2018 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Herd it here first wrote:

http://www.herdzone.com/sports/w-track/spec-rel/011018aaa.html

Makes me wonder if he was forced out of wyoming. Lots of retiring coaches popping up in new jobs all over.

Congrats to Mr. Murray! A great guy and a great runner. But this confirms my opinion that not much experience is required to coach at the collegiate level.

It seems like most (WAY TOO MANY) college coaching positions don't require more than 1 year of experience, as long as you were a successful runner. Looking from the outside in, how could this possibly help UMass recruit? They've gone from one end of the coaching age spectrum to the complete opposite end. I hope I'm wrong, but I have very little confidence in UMass becoming more competitive in the Distance events over the next 5 years.

Nope. Just a fun new job for him to keep him busy.

This is pretty typical of schools in general: hire someone who was a great athlete and cross your fingers. As a population the very best athletes do not make the best coaches. It’s the athletes that barely scraped by or didn’t quite make it that tend to understand the sport best. This is how it works in virtually every sport. Always exceptions, of course, but how many former WR holders have also been top coaches?

Congrats but What? wrote:

Congrats to Mr. Murray! A great guy and a great runner. But this confirms my opinion that not much experience is required to coach at the collegiate level.

It seems like most (WAY TOO MANY) college coaching positions don't require more than 1 year of experience, as long as you were a successful runner. Looking from the outside in, how could this possibly help UMass recruit? They've gone from one end of the coaching age spectrum to the complete opposite end. I hope I'm wrong, but I have very little confidence in UMass becoming more competitive in the Distance events over the next 5 years.

Congrats but What? wrote:

Congrats to Mr. Murray! A great guy and a great runner. But this confirms my opinion that not much experience is required to coach at the collegiate level.

It seems like most (WAY TOO MANY) college coaching positions don't require more than 1 year of experience, as long as you were a successful runner. Looking from the outside in, how could this possibly help UMass recruit? They've gone from one end of the coaching age spectrum to the complete opposite end. I hope I'm wrong, but I have very little confidence in UMass becoming more competitive in the Distance events over the next 5 years.

Since when would you expect UMass to make a good decision? Overspending in football, basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse have forced nearly every other sport to be stripped down to the bones. O'B was a boil that was allowed to fester for about 20 years too many and became a major infection. Hopefully this (no experience) new coach will be like a strong antibiotic.

7. 7 in all of time ?

Northern Sunset wrote:

What's the deal at Minot? Guess they are still a week away from their 1st indoor meet...but dang, shouldn't they have someone in place? Maybe an interim situation?

Man, I would say "who cares" but obviously you feel bad for the athletes there. Someone will take that job but what a difficult situation to recruit to - D2, bottom of the NSIC, couldn't beat in-state NAIA Dickinson, and about as far away from anything as you can get. They should still be NAIA - they used to be a terrific NAIA program in early 2000's.

What has Eastern Washington decided to do?

Have they hired someone else? Interim?

Any word?

Was Shane head Track coach?

If not who cares!

It's track season!

He was the distance coach....

I bet the distance athletes care.

who did riverside hire as throws coach?

Coach D

dobosy? or another coach d?

Cleveland State Head XC

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/10626947/head-coach-cross-country-distance

Belfort is looking for a women's assistant distance coach. I believe it is part time pay.

Coach Deez Nutz

BigSkyGuy wrote:

He was the distance coach....

I bet the distance athletes care.

Then the HEAD coach surely doesn't care.

Findlay (ncaa 2) head and associate head coaches are gone.