Former USC basketball star Tina Thompson, who is part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame 2018 class, was hired today as women’s basketball coach at Virginia.
So why is she good enough to be the coach at Virginia but not USC?
After all, USC had an opening last year. I’m sure someone at USC will tell me that it would be hard to replace one former player (Cynthia Cooper) with another former player (Thompson).
But that is why you do your homework with coaches. USC didn’t really do it with Cooper (or Steve Sarkisian).
Thompson spent the past three seasons at Texas and was associate head coach.
With her USC ties, Southern California background and WNBA/Olympic reputation, she would have been a natural hire.
She probably wasn’t even considered.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
To be fair Scooter, maybe USC wants to see what she can do as a head coach and they might consider next time they hire a women’s basketball coach.
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Women Volleyball coach is from the U of Portland
Men’s volleyball coach had 1 year of HC experience of the U.S. Men’s National Team, other than that, nothing
Gomer Helton had ZERO head coaching experience
Enfield coached at Florida Gulf Coast
Track coach came from Central Florida
Baseball coach had ZERO head coaching experience
Two of the 3 major sports have hires who had no previous head coaching experience, that’s pathetic.
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