Monarchs Prevail Over Struggling Sting

[SportsPageMike]

Monarchs Prevail Over Struggling Sting, 65-57

By Gwendolyn Fournier, North Carolina Staff Writer: July 2, 2006

http://www.sportspagemagazine.com/published/pro/monarchs-prevail-over-str.shtml

 

[StevenHW]

It makes me wonder how much longer is Trudi Lacey going to be the General Manager of the Sting. They have been losing for so many years, I'm amazed she is still with that club. Maybe she will be gone after this season ends?

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

She should have been relieved from the GM duties as well when they dumped her as coach. If she was fireable for the coaching job she did, she was equally fireable for the decisions she made with that hat on.

 

[StevenHW]

MBF:

True, about what you said. But of course, if Trudi was fired last year, pundits and female sportswriters --- who have been writing articles about the lack of female Head Coaches in the WNBA --- would now wonder "Where are the female GM's in the WNBA?"

In the early days of the WNBA, almost every team had a female in either the GM and/or Coach. The exception was Van Chancellor of the Houston Comets, and he's still there.

Now that Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil recently left her GM position with the San Antonio Silver Stars (to take a job with Texas Tech as an assistant coach), that leaves only Trudi, Penny Toler (L.A. Sparks) and Carol BlazewhatshernameSki (N.Y. Liberty) being the only female WNBA G.M.'s that I can think of right now.

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

You can't hang on to inept people simply because of their gender. Trudi Lacey demonstrated a tremendous knack for drafting players as GM who she later would say/suggest did not fit her system as coach/were incorrigible/injured/overweight at the outset of their careers with the Sting.

That's why I found it so baffling that she was kept on as GM. I guess the Sting figured she was a good enough judge of talent, she just couldn't coach it. But when you've had the #3 overall pick twice and the #1 overall pick once in her tenure its kinda hard to screw that up.

The next generation of female coaches and GMs will come from the retiring players in this league, they will not come from college. Well, the GMs might, but the head coaches I don't think will.