Wow. The one “downside” to the Sweet 16 run was it meant we’d be hang on to Mox, who I was ready to move on from. Now we got all the upside with none of the downside! Credit to Carla for pulling the trigger. (Although if there was some bad ish going on behind the scenes, she may have had no real choice.)
Will be very interesting to see what happens now…
Carla may be coaching now. Ha.
Maybe we could get Serena Williams as assistant coach.
Shocking to me how bad Carla is at hiring women’s basketball coaches, though to be fair I thought Mox was solid on paper when hired.
If all of that is true and she was gone either way, I have no idea why we couldn’t have told Reiss to hold on a week or so. Unless she chose Florida over us, which is certainly possible
I mean except for missing out on the slam dunk alum hire
Hey, Dawn hasn’t said no yet! 
Geno might be looking for a new gig after his antics last night.
Nah, he’s always been an asshat. Just like Calhoun and Hurley.
How is this a disaster? Disaster would’ve been holding on to her after a fluky S16 run and the team all transfers
The transfers out of UGA have to be related to them firing their coach somehow.
I have to think there was at least some back channel communication between UVA and Reiss through agents or search firms or intermediaries. UF might also just be a better job too, I haven’t looked at budgets and stuff but generally SEC > ACC, right?
Generally but I feel like women’s basketball is a little different… Florida to my knowledge doesn’t have the mega donor setup like we do specific to the sport.
Is it possible Hoos got the best of both worlds with this? Proved you can win at UVa even with chaos. And they got rid of the top ah$t stirer and maybe saved the roster.
My exact thought
I’d say so. Don’t have to eat the buyout assuming this qualifies as being fired for cause, go make a good hire and get someone to fully utilize the funds we’ve put into this program.
Oh, if they made this move and it results in Mo leaving, then that might have been as bad a mishandle as hiring Tina was.
Edit - Ooooh. If the abuse allegations are in any way correct, then they had no choice. And if its been under investigation for ~3 weeks, then they should have had time to back-channel with Reiss. In which case its at least possible we tried and Reiss said “no”.
What if she was going to leave had Mox stayed?
If she did leave, she’d be the third star UVa player in the past few years from Cville to leave the nest, starting with Fields and Ford. So it’s not new.
Exactly. This kinda worked in the Hoos favor.
Clean break coming off a sweet 16 run with an emerging 4th yr all american caliber player and a mega donor bought in. I’d jump at that opportunity
Mo > Mox, imo. If Mo wanted Mox gone this year, then Mox should be gone. Keeping Mox and losing Mo this year would probably be as much of a fire able offense as you could have running that sport.
Honestly, the Ford move surprises me the most. He’s from right here, and we know the family a bit and they’d drag his sisters to all of his games (and I mean all. They’d complain about it), the whole family is tight-knit. So him splitting just before his younger sister arrived on grounds as a first first year on the crew team this year (whole family is great athletes, maybe even better than the Langs) always surprised me. I guess the amount of money was substantial.