COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Melanie Balcomb discovered quickly after her tenure as Vanderbilt's women's basketball coach ended that she needed to get back into the game -- and fast.
"I found out early in the process that I'm not a stay-at-home mom," said Balcomb, the 53-year-old mother of two preschoolers. "I started thinking about what I could do, what I should do to stay relevant."
Three months since her dismissal after 14 seasons at Vanderbilt, Balcomb joined coach Dawn Staley's program at South Carolina as an offensive, analytics consultant. The position, director of coaching offensive analytics, is for one season.