2018 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Come on, speculate away! It's letsrun for gods sake.

Look at the Kentucky Coaches salary....it makes Lexington look like a good spot to be.

Besides they have everything they need to train at UK and the post collegiate hurldlers keep coming in so why leave.

Notsoknightley wrote:

UCF will get a coach like Dee Quarles at South Carolina . That is the only person that would offer a job right away. I talked with people close to the ad and all the rumors of Burford Bailey at UT being asked is not true. They said they would not go after a power 5 coach they already knew was making insane money to depart UT. That rumor was cooked up by someone close to Burford Bailey so she could try to up value in New Ad’s eyes.

Wait...Tonja Buford Bailey is still at Texas?! I thought for sure she would have been fired for the article that was released about her and the AD trying to undermine Mario. I would have fired her 6 months ago!

I could see her taking UCF Head if she knows she’s likely gone after this year.

Why a female? I get that the last two haven’t ended the best, but who do you see taking that position? Not saying that it shouldn’t be a female, but who do you think would apply and get the job?

I can tell you one thing, it won't be Paul lipf as suggested before. Too many ties to old regimes and he is the head distance guy at suu so can't see him leaving there soon

Mario has other “Snakes on his Plane” within his staff besides Tonja. It will be a current staff member that throws Mario under Bevo. They already have been Mario just doesn’t see it yet.

So do they go with experience? How about Patty Ley if we are going the female coach rout as suggested by BigSkyGuy? Or maybe a up and coming guy from the NW? Tyler King, his older brother ran at EWU, or maybe Jake Hurysz, his name has been mentioned on the up and coming thread and is just a volunteer at Gonzaga?

UserError wrote:

So do they go with experience? How about Patty Ley if we are going the female coach rout as suggested by BigSkyGuy? Or maybe a up and coming guy from the NW? Tyler King, his older brother ran at EWU, or maybe Jake Hurysz, his name has been mentioned on the up and coming thread and is just a volunteer at Gonzaga?

Yes, Jake is an unpaid countable assistant under Tyson.

Well if Sategna survived everything from that piece on the AD, while still winning. I'd say he's nimble on his feet and can handle some backstabbing.

If Patty Ley wanted the job, she would be the best candidate.

Going with a young inexperienced male, not saying anything about those specific guys, is just too risky after what the program has gone through.

I'd make a strong run at Patty.

There aren't a lot of other females out there unfortunately. Any female HS coaches in Washington who are doing well and want to coach college? I'd explore those options.

Forgot about Patty when I first asked and then realized I had made that error. If she wanted it, she’d be an incredible candidate. I threw out the other names mostly in the case that Patty didn’t take the job.

B Genie James wrote:

I can tell you one thing, it won't be Paul lipf as suggested before. Too many ties to old regimes and he is the head distance guy at suu so can't see him leaving there soon

Hahahahahaha paul is not the head distance guy at suu he isn't more like the head social media guy. Houle is the head

Thanks for the history lesson. So they are basically looking for a high school coach that doesn't mind being underpaid and doesn't fully understand how impossible it is to compete with 1 scholarship per gender. I'm sure they'll find plenty of people who think that sounds perfect. What causes a school to only off offer about 1 scholarship per gender? Is that to offset another sport or they simply don't care to budget for it?

Zags wrote:

UserError wrote:

So do they go with experience? How about Patty Ley if we are going the female coach rout as suggested by BigSkyGuy? Or maybe a up and coming guy from the NW? Tyler King, his older brother ran at EWU, or maybe Jake Hurysz, his name has been mentioned on the up and coming thread and is just a volunteer at Gonzaga?

Yes, Jake is an unpaid countable assistant under Tyson.

Stop self promoting on here that’s not a good look

Bump. Any more info on Eastern Washington?

To qualify as DI, a school has to offer 50% of the total scholarships allowable between all the sports they sponsor. So let's say to keep things simple, a school sponsors basketball, soccer, XC & golf (I'm not even going to bother specifying the gender of those sports) - & let's say to keep it even more simple, each of those sports is allowed 5 scholarships per NCAA rules. That school would then have to offer 10 scholarships to those four sports to qualify as DI - but split up however they want (obviously Title IX will come into play here as well). Smaller mid-major universities like Creighton who want to be competitive in basketball & maybe a few other sports typically tier their athletic departments in terms of support. The top tier basically receive the means (and expectations) to compete...and the rest..enough just to barely field a team to meet other DI sport sponsorship minimums. In Creighton's case, XC obviously falls into the bottom tier - to which all the sports who fall into that category are evenly distributed the remaining scholarship required for the athletic department to remain DI. So let's say a school sponsors enough men's & women's sports that they all add up to 50 allowable scholarships between all the teams. Since this is a school that tiers their programs, let's say half the sports are fully funded & receive 40 of those scholarships. The second tier (still half the athletic department) then receive the remainder of those scholarships (10) split up among them. And there-in you have Creighton's situation...and a political (and somewhat budgetary) incentive not to increase that allotment ("but if we give you more, then we're going to have to give EVERYONE more!"). This structure also disincentives adding track because then you'd be raising the number of allowable scholarships for the men to go from 5 to 12.7 and for women from 6 to 18...not good if you're barely getting by with DI scholarship sponsoring rules as it is. And now it's also more obvious why schools like this love sponsoring XC without track...

maynard to riverside?

Just realized there was a flaw in the math in my example lol. If the total permissible scholarships between all sports adds up to 50, then that school only has to fund 50% of those...so the requirement would be 25. For the sake of my example, lets say the top tier gets 20 of those scholarships...that means there are only 5 left over to distribute among the bottom tier sports. Whoops!

Most of that is true, but schools that sponsor Men's and Women's basketball at the Division I level must fully fund those two sports. Those scholarships do not count toward the 50%.

FBS football programs must be fully funded to 85. FCS football programs can have between 0 and 63 scholarships. Regardless of funding football scholarships also do not count against the 50%.

DI schools must fund all sports outside of basketball and football to an average of 50% of the scholarship totals. I think FBS schools have to be at 80%.