UC Davis New Coach???

hotpants wrote:

I have some direct knowledge of the situation and may confirm some of what's been said on this board.

I was an assistant coach this track season for a junior college in the north bay area for probably the only time (FYI for those who know me: not because I didn't like it/wasn't asked to return, but because the pay is terrible and I'm not at a point in my career to make any serious effort at coaching - weird life circumstances lead to this even happening at all). I handled the long distance (5000 and 10000) crew (coached 1 guy and 1 gal onto the top 10 list for the 10000). The top guy wanted to transfer to Davis after this season, where I ran a decade ago, so I got in touch with the Davis XC assistant coach Ackley in February and he got me in touch with Barbosa (Barbosa had no email or phone number on the campus website that I could find). Barbosa and I had a phone conversation in the last half of February where he expressed interest in the athlete walking on in the Fall. Then in early March at a meet at Sac State I saw a Davis distance runner and got to talking. He explained that Barbosa had just left for some reason, which was a surprise to me because I had just talked to him a couple weeks before that. The athlete didn't have any details (at least that he wanted to share) and he wasn't happy about the situation. Later in the season in early April I talked to another Ag at a meet and he thought Barbosa might be returning. At this point though Barbosa had not returned a call or a text since our first conversation in February so I was skeptical. Finally after the JC season and NCAA finals ended (so not long ago) I got in touch with Ackley again, who told me that they were looking to hire a new coach and that the athlete I was trying to help could in fact walk on in the Fall. That athlete went to Davis recently for housing purposes but never managed to get ahold of the head coach in person (because the athlete never set up a meeting) and the athlete hasn't heard back from the head coach yet via phone or email. Then I found this thread and am now thoroughly interested in all this drama and want to know pretty much as much as possible.

Deuce2 wrote:

hotpants wrote:

I have some direct knowledge of the situation and may confirm some of what's been said on this board.

I was an assistant coach this track season for a junior college in the north bay area for probably the only time (FYI for those who know me: not because I didn't like it/wasn't asked to return, but because the pay is terrible and I'm not at a point in my career to make any serious effort at coaching - weird life circumstances lead to this even happening at all). I handled the long distance (5000 and 10000) crew (coached 1 guy and 1 gal onto the top 10 list for the 10000). The top guy wanted to transfer to Davis after this season, where I ran a decade ago, so I got in touch with the Davis XC assistant coach Ackley in February and he got me in touch with Barbosa (Barbosa had no email or phone number on the campus website that I could find). Barbosa and I had a phone conversation in the last half of February where he expressed interest in the athlete walking on in the Fall. Then in early March at a meet at Sac State I saw a Davis distance runner and got to talking. He explained that Barbosa had just left for some reason, which was a surprise to me because I had just talked to him a couple weeks before that. The athlete didn't have any details (at least that he wanted to share) and he wasn't happy about the situation. Later in the season in early April I talked to another Ag at a meet and he thought Barbosa might be returning. At this point though Barbosa had not returned a call or a text since our first conversation in February so I was skeptical. Finally after the JC season and NCAA finals ended (so not long ago) I got in touch with Ackley again, who told me that they were looking to hire a new coach and that the athlete I was trying to help could in fact walk on in the Fall. That athlete went to Davis recently for housing purposes but never managed to get ahold of the head coach in person (because the athlete never set up a meeting) and the athlete hasn't heard back from the head coach yet via phone or email. Then I found this thread and am now thoroughly interested in all this drama and want to know pretty much as much as possible.

You're back in the bay area? I guess i could just look on facebook...