2025 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Huh? It is a higher ed position. Just not in administration. I am not saying this is common, just saying it's not completely off the wall and maybe a new trend.

There is NOTHING educational about what goes on in the buildings on "that" side of campus, so no, a coaching position is not "Higher Ed." Yes, it IS on a college campus, so you might be fooled into thinking that it belongs in the category of Higher Ed, but it is not. Yes, I do know something about it, I was a D1 coach for 9 years. Even at the Olympic sport level, and not the revenue sport level, we knew who we were and who "they" were, They are the serious end of campus and athletics is the entertainment end of campus, which falls under marketing. So Higher Ed, sorry, no.

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Worked in D2 and D3 athletics for 25 years. As weird as publicizing the candidates is....coaching at this level most definitely is a higher ed job. Can't claim to know your 9 year d1 situation.

Any truth to this? Nothing posted on athletics page.

Oh, well it must be Higher Ed, the "Higher Ed Job Site" says so...

Please use your brain when responding in the future.

It's coaching, not bio research, or astrophysics, or even pre-med. It's sports, even at the highest level, it isn't that important. Get off of your 25 year self-justification pedestal and see college sports for what they are, a pleasant diversion, nothing more, nothing less.

Oh stop! It's a higherEd position is coaching. Want to look up jobs for college coaching? Head over to the Higheredjobs.com website. It is a job in higher education Mr. D1 coach haha. I am currently a D1 coach. Why is that relevant?

Ok. So I meet with the development office for fundraising. Meet with professors to discuss students successor lack thereof. Recruit and retain paying students to keep the school up and running. Serve on academic, accreditation, and strategic planning committees. Coaching athletes...25 percent of the job. I'll claim higher ed as a profession.

Is the accountant in the business office allowed to claim "higher ed" or are they just an accountant?

Is the professor allowed to claim "higher ed" or are they just a professor?

Again, not claiming to know your d1 job but I'm checking the "higher ed" box.

You’re right. The “serious end of campus” is definitely serious and credible with pronoun support, skin color preferences while combatting racism, and a whole host of other “serious” issues. Athletics is the non-“serious” laughing stock of reality with biological absolutes, and stuff.

Illinois is looking for an assistant XC/Distance coach to help Johaninmeier with Distances. I think they are looking for a young female coach

Are you allowed to say what you just said LOL

No, he is not! Where do live, sir? ICE is on the way.

Posted anywhere?

Get a load of this guy. The point that other poster is trying to make is that college sports is full of a bunch of blowhards like you trying to justify their existence as something “oh so very serious,” when everyone can clearly see it's not.

Calling it higher education doesn’t make it so. I, too am a former D1 athlete, and even I can see that if athletics just disappeared, or ceased to be a part of the college experience, the school would live on. It’s just fun that young people engage in for a short time of eligibility, and then it’s gone. Who cares.

BTW, you totally missed it, with your accountant/professor example. Those people are absolutely essential personnel on campus, so yes, they can say they work in higher education. They literally toe the line for their university on a daily basis.
Can any coach, D1 D2 or D3 say that with a straight face, that they are “absolutely essential to the school’s existence?” I think you know the answer to that.

And please spare me the D3 argument that we see on here all the time that your 60-100 tuition paying student athletes are holding up the ship from sinking. Sure it helps, but let’s not kid ourselves, if they are at a D3 school, they were bound to go somewhere.

If athletics ceased, most institutions would be forced to close their doors. There's a reason why schools that invest in their athletic department have the most success all around, and why the ones who refuse to do so suffer. I don't think any one coach can say he or she is essential, but athletics is inarguably an essential part of higher education. I think it's also an essential piece because you are providing a once in a lifetime experience. Outside of professional athletics, where else would you have access to top level training facilities, a team, paid travel for meets, and countless other things that make the student-athlete experience special?

If you’re a woman and need a job, don’t bother going to McDonald’s, no no, and forget about any department store or running shoe store.. go and apply for a D1 P XC coaching job.. oh you’ve never competed in track/XC before? Well today’s your lucky day because you don’t need that nor know anything about it! Awesome!

It is open as their assistant distance coach is leaving the profession. Confirmed with inside scoop. I don’t think they have to publicly post

Who would want to be a D-2, D-3 or a coach from a not power 4 school today? You spend countless hours recruiting someone who can help your program just to have the athlete stolen right from under your nose.

Unless the lesser school coaches are getting kickbacks from the powerhouse programs this transfer portal is all around bad news. Look what happened to Northern Colorado? UNC lost their best athletes to a P-4. Talking about "taking the wind out of your sails.