Kathy McConnell-Miller

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

http://www.wnba.com/shock/Kathy_mcconnellmiller__assistant_coach_tulsa_shock.html

http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/blog/8/entry-54-kathy-mcconnell-miller/

Come on, Rick; she's just up the road in Tulsa as an assistant now in the WNBA. She took a historically crappy Tulsa women's program to a couple of WNITs. She took Colorado to the WNIT while fighting among Sherri Coale and Kim Mulkey and the rest of the strong women's Big 12 basketball field.

Stopping clowning around and interview this woman. She's good.

Here she is in her current job of coaching freakishly big professional women's basketball players in the WNBA:

Here she is during Colorado's WNIT run:

She comes from a basketball family, with a brother who has been a college head coach, brothers who are high school basketball coaches, and a sister who is the head basketball coach a Duquesne: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4736696

Come one, Rick...I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'...two former Big 12 coaches - Dan McCarney in football Kathy McConnell-Miller in women's basketball, yo:

[Harry]

Not bad...not bad at all. +1

[LakeTravis]

hot

[Censored by Laurie]

GWTOWBBFMT?

[greenminer]

GWTOWBBFMT?

Well played, imo

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

So...? Rick?

[VideoEagle]

She seems like a great choice. Head coaching success are d1 and pro plus she looks good.

[Harry]

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[VideoEagle]

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I"m sure we can get her a Mean Green sweater.

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

The back story on Tulsa basketball is that they dropped their women's program after the 1986-87 season. They resurrected it again in 11 years later in 1997-98. McConnell-Miller, then aged 31, was hired four season later for the 1999-2000 season and stayed until being hired away by Colorado following the 2004-2005 season.

It goes without saying, then, that she is Tulsa's all-time winningest women's basketball coach. She led the program to two WNIT appearances. At CU, she took a program that had sunk to 9-21 under a longtime coach, and built it to a WNIT qualifer.

Although her overall record at CU was only 65-88, she was 20-60 in the Big 12, which was full of perennial national powers Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and Baylor. Basically, she was rebuilding a program in a very potent shark tank.

My guess would be that having been through WAC competition when Louisiana Tech was still highly ranked, then going through the annual buzzsaw of Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and Baylor, she'd probably be able to handle Sun Belt competition.

The only question might be money. CU was paying her almost $400k. We were paying Aston about half of what McConnell-Miller was making with the Buffs.

But, as I contended all along in football, coaches are competitive and like to coach. Kevin Kokjohn told Dan McCarney at the Plano coaches caravan that I'd mentioned his name as a coach a couple of year before, McCarney said to me, "Well, why didn't you say something two years ago?"

I did! But, Rick was tied up with Dodge Mania.

Coaches like to coach. My guess is, McConnell, who roots are more in college basketball, would forsake the WNBA assistant role and at least give us a look.

At 43 going on 44, there's still many years left in McConnell's tank. Hopefully, she can fill it here.

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

So, now that Darth Aston has stolen our assistants as well, have we hired this lady yet? Also, which conference are we in?