Women's Basketball hires Natasha Adair as new head coach

[DFW HOYA]

Georgetown has posted a job opening for its head women's basketball coach. Jim Lewis was 11-21 as the interim coach.

If a new hire is made, it will mark the fourth coach over the last four seasons.

www12.georgetown.edu/hr/employment_services/joblist/job_description.cfm?CategoryID=15&RequestNo=20140436

[richfame]

Wow yeah good call sounds like the season was a hot mess. Better luck next year.

[PhillyHoya]

Who was the 4th coach? It was Coach Flo, then Coach Brown and then Lewis. Was there an interim coach in the few weeks between Brown's resignation and Lewis?

[drquigley]

I still don't understand why we don't have the premier women's program. A top woman bballer would rather go to Storrs than D.C.? I can't believe many women figure to get rich in the WNBA but a GU degree gotta be worth more than one from Tennessee or UCONN. Wouldn't you love to recruit for us? Get a good coach and lets turn this program around.

[Dhall]

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

[FrazierFanatic]

Mar 12, 2014 9:44:12 GMT -5 drquigley said:

I still don't understand why we don't have the premier women's program. A top woman bballer would rather go to Storrs than D.C.? I can't believe many women figure to get rich in the WNBA but a GU degree gotta be worth more than one from Tennessee or UCONN. Wouldn't you love to recruit for us? Get a good coach and lets turn this program around.

Women pros frequently make more overseas than in the WNBA; they can make a pretty nice living if they play both, as the top players do. A UConn pedigree undoubtedly carries more weight and gets more $ overseas.

[Problem of Dog]

Well, wasn't hard to predict this.

[Problem of Dog]

Mar 12, 2014 9:08:20 GMT -5 PhillyHoya said:

Who was the 4th coach? It was Coach Flo, then Coach Brown and then Lewis. Was there an interim coach in the few weeks between Brown's resignation and Lewis?

The new coach will be the 4th coach in four seasons.

[hoyas1995]

Esh should apply

[PhillyHoya]

Mar 12, 2014 13:37:56 GMT -5 Problem of Dog said:

Mar 12, 2014 9:08:20 GMT -5 PhillyHoya said:

Who was the 4th coach? It was Coach Flo, then Coach Brown and then Lewis. Was there an interim coach in the few weeks between Brown's resignation and Lewis?

The new coach will be the 4th coach in four seasons.

Duh. SFSer can't do math again

Here's hoping the promise of the IAC brings in someone decent.

[RusskyHoya]

Mar 12, 2014 9:44:12 GMT -5 drquigley said:

I still don't understand why we don't have the premier women's program. A top woman bballer would rather go to Storrs than D.C.? I can't believe many women figure to get rich in the WNBA but a GU degree gotta be worth more than one from Tennessee or UCONN. Wouldn't you love to recruit for us? Get a good coach and lets turn this program around.

Aside from the "making money in Europe" thing, the biggest answer is facilities. The same facilities deficit that holds back the men's program applies even more so to the women, since they don't get to leave McDonough for their games. I do expect the IAC to significantly upgrade the program's attractiveness to recruits. It is also worth noting that we had the Big East Freshman of the Year this year, although she is local and that likely played a major role in her decision.

[drquigley]

But a top athlete in Bball can turn a program around (see P. Ewing) and more than get the attention needed to go pro. And I can't believe a female bballer wouldn't be more attracted to GU and its environment than Storrs. Unlike their male counterparts a woman bballer has to weigh the reality of a pro career (is schlepping alone across Europe on a ball team as attractive to a woman as a man?) against the value of a college education. Like I said, let me in the home of a female athlete and pitch the value of a Georgetown education to her family. I'd have a better shot at getting top talent than JT3 does.

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College of Charleston women's basketball coach Natasha Adair offered job at Georgetown
Andrew Miller

College of Charleston women's basketball coach Natasha Adair has been offered the same position at Georgetown University, The Post and Courier has learned.

Adair, who was an assistant coach at Georgetown from 1998-2004, could not be reached for comment.

In two seasons at Charleston, Adair guided the Cougars to a 35-31 mark, including two appearances in the Women's Basketball Invitational tournament. The Cougars advanced to the semifinals of the this year's WBI.

Adair, who was also an assistant coach at Wake Forest from 2007-12, would replace Jim Lewis if she accepts the position.

Georgetown went 11-21 this past season under Lewis, who was named the team's interim head coach back in October.

www.postandcourier.com/article/20140408/PC20/140409412/1032/college-of-charlestons-adair-offered-georgetown-head-coaching-position

[njhoya78]

Really like this potential hire. Prior experience at GU as an assistant, then worked her way from assistant coach to associate head coach at Wake Forest, and from Silver Spring originally (nice to have local roots). She has the Charleston program on the right track (they lost 23 games the season before she took over), so the challenge presented here will not necessarily be unchartered territory for her.

[lichoya68]

welcome if she is coming has a potential bruiser super star in Ms double double Natlie Butler who reminds me of on stefanie dolson from UCONN just saying could build a VERY good team around her. Will miss Powell and White two great tough hoyas who graduate but NATALIE IS really really good. GO HOYAS we will see.

[skyhoya]

playing in a 1950's high school gym is a tough sell for a quality coach to come here. That said, coach Flo did It here, but it was just a stepping stone to get more money in the SEC. It all boils down to recruiting and the ability to recruit top talent. Georgetown['s excellence is a BIG advantage for recruiting. They just need to write the big check and get who they want to coach the team.

[HoyasAreHungry]

is Terrance Mann's mom any good as a coach at Northeastern? Might make his decision a little easier

[sleepy]

Mar 13, 2014 9:27:43 GMT -5 drquigley said:

But a top athlete in Bball can turn a program around (see P. Ewing) and more than get the attention needed to go pro. And I can't believe a female bballer wouldn't be more attracted to GU and its environment than Storrs. Unlike their male counterparts a woman bballer has to weigh the reality of a pro career (is schlepping alone across Europe on a ball team as attractive to a woman as a man?) against the value of a college education. Like I said, let me in the home of a female athlete and pitch the value of a Georgetown education to her family. I'd have a better shot at getting top talent than JT3 does.

Because Storrs has Geno. If you are D1 women's basketball player the first thing you care about is basketball and where you will get better, general education comes 2nd. You also have a chance to win a championship every year, possibly go undefeated, be apart of an amazing legacy, be well connected in the basketball world, play at least twice as many games on ESPN/Primetime National television, and have actual fans/following at your school and throughout the state. The fact that you can't see why Uconn is a far far FAR more attractive option for any women's basketball player that Georgetown, and frankly pretty much every other program out there, shows how little you know about the sport.

[DFW HOYA]

Mar 13, 2014 9:27:43 GMT -5 drquigley said:

But a top athlete in Bball can turn a program around (see P. Ewing) and more than get the attention needed to go pro. And I can't believe a female bballer wouldn't be more attracted to GU and its environment than Storrs. Unlike their male counterparts a woman bballer has to weigh the reality of a pro career (is schlepping alone across Europe on a ball team as attractive to a woman as a man?) against the value of a college education. Like I said, let me in the home of a female athlete and pitch the value of a Georgetown education to her family. I'd have a better shot at getting top talent than JT3 does.

1. First and foremost, Ewing did not turn the men's program around. Don't discount what Merlin Wilson, Jon Smith, Derrick Jackson, Al Dutch, John Duren, Craig Shelton, et al. did to get Georgetown to a position where Ewing could even consider Georgetown alongside choices like North Carolina and UCLA.

2. The suggestion that women's basketball recruits are somehow more cerebral or more interested in an education as men's recruits is a bit demeaning to both sides. If you are a top recruit, you want to play at the highest level and if that includes the WNBA, all the better.

3. So why haven't top players come to Georgetown in the NCAA era (1982-present)? Lots of factors and more than just facilities. Coaching has been inconsistent--Mary Briese and Cheryl Thompson never built consistent programs and while pat Knapp's programs were consistent, they weren't in the upper tier of the Big East. Terri Williams-Flournoy got some attention, but probably burned as many bridges as she built in recruiting circles. And in the last 20 years, Georgetown has finished higher than 4th place in the conference just twice (1997, 2010). The selections of Keith Brown and Jim Lewis over the last two years did not connote a national program and it does not appear any leading names are in the mix for this search, either.

4. Lots of programs have nice practice facilities and struggle. The idea that the IAC will somehow elevate these programs to the elite is an illusion--it simply brings GU into the same conversation as other schools.

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www.postandcourier.com/article/20140411/PC20/140419784

College of Charleston women's basketball coach Natasha Adair will be named the head coach at Georgetown University Monday, The Post and Courier has learned.

Adair, who was an assistant coach at Georgetown from 1998-2004, was offered the Hoyas head coaching position earlier in the week and came to terms with the school Friday.