Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore
William Leon Barmoreis a college women's basketball coach best known for his 35-year association with the Louisiana Tech University Lady Techsters. After five years as an assistant coach, he served as head coach from 1982 to 2002, serving the first three years as co-head coach with Sonja Hogg, who had begun the program in 1974. Upon his retirement, Barmore's .869 winning percentage was the best in major college basketball history...
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It used to be we tried to recruit two or three superstars and put together whatever we could around them, and we'd be successful. You don't get three superstars now, so you have to go out and get five good players and hope you can coach them into something better.
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You watch them up close, they understand each other's strengths. There's no ego there. If there was an ego, it wouldn't work.
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I still hold out hope, but it's going to be hard for somebody out of nowhere to get to the Final Four. Every state university cares about women's basketball now. The edge we had once is gone.
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We've lost one of the giants in this business. I have always felt like Sue was one of the top three or four coaches in the women's game.