Distance coaching situation at Coastal Carolina University

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They were in a different conference then. Big South conference was a lot weaker than what the Sun Belt is now, not only in CC/TF but also football, basketball, and most sports. The track team is breaking school records in jumps, hurdles, and multi's. They sent 2 jumpers (long and high), 1 hurdler, and the two brothers to Nationals last season. So you can't say that the program isn't doing good in any area. They have some exciting sprinters this year along with the addition of more jumpers to add to the success of the two brothers.

Improvement?

They were dead last at Conference Championship:

OUTDOOR 2019

1 Arkansas State 155

2 Texas State 128

3 South Alabama 127

4 Georgia State 82

5 Troy 81

6 UT-Arlington 62

7 Appalachian State 48

8 Georgia Southern 47

9 UL-Lafayette 41.5

10 UL-Monroe 24

11 Arkansas-Little Rock 12

11 Coastal Carolina 12

INDOOR 2019

1 Texas State 128

2 Arkansas State 92

3 Troy 81

4 South Alabama 69

5 Georgia State 64

6 UT-Arlington 58

7 Appalachian State 56

8 UL-Lafayette 50

9 UL-Monroe 21

10 Georgia Southern 18

11 Arkansas-Little Rock 14

12 Coastal Carolina 12

Myrtle Track Spikes wrote:

They were in a different conference then. Big South conference was a lot weaker than what the Sun Belt is now, not only in CC/TF but also football, basketball, and most sports. The track team is breaking school records in jumps, hurdles, and multi's. They sent 2 jumpers (long and high), 1 hurdler, and the two brothers to Nationals last season. So you can't say that the program isn't doing good in any area. They have some exciting sprinters this year along with the addition of more jumpers to add to the success of the two brothers.

Granted, the Sun Belt is a lot tougher than the Big South, but salaries and support are better at Coastal than what you see in the Big South too. As far as anyone outside the program can tell, they are fully funded (or close to it) on scholarships (a lot of internationals and high profile preps on the roster), with a decent operations budget and at least four full time coaches.

You can probably say the same about thing about the top 6 to 8 programs in the Sun Belt but Coastal is not mixing it up with the top half of the conference. They are getting beat by ULM and UALR; two schools that don't seem to be well supported at all and have very little history/appeal.

Maybe the AD really emphasizes national level individuals at Costal, but a lot of times at MAC/CUSA/MWC/Sun Belt schools the ADs care mostly about the conference standings. All American accolades are superlative.

Thanks for clarifying that. Thought she had used all four years up, even with the medical redshirt year. Was thinking of this recently.

They have a lot of underclassmen on both sides (men and women), plus there are some outstanding athletes in the Sun Belt this season who performed well at the indoor meet.

A number of Coastal Carolina's athletes had season and personal bests in their events despite low finishes. Assistant coach Karl Goodman tweeted out on his Twitter page after the meet that this is a "work in progress".

hab46 wrote:

Assistant coach Karl Goodman tweeted out on his Twitter page after the meet that this is a "work in progress".

CCU just finished last AGAIN at their indoor conference championship. What else can they say to not scare away prospects?

Coastal had only two athletes at Nationals. The two distance runners. Total of 5 athletes went to Regions.

Have they hired anyone for next year? Why isn't the job posted anymore?

WinnytheBish wrote:

Have they hired anyone for next year? Why isn't the job posted anymore?

No universities are currently hiring. Universities are experiencing and will contintue to experiencing (and will continue to experience) major financial difficulties.

Hiring athletic coaches (especially an ASSISTANT coach) is very low priority for all.