Tennessee Lady Vols: John Adams on if Kellie Harper is safe regardless

Will Danny White bring back the Tennessee Lady Vols women’s basketball head coach next year no matter what? John Adams of @knoxnews joins to discuss.

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John just naturally said um he he he said well you know Kelly is gonna be back for next year and I’m like I didn’t have my soundboard so I couldn’t play what the H in honor of nor McDonald but you seem to think she’s just fine for next year John

Why because last year they won 25 games and Danny White gave her a contract extension two through 200 28 uh I mean I can see why he did it I wouldn’t have done it but I can see why he did it so I just don’t think he would

Turn around and then after a season uh Tennessee has won 15 games it’s probably going to manage to get in the tournament again so avoid making history by coming the first lady vs team ever not to make the NCA tournament so I just think he

Will I I just don’t know how I don’t know how serious he is about the women’s program what it should be I look at the program more as Pat summit’s program I’m not saying you should be able to duplicate what she did but I think it’s kind of sad that the program has

Continued to decline little by little so it really doesn’t have much of a postseason presence anymore just out of kind of out of a out of respect for Pat Sumit I would like to see the program do better because she did so much for the for the program for the university for

The entire state for women’s basketball in general and now you have women’s basketball the game is really progressed uh you have some really great players in women’s basketball obviously Caitlyn Clark comes to mind now most popular player in the sports history and I think that’s all of all of that I

Think Pat Summit if we if she were here she would be really proud of that because she worked so hard at developing the game but at the same time uh the lady vs program is in Decline it it just doesn’t really have much of a presence anymore and I think that’s unfortunate

But I think it would have to be the administration would have to say we want to be better I’m not saying they should insist on you have to make a FAL four every few years but occasionally make one and that it’s going in the wrong direction right now and it’s going

To be up to Kelly Harper to change it okay I agree with everything you said so just so people know Caleb and I may have have outlandish views sometimes but we’re never uh disingenuous so I don’t want this to be disingenuous I I agree with everything that John said but I’m

Just gonna play devil Devil’s Advocate with Caleb here for a second Caleb that’s practically a non-revenue sport even at their best to break even the football team when I covered them and this has been a while ago but I would assume it’s about the same with different numbers had to donate a

Million dollar to the Women’s Basketball team so that they would break even it’s a lose money situation I am Danny White I’m not going to spend money on a lose situation I’m sorry about the Nostalgia I’m not going to do that that’s me Playing devil’s advocate Caleb you

Answer I don’t really feel that way I believe everything that John said especially about Pat Summit but I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate as businessman here you respond y’all are going to find me crazy but I think you can I actually agree with your Devil’s Advocate take Dave oh

And and I even further disagree with you John and I actually disagree with you too Dave because I think even with that Devil’s Advocate take you can you can actually care about the women’s basketball program um look the difference between the women’s basketball here’s where that Devil’s

Advocate take makes it a little bit different when women’s basketball different than football women’s basketball you’re not going to fire a coach until you’re 100% sure she can’t live up to the goals you want aren’t we all in 100% agreement now we have don’t we have enough evidence to where there

Is not a chance in the world that Kelly Harper will ever make a final for she’s not good enough as a coach we’re as thoroughly sure that topic as Travis says women are losers according to Da hooker I didn’t say that so the so you’re I think I know where

You’re going are you saying if you don’t believe she can win a final four or get to a final four that you’ve got to be looking elsewhere because you’re Tennessee much like Duke is Duke in in basketball and men’s basketball I think once you’re thoroughly sure and I’m

Thoroughly sure she can’t you move on and here’s why I think it here’s why I disagree with you guys Danny White i’ I’ve never been somebody that just like you know falls in love with institutional leaders I’m not that person okay but Danny White’s track record he is the greatest hirer in the

History of athletic directors look at his track record back to Buffalo he is the best in the history of athletic directors he puts Jeremy Foley to Shane honestly in terms of how good of a hire he is at coaches and Danny White if anybody can find a replacement

That we know would be 100% successful and find him for cheap that’s Danny White because Danny White has done it a thousand times over the list of coaches he has found out of nowhere he’s turned into Superstars is insane and John let me let me ask you this question if Danny

Watt believes in his heart of hearts that the best that Kelly Harper can do is sweet 16 maybe an occasional eight but he’s looking into the future and there is not a a way that Tennessee makes the final four in the next five years but you’re still selling out

Financially everything’s good is that good enough for Tennessee BAS basketball let me ask you and it’s brought to you by Don self you’re Chattanooga State Farm agent call 423 396 2126 423 396 2126 go to Don s.net that’s Don s.net over 40 years you will handle your claim

Customer service matters it’s not just about Price shopping so if Danny White could see that an elite eight appearance three sweet sweet 16s and a first round bounce in the next five years should he say yeah good with keeping Kelly Harper especially given the fact that it’s a

Non-revenue sport should he be okay with that well I mean we look at it differently Danny White wasn’t here for the pet Summit era he doesn’t understand the impact he he does somewhat from afar but he really doesn’t understand the impact she had for Tennessee for the school and for the

State and I know it’s an non Revenue sport but I guarantee you she raised a lot of money for that University simply by being Pat submit with all the contact she made with all the fans she had uh she made a huge difference and she was a

Great not just a great basketball coach but a great Ambassador for the University of Tennessee and for the state of Tennessee and that’s my that’s my issue with it because I experienced all of that and so I would look at it differently than Danny White does now also to Caleb’s

Point a guy that’s really good at hiring coaches to me there would be an ego involvement here he’s got because he’s gotta say well look at my track record I’m the man when it comes to hiring coaches yep and I don’t know if he’s ever hired a women’s Coach a

Women’s basketball coach he probably had to and they were both wildly successful okay well there you go uh research is a wonderful thing I didn’t engage in it before this show but I think that’s so uh so if looking at it in that light I would say well I know I can hire

Somebody better and to me if Danny White the hiring Danny White that voice might say I need to do better I don’t want to just have an okay program I don’t want to just be in the NCA tournament I would like to see to me that you know that’s

How a lot of athletic directors are judged it’s not just by their football program but when you have all your you know look at baseball right now you look at softball Tennessee’s got some really good programs going and you want to be a part of that and you want

To make the hires and that’s that looks really good on your resume that we were good in all these Sports not just is football football’s certainly the main thing but that’s why I think it should matter if you look at it from a personal selfish stpoint is an ad Danny White

Should say well I get a better Coach than this I think we should be competing for final fours every year he could say that but I don’t I just don’t see that because he G he gave Kelly Harper a contract extension last year now you

Could say wow she won 25 games she went 13 and3 in the C she upset LSU the eventual National Championship Champion but she was 2 and 12 two and 10 I’m sorry against teams that finished in the final top 25 and she lost to those teams by double digit margin on an average

Game basis that’s how you look at and you look at her recruiting high school athletes it’s not it hasn’t gone well of late so if you look at all those things he could say I believe we can do better and I want us to do better in every

Sport John I’m gonna use this story that I’m not sure I’ve shared with you real quick Caleb and that is um Tennessee got Terry Fair because I know I haven’t told you the story they got ten they got Terry Fair because of the lady balls so they had pretty much a

4-Hour commercial on during the final four and he said man they seem to take their Sports seriously I while I know some people in The Message Board are saying that as long as football’s good everything’s good and that’s the money and I get that um John

To have a 4H hour commercial on ESPN in the final four when nothing else is on that Sunday before the Monday’s men’s game pretty big and um you you can’t buy that and so if you can break even and get those types of exposures then uh you need to expose

Yourself thank you John well okay oh wait John Caleb would like I gotta push back on John real quick because I think the contract extension John I think Danny White if you look at it hyp through 2029 I think Barnes is 2028 I think hyp Danny White believes that if

He’s not going to fire you you at least need five years on your contract for recruiting purposes he feel I think he feels that you’re playing with one arm behind your back if you don’t have a fiveyear contract and then they’ll just do the buyout later I really think that’s dated

Thinking in today’s niio World I don’t think coaches need a fiveyear contract I don’t think that has any impact I was thinking that just the other day I don’t think you need a five-year contract for recruiting and and it’s all about the buyout you can make it a 15-year contract and if the

Buyouts $10 then you can fire them anyway