Duke Won’t Be Hiring Gail Goestenkors

Photo by Shane Keyser/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images : Texas women’s head basketball coach Gail Goestenkors talks about the changes to her team during the Big 12 Women’s Basketball media day at Sprint Arena, Wednesday, October 20, 2010, in Kansas City, Missouri.Well that didn’t take long: Duke has told Gail Goestenkors that she will not get interviewed for the women’s head coaching job.

Didn’t take long either - Joanne P. McCallie stepped down on Friday and Goestenkors was told by Friday that Duke didn’t want to look back in order to move ahead.

When you look at it like that it makes pretty good sense, but it doesn’t lessen the sting for Goestenkors, who found out…