ISU got worse after Rudolph left and he took over.
Not true. He took over CC last minute after Amy Rudolf left very late summer. Look at the results from this fall. He also coached the men’s steeple group to good results.
ISU got worse after Rudolph left and he took over.
Not true. He took over CC last minute after Amy Rudolf left very late summer. Look at the results from this fall. He also coached the men’s steeple group to good results.
It’s was Bro deal , his coaching record is not great
I think it’s a great hire. Alumni, understands Arkansas, good ties to the community there.
The game has also changed a lot in the last decade. I think it is better to go with a younger coach. Recruiting is different. You aren’t driving to St Louis to eat chicken parm at a recruits house.
He can work the portal, work the international angle and keep the results flowing.
He also went from All American, to volunteer, to mid major, to assistant at power 4, to coaching a group, to now leading an event group.
In the summer he wanted an assistant to specifically help with Kenyan/international recruiting then hired a girl with ZERO Coaching experience. Great dude easy to talk to and wants ti be successful, hopefully if he does hire an assistant there he gets a bonafide assistant with experience as this is the SEC. But that’s his decision to make, respectfully.
So he is extra qualified for a men's job because he coached women?
I guess it's fine. Hopefully he knows Suds Kenya recruiting secrets now and has the Scholarbook discount code. As long as the runners like him, that's kinda all that matters. He doesn't need to be Jack Daniels, he just has to do great recruiting and not get kids hurt.
"You aren’t driving to St Louis to eat chicken parm at a recruits house."
If you are a truly great COACH, you can using this recruiting style with success. If you are truly a great COACH, you can take 15-20, 8:50-9:10 American kids, and in 4-6 years you can have them be a perennial top 3 cross team.
All you gotta do is not be lazy and actually sit down at some kitchen tables, or in some living rooms and have a good pitch. Of course you need to also back that up with high level DEVELOPMENTAL training that plays the long game.
This whole, "we can't run with the foreigners thing, so we have to go international," is just laziness, and everybody knows it.
"You aren’t driving to St Louis to eat chicken parm at a recruits house."
If you are a truly great COACH, you can using this recruiting style with success. If you are truly a great COACH, you can take 15-20, 8:50-9:10 American kids, and in 4-6 years you can have them be a perennial top 3 cross team.
All you gotta do is not be lazy and actually sit down at some kitchen tables, or in some living rooms and have a good pitch. Of course you need to also back that up with high level DEVELOPMENTAL training that plays the long game.
This whole, "we can't run with the foreigners thing, so we have to go international," is just laziness, and everybody knows it.
This sounds nice, but meanwhile Arkansas has an SEC imposed roster limit of 10. That's 2-3 recruits yearly.
Arkansas can still get good US ladies; their 2026 class is good.
I'm not sure they are in the hunt for top 20 US boys. Of course there is great tradition at Ark, so maybe it's possible to revive.
The hire makes sense because he already knows the SEC landscape and brings experience from a strong distance program. Arkansas gets someone who understands the culture and can recruit athletes who fit their system. The move should keep their men’s squad stable and give them a clear training direction heading into the next cycle.
Think you’re misunderstanding what that hire was for. I don’t think he is the one that needed help with international recruiting.
Spoken straight out the man’s mouth. Iowa state wants to do with the women’s program what the men’s program is currently doing. Recruiting in the Midwest for the women hasn’t panned out well in the past.