Can we just talk about jobs. What’s the scoop on mid-year shuffles?
Can we just talk about jobs. What’s the scoop on mid-year shuffles?
What’s up at Drake?
Have they just given up?
Does Amy Rudolph stay at Iowa State? Her husband was Drake’s coordinator and left for Boston AC.
I see nothing wrong with your post and I hope you stay in the sport.
I coached the young woman who was hired as the distance coach at UL-M when she was in high school. She is an intelligent, hard-working overachiever who will have a good career in coaching if she wants it. Because she was a sprinter, people on these boards were startled about her being hired to coach the distance runners. (I pointed out that Coach Vigil was a football lineman in college and it didn’t prevent him from becoming a great distance coach.)
Clearly her head coach sees the same qualities in her that we all saw in high school. It is unlikely that he would give up on her after less then one semester, Just as it’s unlikely that she would quit so quickly because that’s not who she is. She probably either got a job at a different school coaching sprints or she was hired as an interim distance coach at UL-M and will be moved to a sprint coaching position if/when a distance coach is hired.
P.A.D. wrote:
I see nothing wrong with your post and I hope you stay in the sport.
I coached the young woman who was hired as the distance coach at UL-M when she was in high school. She is an intelligent, hard-working overachiever who will have a good career in coaching if she wants it. Because she was a sprinter, people on these boards were startled about her being hired to coach the distance runners. (I pointed out that Coach Vigil was a football lineman in college and it didn’t prevent him from becoming a great distance coach.)
Clearly her head coach sees the same qualities in her that we all saw in high school. It is unlikely that he would give up on her after less then one semester, Just as it’s unlikely that she would quit so quickly because that’s not who she is. She probably either got a job at a different school coaching sprints or she was hired as an interim distance coach at UL-M and will be moved to a sprint coaching position if/when a distance coach is hired.
She got a job at a different school coaching distance. Towson.
Ya heard with Perd wrote:
P.A.D. wrote:
I see nothing wrong with your post and I hope you stay in the sport.
I coached the young woman who was hired as the distance coach at UL-M when she was in high school. She is an intelligent, hard-working overachiever who will have a good career in coaching if she wants it. Because she was a sprinter, people on these boards were startled about her being hired to coach the distance runners. (I pointed out that Coach Vigil was a football lineman in college and it didn’t prevent him from becoming a great distance coach.)
Clearly her head coach sees the same qualities in her that we all saw in high school. It is unlikely that he would give up on her after less then one semester, Just as it’s unlikely that she would quit so quickly because that’s not who she is. She probably either got a job at a different school coaching sprints or she was hired as an interim distance coach at UL-M and will be moved to a sprint coaching position if/when a distance coach is hired.
She got a job at a different school coaching distance. Towson.
How do you know that? Who are you?
Good for her, although I thought Phelan is a respectable coach and he got let go from there for performance so she has her work cut out for her.
Also good for ULM. The posting says full time. Most Sun Belt schools are fully funded with 4-5 full time coaches. I don't know how ULM went this long with a part time distance coach, but maybe all the turnover at the position has prompted a change. They obviously have scholarships, with all the Kenyan athletes running XC.
Sliding Scale wrote:
Good for her, although I thought Phelan is a respectable coach and he got let go from there for performance so she has her work cut out for her.
Also good for ULM. The posting says full time. Most Sun Belt schools are fully funded with 4-5 full time coaches. I don't know how ULM went this long with a part time distance coach, but maybe all the turnover at the position has prompted a change. They obviously have scholarships, with all the Kenyan athletes running XC.
They have invested in some pretty bad Kenyans... but that at least tells you the HC is willing to put money into distance. Recruiting in-state has to be terrible. La doesn’t have many good distance runners and I’m sure the few they have will not consider ULM
Blake B is going to keep the job for himself. Tells you everything you need to know about him and Drake
BD run wrote:
Open jobs wrote:
Current openings:
Georgia State - distance. Female maybe wanted?
Towson - distance. Wanted female won’t get one, unless they promote volunteer?
Costal Carolina - distance
Texas State - distance
UNCW - HC, hire within?
Columbia - distance
WKU - distance guy left to go home
TCU- distance
UL-Monroe- distance
Dartmouth - HC - Sprints and jumps
Drake - Director job - Blake Bolden/hire from within is my guess?
You would think with the Drake Relays - Drake XC/track would receive more administrative support and funding. They can’t keep a coaching staff intact for any period of time and have a hard time even keeping a complete roster filled. The Relays have regressed to a small college/high school meet.
Difficult for Drake to tout the relays as world class or “America’s Classic” when they sparsely support their own university’s program.
Newsflash......The Drake Relays has been a small college/Iowa high school meet for decades with horrible weather. The meet isn't that big. Only 4 heats for relays and small field event sizes for DI. Most of the teams are Missouri Valley Conference or others within a 4 hour drive. In addition, Drake Track & Field has been mediocre for 4 decades.
Foshes wrote:
Sliding Scale wrote:
Good for her, although I thought Phelan is a respectable coach and he got let go from there for performance so she has her work cut out for her.
Also good for ULM. The posting says full time. Most Sun Belt schools are fully funded with 4-5 full time coaches. I don't know how ULM went this long with a part time distance coach, but maybe all the turnover at the position has prompted a change. They obviously have scholarships, with all the Kenyan athletes running XC.
They have invested in some pretty bad Kenyans... but that at least tells you the HC is willing to put money into distance. Recruiting in-state has to be terrible. La doesn’t have many good distance runners and I’m sure the few they have will not consider ULM
Exactly, regardless of ability, Kenyan's don't get through the embassy without full offers. Time in again Malone has put money in distance runners from. ULM finally figured out it takes a full time coach as well...otherwise you run like a SWAC program.
Wrong answer! Lots of Kenyans get through the embassy without film offers. They just have to show a school that is not offering a full ride proof they have a sponsor who will cover the rest. As a head coach I have been burnt 1-2 times on this. Kenyan says and shows someones bank account that will help pay for the rest of his costs only to find out he won’t once the bill is due! These are the ones like many that are let go when they can’t pay or perform up to a full ride level and are waking the streets
Illegally without a student visa! Any Kenyan is a risk especially when most coaches take someones word on their ability and or have never seen them run!
Just have to show proof you can pay the total cost of attendance through athletic, academic, and someones bank account statement. That’s a fact!
Amy has better things going for herself than following her husband.
How so? He's the Director of the Relays.
Hhhh wrote:
Wrong answer! Lots of Kenyans get through the embassy without film offers. They just have to show a school that is not offering a full ride proof they have a sponsor who will cover the rest. As a head coach I have been burnt 1-2 times on this. Kenyan says and shows someones bank account that will help pay for the rest of his costs only to find out he won’t once the bill is due! These are the ones like many that are let go when they can’t pay or perform up to a full ride level and are waking the streets
Illegally without a student visa! Any Kenyan is a risk especially when most coaches take someones word on their ability and or have never seen them run!
Just have to show proof you can pay the total cost of attendance through athletic, academic, and someones bank account statement. That’s a fact!
There’s better ways to do this recruiting thing.. you have to know how to research international athletes. Mid majors who are fully funded and don’t have a coach that is excellent at this is wasting their time if they want to have a solid distance team.
Sliding Scale wrote:
Foshes wrote:
They have invested in some pretty bad Kenyans... but that at least tells you the HC is willing to put money into distance. Recruiting in-state has to be terrible. La doesn’t have many good distance runners and I’m sure the few they have will not consider ULM
Exactly, regardless of ability, Kenyan's don't get through the embassy without full offers. Time in again Malone has put money in distance runners from. ULM finally figured out it takes a full time coach as well...otherwise you run like a SWAC program.
Im just happy to see the program making a move in the right direction with the full time postition. I want to see them be successful so bad. I loved my time in monroe and the coaching staff. Hopefully this hire is someone thats excited about the program and can get some good recruits that can build on that excitement.
Also hate to see Gabby go if she is leaving. She seemed like she was good from what I've seen/heard
STTDB wrote:
Also hate to see Gabby go if she is leaving. She seemed like she was good from what I've seen/heard
She was there for 3 months. Men 2nd to last at conference meet, women dead last and averaged over 21 min for 5k.
Only ran one female at the region meet, 27 min 6k and 2nd to last. Men's team had 2 of the last 3 finishers.
Look at the last few years of results in Monroe and what she had to work with. There’s more to the story than just results from one cross country season.
Towson is a mess those. That is the best year they have ever had on the distance side and somehow Phelan gets fired for performance. LOL. Head coach has had plenty of title IX violations. I hope for Gabby sake she didnt go there.
Who ever is going there good luck and I hope you get your needed experience to move up on the totem pole. Towson should be an excellent place for success and hopefully one day they get a mens team and a new head coach.
Emmit S. Burg wrote:
Towson is a mess those. That is the best year they have ever had on the distance side and somehow Phelan gets fired for performance. LOL. Head coach has had plenty of title IX violations. I hope for Gabby sake she didnt go there.
Who ever is going there good luck and I hope you get your needed experience to move up on the totem pole. Towson should be an excellent place for success and hopefully one day they get a mens team and a new head coach.
You are wrong. The head coach (sprint coach) of Towson, Mike Jackson, is a great coach and a good guy. Towson should have won the CAA conference championship last outdoors but their distance runners blew it. They scored 8 points in the distance events. Delaware women won by 13 points, getting 58 points out of their distance runners.
They almost won the ECAC this outdoor season, losing by 3 points. Zero points in distance events. Towson has plenty of scholarship money in the distance events too.
Phelan's results were less than impressive, he couldn't coach mid-distance athletes to save his life. He probably butted heads with Mike Jackson as he did not have the same philosophies as Jackson.