La-Force hired as URI Women's Coach - '14-'15 Season

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 10 years ago

Per the FB account for The Independent and sports editor Bill Koch: Cathy Inglese’s contract won’t be renewed as the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball coach, sources confirm. The Rams went 7-23 in 2013-14.

SG Edit: Merged two topics together.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 10 years ago

Good move by the school, would have liked to have seen thus move earlier but no time like the present.

http://www.gorhody.com/sports/w-baskbl/ ... 0328db0vp6

STC · Unread post by **STC** » 10 years ago

Rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 10 years ago

It wasn't just the performance of this year. Her tenure was a disaster on the court from start to finish as Inglese posted a 30-115 record and was just 6-66 in Atlantic 10 play. Don't really understand what happened. I thought it was a great hire when it occurred as she had been successful at all previous stops (Vermont and BC). She was given enough time to show some positive momentum but couldn't. I hope she can find more success in her next job.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure anyone can quite figure out how she failed so miserably here at Rhode Island after high levels of success (great success) at her previous schools.

rhodyrudder · Unread post by **rhodyrudder** » 10 years ago

No talent to work with.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 10 years ago

rhodyrudder wrote:No talent to work with.

Why was she unable to get talent to Kingston when she was able to do so at Vermont and BC?

The A-10 is actually a decent women's league so that should not be the problem with recruiting. It sent three teams to the NCAA (Fordham, St. Joe's, and Dayton). SBU and Fordham were recent A-10 champs. Why can't Rhody women's basketball at least achieve competitive status in the league?

neil · Unread post by **neil** » 10 years ago

Many years ago I taught with Kathy when she was a phys. ed teacher in Glastonbury Ct. Great person, but there was no improvement in the time she was at Kingston. When does Geno's contract expire?

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 10 years ago

This will be an interesting hire. Perhaps Thorr can do no worse than going after a very, very hungry and motivated younger coach who has local ties and has an eye on a much, much, much bigger picture of achieving greatness.
For what it's worth, here's the type of person I'd be intrigued by:
http://www.providencejournal.com/sports ... -coach.ece

Rhody4012016 · Unread post by **Rhody4012016** » 10 years ago

Misto is a great coach and strives to keep her athletes on a good path. As a WHS grad I was so mad when she resigned but I understood why. The only obstacle with hiring her is who will be on her staff to help out recruiting and so on.

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 10 years ago

There are always ways to get good recruiters who are young and aggressive, who have are also up-and-comers. Also, it's feasible to latch onto a coach with college bench-experience. Surround Misto -- or someone like her -- with the right people, and URI's women's program has a chance to be on the upswing.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 10 years ago

No surprise, given the record body of work....someone off the coaching tree of Brian Giorgis of Marist College, where the womens program is a bigger deal than their men's......

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 10 years ago

I would approach Dailey or Shea Ralph at UConn to see if there is any interest in our opening....

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

I don't get why the women's program has been such a mess since Linda Ziemke's latter
days?
The women's program used to be pretty good, when Michele Washington was around and
at other times through the years. It's been pretty moribund for the last 16 years or so.
Just a quagmire of a program.
I've seen Cathy Inglese at several functions and she seems like a sincere person, and seemed to say
the right things.
I've also seen her team several times, and while they played hard, the lack of talent was pretty obvious.
It's mind boggling how such a successful coach at her two prior stops, failed to have
any positive impact at URI.

Hal Kopp · Unread post by **Hal Kopp** » 10 years ago

This whole thing is getting a little scary. The Ryan center,great new SADC,great location,scholarships and no good players want to go there ? Or the coaches can't recruit them? There is one prominent booster that has been screaming at me (for years) ,it is not the kids,it is the coaches !! Am inclined to agree.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 10 years ago

I saw this in the football thread and it drove me nuts there too. Can we please stop advocating for the university to hire RI high school coaches for head coaching positions? They're not qualified for the position. They've never had experience coaching in colleges, they don't have experience recruiting on a national level, they're simply not qualified, no matter how well they represented your home town or how much you liked playing for them when they coached you. And saying, "well just put the right support staff around them and they'll be fine"? Guess what. Nobody that can help them on a college level is going to want to take marching orders from a high school coach, because they're more qualified for being the head coach than RI high school coach X. If Coach Misto, or any other high school coach gets even a sniff at a URI coaching position, it should be as a recruiting assistant that can help with in state recruiting, though frankly that might even be a waste of a coaching spot with the lack of talent coming from the state.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

Thx RhowdyRam02. Exactly. Let's see how serious Thorr and his dept are in making women's basketball competitive.

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 10 years ago

"This will be an interesting hire. Perhaps Thorr can do no worse than going after a very, very hungry and motivated younger coach who has local ties and has an eye on a much, much, much bigger picture of achieving greatness.
For what it's worth, here's the type of person I'd be intrigued by:"
My point was that the woman has principles and is driven to do things in a particular way, a team-oriented way, all the while achieving results on the floor with limited resources.
I agree, go after someone who has been an assistant at the feet of coaches at UConn, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Baylor, NC State, etc.,
Sometimes, it doesn't have to be complicated.

jwinger2226 · Unread post by **jwinger2226** » 10 years ago

i have family up at UNH and Maureen Magarity is someone who i've seen in person (since they trashed uri at the Ryan Ctr a few years ago). she took over a program that was in similar shape to uri four years ago and has built them into a 19-game winner. rising star, head coaching experience, you know she can recruit nationally (Army), and a member of the Giorgis coaching tree (Marist). might be worth a look

EricRueb · Unread post by **EricRueb** » 10 years ago

This might be crazy talk, but how about Bob Walsh as a replacement?
I don't know if he'd want to switch to the women's game, but he's a terrific coach and D-I is D-I. He can recruit with the best of them and who knows, he could end up doing what Geno did at UConn in the mid-80s.

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 10 years ago

At first glance, I dismissed it as a rube, Rueb…..but then again, the lure of becoming the next Geno….
By the way, congratulations on the great addition!!!!!!!!!!

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 10 years ago

UCOnn is the top program in the country ... they're down the road so to speak...Call Geno and ask for a recommendation. It's simple.
If that doesn't work, hire Skinner.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 10 years ago

How about Shea Ralph. 10 years as an asst., 5 with UConn.

STC · Unread post by **STC** » 10 years ago

Iggy1979 wrote:UCOnn is the top program in the country ... they're down the road so to speak...Call Geno and ask for a recommendation. It's simple.
If that doesn't work, hire Skinner.

I like this plan.

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 10 years ago

Any word on candidates???????

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 10 years ago

Bump

Crickets chirping on the hiring of a new coach......

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

School did say there would be no further comment until new coach is named, but yeah. Not much demand for rumors even if there were any to spread.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 10 years ago

Announcement coming soon. Not "this week" soon but soon.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

Hopefully the announcement isn't: "Nobody wants this job"

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 10 years ago

In the recruiting forum Rod mentioned that Terance Mann's mother, Daynia La-Force, interviewed for the head coach's position. She's spent the last eight seasons as the head coach at Northeastern. Here's her bio from their site: http://gonu.com/coaches.aspx?rc=440&path=wbball

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 10 years ago

Supposed to be an announcement this week, so I was told.

If it's La-Force, hopefully Terrance comes with her, as in he commits in November, since he's a '15. I would think he'd visit this summer?

If he does, there's our SG/wing of the future. Then we'll need just a post grad for this season.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 10 years ago

Ace, what say you? Is La-Force with us or not?

BFC · Unread post by **BFC** » 10 years ago

Justns11 · Unread post by **Justns11** » 10 years ago

Do you guys think this will help us with Terrance? Honestly, I'm not sure if my mom being the HC somewhere would persuade me to go to school there. After HS I wanted to get away.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

Hearing tomorrow could be the announcement.
Having LaForce here can't hurt. If she's a typical basketball coach,
she's not been spending a lot of time with her son, anyway.
Plus, he's been away in NH this year.
Now come Gerbil Jim Donaldson's anti-URI sniping articles.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 10 years ago

BFC wrote:

Good find BFC.
Outstanding work by Rod to have had some insight and knowledge of this as a future possibility.

As for Mann's mother being the HC for the Women's Team having a possible impact on Mann maybe choosing URI as his school?

Everyone is different - sure some want to get away from home in picking a college...................
but the advantages are there if he want's them.
Able to play in front of his Mom for at least every Home game plus able to play in front of Mom against close by competition including UMASS, PC, Fordham, etc.
Many kids are very close to their mother -
I like this hire very much.
I always thought we held on to our current Coach for too long.
Welcome to a new era - good job by Thorr in changing Coaches - I hope this is the hire.

Rhody4012016 · Unread post by **Rhody4012016** » 10 years ago

Someone told the independent/Koch that la force is the person they are hiring. Just another confirmation.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

Announcement Friday, because Dooley is out of town.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

And, as is the case many times, this story broke last
week on Keaney Blue.
Many thanks to my sources.

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 10 years ago

Interesting that Koch mentioned that URI had offered her son. Now, we'll see if hiring her makes a difference.

STC · Unread post by **STC** » 10 years ago

88-154 is hardly anything to get excited about but if it gels us land Terance Mann then I'm all for it.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

You're not going to get Geno Auriemma.
This is a tough job, that needs the AD to figure out
what's wrong and why it's hasn't worked in almost 16 years.

URI96 · Unread post by **URI96** » 10 years ago

rodfromcranston wrote:You're not going to get Geno Auriemma.
This is a tough job, that needs the AD to figure out
what's wrong and why it's hasn't worked in almost 16 years.

Let's face it, nothing has ever worked for this program save for 1-2 recruiting classes in the mid 90s.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 10 years ago

it's official now

BFC · Unread post by **BFC** » 10 years ago

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 10 years ago

Announcement on Twitter? Geez! Come on Thorr!

Rhody74 · Unread post by **Rhody74** » 10 years ago

Welcome Daynia! Hope Terrence joins you in a couple of years!

Smokinjimit · Unread post by **Smokinjimit** » 10 years ago

Congrats and best of luck.

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