A recent opening. From the State Columbia, SC online newspaper:

Dawn Staley has found her newest assistant coach.

South Carolina announced the hiring of new women's basketball assistant coach Wendale Farrow on Friday afternoon.

Farrow, 37, joins the Gamecocks after four years as an assistant at Southern Cal and fills the hole on Staley's staff left vacant by Winston Gandy, who departed earlier this month to be the head coach at Grand Canyon.

"We struck gold in bringing Wendale into our Gamecock family," Staley said in a news release. "He is an accomplished young coach who has been part of every aspect of successful programs, and that journey has made him a seasoned, complete coach from Xs and Os to player development to recruiting to community service. We're excited to see the huge impact he will make on our team and Columbia."

Shouldn't Cal's academic reputation be a plus for women's basketball? How many of these recruits will make good money playing basketball after college?

oski003 said:

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Shouldn't Cal's academic reputation be a plus for women's basketball? How many of these recruits will make good money playing basketball after college?

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Of course you are right. But, as women's basketball has expanded, there is no obvious proof that the lower level coaches and support groups learned anything from the men's side, that not enough people are keeping it real for these girls as they become women. The women's basketball game is being seen more than ever before, and the WNBA is expanding...so, again, so much (false) hope.
But all of my pontification is out the window anyway. You can be a fairly decent college player, probably not be a pro, and get 300k...that's a good chunk of change to receive long before the diploma is in your hand...