Feature on Dawn in GQ
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Another read about an amazing woman. She not only demonstrates and lives a vision for those she mentors, she is also able to effectively communicate her vision to those whose life experience has been nothing like hers.
Great profile. Didn’t realize that DS was considered such a disciplinarian coach.
I've heard that for years. She has been quoted often about this "no young person will tell her how to run her program" and it has been used against her in recruiting. Don't think she minds at this stage and she shouldn't. She has found a balance of nonsense during practice and games but have fun when appropriate.
Tried to read it. Couldn't make it past the first intro sentence.
Great article. My two favorite parts:
"Dawn finally rolls up in a tricked out Mercedes AMG G-Wagon in black matte paint and crispy, chrome finishes with dual twin turbo exhausts. You know it’s her by the license plate: It reads “2017 National Champion,” extolling the second ever NCAA basketball title won by a Black woman coach."
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The last time I came to South Carolina, Ray Tanner, the school’s athletic director and two-time national champion baseball coach, told me that Dawn would one day surpass him. Behind closed doors, she told Tanner, promised him, really, that she’d win more national championships than him. She has one so far, which is one more than any Black woman other than Carolyn Peck (with Purdue in 1999), thanks to years of racism keeping them sidelined from the coach’s chair. “I would like to have a few more championships,” she says. I ask her if she’s finally ready to claim her throne as the best in the sport. “I feel like it's our time, I do. I feel like we built for this moment,” she says. Even for a national championship? ““Yeah,” she says. “That’s the goal. That’s what we want. I do think we’re ready for the challenge of being that team. And if you're gonna look at the leader of it, yes, I'm ready. I'm ready for whatever.
“I'm never scared.”"
"Dawn finally rolls up in a tricked out Mercedes AMG G-Wagon in black matte paint and crispy, chrome finishes with dual twin turbo exhausts. You know it’s her by the license plate: It reads “2017 National Champion,” extolling the second ever NCAA basketball title won by a Black woman coach."
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The last time I came to South Carolina, Ray Tanner, the school’s athletic director and two-time national champion baseball coach, told me that Dawn would one day surpass him. Behind closed doors, she told Tanner, promised him, really, that she’d win more national championships than him. She has one so far, which is one more than any Black woman other than Carolyn Peck (with Purdue in 1999), thanks to years of racism keeping them sidelined from the coach’s chair. “I would like to have a few more championships,” she says. I ask her if she’s finally ready to claim her throne as the best in the sport. “I feel like it's our time, I do. I feel like we built for this moment,” she says. Even for a national championship? ““Yeah,” she says. “That’s the goal. That’s what we want. I do think we’re ready for the challenge of being that team. And if you're gonna look at the leader of it, yes, I'm ready. I'm ready for whatever.
“I'm never scared.”"
If you had seen some of the Dawn Staley threads I have deleted on here over the last few years, you would understand that first sentence.
If college basketball is racist, it's doing a lousy job of being racist.
Look at ownership and management, you know, the people who make decisions and make the most money, not labor.
First two sentences
Whewwwwwww, baby. It is sizzling in Columbia.
Clearly he thinks the article defames summers in Columbia.
Doesn't ownership and management earn more than labor in every industry and business?
Yes!!! That’s the whole point I was making. Saying basketball isn’t racist because the labor is African American ignores the dynamic of who has power and makes EVEN more money. And Management is over whelmingly not African American.
That must suck. USC finally has a legendary coach and dominating a sport and you're not a fan.
"Dawn Staley Doesn’t Care What You Think"
Geno and Summit are/were legendary coaches that dominated the sport. Staley isn't there yet.
That being said, it would surprise me if she wasn't named in that same list one day.
Undoubtedly. Has been for a while since Ray left coaching.
Not really a high bar at this point.
She sets the bar far higher than anyone else can jump.
Apples and oranges. Not taking anything away from Staley, but it's easier to be more successful in women's sports if a school commits to it. Many schools and their fanbases just don't care about it. Much harder to be successful in most men's sports because that's what most fanbases really care about.
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