Sheryl Swoopes facing a team mutiny

[dixiehack]

I'd say this coaching hire has gone as badly as possible for Loyola-Chicago. They really didn't get the publicity they were hoping for from a "name" hire, they've gone 31-62 under a novice coach and now they've had 10 out of 12 players request transfers.

Sheryl Swoopes' team investigated after players quit en masse

 

[Ace]

I wonder what kind of alleged player mistreatment we are talking about here.

 

[dixiehack]

Maybe she got them all pregnant.

 

[Songbird]

Leach Treatment™?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Those damn parents.

/shottie

 

[YankeeFan]

Those damn parents.

/shottie

LOL. Beat me to it.

#SnowFlakes

 

[heyabbott]

She's a better hung Bobby Knight

 

[poindexter]

LOL. Beat me to it.

#SnowFlakes

That was a weird bender Shottie went on a couple of weeks ago.

 

[terrier]

God. She was the It Girl of basketball in the '90s...until she came out.

 

[Ace]

God. She was the It Girl of basketball in the '90s...until she came out.

You think a female basketball player coming out has a detrimental effect on her career?

 

[terrier]

You think a female basketball player coming out has a detrimental effect on her career?

Not so much now, but we're going back quite a few years. She was married at the time and had a kid, too.

 

[Starman]

On the bright side for Loyola, if the current roster has gone 31-62 in three years, if they all transfer out and must be replaced with leftover/castoff JUCOs, a couple problem-case transfers from other D-1 schools, maybe one or two mystery walk-ons and a handful of spare-part prep recruits, they probably won't be all that much worse of a team.

Plus if the complaints are justified in any way and Swoopes is fired, it's a pretty good bet whoever the new coach is will be a veritable Mr./Mrs./Ms. Sunny Personality.

 

[Ace]

On the bright side for Loyola, if the current roster has gone 31-62 in three years, if they all transfer out and must be replaced with leftover/castoff JUCOs, a couple problem-case transfers from other D-1 schools, maybe one or two mystery walk-ons and a handful of spare-part prep recruits, they probably won't be all that much worse of a team.

Plus if the complaints are justified in any way and Swoopes is fired, it's a pretty good bet whoever the new coach is will be a veritable Mr./Mrs./Ms. Sunny Personality.

Even if the complaints are not justified, how do you keep a coach if 83.3 percent of the players bolt?

 

[Starman]

Even if the complaints are not justified, how do you keep a coach if 83.3 percent of the players bolt?

Depends what kind of buyout is on the contract.

If the investigation scrubbed Swoopes clean and the buyout is hefty, the administration might say, "what the hell, suck it up for (whatever is left on her contract) and if she goes 3-28, so be it."

In any case if she was cleared in an investigation, she'd probably be nothing but sunshine and cookies for the rest of her tenure.

 

[heyabbott]

Depends what kind of buyout is on the contract.

If the investigation scrubbed Swoopes clean and the buyout is hefty, the administration might say, "what the hell, suck it up for (whatever is left on her contract) and if she goes 3-28, so be it."

In any case if she was cleared in an investigation, she'd probably be nothing but sunshine and cookies for the rest of her tenure.

Buyout, in a Women's DI ****ty basketball job? She gets a souvenir cup and 2 hats

 

[Starman]

Buyout, in a Women's DI ****ty basketball job? She gets a souvenir cup and 2 hats

Ehhh, Swoopes was a celebrity of sorts. Unless Loyola can document she was chaining these girls to pillars in the basement and whipping 'em with rubber hoses, they'll probably have to pay a year or two's salary.

If the evidence of abuse was semi-inconclusive, they might roll the dice she could straighten it out, and if she doesn't, then let her walk.

 

[Buck]

Watch Outside the Lines from Saturday Night Live on NBC.com

 

[tapintoamerica]

A school like that just doesn't have the $$ to buy anybody out for more than a year, I'd think. But how will anybody put together a Division I roster at this late date?

 

[Starman]

A school like that just doesn't have the $$ to buy anybody out for more than a year, I'd think. But how will anybody put together a Division I roster at this late date?

Well, they won't, as I described above; it would be a patchwork mess at best. The best thing to hope for would be to bring in a couple semi-decent upperclass transfers to hold the whole thing together and one or two decent freshman recruits.

But if the coach (whoever it is), has scholarships to hand out, they can probably find somebody to take them.

What are the NCAA limitations on scholie numbers in the case of mass desertions?

 

[DanOregon]

The same thing happened at Oregon State five years ago. Players started transferring out because they were tired of the coach's verbal abuse. They had maybe two players return. The new coach had tryouts, brought a player or two with him from Division III George Fox and they made the Final Four this year.