(04-03-2021 02:11 AM)Pounder Wrote:  

(03-22-2021 11:17 AM)PojoaquePosse Wrote:  Yet the WAC rep was a 15 seed. NMSU has some gaudy win totals and dominance under Mark Trahk and yet still regularly got 15 seeds. I think SFA WBB will be a nice addition. A 12 seed is much better than what the WAC typically gets.

So Trahk came from NMSU?

Dude’s been a character at USC. In normal years, he’s got this dapper LA persona down tight while his teams try to claw your face off. That’s been a sometimes major and sometimes minor part of the gauntlet that is the Pac-12. Kind of trippy to see him relegated to a polo and not much of a haircut this year, but we all have sacrifices to make.

Mind you... I can talk about when I was growing up among Pac-8/10 men’s coaching legends (whether for quality or either main definition of character) in the 1970s and 1980s. Wooden, Stan Morrison, Marv Harshman, Ralph Miller, Dick Harter, George Raveling, eventually Lute Olson. I really think that the current membership of the women’s coaching club in the conference is the equal of that. Tara VanDerveer is the obvious leader, Charli Turner-Thorne is the long-time foil at Arizona State, Kelly Graves is part savant and part-inspired (and maybe a little creepy) hoop junkie at Oregon, Scott Rueck is an ankle-biter in the best sense at Oregon State, Cori Close gets a lot of talent (and does things with it) at UCLA, Kamie Ethridge is an interesting up-and-comer at Washington State, I should probably start mentioning J.R. Payne at Colorado, and you may have seen what Adia Barnes just pulled off with Arizona. This gets more interesting because most rosters may be half represented in the western region.

Sorry for the tangent, but worth mentioning.

Trahk came to NMSU via USC. He had arguably the best stretch in NMSU WBB history (the women do not have the same history of success as the men). Then he was re-hired by USC. I was sorry to see him go.