One of your best posts.So, if we were successful in implementing something like this:
Each departing coach would be some special enemy other then just being the HC of an opponent?
I wonder how long that would work?
PS Neither Glasco or Alyson would admit, and neither should, that Glasco may have stepped away for Alyson to take over. Every coach we play is an enemy.
Every departing coach will compete for the athletes they recruited here. It is the nature of the then created relationships and the business once they step away.
If the coach leaves because of success, they will always be going to a place that is more financially capable of competing for athletes. They now have a new gig with expectations placed upon them.
It has always been the nature of the relationship but what has changed since about the time Napier left is that in the past, it has not been so easy as it is now to bring athletes with the departing successful coach because of free transferability without sitting out and NIL.
We can only effect what we control. We need to focus on our house to make it better not bitter. Today we have about as great an opportunity to continue to succeed in softball as was out there with a great, highly qualified coach who for her whole life has dreamed of being the HC of the Louisiana Ragin Cajun Softball team. I am quite sure her dreams did not have included free transfers and NIL in them, but she has chosen to overcome that hill, so we should do the same which may include thanking Glasco for what he has given us to bridge to Alyson and thanking him for stepping away no matter what the circumstances may be for about as orderly of a coaching change as possible to occur. Going forward, he, like every opposing coach we face will be an enemy, but not a special enemy . . .
Finally, the only other possibility for this coaching change without competition for athletes would have been for Louisiana and Alyson to sit around and wait until Glasco was ready to retire. Do we believe that would have been a better solution?