2018 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

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means one of those will have to be a throws/vault, jumps/vault combo or a volunteer. not great team balance, should have a specialist coach for each event area. especially at power 5 school like that.

combos wrote:

means one of those will have to be a throws/vault, jumps/vault combo or a volunteer. not great team balance, should have a specialist coach for each event area. especially at power 5 school like that.

Rally no excuse to have more than 2 coaches for distance at a power 5. I can see if only 3 coaches and you’re at a small school like Iona, Furman, Portland, etc. it’s why I give those small schools a lot more credit than Oklahoma State (when they used to be really good in cross country)

Bowerman disciple wrote:

combos wrote:

means one of those will have to be a throws/vault, jumps/vault combo or a volunteer. not great team balance, should have a specialist coach for each event area. especially at power 5 school like that.

Rally no excuse to have more than 2 coaches for distance at a power 5. I can see if only 3 coaches and you’re at a small school like Iona, Furman, Portland, etc. it’s why I give those small schools a lot more credit than Oklahoma State (when they used to be really good in cross country)

Will Maurica actually be coaching the distance runners or spending the majority of her time orchestrating the program like she was hired to do?

pretzelz wrote:

Bowerman disciple wrote:

Rally no excuse to have more than 2 coaches for distance at a power 5. I can see if only 3 coaches and you’re at a small school like Iona, Furman, Portland, etc. it’s why I give those small schools a lot more credit than Oklahoma State (when they used to be really good in cross country)

Will Maurica actually be coaching the distance runners or spending the majority of her time orchestrating the program like she was hired to do?

She’s gonna coach the women distance runners

combos wrote:

means one of those will have to be a throws/vault, jumps/vault combo or a volunteer. not great team balance, should have a specialist coach for each event area. especially at power 5 school like that.

The vault is a jumping event as much as the javelin is a throwing event.

I'm curious why there is always this believe that jumps coaches shouldn't ever have to coach the vault. How about try and learn it?

Vault is not as easy a carryover as javelin.

Not uncommon to have three distance coaches. Old UW staff had 3. Stanford has 3 distance coaches, as do: Colorado, Wisconsin, Cal, OKSt, Syracuse, NC St. Basically the XC power 5 schools or at least P5’s with a distance director in charge.

It’s not about “learning” the event...

It’s about logistically covering 8 jumping events at any meet, and providing a high level of service to the athletes. Yes 8 because of men and women. Pole Vault and High Jump can go on for hours...it’s literally impossible to cover these events with one person.

If you have the facilities and the time - you can space them out in training and that is feasible.

The beauty of the track events...they only happen one at a time...

All this - “I have to be there to cover the warm up - warm down - walk them into the tent - they can’t be by themselves” stuff is a failure of mental resilience training by the coach...

Soo, any head coach disregarding the above challenges of an event area is sending a very clear message... either I don’t care about those events, or I only care about 1 or 2 of those events - normally the horizontals

Wyoming has 5 Distance Coaches on Staff! ;-)

Mtnwest wrote:

Wyoming has 5 Distance Coaches on Staff! ;-)

There's a university in Wyoming?

Any word on Louisville jumps/multis? I remember that being posted a while back.

It's official...you guys called it!

http://goeags.com/news/2018/7/10/eagles-hire-sam-read-as-new-cross-country-coach.aspx?path=cross

Kwiatowski to Washington. Opening at American, lot of distance coaches in Seattle.

Cant we just .... wrote:

TrackFan19 wrote:

Yes.

Blacks are 50% of the sport in America in major DI and at the highest levels of the sport for several generations. At the NCAA Championships and USATF Nationals it's mostly black. At the USATF and AAU Jr. Olympic nationals it's about 80% black. The coaches should reflect that.

OR maybe the fact that theres so many white coaches involved in track producing 50-80 pct black athletes at ncaa and usatf shows that white coaches are working well with black athletes. Why change that and risk that the numbers change? Seems like you want to take a chance that black athlete's numbers drop. Thats not nice...

Did the person posting this clue into the fact ND is a distance school and actually coaching choices reflect the distance population. Get that chip of your shoulder cuz the facts in this case don't back up your comments.

Throws coaches manage to cover 8 throwing events. With some being in the infield, and some being (at times) really far away from the track. It comes down to teaching your athletes to be self sufficient and having the confidence and consistency to jump well without you watching everything they do.

Not sure what ND and distance has to do with this topic. ND has had more All-Americans and national qualifiers in the sprints and field events than distance in the last 5-6 years. Also blacks do coach distance events as well.

The original post was about the percentage of black coaches in the NCAA. Someone suggested that it should be at 13%, based off of the US estimated population. I said it should be more, due the fact that most of the sport is black.

I would've thought that hiring a non-distance coach would've been a priority. Guess I'm wrong.

In a way, Kwiatkowsi's hire (if true) makes some sense, with his connections to both the state of Washington & the Powells (not to mention Centrowitz).

Here's his American bio FWIW:

http://www.aueagles.com/sports/c-track/mtt/Kwiatkowski_Chris?view=bio

unc down to final interviews in next few days 2 ex longhorns want the job