She believes she’s leaving Baylor in a good position. Mulkey was leaving a potential Final Four team at the height of her powers, but she takes solace in not being a coach who leaves when the cupboard is bare. Some walked out right after she finished. Mulkey and those assistants were all leaving. They all came to Baylor for different reasons, but most of them came because of a relationship with Mulkey or her staff. I just hope 20 or 30 years from now you will say, ‘Coach, it’s OK.’” “I’m going home,” she said she told them, “and nothing I tell you will make you feel any different toward me right now. Mulkey cried as she stood in front of her Baylor players, but she also told them the news in true Mulkey fashion: bluntly and to the point. “I don’t know, you just feel something that’s tugging at you to go this last third of your coaching career and go do what you did 21 years ago at Baylor, basically under the same circumstances,” she says. So why did Mulkey do it? The why is also a large part of the how. Suddenly, the Hall of Fame coach with an 86 percent winning clip is likely going to have to deal with some losing. It’s been a fall of building trust with her team and setting standards, of proving to them she’s for real and them proving to her they will put the work in. The Tigers tip off Tuesday morning against Nicholls at Maravich Center. Her longest-tenured assistant Johnny Derrick will tell you, “Kim doesn’t change.”Īfter the whirlwind first few months of bringing her Baylor staff over and buying and selling houses and trying to actually find time to work with the team, the Kim Mulkey era is about to begin for LSU women’s basketball. Her desk sits between one full-size cutout of her with braided pigtails in her 1980s Louisiana Tech playing days when she won her first national title and another cutout of her with her son Kramer Robertson during his LSU baseball career. She jokes about still needing to figure out her routes to work as she arrives marginally late for an interview because of Baton Rouge construction and traffic, walking into her temporary office inside Tiger Stadium while the new offices are built. She’s trying to build a new home, emphasis on the build. One can say she saw LSU and thought she could “add some things to it.” But, of course, this also was about home for the Tickfaw, La., native who lamented missing Ponchatoula strawberries and Hi-Ho BBQ in Hammond. She’s the legendary basketball coach with three national titles to her name who did the unprecedented: She left her dynasty at Baylor for a struggling LSU program that hasn’t made a Final Four or even an Elite Eight in 13 years. She laughs because, yes, she sees the analogy here. View current weather.“I just saw it and I thought, I can add some things to it,” Mulkey says. Evans, of Daingerfield, TX and Travis Williams, of Fort Worth, TX as well as a number of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. He is also survived by one brother Adolphus Heath, of Lugoff, SC special friends Joe L. Pleasant, TX, Diann Malone, Carolyn Jones, and Carlton Ivory, all of Naples, TX. Mulkey was a special father figure to Sally Buford, of Naples, TX, LaTwayne Saunders (Clarence), of Mt. Butch, of Amarillo, TX, and Alton Heath and wife Janise, of Desoto, TX five grandchildren Robert Tillmon, of Lubbock, TX, Robyn Trumbauer, of Tyler, TX, Yuvetta Heath, of Banning, CA, Jonathan Heath and Lakisha Heath, of Desoto, TX two great grandchildren Lanier A Dallas, of Banning, CA, and Jordan Monge, of Tyler, TX. ![]() Roceythia P Wee Pollard, of Borger, TX, Sandra Thompson, of Dallas, TX, Mulkey Heath Jr. To this union four children were born, two daughters and two sons. Mulkey was the only living survivor of this regiment, he was wounded but survived. A Rifleman, 25th infantry regiment in the continental and Asiatic-Pacific theater. ![]() He loved the Lord, and when he spoke of him, he woul always flash that beautiful smile that he became known for. ![]() ![]() He sang in the church choir and was active until his health failed. He served as the church secretary for many years and was the oldest deacon and member. Mulkey accepted Christ at an early age and acknowledged it by uniting with the Willaims Chapel Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by his parents, five sisters, and five brothers. was born in Morris County, Naples, Texas to Sylvester T. Heath will lie in state at the funeral home all day Friday, May 11, 2012. Burial will follow at Spring Hill Cemetery under the direction of Reeder-Davis Funeral Home, Inc. will be 1:00 P.M., Saturday, at Williams Chapel Baptist Church.
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