Women's Hoops Turnover

[ilikeInfoCision]

Don't know if anyone had noticed yet, but there are three significant names missing from last year's successful women's hoops team:

Sophomore Center #44 Kyle Baumgartner (starter) (10.1 ppg, 6.0 rpg)

Junior Guard #12 Amber Witt (starter) (4.5 ppg, 1.2 rpg)

Associate Head Coach Curtis Lloyd

Wasn't there alot of players who left this team a few years ago? What is Coach Kest up to?

[ZachTheZip]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

[PA ZIPPY]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

I think they are making space for a new player. Denise J. Cooper. It's posted on the biglead.com. Copied below (hope the attached file thing works)

Ohio University point guard DJ Cooper must have sensed there would be that all too familiar lull in world of sports news and took it upon himself to revive the pulse in the form of a fancy bikini top. Um, well done? I’m sure his teammates will let him forget about this one by the end of the week. The image amazingly comes via Mr. Cooper’s own twitter account.

[Zipmeister]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

I think they are making space for a new player. Denise J. Cooper. It's posted on the biglead.com. Copied below (hope the attached file thing works)

Ohio University point guard DJ Cooper must have sensed there would be that all too familiar lull in world of sports news and took it upon himself to revive the pulse in the form of a fancy bikini top. Um, well done? I’m sure his teammates will let him forget about this one by the end of the week. The image amazingly comes via Mr. Cooper’s own twitter account.

Yummy. A little pocket pool action going on too.

[ROCK1]

Baumgartner is walking on at Toledo.

[ZachTheZip]

Baumgartner is walking on at Toledo.

Are you sure? Losing our starting center to a conference opponent is a huge blow.

[skip-zip]

I'd sure like to know more. Those are two big players gone Especially Baumgartner, who looked to have potentially a great career ahead of her here. What happened?

[Z.I.P.]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

Well, I've tried giving this lady all the room she needs to provide a winner. She keeps giving away -- or throwing out, the resources she needs to win. Was Kyle Baumgartner not MAC Rookie of the Year? Akron would be MAC favorites in 2010-2011, if the team had all the players that she has shoved out the door.

I'd can't wait to read the Great GP One's "Get rid of all those troublemakers. Winning is all that matters" reply.

[ZachTheZip]

Coach Kest announced via Twitter that Sam Dixon has been named the new assistant coach, and that Ayla Guzzardo is returning as a Grad Assistant.

[zip37]

Z.I.P. A rush to judgement, don't you think? Maybe they were troublemaakers i.e. Bubba, time will tell the story.

[GP1]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

Well, I've tried giving this lady all the room she needs to provide a winner. She keeps giving away -- or throwing out, the resources she needs to win. Was Kyle Baumgartner not MAC Rookie of the Year? Akron would be MAC favorites in 2010-2011, if the team had all the players that she has shoved out the door.

I'd can't wait to read the Great GP One's "Get rid of all those troublemakers. Winning is all that matters" reply.

The program has, without question, gotten progressively better since JK took over the team at the expense of our long history of miserable WBB teams. I would argue she has performed the best turnaround in school history and there is still a long way to go. I would also argue she is the best coach on campus because of her results....winning, and where the team came from....look at past records. At times, there will be a bump along the road. We'll see if this is a bump or if it is nothing.

I wouldn't be too impressed with post season awards in the MAC.

We don't really know why these players are leaving. I would like to know. If they are problems, goodbye to them. If they don't like it at UofA, goodbye to a potential malcontent. You can't let the animals run the zoo.

[Z.I.P.]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

Well, I've tried giving this lady all the room she needs to provide a winner. She keeps giving away -- or throwing out, the resources she needs to win. Was Kyle Baumgartner not MAC Rookie of the Year? Akron would be MAC favorites in 2010-2011, if the team had all the players that she has shoved out the door.

I'd can't wait to read the Great GP One's "Get rid of all those troublemakers. Winning is all that matters" reply.

The program has, without question, gotten progressively better since JK took over the team at the expense of our long history of miserable WBB teams. I would argue she has performed the best turnaround in school history and there is still a long way to go. I would also argue she is the best coach on campus because of her results....winning, and where the team came from....look at past records. At times, there will be a bump along the road. We'll see if this is a bump or if it is nothing.

I wouldn't be too impressed with post season awards in the MAC.

We don't really know why these players are leaving. I would like to know. If they are problems, goodbye to them. If they don't like it at UofA, goodbye to a potential malcontent. You can't let the animals run the zoo.

Hey, it's a rainy Saturday night in Honolulu, so what else is there to do but reply to my bud GP-1? The number of players who have departed coach Kest's program over the past three years is fast approaching double figures. No, we don't know the exact reasons behind the departures (some of them at least). But regardless of the reasons, in no way can it be other than a black mark on the team and its leader. Who is the one who recruited these players? I believe in nearly all of the cases, it was Kest who brought them to Akron (the W Va guard was a freshman on Kest's first team, maybe one other). Seems that if these players cannot somehow live up to the standards set by Akron Athletics, then Kest has to take the blame for bringing them here in the first place. If the players are departing because they prefer to play for another program and coach, that also reflects on her coaching style. In either case, it is a repetitive problem that is preventing the team from reaching it's potential. Kest has doubtless turned the program around, and deserves credit for that. The program is on a stronger footing than before her arrival. I think, however, that any objective observer would have real concern over the high number of players who have been unable to continue and graduate from UA. I think that according to the NCAA graduation rate formula, the program will end up losing scholarships on account of these departures.

[GP1]

Coach Lloyd was hired away to be an assistant at Minnesota.

Don't know about the players, though.

Well, I've tried giving this lady all the room she needs to provide a winner. She keeps giving away -- or throwing out, the resources she needs to win. Was Kyle Baumgartner not MAC Rookie of the Year? Akron would be MAC favorites in 2010-2011, if the team had all the players that she has shoved out the door.

I'd can't wait to read the Great GP One's "Get rid of all those troublemakers. Winning is all that matters" reply.

The program has, without question, gotten progressively better since JK took over the team at the expense of our long history of miserable WBB teams. I would argue she has performed the best turnaround in school history and there is still a long way to go. I would also argue she is the best coach on campus because of her results....winning, and where the team came from....look at past records. At times, there will be a bump along the road. We'll see if this is a bump or if it is nothing.

I wouldn't be too impressed with post season awards in the MAC.

We don't really know why these players are leaving. I would like to know. If they are problems, goodbye to them. If they don't like it at UofA, goodbye to a potential malcontent. You can't let the animals run the zoo.

Hey, it's a rainy Saturday night in Honolulu, so what else is there to do but reply to my bud GP-1? The number of players who have departed coach Kest's program over the past three years is fast approaching double figures. No, we don't know the exact reasons behind the departures (some of them at least). But regardless of the reasons, in no way can it be other than a black mark on the team and its leader. Who is the one who recruited these players? I believe in nearly all of the cases, it was Kest who brought them to Akron (the W Va guard was a freshman on Kest's first team, maybe one other). Seems that if these players cannot somehow live up to the standards set by Akron Athletics, then Kest has to take the blame for bringing them here in the first place. If the players are departing because they prefer to play for another program and coach, that also reflects on her coaching style. In either case, it is a repetitive problem that is preventing the team from reaching it's potential. Kest has doubtless turned the program around, and deserves credit for that. The program is on a stronger footing than before her arrival. I think, however, that any objective observer would have real concern over the high number of players who have been unable to continue and graduate from UA. I think that according to the NCAA graduation rate formula, the program will end up losing scholarships on account of these departures.

I'm not sure the program has been prevented from reaching its potential. They are functioning at a higher level than ever and have gotten progressively better each year.

While I don't know NCAA rules completely, my understanding is if these girls go to another school and graduate, it does not count against our graduation rate.

My concern about the recent departures is they were good players. Kest ejected a lot of the garbage that was around the program early on, but never good players. What I should say is the garbage was replaced by better players. What has changed in the past year? Well, Coach Kest has a boss as well. Maybe the culture of the Athletic Department has changed and JK is being required to manage her program differently than when Mack was at the helm. We saw how our AD completely overreacted to the Reno incident less than a year ago. Maybe some situations presented themselves in the past year that were reacted to poorly as well with these young ladies. I would be interested in knowing these answers. You worry about the leadership at the top of the WBB program, I'm worried about the leadership of the Athletic Department in general.

As long as TW is the AD, I will be worried about the future of the Athletic Department. I just haven't been impressed and quite frankly, I've been mostly disappointed by what I have seen in the past year.