2023 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Still quiet on Stanford, NDSU, and UVA?

Which job?

Tennessee Jumps.

utsports.com

Tennessee Track & Field Hires Jamaal Barnes As Assistant Coach - University of Tennessee Athletics

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee head coach and director of track & field Duane Ross has announced the addition of Jamaal Barnes to the program's coaching staff. A former

Link:utsports.com/news/2023/8/14/tennessee-...

Any word about UNC Asheville?

Tennessee has 9 coaches total right? Or 10

9 coaches, 2 directors of ops, and 1 strength coach that works exclusively with track and field/cross country. I wish I could afford to have a coach for each individual event too

Vanderbilt has a nice staff as well.

I am waiting to see if some of the other programs follow the pattern. Like Texas !!

For me, this is what it should be anyways. With that many events it is a need to have individualized coaching without sacrifice. I'm speaking more on the field event side of things.

Well with most programs having 80 plus student athletes between both programs you need 9 plus total coaches

Right. 9 isn't insane.

Jumps

Sprints

Sprints/jumps assistant

Throws

Distance (some programs splits this between male and female)

Distance assistant

Ops

Add on a couple of volunteer assistants

You should see what FSU does. A couple years ago they had 2 or 3 "assistant director of ops" people.

TBH I think the best model that's the most fair to the student-athletes and coaches is:

1) Director (no coaching, program vision and oversight)

2) Director of Ops / Recruiting Coordinator

3) Distance 1

4) Distance 2

5) Sprints 1

6) Sprints 2

7) Throws

8) Jumps/Multis 1

9) Jumps/Multis 2

Track events can split between men/women or short/long, jumps/multis can split up the 6 events how they see fit. With 2 staff working exclusively on the operational end, it opens up a lot more freedoms for the event coaches to plan and execute training. From here you can hire assistants to assistants, Strength and Conditioning or anything you'd like.

The sport deserves model like but we gotta to find a way to market our sport and make it popular/money making. Football use to only have 9 or 10 coaches now you have

Head Coach

Offensive Coordinator

Defensive Coordinator

Pass game Coordinator

Run Game Coordinator

Outside WR Coach

Inside WR Coach

TE Coach

QB Coach

RB Coach

OL Line Coach

DT Coach

DE Coach

LB Coach

CB Coach

Safety Coach

Special Team Coordinator

Director of Player Development

Director of Recruiting

Recruiting Coach 1

Recruiting Coach 2

Recruiting Analyst 1

Recruiting Analyst 2

Director of High School Relations

Director of Equipment

Equipment Manager 1

Equipment Manager 2

Offense Quality Control 1

Offense Quality Control 2

Defense Quality Control 1

Defense Quality Control 2

GA 1

GA 2

GA 3

GA 4

Administrative Assistant to Head Coach

Director of on campus visit

Director of social media/digital media

Heard UT Rio Grande Valley is hiring entry level coaching positions. All events.