Brotherags said:

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Corbelli was making in neighborhood of 150k a yr after 25 yrs. bird close to 500k new hire 4 yrs ago. Forget win loss record that's unbelievable for an unproven assistant. What a slap in the face to corbellis. Can't imagine what Woodward was thinking.

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Woodward wasn't thinking anything - ADs don't make hires in non-revenue sports. It is left to either the senior women's administrator or a lower level admin supervising the sport. It's pretty common that there aren't any admin with a clue about volleyball, and since it's not a high profile enough sport to warrant a search firm, they often just call around for recommendations. Bird was though of as the "next big thing" in volleyball at the time and often the admin overcorrects as far as choosing the polar opposite of what they have had, which in this case was a young, fresh and what they thought was a dynamic coach. That's fine if the program has been a total mess, but under the Corbellis it wasn't a mess. It was just a B+ in a department full of A+ programs.

Like I have posted before, Bjork would be wise to lean on former players (and even the Corbellis, who have no beef with him and still care deeply about the program) for this next hire and not just go with the unproven coach du jour.

Either way Bird's gotta go.

So we hired an unproven assistant coach from a totally different region of the country and started her out with a base salary equivalent to two of the most successful tenured coaches in women's volleyball history at Nebraska and Texas . Unbelievable. If we had the program those two men have built at their respective universities our program ,as I'm sure theirs is, would not be termed "non revenue " very long.

Why so much effort here aiming to protect Woodward? He decided on the process whatever it was. The decision was his. He was the decider on the candidate and the salary. It was his responsibility.

It is much more interesting to talk about what is next than theorizing why the former AD might not be held responsible for it.

they did win 25-13 in one set. It's crazy how good or bad they can play in any given set. They have the talent I think to be a mid-pack team. I like the girls on this team but something is not right. Is it coaching, recruiting or just players checked out?

A&M 9 20 25 34 12
LSU 25 25 13 32 15

Got destroyed in the 1st set, actually showed a little competitiveness in the 2nd set. Then when you thought they done they won the 3rd set and then battled like crazy to win the fourth set 34-32. Only to fizzle and lose in the 5th set! Obviously none of the momentum in the 3rd and 4th set carried over to the fifth set! Seems to be a recurring theme here of late. It doesn't look like anything is salvageable in this program and probably best to clean house!

Fair enough.

I think the next coach should be a successful current P5 head coach. I don't think we should leave it up to some advice on who the "next big thing" is. Show me a track record of success.

I'm not sure either. That's why you make the phone call.

I would guess her dream is to coach at Nebraska but that's not going to happen anytime soon, and one thing I am sure about is that a lot of people will leave their jobs for 2 to 3 times the amount they are currently making to do the same job in a nicer place thats cheaper to live in.

If she says no I'm sure there are plenty of similar options without having to hire an unproven assistant.