I agree that there will be plenty of openings especially at the mid major level.
Every coach I talk to is having their funding squeezed, scholarship reduced, resources taken, and don’t even mention pay.
Most of DI needs to move to a DIII model and these coaches need to teach to make ends meet.
For the young folks looking for jobs go have some good years!
Every coach you talk to? I've heard very little of that. I feel like many programs have been adding coaches, been stable or adding scholarship, creating NIL resources, pay is stagnant but certainly no different than its been for years. Funding isn't being squeezed, its just that budgets aren't keeping up with inflation.
Coaches should definitely not be teachers. Thats ridiculous.
Football and basketball players (at least) are going to get paid directly (and collectively bargain) within 2-5 years. When that happens how will departments still afford to support the non-revenue teams?
Every coach you talk to? I've heard very little of that. I feel like many programs have been adding coaches, been stable or adding scholarship, creating NIL resources, pay is stagnant but certainly no different than its been for years. Funding isn't being squeezed, its just that budgets aren't keeping up with inflation.
Coaches should definitely not be teachers. Thats ridiculous.
Football and basketball players (at least) are going to get paid directly (and collectively bargain) within 2-5 years. When that happens how will departments still afford to support the non-revenue teams?
Head Coach / Director Avery Anderson not getting renewed at UCLA. New staff coming this summer. When will UCLA do something about getting their Track & Field team back on top like the 90’s.
This has been a rumor for a while now.
As for the glory days of the ‘80s… those days are gone, because:
1. Ucla has now passed Berkeley when it comes to screaming high admission standards, so it’s danged hard to find a whole track team with 4.0 GPAs. It’s the #1 public university in the US.
2. Unlike private universities like USC, Stanford, and Princeton, public universities can’t admit whomever the heck they feel like, they have to stick to admission standards because they use public $$
3. Tuition used to be free at Ucla in the ‘80s (not room and board or fees)
4. Now that the academic standards are high and very few athletes ever get academic scholarship (merit based)
5. Lotta drug use in the ‘80s
6. No budget to pay assistants enough to live less than a 30 minute commute to Ucla campus. For people who don’t know, it’s tucked in between Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, and Santa Monica. 2 BR apartments are $2500+ to rent. Buying a 2 br condo would be $550,000+ which requires $110,000 down for a $4000/mo mortgage, which requires $160,000+ annual salary. A double income couple could do that, but bring kids into the picture and a 2 BR condo + a coach traveling back east all year long and a 30 min commute makes it less feasible. (Stanford struggles with this, too.)
Soooooo for every alumn pissed their Bruins are struggling across the board, understand that Ucla the university is not the same as it was, across the board.
BUT joining the Big 10 floods their coffers, so travel nightmares aside (even with their private jet), they may be able to at least pay for a whole staff. But admission standards are no joke.
Well stated but the cost of living is a little overblown IMO, only when it comes to UCLA does proximity to campus come into play. Folks have no problem living "away" from campus in other cities.
If this 5 year old rumor is finally true, the job search will be very interesting. Lot of candidates, a few who actually want the job. I mean understand it and want it, with the cost of living and academic challenges.
Any chance they promote from within?
Is the same ADA doing the hiring? I mean do we believe the person that hired Anderson, is going to learn and do a better job this time?
Well stated but the cost of living is a little overblown IMO, only when it comes to UCLA does proximity to campus come into play. Folks have no problem living "away" from campus in other cities.
Not sure what your personal experience is living here in LA, but until it’s taken you 50 minutes to drive home 8 miles after work, you don’t realize how important proximity is. Again, with kids, living in a 2 br condo in a rougher neighborhood (how ’bout those schools though?) and a family who’d like to see you becomes less viable.
Well stated but the cost of living is a little overblown IMO, only when it comes to UCLA does proximity to campus come into play. Folks have no problem living "away" from campus in other cities.
Not sure what your personal experience is living here in LA, but until it’s taken you 50 minutes to drive home 8 miles after work, you don’t realize how important proximity is. Again, with kids, living in a 2 br condo in a rougher neighborhood (how ’bout those schools though?) and a family who’d like to see you becomes less viable.
I believe a university like UCLA would benefit and do itself justice by investing in its surrounding community. They should provide housing(free or affordable) to their faculty and staff so they do not have to commute. Invest in surrounding schools for those employees and possible future enrollees of their university. Stanford and other places where it’s otherwise a nightmare to make it work there should also do the same .
You have little to zero experience to talk of these issues. Put some work and time in and we can chat in a dozen years or so youngin. Everyone knows the lack of motivation/work ethic in the majority (Not All) of this generation. Listen to your elders who paved the way for you and worked very hard for very little pay in the past several decades.
Well stated but the cost of living is a little overblown IMO, only when it comes to UCLA does proximity to campus come into play. Folks have no problem living "away" from campus in other cities.
If this 5 year old rumor is finally true, the job search will be very interesting. Lot of candidates, a few who actually want the job. I mean understand it and want it, with the cost of living and academic challenges.
Any chance they promote from within?
Is the same ADA doing the hiring? I mean do we believe the person that hired Anderson, is going to learn and do a better job this time?
UCLA has no one on staff that can or should be considered to be promoted within. Doing so will be another Avery Anderson disaster. I just looked up the current coaches and it looks more like a California Community College staff then a P5. They will have to try and get a desperate spirit coach trying to make a name and move up the ranks. UCLA is like Stanford 4 years ago, with so little pay no one really wants the job. At least no one that could do a good job wants the job. It’s sad but it’s the reality.
field event is the best model for a school like ucla. sprints can't compete with the sec. distance can't win vs mountains and midwest. field events is the way.
field event is the best model for a school like ucla. sprints can't compete with the sec. distance can't win vs mountains and midwest. field events is the way.
Good point, this is what cal decided to do… yes cal distance is garbage now and that makes let’s run sad but the track team is legit… ucla could use same model… cal even has a few actual sprinters… I’m in, ucla needs an elite field program and then they will occasionally get a few good sprinters who play fb or want to be there for whatever reason and a few distance nerds who are legit but want a top public school education.
field event is the best model for a school like ucla. sprints can't compete with the sec. distance can't win vs mountains and midwest. field events is the way.
Good point, this is what cal decided to do… yes cal distance is garbage now and that makes let’s run sad but the track team is legit… ucla could use same model… cal even has a few actual sprinters… I’m in, ucla needs an elite field program and then they will occasionally get a few good sprinters who play fb or want to be there for whatever reason and a few distance nerds who are legit but want a top public school education.
Last time UCLA won’t NCAAs they had a distance coach as Director. It will never happen now, but fun fact
Good point, this is what cal decided to do… yes cal distance is garbage now and that makes let’s run sad but the track team is legit… ucla could use same model… cal even has a few actual sprinters… I’m in, ucla needs an elite field program and then they will occasionally get a few good sprinters who play fb or want to be there for whatever reason and a few distance nerds who are legit but want a top public school education.
Last time UCLA won’t NCAAs they had a distance coach as Director. It will never happen now, but fun fact
in 87 & 88 nearly all the distance athletes were walk ons