An earlier poster wanted to know who were the best women's college coaches in Georgia.

Entlich, Patberg, King, Faulconer, Holeman, anyone else even in the discussion? I know O'Sullivan has had some past success, won a national title at DII.

no doubt! He's the best without even having a team, he's that good.

Both are successful with limited resources

Good coach. I'd throw him in there as well.

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Thanks for starting this post! Do you think Holeman and the UGA program can be consistent in making the NCAA's and even make it as far as the quarters some year? Can King turn it around after a rough last year? The DII coaches you have mentioned have done a good job in building very good programs and seem to be quality people, also.

King gets a lot of credit for winning a DII national title and well deserved. KSU has struggled as of late and it will be interesting to see if he rights the ship. Do you think Entlich or Faulconer will ever test the DI waters, or are their current DII positions too cushy to leave?

They won't leave

In recent years, King has relied on finding a few special players from international sources and from left higher level D1 teams. When the players were actually special, his teams did well.

The DII coaches have found a niche by attracting players that might usually go to higer level programs. That same formula would be much more difficult to repeat at a DI school which had a bigger program than their DII schools (bigger budget, better facilities, etc.) because they would be getting the same type of players but competing against stronger teams. I don't think anyone would consider going to a DI school that had a similar level of commitment compared to their current situations (unless they were young and were possibly thinking about the long term).