2019 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

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Oh I know I won’t be able to support my family on my own. (My wife works too. ) I am expecting a pay cut. It is just frustrating seeing a lot of far less experienced people getting hired when I can’t even get an interview.

Welcome to the sport! There are plenty of accomplished coaches in the NCAA that can't get interviews. Guess they didnt pay their dues. Damn unions and such.

Unfortunately my guy, high school coaching basically does not count as experience at all. I am not saying that it is right or wrong... I am just stating a fact. You will most likely have to start as a volunteer or a part time coach at a very small school just like the rest of us did. So when you say "pay cut" I am not sure how much you are looking at being cut. Expect a job that pays $0-$10,000.

What event group is yale looking for?

Yup, high school coaching doesn’t carry any weight, which is utter crap. Take a high school coach who has run a program or a kid just out of college or with one or two years of volunteer coaching. Whose going to know about budgeting, dealing with young adults, dealing with admin, writing workouts, etc?

1. Network....talk to as many college coaches as you can. Go visit them in your downtime to shadow for a day, and see what office work and recruiting is like.

2. Find a way to prove you can recruit.....college is about recruiting first, coaching somewhere after that.

3. Be able to sacrifice.....if you can't volunteer then you might be out of luck.

College coaching isn't about who is the best coach. There are coaches that can improve athletes at every level. The best coaches know that the most naturally talented athletes make coaches look the best.....it ain't about coaching. It is about attracting that talent to the school you work for. So high school coaches looking to coach in college are at a disadvantage because recruiting is THE thing, and you just aren't gaining recruiting experience while teaching HS physics and coaching on the side.

To get in, you need to find a way to prove your worth. That usually means working for free or part time and then doing all of the crap jobs around the office, and FINDING A WAY to learn and help in recruiting. Be the guy that gets the contact information on the most talented kids and give it to the coach for that event area.....then ask in return, to be copied on any emails or to sit in on some recruiting calls to see how it is done. Then be valued added when the kid and family visits campus. Drive the van, rake the long jump pit, set up the cones, be thankful to take splits for the slow group.

And don't expect to see the same results with the same coaching methods from HS to college:

#1. It is college, kids live on their own, make different choices about eating, sleeping, socializing, and how important the sport is. So when HS coaches say "college coaches can't develop kids like I did,"it isn't always the coach.

#2. HS kids are often a blank slate, and with the vast majority of those with limited talent, the ceiling can be nearly reached in 4 years......there just might not be much left for the college coach to do......then add in #1 and one quickly finds that HS and college "coaching success" are apples and oranges.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Yale women’s head coach resigned.

What are the HOTTEST assistant coach positions not filled yet! >>> ?

It is true, unfortunately.

I coached HS national champs, individual and relays, national record holders. Being able to coach is not a factor, being able to kiss butt is, who you know is more important.

No offense but most of the job postings this summer suck.

Most of these announcements are for schools I’ve never even heard of that are in the middle of no where. It’s not even a big school thing.

Congrats to the coaches taking these positions but announcement for the new coach at a school like Carthage College of Wisconsin is a school I care less hearing about.

Hopefully we’ll here most postings about schools that are actually relevant in the track world.

Shoe resigned?

Agreed. I'm waiting for the next opening to be the part-time pole vault coach at University of Maryland University College.

Boring wrote:

No offense but most of the job postings this summer suck.

Most of these announcements are for schools I’ve never even heard of that are in the middle of no where. It’s not even a big school thing.

Congrats to the coaches taking these positions but announcement for the new coach at a school like Carthage College of Wisconsin is a school I care less hearing about.

Hopefully we’ll here most postings about schools that are actually relevant in the track world.

What about UNC, UCLA, USC, CAL, Stanford, ASU etc.

All big jobs no?

Duquesne long sprints, long hurdles and mid distance

https://duq.csod.com/m/ats/careersite/index.html?site=1&c=duq&lang=en-US&logo=&color=012169#jobRequisitions/73

All Mine wrote:

Duquesne long sprints, long hurdles and mid distance

https://duq.csod.com/m/ats/careersite/index.html?site=1&c=duq&lang=en-US&logo=&color=012169#jobRequisitions/73

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Hot jobs wrote:

Boring wrote:

No offense but most of the job postings this summer suck.

Most of these announcements are for schools I’ve never even heard of that are in the middle of no where. It’s not even a big school thing.

Congrats to the coaches taking these positions but announcement for the new coach at a school like Carthage College of Wisconsin is a school I care less hearing about.

Hopefully we’ll here most postings about schools that are actually relevant in the track world.

What about UNC, UCLA, USC, CAL, Stanford, ASU etc.

All big jobs no?

These definitely are.

I wasn’t referring to the actual job posting, I meant the announcements of whose actually appointed to these positions. I know the smaller unknown schools will have a faster HR process but I still hope we hear of more actual hirings from the bigger programs. All of them can’t wait until September 1st to finally announce something