2012 Coaching Openings

What's going on at Brown?

I would just like to add that Kittley is an idiot for letting him go. How in the world did he ever become one of the highest paid track coaches in the NCAA?

djdjdj wrote:

friend24 wrote:

Let me put this out there- Rock Light is a great coach. He is a great mind and an great guy. Any school would be luck to have him. I have coached in the same coaches boxes as he did at major Championships. That guy knows a lot and has great mentors, and has mentored well. Gossip needs to stop.

Agreed. Light is brilliant.

SS needs to get a life already. We all know who posts this garbage.

DonDraper wrote:

What's going on at Brown?

?? What is going on there? Has someone left recently?

The Sprints/Hurdle coach left for the job at Harvard

They have two? Or did he take a different position?

Patrick Wells-Dinan to Long Beach State.

INTERIM Assistant Coach??? That's a new one. Any insight on this?

http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/082912aaa.html

Whatdahell? wrote:

INTERIM Assistant Coach??? That's a new one. Any insight on this?

http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/082912aaa.html

They offered it to a few female coaches who turned it down. This guy was in town and interviewed well so they gave him a 9month deal.

bump.

critic 100 wrote:

Lets cut the crap. Coaches who hire young bucks, are clueless of what they are getting. You get some first year coach who has completed the level 1 and level 11 certification. They get jobs and actually realize they don't really like to recruit or coach. Then they bail out to another program they think will be easier to work at. Its a sad day when programs go for inexperienced candidates who come in and destroy the programs.

Curious what you define as "young buck" care to enlighten us?

Age means little, potential means more and experience is priceless. Is it possible to be a "young buck" with years of experience? Answer: yes.

Cheers

OK...name one young coach who has come into the profession and taken a walk-on and turned them into a conference scoring athlete or better. Most young buck coaches ( coaches with less than 5 years experience) walk into programs that already have good athletes, then they get credit for coaching athletes who are well on their way to greatness.

So what happens to the programs once these great athletes leave? The young coaches are clueless how to recruit.

Bottom line, why hire them? young buck coaches will work for cheap. It's a quick fix that always comes back to bite the programs in their butts.

Critic 100,

Young buck coaches are often the far better recruiters. Many older coaches are happy to have a solid job, have worked hard to get a decent paycheck and now have wife/husband and kids. They are far less likely to be the "go getter" recruiters that are often necessary.

Very often they make the young buck hire so they have a young, passionate and enthusiastic recruiter to represent them and get the talented athletes to choose their school. In return they let the young buck put that they coached the athlete on their resume to help them get a better job down the road.

It's actually a worthwhile reciprocation/relationship. Older coach keeps job and looks good with talented athletes coming in. Young coach gets to build resume and show they can recruit/coach and gets a better job where they can become older coach. Process repeats.

Can someone tell me what happend at Portland State? They ran a race recently but there is no post about who is actually coaching the d-runners. Coach Ronnye Harrison is the only coach listed but he isn't a distance coach...

Erik whitsatt (Spelling) - Young throw coach who did amazing things at illinois state in just 2-3 years - Off to Oregon now!!

PSU hired Patrick Ebel earlier. That would indicate that they hired another throws coach?

You obviously did not read what was written. The athletes you are referring to, were already there when coach Whit got there.

They were the recruiting efforts of the coach who was there before him. plus these athletes were studs in high school.

5 years is what you need as in 5 years you would have recruited athletes, worked with walk- on and graduated some athletes

The throws coach before Whitsett at Ill State was a 'young buck' as well, Jeff Chakoian, so your logic is flawed from both directions. As a young coach, who began working only with walk ons in a D3 setting, it is upsetting to see comments like this. Generalizations do not work, I am sorry. I have seen many young coaches who are good, and many who are bad, that can also be said with old coaches. Each person is an individual and has their own passions, styles and potential. Please refrain from lumping any group together. If you want a great example of a successful young coach, who has done it in 2 very different situations, look at the U of MN men's throws coach. Many conference champs and All-Americans at Hamline, as a d3 coach at a very expensive private school, then followed that up with making the u of MN into the number 2 rated throws program in the NCAA. Yes 2 of those athletes were not his recruits, and one of them was recruited as a discus thrower by the previous coach but now throws 210+ in the hammer, but the rest were recruited by Lynden and several were walk ons. Again I just ask that you refrain from generalizing as some of us young coaches are knowledgeable and care and can both coach and recruit...

very true and well said! Chakoian is now at UCF and has done a tremendous job both recruiting and coaching. in the throws world, we understand how things work, as in who recruits what kids to what schools, and then who is able to coach them up. as throws coaches we all see and understand. so the people who need to know, know. and the people who are outsiders and think think they know what they are talking about, well, we dont care. because at the end of the day, the truth will come out and if you can only recruit and not coach, it will become obvious! but those of us who can do both and do them well, will get recognized! as in Chakoian and cory young, just to name a few.

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The throws coach before Whitsett at Ill State was a 'young buck' as well, Jeff Chakoian, so your logic is flawed from both directions. As a young coach, who began working only with walk ons in a D3 setting, it is upsetting to see comments like this. Generalizations do not work, I am sorry. I have seen many young coaches who are good, and many who are bad, that can also be said with old coaches. Each person is an individual and has their own passions, styles and potential. Please refrain from lumping any group together. If you want a great example of a successful young coach, who has done it in 2 very different situations, look at the U of MN men's throws coach. Many conference champs and All-Americans at Hamline, as a d3 coach at a very expensive private school, then followed that up with making the u of MN into the number 2 rated throws program in the NCAA. Yes 2 of those athletes were not his recruits, and one of them was recruited as a discus thrower by the previous coach but now throws 210+ in the hammer, but the rest were recruited by Lynden and several were walk ons. Again I just ask that you refrain from generalizing as some of us young coaches are knowledgeable and care and can both coach and recruit...

that is all bs on this thread. Coaching positions only