We had a little series called ‘Tales From The Beat’ last WNBA season. It was initially conceived as a rotating podcast show that would bring beat writers from the league on regularly like AM radio shows typically do. Instead, we’ve tweaked the idea a bit.
This new show will be a little more infrequent but will dive deeper into some of the biggest stories in women’s basketball. Not only is the show designed to put you on to some great reporters and writers in our corner of the sports media world, it’ll allow us to provide some more insider analysis on what’s moving the needle in the game.
On this inaugural show, we welcome in SB Nation’s Mitch Northam. Mitch is one of the sports’ preeminent news-breakers when it comes to the NCAA coaching carousel and owned more than his fair share of stories this cycle. He and I put our heads together to make some sense of the moves that were made, how perceptions created reality and some inside insights on what may come next.
Let us know in the comments if you like the show format, what guests you might want to hear from or what stories we should take a deeper dive on.
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0:00 - Show Introduction
1:11 - Differences between this coaching cycle and last season…
5:08 - Are we done with coaches retiring because of the transfer portal?
6:27 - The Adia Barnes Auburn-Arizona-SMU triangle.
17:02 - How the House settlement can change hiring of coaches and what they prioritize.
24:08 - Carly Thibault-DuDonis not leaving Fairfield and what it tells us about mid-major viability in the long term.
29:05 - Tampering with recruiting and when coaches start to call it out.
32:05 - Can the House settlement change the transfer landscape & the Kiyomi McMiller drama.
35:10 - The next wave of up and coming coaches to watch next cycle.
40:00 - Does Karen Aston have another Power Four coaching move in her?
42:55 - Will there be future coaching movement in the Big East?