Miami OH cross?

The kids at Miami really liked her. She is probably just taking a bigger and better job now

I would say she was knocked up....but by now I am sure she has a baby. Old news, my friend, get up to date...

yeah the old news as in unfounded, untrue rumors that aren't remotely close to being true. I'm sure you also think osu coach gary is the father (also not true from what I heard)

She lives in Columbus where she is married to Gary. She is pregnant and won't be coaching anywhere this year. She did indeed do a great job with the cross country team last year.

yes, and did an equally lousy job with the track & field program. Left the program in shambles. Now the new coach has to fix the problems. Athletes still dealing with stress fractures caused by her.

Better question... How's the football team this year?

We won a MAC cross country title for the first time in school history and had a bunch of Regional track qualifiers. She deserves a great deal of the credit due to her expertise and raising the expectaions for us.

and another view wrote:

stress fractures caused by her

In my googling of causes of stress fractures, I did not see any female names listed.

Stress fractures often are the result of increasing the amount or intensity of an activity too rapidly. They also can be caused by the impact of an unfamiliar surface (a tennis player who has switched surfaces from a soft clay court to a hard court); improper equipment (a runner using worn or less flexible shoes); and increased physical stress (a basketball player who has had a substantial increase in playing time).

If they hire a new coach half as good as her, there will be an opportunity for someone to ride out her success for a few more years.

Does Coach Phillips have her staff in place? I have not seen a press release or Purdue job opening?

Did she resign or did she get fired???

the website was pretty evasive as they didn't use the word "fired" or "resigned", just that she would not return. I have no idea?

She resigned although once the administration found out (after the fact) all the unethical transgressions who knows what might have happened. One of the most unethical people around. Can't tell the truth to save her life.

Um, what? Not worth discussing here.

MACman wrote:

What happened to the former coach Rita? Why leave after only one year, she was a good, up and coming coach.....who is the replacement?

Rita resigned to have a baby and get married. Anybody who says she didn't dramatically improve the Miami women's program (especially cross ountry) in winning their first MAC title ever and establishing some expectations in a program that has no excuse not to be a distance powerhouse) is either a complete sexist or didn't have the resume/interview well enough to get the position themselves.The AD's at Miami certainly don't hold any grudges as they went with Rita's suggestion of hiring her old coach and the current team members have nothing but great things to say about Rita.

I believe that she will be interviewing Jeff Martin from Indiana State for the Jumps/Sprints/Hurdles job in the next few days.

Warner must've not been as bad as rumored; what happened to Rodney from Purdue following Phillips?

First rule on the show is that you cannot give yourself gloss Rita!

Did you recruit those athletes?

In fact, whom did you recruit?

Dramatically? Puhleeze mommy

You did your little song and dance and the knuckle headed AD's hired someone under qualified to follow the under committed (multiple application of the word) one.

Everyone needs to get off the Rita bandwagon....

1st, we rarely had organized practices with her, she was always gone, I assume to C-bus

2nd, we do have 5 new freshman, which 4 of them were coming to Miami anyways.

3rd, Rita didn't even give us a summer training plan before she left...she has no idea how to progress us, that why most of us were injured

4th, I do not have much respect for a homewrecker like Rita.