Kim Mulkey addresses the chance that Seimone Augustus could replace her one day

LSU recently hired former superstar women’s basketball player Seimone Augustus to serve on Kim Mulkey‘s staff, and already Augustus’ stature has begged big-picture questions like whether she might eventually become the LSU head coach herself.

Augustus was a two-time All-American at LSU and helped lead the Tigers to three straight Final Four appearances.

She went on to have a very successful career in the WNBA and is widely regarded as one of the game’s greats. So getting her on staff at LSU could be just the start of a much larger journey in coaching.

Mulkey’s not quite ready to address whether Seimone Augustus is the next up at LSU, though.

“Obviously with her being an LSU person and playing here and all the things, you know, people are going to automatically think that,” Mulkey said. “But I think Seimone will quickly tell you she’s getting ready to learn from people who have been in the business a lot longer than her, things that I can’t teach her that they will teach her.”

That said, Mulkey, who has developed quite the coaching tree during her lengthy career, believes multiple former assistants could be future head coaches at LSU. Maybe even Seimone Augustus.

“I want all of them that want to be head coaches that when I’m done I want to be able to look out there and go, ‘That’s one of mine over there. Over here,'” Mulkey said. “And they’re all over the country. When you see that, it’ll make you proud.”

For her part, Augustus mostly demurred when asked the question, instead choosing to focus on the fact that she just wants to progress in the profession.

There’s a lot to be done before she’ll earn head coaching consideration.

“I hope to be a head coach one day, but if it’s here, so be it,” Seimone Augustus said. “If not, obviously you see the expansion in the W. It would be great to go back. But day by day, that’s all.”