A couple of observations.
Spears acted quickly with the hire. Kim was hired by UT on April 7 and in less than a week, he hired a new coach.
We hired a Division 3 coach for football, Stan Parish, who turned out to be a good coach. He was 42-3-1 at Wabash and then was at Purdue for one year before coming to Marshall.
I am not picking on Skidude, but hopefully he was partially correct with the below post.
"UK fired their women's coach today - per a couple of well connected UK alum friends of mine - Kim Caldwell is one of 2 names already being mentioned for the position. The other is the coach at Transylvania."
Like others said, if you can coach you can at any level. Jack Cook was a great coach at Cammack JR High and at HHS (he won a state baseball championship at HHS) and he was a great coach at Marshall.
One thing I like about the hire is that she has head coaching experience, nothing beats having experience of being in charge of a program. At least you know she can win.