CMU does not have nice indoor facilities. They have indoor facilities but they are not nice.
CMU does not have nice indoor facilities. They have indoor facilities but they are not nice.
Does anyone know where the Towson distance coach Garry May is going?
The Utah announcement must mean Pete Herber is leaving. Anyone know the story there?
Utetastic wrote:
The Utah announcement must mean Pete Herber is leaving. Anyone know the story there?
The situation there is difficult for a sprints/hurdles/jumps/multi coach. 2 yrs ago Kepler and administration decided that the program was going to take on a distance focus, but still keep some sprinters.
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/2474789-155/utah-track-and-field-longtime-throwingUtetastic wrote:
The Utah announcement must mean Pete Herber is leaving. Anyone know the story there?
I bet he's the new head coach at Drake. He has lots of ties to the area as he was a head coach for Coe College (a D3 in Cedar Rapids), an assistant coach at Iowa State, and he competed for Northern Iowa. He coached some All-Americans at USF and helps Kyle with the administrative side of things at Utah. He'd make a lot of sense for Drake.
that was ridiculous. the guy had done the most for that program. There distance approach doesn't seem to be working well know. In other words insecure head coach can't cut it so needs all scholarships for himself. 16points outdoors at conference? 5th in cross by a large margin. As a distance coach I think distance only programs do a disservice to our sport. Unless you are getting the top level studs you are saying you give up at 2/3rds of your season. And in a cold white community sprints and jumps is not the way to go, why those over throws? This leads me again to think head coach insecurity over anything else.
You notice that I didn't write "outstanding", but went with 'nice' as in good enough to get the job done and certainly far better than Jeff Drenth and Al Washington trained on back in the day. Eastern has certainly done much with less or equal facilities.
The bigger picture wrote:
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And you are? If you have to talk about people who you know nothing about you don't have a life.
All I do know is at the end of the day, everyone coming to this thread is for the purpose of discussing what positions are available and who could potentially get said positions. There's not a need to bash anyone who is out there busting ass to make a name for themselves regardless of if they're good at what they're doing or not that's opinion. We all know that our sport isn't the most popular and we don't get the funding of these other sports so we do the best we can. All the negative talk is unnecessary.
I know this is letsrun and everyone is anoyomous so people are gonna hide behind that to say whatefer they want but just know in the coaching circle, none of this is considered truth. Like someone else said, a coach or ad is not concerned with what anonymous people are saying on here.
Preach!!!
I noticed that you didn't write outstanding but even nice is giving too much credit. I didn't say anything about CMU compared to EMU. I also didn't say that their facilities have caused them to be worse than EMU. Simply put, they have indoor facilities but they are not "nice" in any sense of the word. They are old and decrepit.
What is the latest news on Spangler and UF distance?
The latest on him is he's woodcarving. A lot. https://www.instagram.com/paul_spangler_/https://www.etsy.com/shop/HartfieldMillworks
Gator bait wrote:
What is the latest news on Spangler and UF distance?
Don't disagree that it would be preferable for Utah to have a full service T& F program (including an indoor on-campus facility and a men's team), but not sure how you can say the distance program hasn't been a success. 20th nationally in X/C in 2016 and 26th in 2015? That is outstanding success for a program that's previously made little noise in either season.
Not sure what their scholarship breakdown is between distance and sprints/jumps, but it's obviously hurt their T & F performance at PAC-12s. Still, I guess I come out saying it's better to succeed in one season than be mediocre all year.
My point is that many schools have done far better with far worse. Good luck to you in whatever you excel at...
CMU has a beautiful practice track. It has really tight turns so it is a gawd awful comp track, but a very nice practice track.
Utah becoming distance-only is a bad move. There is a name for a distance-only team in America, I believe they call it XC.
By doing this Utah just gave BYU and Utah State "all" their best recruits reasons NOT to go to Utah.
Haveman headed to Illinois.
notthatconfused wrote:
Haveman headed to Illinois.
haveman was the HC/distance coach at dayton and jake Shaver was the assistant distance coach at Illinois state. Both are going to illinois which already has Jake stewart. 3 distance coaches to go with the HC Mike Turk (throws), adrian wheately (sprints/hurdles/jumps), and randy gillon (sprints/hurdles/multis).
wonder where scott jones ends up?
Good people? Who? wrote:
Lots of good people looking for jobs right now so they should have no lack of quality applicants.
"Lots of good people looking for jobs right now... "
Who?
If they are so "good" then why are they looking for jobs?
If you are not a coach, why are you on this thread? Just throwing shade? How nice of you.
Yep, that worked out pretty well for them too...
Ok, there's no way that Illinois is going to have 3 distance coaches on staff. They'll have Stewart in charge and have the new person help him out. My guess is that it's gonna be Haveman. They've had a pretty balanced program and a lot of success in the sprints/jumps recently so I don't see them putting half of their staff into one event area.