I go back to Sue-Muy Chin, who never coached again after she was sacked. She worked at the Apple Store for several years after leaving. Then her replacement, Greg Miller, sold life insurance for 5 years after he was let go, and is now an inside sales rep for a steel company.
One has to wonder why they aren’t coaching anymore. It would have been tough for anyone win when Sue was here, that’s for sure. But there were others from her era like Nikki Izzo Brown at WVU who built that program from scratch. My guess is Coach Brown got more support from her university earlier than Pitt decided to help their women’s coach.