates. Both are rebuilding jobs in good conferences, albeit with different geographic footprints. it has always been strange to me that these two women's programs have been bad for so long.

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    X has to be the more coveted Job. They’re in a better conference

    They should be able to land a coach who is a proven winner This time. They had a pretty good one several coaches ago. No reason they can’t do it again- especially since they are in the BE now.

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    Providence and Georgetown have also let their women's basketball coaches go, so the bottom of the league (aside from Butler, who made a switch last year) will be getting a facelift.

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    Not that it's a surprise, but zero media coverage of the coaching search aside from a press release with a quote from GC in the Enquirer.

    A name to keep an eye on is Robyn Fralick at Bowling Green. BG is 29-6 and hosting the third round of the WNIT on Thursday. She spent 10 years at Division II Ashland, including three years as head coach. She went 104-3 overall and won a national championship and was national runner-up one of the other years.

    Bowling Green was a power in the 2000s, going 258-92 with an NCAA Sweet 16 appearance under Curt Miller from 2001-2012. Miller left to become the coach at Indiana (and is now coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks). Greg Christopher hired Miller's replacement, assistant coach Jennifer Roos, who went 24-11 and 30-5 in her first two seasons before going 38-81 over the next four years and getting fired at the end of the 2018 season.

    Fralick replaced Roos and has proceeded to go 9-21 (2-16 MAC), 10-21 (3-15), 21-8 (14-4, WNIT bid), 17-16 (10-10), and 29-6, 14-4 (and counting) in the MAC this season. She graduated from Davidson in 2004, so despite having eight years of head coaching experience, she's only around 40 years old.

    BG actually has a former Musketeer on its team. Morgan Sharps was one of seven players who left Xavier after the 2019-20 season. She was averaging 11 points per game this year but hasn't played since January, so I assume she's injured.

    Fralick has also been mentioned for a job opening at Michigan State, which obviously is a bigger job than Xavier. But there are some connections that would make her an attractive pick. Beyond speculating about her, I have no clue who else could be in the mix, and a lot of that probably depends on what kind of financial commitment the department can make to the program (the facilities are great, but let's be honest, they're there for the men's team, and you can't get by on that alone anymore).

    BG could still be playing for another week or 10 days depending on how far they go in the WNIT. I have no idea when to expect a coaching announcement -- could be in five minutes, could be in several weeks.

    https://bgsufalcons.com/staff-direct...yn-fralick/591
    Last edited by HomerCecil; 03-21-2023 at 12:09 PM.

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    Just hire Special Jennings and be done with it!
    "I Got CHAMPIONS in that Lockerroom!" -Stanley Burrell

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    It’s Final Four week. And kids are now starting to enter the Transfer Portal.
    What is Greg Christopher going to do?
    C’mon man!
    "I Got CHAMPIONS in that Lockerroom!" -Stanley Burrell

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