Read the bios of the New Mexico assistants. Two of them were with him at Bradley and the the other was a coach from their conference. He must have felt the guys from his previous staff were good at their jobs and took a successful jumps coach from another school in conference.
These are “YES” assistants. They just do what the director says with no questions asked. Plain and simple. Some directors just want that…..not my cup of tea but time will tell…..The bar is set very high after what Joe Franklin did for New Mexico. Gonna be an uphill battle for them!
This dude’s career advice: don’t do what your boss says. Just say “NO” baby!!
These are “YES” assistants. They just do what the director says with no questions asked. Plain and simple. Some directors just want that…..not my cup of tea but time will tell…..The bar is set very high after what Joe Franklin did for New Mexico. Gonna be an uphill battle for them!
This dude’s career advice: don’t do what your boss says. Just say “NO” baby!!
Far from it. Been fortunate to work and have great sucess with bosses that allowed me to be in conversations about decisions about thier program. They would have final say in every decision for which for 99% of the time I had no problem with. They would actually be frustrated when I would say yes to just agree with them and not bring an opinion to the table for discussion!
Read the bios of the New Mexico assistants. Two of them were with him at Bradley and the the other was a coach from their conference. He must have felt the guys from his previous staff were good at their jobs and took a successful jumps coach from another school in conference.
These are “YES” assistants. They just do what the director says with no questions asked. Plain and simple. Some directors just want that…..not my cup of tea but time will tell…..The bar is set very high after what Joe Franklin did for New Mexico. Gonna be an uphill battle for them!
Seriously though, name any other industry where the least qualified and experienced are regularly hired over the most qualified and experienced? I'm not even sure it happens like this in any other sport. Crazy!
People can hire who they want. A number of coaches rather deal with the less experience than with the headache of the experience. I've found more snakes in that pool of individuals.
It wasn't a comment on whether they can or cannot hire low/no experience and low/no qualified over highly experienced and highly qualified. Obviously they CAN, because they do. It was a question of what other industry, or even sport, does this happen in?
It doesn't happen because it is stupid. Nobody that is trying to be the absolute best at what they do hires the low qualified and less/not experienced.
So that must mean that our sport has such low standards and expectations that it is allowed to regularly hire the least qualified and least experienced. In other words, those above do not care. Which is horrible for our sport, our respect, or the entire spirit of athletics.
As for your comment, think of that in the context of a business that is out to make money. They don't want the headache of the experience? That's funny.
Also, there are also just as many snakes in the young know it all group as any other group. However, maybe at first they are easier to control, so you might have a point there. What you are really saying, in my opinion, is that head coaches in our sport are highly insecure and do not have the basic leadership skills needed to lead a staff successfully.
I've been around a while and I have come to see that a lot of coaches are not that great at managers of their assistant coaches. There is just as much skill in dealing with your assistant coaches as with your athletes. Not to mention, we shoot our own selves in the foot with accepting such low pay. In three years I have seen the level of pay for folks in labor jobs and convenient store clerks raise while in our industry where you have to have a 4year degree and they prefer a masters just to be paid the same as those with jobs that do not require jobs. We do it to ourselves because there's always 10 people in line for that job.
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I totally get your point and I think it is silly to hire very green people to lead, especially when you could have hired much more proven experienced coaches. However there are few times when the professional sports leagues hire totally inexperienced people. The Indianapolis Colts hired Jeff Saturday as their head coach last year. The guy had zero coaching experience in the NFL or college. The owner hired him strictly because he knew him and he played for the Colts. The guy won one game. Terrible decision.
The Colts hire last year was strictly a business decision. They had many injuries and wanted a top draft pick and Saturday was cheap. Last time I checked Irsay is the owner and can spend his money as he decides. The same for schools if they want to hire someone cheap they can.
Irsay, could have just kept the current coach, as he made the coaching change in mid season. He was paying two head coaches simultaneously. The move was unanimously frowned upon by everyone in the sport. Irsay and the Colts are terrible.
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Seriously though, name any other industry where the least qualified and experienced are regularly hired over the most qualified and experienced? I'm not even sure it happens like this in any other sport. Crazy!
People can hire who they want. A number of coaches rather deal with the less experience than with the headache of the experience. I've found more snakes in that pool of individuals.
It wasn't a comment on whether they can or cannot hire low/no experience and low/no qualified over highly experienced and highly qualified. Obviously they CAN, because they do. It was a question of what other industry, or even sport, does this happen in?
It doesn't happen because it is stupid. Nobody that is trying to be the absolute best at what they do hires the low qualified and less/not experienced.
So that must mean that our sport has such low standards and expectations that it is allowed to regularly hire the least qualified and least experienced. In other words, those above do not care. Which is horrible for our sport, our respect, or the entire spirit of athletics.
As for your comment, think of that in the context of a business that is out to make money. They don't want the headache of the experience? That's funny.
Also, there are also just as many snakes in the young know it all group as any other group. However, maybe at first they are easier to control, so you might have a point there. What you are really saying, in my opinion, is that head coaches in our sport are highly insecure and do not have the basic leadership skills needed to lead a staff successfully.
The issue with our sport is funding. We don't always know what salaries these jobs are paying. Hard to attract experience when the salary is low. Sometimes only people that will see it worth it is young people with zero experience.
So Tenn has three full time distance coaches, a separate XC Dir of Ops and a distance-only recruiting coordinator. Only question is: how soon does Danny White expect a national championship? You don't give a program this kind of lofty support without similarly lofty expectations.
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