Updated Lady Vols Head Coach Hot Board

Carolyn Peck

Coaching Record:

Purdue head coach (1997-99): 57-11
Orlando Miracle head coach (WNBA, 1999-2001): 44-52
Florida head coach (2002-07): 72-76

Pros: 

Carolyn Peck hails from Jefferson City, Tennessee and played for Vanderbilt in the late 1980s, and she was brought on as an assistant coach under Pat Summitt in 1993. She helped the Lady Vols win two SEC titles and helped them to the national title game in 1995. She served as an assistant at Kentucky and Purdue before being promoted to head coach for the Boilermakers. In just her second season there, she helped Purdue win the national championship, going 34-1 in the 1998-99 season. She parlayed that into a job in the WNBA, coaching the Orlando Miracle for two seasons and taking them to the playoffs her second year. She returned to college in 2002 and was the head coach at Florida. She was an analyst at ESPN for nine years before he alma mater, Vanderbilt, hired her as an assistant coach. She stepped down from that position after the 2017-18 season to return to ESPN.

Cons:

While Peck has ties to UT and was very successful at Purdue, her time at Florida as a head coach was a complete disaster. The Gators went 9-19 in her first year, and they snuck into the NCAA Tournament in her second and fourth seasons. But Florida went 14-15 in her third year and 9-22 in her fifth and final season there. That season, the Gators lost 14-straight games and went 2-12 in SEC play. Peck also seems to like the analyst life and enjoys working at ESPN.