Megan has turned down the opportunity to be involved in the Rutgers women’s basketball coaching job.
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Good news for Columbia fans. Hopefully she sticks around a few more years.
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Yesterday’s loss was probably the worst of her career. A 16 point second half lead that would have led to a 4th consecutive ivy league title……wasted.
Maybe it had something to do. She always says her job at Columbia is not finished, and I guess that means having a dominant season (winning both regular season and ILT), and a tournament run.
Three of those four titles would have been shared,
and Columbias has still not won the Tournament.
They arter a very good program, but the claims
of clear superiority made here are a bit over the top.
I don’t recall any claims of “clear superiority”.
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I agree with local tiger. If columbia had won yesterday, then they would have the edge, because they won it outright last year, and they’ve beaten princeton four consecutive times. But that didn’t happen and right now, princeton is the ivy league champion, and columbia has been completely dethroned. I don’t even think an ivy league tournament title makes up for yesterday.Because the real champions is the regular season champion. To me this season, was ultimately a failure unless they make the round of thirty two.
“…..the real champions is the regular season champion. To me this season, was ultimately a failure unless they make the round of thirty two.”
You can still edit this. This quote has nothing to do with a really good Princeton team. We lost a great class last year, have played really well and had a shot at the regular season title going into the final game. We were horrible against Harvard. There’s a regular season champ and a tourney champ, despite your definition of “real champions”. There’s a lot to still play for. Either way, saying the season is a failure unless we win the league tourney and a game in the NCAAs is nonsense. To be clear, we have to win out to go to the NCAA tournament so that’s part of the “failure” standard you’ve set. Appreciate the high standard, but season won’t be a failure.
I understand your points about us having lost a lot of great players. Nevertheless, we have a lot of talent and winning the title was right there in front of us. I still can’t wrap my head around how we lost a sixteen point lead to a good but not great team. In terms of the ivy league tournament, it really cheapens the regular season. The regular season champion is the champion. The tournament is just a vehicle to get into the NCAA tournament. Making the tournament is also a yardstick of success for second division teams like brown and harvard, that don’t have the ability to win the regular season championship with their current teams.
The regular season champion is not the champion despite your insistence. They used to be the champion before there were post season league tournaments. They are now simply the regular season champion. Likewise, the tournament champion is not the champion. They are the tournament champion. The only real champion is the team that wins both. That’s the format, regardless of what we all think about it. Making the NCAA tournament is a huge benchmark for the program, the school, alumni and recruiting. Every coach and AD, if they had to choose, would prefer to win the tournament and play in the NCAAs. So we’ve still got a lot to play for.
My prediction is that she leaves in five years, after next year’s class–the best she has ever recruited–graduates.
You heard it first here!
2 years.
There are a lot of minutes being played (out of necessity) by players who have no real gift for scoring. I think we can assume that the players who rarely play would not be better. To me, this particular group of players has achieved quite a bit, considering, and I will be VERY surprised if they make the round of 32.
What happens in 2? She’s going to leave when Dritz is a sophomore, and the best class she has ever recruited is coming in its own?
Yes
Realistically, she’s done a lot here and can’t do too much more. P4 jobs pay twice as much and allow her to achieve her ultimate goal of playing in the tournament every year and having a chance to win a national championship. 5 more years here don’t put her much closer to that so she’ll need to look hard at any good P4 offer. Wait too long and you can miss your shot. Just my opinion.
You could be right. But I assume some part of the $10 million basketball grant was dedicated to her as part of an endowed chair, and she does have emotional ties to Columbia. If I am looking at this issue through rose-colored classes, it is those factors that give me some hope.
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I hope she stays forever! Meg has set a standard for all of athletics. I imagine that when Pilling talked to Poppe and then Hovde, he said “look what Meg has done”. Most of the $8mil for the women endows the coaching position. Not all, but most. That fund kicks out $ each year for the entire staff. It certainly bumps her salary a lot but not enough to match a P4 job. I just don’t think more years of being in the Top 3 or winning a title, maybe making the NCAAs and winning a game or 2 necessarily gets her a better P4 job. I hope I’m wrong though.
She comes off as so incredibly arrogrant. It will turn off (good) P4s the way she carries herself in post-game pressers, etc.
What some people see as arrogance others see as confidence and determination. I would be very surprised if big programs discard a candidate because of that.
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