Teams hire worse candidates in real time.
and something everyone about head coaches: they're hired to be fired. If you're in rare air, you get to decide when you walk away. If you're lucky, you get fired, but they tell you it's a mutual parting. Most times, you get the boot.
Either Becky or Cheryl Reeve (Lynx coach) will get that call. I think upon hiring Becky, her associate HC gotta be critical.
I wonder if another female as associate HC would be better as to not potentially undermine her as HC...or perhaps a really old coach who is essentially a consultant and there part time