OSU's Foster......Gonzo!

[Row6Seat10]

Ohio State fired women's basketball coach Jim Foster today less than 24 hours after the Buckeyes

did not make the NCAA Tournament field.

 

The Buckeyes finished the season 18-13 and 7-9 in the conference.

In 11 seasons at Ohio State, Foster's teams won six Big Ten championships and four Big Ten Tournament titles but never advanced beyond the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. Foster was under contract through the 2017-18 season.

Foster's record at OSU was 279-82 record (.772 winning percentage). He has 783 wins combined at St. Joseph's, Vanderbilt and Ohio State.

 

Coach Jim Foster fired

[HB]

I didn't see that one coming.  He had a prickly personality, and this year's team didn't appear to have good chemistry, but he had a tremendous record.  I guess THE Ohio State University doesn't mess around.

[hskr4life]

That was a ... to put it lightly.... SURPRISE!

[longtimefan]

Whoever they hire knows he/she better win the Big 10  and qualify for the tournament every year if they want to keep their job. Probably get paid enough to take the risk though.

[HB]

I suspect they have someone in mind already, through back channels.  One would think they wouldn't do this without a solid plan.  Otherwise, unlike Pedey.  I am not up on who leading candidates for a move up are this year.  

[Bugeaters1]

Maybe it was due to the fact that the Huskers beat em 4 outta 5 the last two years.

And losing out on Theriot.

[Row6Seat10]

No pressure at all!

 

Gene Smith, the Ohio State associate vice president and athletic
director, and Miechelle Willis, the executive associate athletic
director, delivered the news in person first to Foster.

 

“We look at the resources and the facilities that we have at Ohio
State and the talent that we have in Ohio, and we just really believe
that this is a top-five coaching job,” Willis said. “I think there will be a
lot of high-quality interest in this position.”

Willis said that no one factor led to the decision, but last season’s
first-round exit from the NCAA Tournament and this season’s inability
to gain an invitation obviously weighed against Foster.

“Every year, we evaluate our program,” she said. “We strive to be
nationally competitive, and we believe that we have everything in place
here to be nationally competitive.

“We believe that we should be playing deep into the postseason.”

 

Willis said of hiring the next coach: “We’ve got to get someone in here
that can develop good relationships, if they don’t already have them. We
expect to be in the Final Four.”

 

http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/03/20/foster-fired-after-11-seasons-as-coach.html

[Row6Seat10]

Rumor has it Gail Goestonkors the ex Texas/Duke coach has interviewed at both Ohio State and USC.

[Bugeaters1]

Rumor has it Gail Goestonkors the ex Texas/Duke coach has interviewed at both Ohio State and USC.

She would fit in quite nicely at USC. Alot of show and not much go.

[Row6Seat10]

South Carolina's Dawn Staley will interview next Tuesday.

 

link

 

here's the rumor:

 

 

It looks like the Ohio State Buckeyes have set their sights on Gail Goestenkors as its next head coach.

She will interview there next week - probably Tuesday - when Athletic director Gene Smith returns
from Los Angeles with the men's basketball team, which has advanced to the Elite 8.

 

Goestenkors previously coached the Texas Longhorns and had a record of 102-63 before resigning a little more than a year ago. 

According to a source, Ohio State has also given consideration to Penn State coach Coquese
Washington and Brenda Frese of Maryland - which will be a Big Ten member by 2014 - but poaching a coach from within the conference is not favored. Nikki Caldwell of LSU has also been under consideration
and still may be.

The Buckeyes reportedly made an attempt to lure UConn's Geno Auriemma to Columbus, but he wasn't interested.

[Row6Seat10]

Word is Ohio St is waiting for Louisville to end it's season so they can get an interview with Jeff Walz. South Carolina coach Dawn Staley withdrew her name from consideration last Monday. Read where ex K State coach, now Seattle Storm head coach in the WNBA Brian Agler might have interviewed. 

[Bugeaters1]

I don't remember Brain Agler could you give some insight in to his coaching style.

[Row6Seat10]

Agler basically ran the same system Patterson runs down there now Bugs. He was forced to resign after it was discovered that he payed his players illegally to help at basketball camps, babysit for him, etc. But this next article just out this morning says that OSU might be going with Goestenkors.

 

 

The negotiations between Gail Goestenkors and Ohio State are close to finalization and she is expected to be named the next head coach, replacing Jim Foster by April 12.

Goestenkors coached previously at Duke and Texas and is expected to bring at least one Texas staff member to Ohio State.

 

http://www.swishappeal.com/2013/4/5/4189318/ncaa-womens-basketball-ohio-state-gail-goestenkors-coach

[Bugeaters1]

How do you feel about this hiring ? I think she is a bit over rated as a coach she had all the resource's at Texas and failed. I dont know much about her career at Duke though so maybe I'm a bit harsh In saying she is an over rated coach.

[Row6Seat10]

I think it's a really good hire if she can recruit like she did at Duke.

 

She will learn from her time in Texas. As she found out she wasn't the big fish in the water at Texas when it came to recruiting high schools. As you have A&M, Baylor, OU, LSU and TT battling for top Texas recruits you need to establish good relations with high school coaches. She never really developed that repertoire with the high school coaches hence her not so good recruiting. I think when she was hired by Texas she developed what some perceived as an ego that came off to many as "I'm the big time coach and that Texas recruits would line up outside her door wanting to play for her."  Not the case.

 

When she was with Duke though she recruited the midwest very well. Plus she's well known among AAU coaches in the midwest from her days at Duke. Also, she recruited the state of Ohio very well when at Duke. Come to think of it though, recruiting to Duke would be a lot easier than OSU too because of the Duke education her players got.

 

We'll see though I guess. But I think it's an excellent hire should it go through.

[Row6Seat10]

Well so much for Goestenkors as the new OSU coach:

 

Ohio State's negotiations with Gail Goestenkors broke down once it became clear that another "high-profile" coach was in fact their favorite.

 

That coach was Louisville coach Jeff Walz.

 

Ohio State will continue to pursue Walz and if that doesn't work out, a coach in the WNBA with college experience is also a possibility.

http://www.swishappeal.com/2013/4/7/4194236/ncaa-womens-basketball-ohio-state-coach-search-goestenkors-withdraw

 

I also think Coach Walz stays at Louisville.

[Bugeaters1]

Kinda looks like the Nebraska football hire a few years ago.

[Cazzie22]

In fairness to Coach G, at Duke she was recruiting against a limited group of schools for girls that had the academic acumen to go to elite schools.  It is true that she failed to cultivate rapport with Texas H.S. coaches and didn't keep someone on board from the Jody Conradt era.  She is a Michigan native an might do well at OSU.  The culture in Austin is different and not everyone is up to handle it.

[Cazzie22]

Never mind!  You can see how well I paid attention to the previous post!!!

[Row6Seat10]

Looks like Ohio St found their coach.

 

Washington women's basketball coach Kevin McGuff accepted a similar position at Ohio State on Tuesday, both schools announced. As part of McGuff's contract with UW, he owes the school a $1.75 million buyout.

 

 

http://seattletimes.com/html/huskies/2020790864_huskywomen17.html

[Row6Seat10]

This is an interesting hire. One of the recruits he signed last November was 4-star guard Brianna Ruiz who  picked Washington over Nebraska. Had she known this could happen we might have had a fairly good chance to sign her. She can't be too happy about this. Guess we'll see how that plays out.

 

The ink wasn't even dry yet as McGuff just signed a two year extension to his Washington contract only 20 days ago.

[Row6Seat10]

In somewhat an interesting turn of events Wes Moore the head coach of Tennessee/Chattanooga  the team the Huskers defeated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament takes over as new head coach of North Carolina St. The new head coach at Tennessee/Chattanooga was named today and is none other than Jim Foster.

 

http://www.gomocs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=207599461&DB_OEM_ID=17700

[Bugeaters1]

This is an interesting hire. One of the recruits he signed last November was 4-star guard Brianna Ruiz who  picked Washington over Nebraska. Had she known this could happen we might have had a fairly good chance to sign her. She can't be too happy about this. Guess we'll see how that plays out.

 

The ink wasn't even dry yet as McGuff just signed a two year extension to his Washington contract only 20 days ago.

Can't she get out of the LOI like Murren did when the GBW coach went to Illinios

[Row6Seat10]

Ruiz pretty much re-affirmed her decision to stay with U-Dub after Washington named their top assistant as new head coach and the other two assistants were all promoted.  

[Row6Seat10]

In the "I see you working" department, new Ohio St coach McDuff has hired Cincinnati Taff High School boys basketball head coach Mark Mitchell as an assistant in an obvious effort to secure his twin daughters into going to OSU as both have stated "they'd like to play together in college". Kelsey Mitchell one of his daughters is top ranked in almost every national recruiting site to be found and had over 35 offers after her sophomore year. Before Mitchell was hired though she had more less narrowed down her schools to UConn, Tennessee and Duke.