She brings 7 years of experience coaching at Purdue; 2 seasons coaching at Wisconsin; and 1 season coaching at Boston College. So, that's more than if Vic had tried to promote someone internally who is much less qualified. And, obviously, she's had great success as a player at many different levels.
From a recruiting perspective, most likely has no connections in the state of Texas, California, or the southeast which are the areas we recruit the most. So, let's hope our final assistant coach does have those connections.
No offense to those programs, but each seemed like a step down from the prior one (unless she was making moves for personal/family reasons). BC has had no NCAA post-season history and neither does Wisconsin. While at Purdue, the program did finish in the Top 32 three of seven seasons.
What can I conclude by the timing of this hire? I don't believe that she's an assistant coach we had to wait for 5 months to make a decision. Lindsay's twitter account shows photos of her in July with the BC recruiting staff. Either Vic didn't start the hiring process until just recently, or he was waiting many months for a decision from a different candidate who decided not to accept the job in the end. Deja vu' like last summer, IMO.
Regardless, our players deserve to have a full coaching and support staff 12 months in the year. You can't be a program that brags about immense resources if you aren't providing them every day. Nothing good comes out of being short-staffed the last 5 months, IMO.
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