Purdue falls to South Carolina 99-51

[DubJellison]

Purdue women’s basketball falls to No. 4 South Carolina 99-51, finishing the Fort Myers trip 0-2.

Women's basketball: Purdue falls to No. 4 South Carolina 99-51

Purdue women's basketball suffers second blowout loss of season, falling to South Carolina 99-51.

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[Gesysp]

Bobinski’s hiring practices are leaving much to be desired right now, with two programs completely in shambles.

 

[asby]

We have played two ranked teams and have lost by 40 plus each time...

 

[MichaelRR]

Gee, who would have guessed hiring an NAIA coach with no D1 experience who credits the previous failed coach for teaching her everything she knows about coaching would fail spectacularly?????

 

[JeffBoiler]

I honestly don’t know what to think at this point. It’s still baffling to me how last year’s team regressed despite having so many returning players who were in their 2nd/3rd year with CKG, and with one another.
I wanna believe KG is the right person to lead and rebuild this program. I like her energy & bleeds-gold-and-black DNA. Such an upgrade from her predecessor IMHO.
Her description of some of the players she has recruited and signed had me optimistic the team would be markedly better…. “Y’all gonna really like Spider” (Jones)…. “Amiyah’s gonna be amazing when she returns (from injury)” … “Collier is the best pure shooter I’ve ever seen or coached”.
This is year 4. I was bummed when MAS transferred after 1 year. Something seems off. Admittedly, I have yet to watch them, but I do read Mike Carmin’s articles, and those on this site, before and after each game. Not getting the feeling things are improving - but it’s a whole new cast for the most part this season.
Hoping for good things from Swanson and the 2 freshman bigs. Hope springs eternal.

Sorry so long and wordy. Just frustrated

 

[JeffBoiler]

Gee, who would have guessed hiring an NAIA coach with no D1 experience who credits the previous failed coach for teaching her everything she knows about coaching would fail spectacularly?????

You know, she did compliment SV shortly after assuming the HC position, saying she (SV) helped her become an All-Big10 player and develop her game to go to the WNBA.
But I think she was just being nice and avoiding being negative about her in the immediate aftermath of SV’s dismissal.

Because most of her subsequent comments about who she talks to, mentor-wise, do not mention SV at all. She talks about her HS coach, Kristy Curry, and even her dad. No mention of SV that I’ve heard or seen.

Regardless, it’s something of an OJT situation for sure. Gotta see some positive movement this year - it’s year 4! Gotta happen.

 

[MichaelRR]

I wanna believe KG is the right person to lead and rebuild this program. I like her energy & bleeds-gold-and-black DNA. Such an upgrade from her predecessor IMHO.

You remember that Versyp was the first MsBasketball from Indiana to committ to Purdue right? She was literally the first building block to making Purdue a competitive team. When Purdue called, she jumped at the chance to coach her Alma Mater. I will fault SV for a lot of things, but never will I diss her over her love of Purdue.

 

[JeffBoiler]

You remember that Versyp was the first MsBasketball from Indiana to committ to Purdue right? She was literally the first building block to making Purdue a competitive team. When Purdue called, she jumped at the chance to coach her Alma Mater. I will fault SV for a lot of things, but never will I diss her over her love of Purdue.

Sorry that’s not what I meant by”upgrade” - was referring to personality and energy. Not Purdue lineage or loyalty. Poor construction of that paragraph by me, putting those 2 sentences back to back.

I remember being despondent that she took the IU job when it opened, then elated that she bailed on them to come to Purdue after only 1 year there. Things just didn’t work out …

 

[rlcosenza]

Purdue women’s basketball falls to No. 4 South Carolina 99-51, finishing the Fort Myers trip 0-2.

Women's basketball: Purdue falls to No. 4 South Carolina 99-51

Purdue women's basketball suffers second blowout loss of season, falling to South Carolina 99-51.

purdue.rivals.com

Looks like a last place team based on the results from the non conference schedule. That was an unacceptable performance against SC.

 

[MichaelRR]

Looks like a last place team based on the results from the non conference schedule. That was an unacceptable performance against SC.

Nah, luckily Northwestern has looked worse. But being left out of the BTT is a real possibility the way we have played so far.

 

[DocRon]

She talks about her HS coach, Kristy Curry, and even her dad….

And Coach Paint.

But yes, good points.
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[purduedavie]

For me a worse loss is the Middle Tenn game where they scored 49 points, at least beat these teams. Let’s be honest, the program sucks right now.

 

[MichaelRR]

And Coach Paint.

But yes, good points.
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But when CKG first took the job, before SV was fired Katie said most of what she knew of coaching was from Versyp and she been calling her about once a week for advice. She runs all the same schemes as SV did, and they were played out 20 years ago. KG is just a mini Versyp with better people skills and worse ability to adjust in games.

 

[BoilerPride08]

Scoring 49 point to a CUSA team is completely unacceptable. This loss was completely... predictable. I thought it'd be by more actually. We are extremely extremelyyyyy long off from competing against the nation's best and that's obvious. I would say that we have regressed in about every year CKG has been here. Her first 2 seasons was by far the best and that was with a roster essentially filled with SV's leftovers. This roster is essentially all hers and we are not anywhere close to a .500 level ball club. I had high hopes for CKG - she came in with a lot of passion and was a breath of fresh hair compared to what SV drove the program to. IDK if its the weight or expecations but she doesn't seem to have the same aura about her she once did. Much like FB - our AD took the cheap route with an extremely young and relatively inexperienced HC. Would love to be wrong - but you seem to know what their trajectory in after 4 years - and I just don't see CKG being the one to turnaround this program. But the quesiton is - this isn't 1999 anymore. With the new NLI era favoring teams in larger markets - I'm not sure if teams like Purdue in the market we are in can compete with getting the best players who are making more in bigger markets (USC/UCLA) and yes Michael. Female athletes ARE getting paid and the elite are getting quite a bit of money. Paige Bueckers just unveiled her new Nike shoe.

 

[MichaelRR]

I agree that in the last two years, women's players stated earning big bank off NIL. It's the uglier side of the Clark effect. But like the men, a good coach with a great ability to develop talent and a solid offensive and defensive system could still compete. But it would be an uphill battle. I don't think KG was a cheap hire, but a lazy one. She got the same salary that SV was getting when she would have taken a quarter of that. Even that would have been a 300% raise over what Marian was paying her.

But I don't want Gearlds fired yet, not until Bobo the clown is fired as AD because I have zero faith that he could find a competent replacement. I am not even sure I trust him to care enough to not just offer the job to the first person he ran into in the hallway.

And I am in no way trying to disagree or argue with you on this one, I think we both can see CKG is in way over her head and Bobo did her a great disservice promoting her to this level before she was ready.