Brandon Schneider’s time with Kansas WBB should be coming to an end
By Dillon Davis
It may have gone largely unnoticed thanks to the large shadow cast by the men’s program, but the Kansas WBB team has quietly been awful for the past five years. The culprit for that lies primarily with head coach Brandon Schneider.
The Jayhawks are currently riding a four-game losing streak and sit at 7-13 overall and 3-11 in conference play. That’s good enough for ninth place in the Big 12.
This sort of abysmal record is nothing new though for Schneider-led Kansas teams.
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Schneider is currently in his sixth year as head coach and the team has finished in the last place in the Big 12 all but one of his previous five seasons at the helm (they finished ninth in 2018).
Up to this point, Schneider has won a total of 14 conference games in six seasons. He has never won more than four conference games in a year and inconsequentially, the Jayhawks have never made the NCAA Tournament under his watch.
For reference, under his predecessor Bonnie Henrickson (who never should have been fired), the Jayhawks made the NCAA Tournament six times during her 11 years as head coach.
In all honesty, Schneider should have been let go after last season, but for some inexplicable reason, our previous Athletics Director Sheahon Zenger gave Schneider a two-year contract extension in the spring of 2018 – making it more difficult to fire him early. His original contract was due to expire following the 2019-20 season but now runs through March 2022.
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Assuming Kansas has the money for whatever the buyout is in his contract – which is no guarantee, especially in times of COVID – they should exercise that option.
It has been an embarrassing six years for the Kansas women’s basketball program and it’s past time for a change. That change needs to start right at the top with Brandon Schneider.