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The WNBA Princeton Tigercats defeated Rose City High 104-33 in a hard fought nail biter. Rose City's head coach Shared Murmur noted that the Rosettes just couldn't adjust to the Poison Ivy that littered Princeton's campus and were just "itching" to get home. Luckily they play one of the worst teams in the nation before heading home for Xmas.
 
That performance was just plain embarrassing for everyone involved! Players looked like they quit playing for coach in this one. A blowout doesn't begin to describe the total destruction that took place on the court. Time for a coaching change pronto - couldn't get any worse that it already is! First to worst in just 4 short years! C'mon interim AD, show a little spine and give this program a chance to return to its former glory and give PSU fans a reason to come to the Stott and cheer for their team!!
 
21-47 is PSU's win loss record for the past 3 years....PSU's mission is to keep a coach who her team has abandoned for years because it might appear to be politically incorrect to fire her. Can anyone think of any other reason she is still coaching? She is a terrible recruiter and hasn't had the respect of many of her team members for years. To give you an idea of how bad this team has performed, they have lost to Division II and NAIA teams and barely beat a Division 3 team.
 
Does anyone know when the coach officially came out? Without knowing the exact dates I`m wondering if that has anything to do with the current deterioration of the program? Or is this more normal for her performance at WSU? Maybe the coach she replaced was better than people thought?
 
Some of you should just become Liberty University fans. Not that PSU, by losing by 71 to an Ivy League school in this day and age, hasn't demonstrated that they've quit on the coach in spades.

I'll actually rehash a favorite from an earlier thread...

Pounder said:
freja said:
Why slack now? The consistency of winning is remarkably absent.
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Got money for buyout? Pay up.
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My suspicion is that some donor out in the ether paid to get Nigel Burton's contract finished. Even if I'm wrong on that account, then it's possible PSU blew the wad on the high profile sport. That is, naturally, expected.

Having witnessed Oregon work hard to get everything well-staffed except soccer, then not do anything about Paul Westhead as women's basketball coach (yes, THAT Paul Westhead, who decided it was equally important to keep his WNBA job simultaneously while clearly not recruiting at Oregon) until his contract was up... I'm led to wonder if PSU considers what we'd generally consider a possible priority sport as an actual priority.
 
Murrell officially declared she was out when she was hired at PSU, but she didn't try to keep it a secret at Wazzu.

http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbiansinsports/a/SherriMurrell.htm

Murrell's predecessor (Charity Elliott) wasn't fired, she left to coach at DII UC San Diego. She's now at Loyola Marymount.

To echo Pounder's comment, she hasn't been fired because her contract wasn't up. I think it expires this year (it was extended to 2015 back in '09). She deserves to be fired based on recent on-the-court performance, of course, but the contract situation is a way more likely explanation for her current employment than the idiotic homophobe conspiracy theories espoused above.
 
Her preferences are a distraction. They are not at issue here. She could get off with goldfish for all I care. What I care about, for one, is she used to be a decent coach and then frittered the program's quality all away.

Dismantled it.
 
I don`t care what her preference is either, I was curious if there was any impact on recruiting and the quality of the players she was able to sign before and after to explain how terrible the program has become. When you look at her career more of her good seasons were with players she inherited rather than her recruits. When the roster transitioned to more of her players the less success her teams have had.
 
I scance thought about that but, you're right -- an announced personal preference could easily have great sway when it meets up with others' personal preferences. This is a totally legitimate point about recruiting. Her announcement could have easily acted as a wedge for anyone uncomfortable with her preference being on the face of the program's reputation.

No one wants to take away the coach's free will, but potential recruits are at liberty with their free will as well. Minor points could make all the difference come decision time. Probably not the best strategy when seeking to build a program.
 
mvem...I just read the link you posted re: Murrell's coming out!
Bottom line is the whole issue of sexual discrimination, sexual preferences, team dynamics, who is dating whom, ad nauseum, has absolutely nothing to do with her coaching ability and everything to do with societal implications of being gay in the (sports) world.

I appreciate her and the world's issues around being gay. I don't think it has any bearing on her abilities as a coach which now seem to be taking a giant step into a very large chasm. I don't think her coaching is good. I don't think her assistants are good. I don't think her recruiting is good. Not encouraged.

Lesbianism should not be any reason to fire or KEEP a coach who is riding a horse over a cliff.

Just my :twocents:
 
freja said:
mvem...I just read the link you posted re: Murrell's coming out!
Bottom line is the whole issue of sexual discrimination, sexual preferences, team dynamics, who is dating whom, ad nauseum, has absolutely nothing to do with her coaching ability and everything to do with societal implications of being gay in the (sports) world.

I appreciate her and the world's issues around being gay. I don't think it has any bearing on her abilities as a coach which now seem to be taking a giant step into a very large chasm. I don't think her coaching is good. I don't think her assistants are good. I don't think her recruiting is good. Not encouraged.

Lesbianism should not be any reason to fire or KEEP a coach who is riding a horse over a cliff.

Just my :twocents:
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I have to agree. Keeping a coach on staff just because she is gay is just as wrong as denying them an opportunity just because they are gay.
 
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