Marlene Stollings Contract

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http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/1contract040914.pdf

http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/Stollings+amendment+8-25-15.pdf


Attached are Stollings' contract and the later amendment. As the rumblings grow louder I figure might as well have a thread with the info.

Yes, I expect Stollings to return next season. I don't have any kind of read on Coyle thinking and I can't name a B1G WBB coach in the last twenty years who has been fired after three years. Curt Miller was gone after two (I should look that up) but it was for off-court reasons. Matt Bollant could easily have been axed after three; but two years later he's still here.

If I read the contract right, the buy out would be $1.4 million plus or minus.
 

Don't see it happening because of all the money put into the elite football program. She has brought in a lot of new players and I imagine it's hard to get them all on the same page. Problem is that it seems like there is no page. Relying mainly on 2 players to sprint up the floor and put up a quick shot doesn't work, especially if those two are hot and cold and turn the ball over. Helter skelter offense and defense is just an afterthought.
 

Mulligan said:
Don't see it happening because of all the money put into the elite football program. She has brought in a lot of new players and I imagine it's hard to get them all on the same page. Problem is that it seems like there is no page. Relying mainly on 2 players to sprint up the floor and put up a quick shot doesn't work, especially if those two are hot and cold and turn the ball over. Helter skelter offense and defense is just an afterthought.
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Agree that Coyle is in a tough spot with the investment in football (as it should be), but I don't think he'll be afraid to pull the trigger. She is just so far deep in over her head that it's almost impossible not to make a move. The defense (lack thereof) is the biggest thing. It's alarming how little effort is put forth there. And 1 NCAA appearance (no NCAA tourney wins) with WNBA'ers Banham, ZB, Kelley, and likely Wagner is mind-boggling.
 

mega tongue continues to haunt.
 

Go4 said:
mega tongue continues to haunt.
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FWIW: On Matt Gallagher's recent Gopher Sports Update, Marlene said she was hired at VCU by Dave Benedict (who followed Norwood here, bailed to Auburn and is now UCONN AD). And that she really didn't know Norwood that well. I think I remember an article that described Mike Ellis as key to bringing her to VCU. All minor but interesting, to me, points.

http://gophersportsupdate.com/2017/02/01/gopher-womens-basketball-head-coach-marlene-stollings-3/
 


Ignatius L Hoops said:
FWIW: On Matt Gallagher's recent Gopher Sports Update, Marlene said she was hired at VCU by Dave Benedict (who followed Norwood here, bailed to Auburn and is now UCONN AD). And that she really didn't know Norwood that well. I think I remember an article that described Mike Ellis as key to bringing her to VCU. All minor but interesting, to me, points.

http://gophersportsupdate.com/2017/02/01/gopher-womens-basketball-head-coach-marlene-stollings-3/
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On the other hand, at this point, is there anyone who wants their name associated with Teague?
 


I thought that the gals would be better. I guess it falls on coaching for game day performance and recruiting.
 





Shades said:
Got any more details on that? It's unusual for a big college coach to be content an unstable WNBA job.
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https://www.outsports.com/2015/12/17/10423732/curt-miller-gay-coach-connecticut-sun

Firing up the Wayback Machine:

Make no mistake: Miller, hired just this week as the new head coach of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, has been waiting for the right time for quite a while. When he was winning eight straight regular-season conference titles in 11 seasons with Bowling Green, taking the team to the Sweet 16 in 2007, he was a coach on the rise, slightly wary of upsetting the apple cart with a declaration that might take attention from his strong coaching job.

When he was introduced as the new head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball team in 2012 he didn't shy away from his family, introducing his partner and twin sons at the press conference. For whatever reason, no one in the press bit on the story. The moment passed.

In the three years since, his personal and professional lives have taken a number of sharp-left turns. Despite posting the school's best-ever season start (14-0) and tying the school record for most wins in a season (21), he resigned after just two seasons citing personal reasons.

Earlier this year he took a job as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Sparks, his first crack at the pros. Soon after the season ended, he and his long-time partner separated. Still on the career upswing and his personal life upside down, Miller was content keeping his personal life out of the media spotlight.

 

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