Soon after Jim Stephenson was hired as the Golden Gophers' head women's gymnastics coach in 1993, he admitted to then Minnesota women's athletic director Chris Voelz that she hired the wrong person. He was overwhelmed with the position and the fact that being a head coach at a major Division I university called for far more than just training the athletes. There were several other responsibilities and he just felt at the time he was not the right man for the job. In fact, he felt that he wasn't even the best Stephenson for the job.
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