WBB Coaching Carousel -- THURSDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 SPECULATING ON WHO WALZ WILL BRING IN

Gee, we have seen a lot of assistant and associate coaches come and go for the Louisville WBB  program. Looking back just seven years ago, Walz's staff was Sam Purcell, Steph Norman, Johnneisha Pineda and Beth Burns....although Burns was not officially classified as an assistant. These days,  Purcell, of course, is the head coach at Mississippi State,Norman is an associate head coach at Arizona State, Burns is an associate head coach at USC (Southern California) and Pineda is the only one left at Louisville. Shay Robinson has arrived and departed...joining Florida's staff as an assistant. Amanda Butler came for a cup of coffee and then split for Charleston to become their head coach .

I guess the question is...who will Walz bring in to replace Shay Robinson and Amanda Butler? 

There is a lot of public outcry to have Kasa Robinson join the staff. I'd venture it's be hard to get her off the Marshall WBB staff where she is an assistant, and goes by Mykasa Lucas, since she married Jordan Lucas...who played at Penn State and several NFL squads. I don't see her coming back, but I hope I am wrong. 

Will Walz follow his previous trend of hiring assistants from other programs? My guess is that there's more than a few resumes on his desk in the Kueber Center from aspiring hopefuls. 

And, if that isn't enough, longtime director of video and graphics Lamont Russell will be leaving also to be the director of player development for the Dallas Wings. It was always a pleasure to run into Lamont in the basketball offices and at games when I was more mobile

College basketball is an ever changing world anymore, with the NIL implementation and the advent of players getting five years of eligibility proposal and discussion . Let's see what that does to the power structure of the traditionally strong programs like UCLA, UConn, South Carolina., Tennessee. Louisville, Duke, LSU and others. 

Yes, indeed...interesting times ahead. 

paulie