The college probably watched Wildcats with Goldie Hawn and thought that maybe it will work in real life, this time in hoops...
The college athletes she’d be coaching are not only males, but horribly spoiled and pampered. It is difficult in this day and age for ANY coach to get them into line and keep them there. They routinely get their coaches fired by quitting on them. If they decided they did not like her this could get ugly.