I’m curious if any other coaches in here have applied and heard anything back; I’d like to think my resume is pretty solid for a young coach and I would at some point get at least an email back in regards to some applications I’ve done? I’m also thinking a lot of places aren’t rushing to hire and start paying a coach before August honestly.
What job(s)? It’s hard to know what you’re referring to without some names.
I can say I believe UT Chattanooga is taking their time
Why? You think any school w/o P4 NIL resourcing will just flop out of D1?
Essentially - the P4's will move on to form their own league, which will essentially be the "New D1." Everyone else will just remain in whatever you want to call the current D1 now and will remain under similar rules as today.
NO. If power 4 schools split off and create their own league you think they are actually taking non-revenue sports with them? Lol
This is what HS coaches and athletes don’t get. Yes, sometimes your high school high jumper is better than the school’s best high jumper--but neither of them can score significantly (if at all) in the conference or ever make it to the NCAA prelims, much less the National meet.
Teams rarely these days try to cover every single event. They want immediate impact scorers for the conference/prelim/national meet and athletes who can contribute in whatever event area(s) the team is focusing on.
ECU is about short sprints and hurdles and the coach has consistently made national-level competitiors out of 2 and 3-star level recruits (look back at the success he had at Campbell of all places!). 313 means that your kids averaged over 48 on splits--does that score in the American?
The kids ended up running 13.7 and 51 in the 110H/400H so…
Coach, its possible that these are guys that in retrospect they might have taken, for sure. But “being on a 3:13 relay” doesn’t really indicate that they are slam-dunks.
It’s great that they developed over the year, but I’m guessing they had not hit these times before the recruiting decisions were made?
And as good as these times are, they are not that difinitive. 13.7 over 39” isn’t likely 13.7 at 42” hurdles. 51.41 was the very last qualifier for the prelim round, i.e. someone who gets immediately knocked out in the heats. And, again, the 400h might not be an event they’re focusing on.
Essentially - the P4's will move on to form their own league, which will essentially be the "New D1." Everyone else will just remain in whatever you want to call the current D1 now and will remain under similar rules as today.
So can’t it still be a quality job even if they can’t compete with P4s? Who really can compete with them outside of each other anyway?
The school just made huge overall budget cuts a year ago and their athletic department was reportedly tens of millions over budget over a 4 year span between 2019 and 2022.
Without an increase in their team budget, they're going nowhere, especially with the overall increase in competitiveness in the MAAC.
Reed has recently coached multiple sub-4 milers and national champions. Being reduced to "college teammates with x" is typical of this thread but really undermines what this guy might be able to do
Very fair, I just honestly had never heard of the guy or that program. Makes sense, hire someone you trust but also has proven they can get the job done. Good for both of them, hope to see NAU back on top soon.
Reed has proven he can coach right? Like you said, multiple sub 4 milers and they won the 1500m and 5k at D3 nats. I guess my question is, how does the transition from being a HC of a national caliber D3 program to an assistant at a national caliber D1 work/go? He might be buddies with Cornfield but if Cornfield is like any other HC I've ever worked with, he's not going to let someone else write the training (aka the fun part of coaching imo). So basically, he's going from being the guy who does it all to being an administrator/recruiter who cheer leads to practice? Am I just horribly wrong?
Very fair, I just honestly had never heard of the guy or that program. Makes sense, hire someone you trust but also has proven they can get the job done. Good for both of them, hope to see NAU back on top soon.
Reed has proven he can coach right? Like you said, multiple sub 4 milers and they won the 1500m and 5k at D3 nats. I guess my question is, how does the transition from being a HC of a national caliber D3 program to an assistant at a national caliber D1 work/go? He might be buddies with Cornfield but if Cornfield is like any other HC I've ever worked with, he's not going to let someone else write the training (aka the fun part of coaching imo). So basically, he's going from being the guy who does it all to being an administrator/recruiter who cheer leads to practice? Am I just horribly wrong?
Dave Smith racks up former HC on his staff like infitinity stones. Same with Tennessee’s distance crew currently
Very fair, I just honestly had never heard of the guy or that program. Makes sense, hire someone you trust but also has proven they can get the job done. Good for both of them, hope to see NAU back on top soon.
Reed has proven he can coach right? Like you said, multiple sub 4 milers and they won the 1500m and 5k at D3 nats. I guess my question is, how does the transition from being a HC of a national caliber D3 program to an assistant at a national caliber D1 work/go? He might be buddies with Cornfield but if Cornfield is like any other HC I've ever worked with, he's not going to let someone else write the training (aka the fun part of coaching imo). So basically, he's going from being the guy who does it all to being an administrator/recruiter who cheer leads to practice? Am I just horribly wrong?
Cornfield has only ever been an assistant from what I know. Why wouldn't he let someone else write the training, it's what he's always known? It's possible that you are wrong (I don't know but interesting to consider). Maybe Cornfield will be the administrator/recruiter/delegator/director, while Reed coaches humbly (super humble guy if you've ever met him- loves this sport and loves what he does).
Go back and look at what those guys that Reed turned into D3 studs were doing in high school. Look at what he did with Frank Csorba. It’s the best coaching I’ve ever seen.
Someone asked why George Fox wasn’t a “big boy job” because of many appealing aspects despite being DIII. And yes many of us would agree lots of lower D jobs are actually better than the “big boy jobs” if you look under the surface especially now that most non-P4 D1 track/XC programs are about to collapse. But not this one. Not one that encourages continuing to lie to kids with Bronze Age myth (while requiring the same delusions of the coach). That’s the catch with what could be an otherwise great job.
Reed has proven he can coach right? Like you said, multiple sub 4 milers and they won the 1500m and 5k at D3 nats. I guess my question is, how does the transition from being a HC of a national caliber D3 program to an assistant at a national caliber D1 work/go? He might be buddies with Cornfield but if Cornfield is like any other HC I've ever worked with, he's not going to let someone else write the training (aka the fun part of coaching imo). So basically, he's going from being the guy who does it all to being an administrator/recruiter who cheer leads to practice? Am I just horribly wrong?
Cornfield has only ever been an assistant from what I know. Why wouldn't he let someone else write the training, it's what he's always known? It's possible that you are wrong (I don't know but interesting to consider). Maybe Cornfield will be the administrator/recruiter/delegator/director, while Reed coaches humbly (super humble guy if you've ever met him- loves this sport and loves what he does).
Cornfield write Cranny’s workouts. Seems like that approach isn't quite producing the results anyone was hoping for. NAU will decline over the next few years
The amount of "coaches" on this thread that think program writing is a majority of the job is astonishing. Most college seniors could write solid programming, coaching (like actual, I want to make you better as a person, developmental coaching) is aaaaallll the other stuff. Reed has improved a program in a massive way and took them through an incredibly challenging time. who gives a sh*t if he's typing up the excel document before practice in Flag