Diana, first of all, I was not implying nor was I inferring that I know more than others, even though I played the game competitively for years and coached in several leagues. I even attended Rutgers and played against Teresa Grentz's ladies who won the championship the year the first NCAA's had their first championship. I should've said, I've been following women's BB for 30 years and I know a little something about the game.
As to being more specific regarding accountable, Stringer over the years tends to blame a lot of the mistakes on her kids and not on herself. I would like her to say, This is on me. I didn't have them prepared." In addition, she also needs to realize that she has not done a very good job surrounding herself with top notch offensive minded assistant coaches. No matter how great Stringer is overall as a coach, she got where she did because of her great defense and recruiting. The recruiting is still fine, although we've fallen behind schools that were our peers like ND, Louisville, NC, Duke etc. UCONN is on another crazy level. Her offense or lack of has always been a problem. She has never really learned how to set up an offense that scores easily and often. She needs to be held accountable for that.
To Madhat: I know you're passionate about women's BB but so am I and so are others. This is a forum. We are allowed to vent. I'm not and others who frequent this board during the season are NOT trolls. I've been coming to the women's board since 2001. If Rutgers had lost this game even by 10 points, you wouldn't have heard a peep from me. Losing by 28 points and getting blown out of the building is beyond comprehensible for a Stringer team. If we're not going to score at least play decent defense, something Stringer teams are famous for. Last night, we did neither. So it may be only a second game and let's all hope looking back as the season progresses, that it's a minor blip, but last nights mauling was eye popping and very concerning.
