Then why has she lost to teams like Rice, Little Rock, TAMU Corpus Christi, Villanova, Ball State, UT Arlington, and other mid majors, unless you think they're making more NIL than us? Less than a handful of teams in the conference have NIL to pay players. Most NIL deals female athletes get are individual brand deals due to their following. Most of the girls on our team the last few years have transferred to smaller schools to get away from Joni and this program. Barker didn't want to play for a losing coach and losing program, why would she?
Not a single one of our volleyball girls were paid to come to Texas A&M and they won a national championship. Morrison and the girls went up against 4 squads bought by NIL and destroyed them. Coaching matters. Now all those ladies get NIL because they are on a winning program led by a winning coach and deserve everything they get.
All this is coaching, poorly constructed rosters, no in game adjustments, no half time adjustments, quarters without a single basket, disastrous recruiting, every player leaving, girls out of shape, girls standing around, 25+ turnovers, poor body language, poor passing, poor ball handling, poor depth, poor shooting, poor rebounding, poor defending. She's had less than a handful of players exhaust their eligibility at Texas A&M throughout her tenure. No one wants to play for her. She threw together a roster of bench players and grabbed her stars from Sacred Heart and St Peters because everyone left her.
Where in the past 4 years, where she's 46-57 (12-40), has she proven she's a great coach of X's and O's. Throughout all our 20 point, 30 point, or even 40+ point losses has anyone sat down and said this is some great coaching right here. I'm sure everyone says wow, those Texas A&M Women play a sophisticated well coached style of basketball.
They did with the previous staff…