Welcome, Coach Chambers

[HomerCecil]

Xavier's new coach comes from Iona, where she led the Gaels to two NCAA tournament appearances in 10 years.

https://goxavier.com/news/2023/4/5/w...all-coach.aspx

The press release mentions a lot about her first and last year at Iona and not much else, and doesn't mention her overall record, so I looked it up.

Coach Chambers at Iona, year by year

2013-14 26-6, 18-2 MAAC
2014-15 15-15, 12-8
2015-16 23-12, 16-4
2016-17 18-13, 12-8
2017-18 2-28, 2-16
2018-19 5-26, 3-15
2019-20 9-21, 8-12
2020-21 6-9, 5-6
2021-22 11-16, 8-12
2022-23 26-7, 18-2
Overall: 141-153, 102-85 MAAC

[Xville]

Well, it’s official. X doesn’t give a f about the women’s program.

If Sean miller hadn’t dropped in Christopher’s lap, he’d be fired by now.

[GoMuskies]

Brutal

[HomerCecil]

Yeah, I wish her luck (she's going to need it), but the fact that this search took a month and we ended up with a coach whose team was done playing nearly three weeks ago and has an overall losing record after 10 seasons in the MAAC doesn't inspire confidence. This program is an afterthought and it shows.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Yikes.

Is Xavier that unattractive of a job? Or has X decided it isn't worth whatever financial commitment it takes to get a really solid coach?

[XUGRAD80]

The record from 2017-2022 is brutal, like in getting fired brutal. Not impressed.

[nuts4xu]

Not very often you hire a coach with 2 26 win seasons and 4 seasons with single digit wins on their record. Such big swings in the record. What happened this year to take them from 11 wins to 26 wins this season?

[HomerCecil]

I do remember watching the three-point shooting and dunk competition this year before the Final Four and if I recall correctly, the women's champion was from Iona and won the overall title, too.

I don't really know anything about her otherwise and I'm a pretty big women's basketball fan. She doesn't seem to have any connection to the area. I hate to be so unenthusiastic about someone getting the chance to turn the program around here but there's not much to suggest she's going to have consistent success in a Big East that is only getting better on the women's side. I sure hope I'm wrong. Kudos to her for turning this great season into a better job, though.

At this point, there is little reason to think this program is funded properly anymore. Xavier was able to hire away Notre Dame's associate head coach when we were in the Atlantic freaking 10. Either we've had three really bad head coaches in a row or the problem is bigger than the coaching situation. Seems obvious to me it's the latter.

[X Factor]

I was confused as hell reading the press release. I kept reading Billi as "Bill" and it kept referring to "her". I thought we hired the first transgendered coach in America. Then at the end, it said Billi and her wife, which confused me more. Then I realized she's just a lesbian.

[paulxu]

Yikes…a lesbian! MAGA heads are exploding everywhere.