2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Man is letsrun.com always like this?

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics, and then there are the new generation of young assistant coach Bios...anybody read this one?

I didn't know there was so much credit to be taken....

For better or for worse she skipped the stopwatch holding phase of a career. To my knowledge she's legit. No credit claiming for Drake's Isaac Bastan or accomplished South Dakota men during tenure there in her bio, just the women (and Akron men) she has coached

Yes!

Back to jobs please.

OU has been a hard distance job for a while now.

Jason Dunn did a good job taking over for Martin Smith but the last decade they have been focusing less and less on distance. Still a good team, but have been mainly field and sprints.

Moving to the SEC with no scholarship allotment and event support is going to be rough.

There is a reason OU has cycled through distance coaches every 2-3 years. Hard to succeed.

Didn’t the last coach marry one of her athletes or something?

I have no idea, never heard of this. She was doing a solid job especially on the women’s side. A lot of them were improving

McNulty has been removed from the Dartmouth roster...

There are some facts to what you're raising, however my main contention are as follows:

It may not be ideal as compared to "Distance centric" program, however you're STILL an full-time assistant with your own autonomy over an event group at an insanely well funded school in a conference that traditionally isn't super strong to begin with in Distance.

Moreover, she SURELY is going to have SOME scholarship allotments. Certainly not as many as Jumps or Sprints, but let's not be foolish as to claim it's zero...
Additionally, with some scholarship allotment, this is where recruiting comes into play: academic aid, talented walk ons, in-state talent...the list goes on.

She may not be primed to score 34 points at the SEC Championships any time soon, but if she's a merited hire based off her competency and record? Then she'll surely demonstrate success, development and titles worthy of praise.

She's got what....five events total in Outdoor season to prove this?What's a fair shake at a record worth scrutinizing? I'd say 3 years minimum in the short term to gauge a pattern or trajectory and 5 years to cement who you are.

I think where most people find the coaching carousel truly absurd, is that now hires like these don't actually have to do anything. She's now an OU SEC Assistant. Baring any egregious violations or criminality, she's literally set for life to hop any where.

Three years to gauge her ability...? She has coached at Five different schools in three years. Hard to determine much of anything at that rate..

What's going on at Columbia?

Complete lack of interest in any athlete who doesn’t run distance. Tried to pass off a completely inexperienced, first-time coach as an Ivy League-capable pole vault, HJ, and multis coach. He was a disaster, athletes protested. Good news: he’s gone. Bad news: that group (both men & women) is coach-less for the foreseeable future. The hurdle/LJ coach is great and trying to help, but he can’t effectively train that many athletes. Head coach appears not to know their names or backgrounds.

No one wanted that job to not get any support in the best track conference in the country with zero scholarship to be set up to look like a clown while living in a sh!thole. Unless you’re a young woman who - yes, admittedly - doesn’t have to take as big a risk of getting stuck there when they are made to look like a clown. Sorry it would be a big step up from your part time DII assistant gig at a school in a strip mall. But not for the rest of us.

Ah yes, the proverbial asswipe who "speaks for the masses".

u mad you got passed up? Seethe young man, seethe!

1) Norman is not a sh!thole. It's no urban metropolis, but that's not attractive in today's world or society, either. It's the quintessential college town with some quaint neighborhoods not far from Oklahoma City.

2) The fact you're arguing that folks would simply "pass this job up" is laughable and convinces NO ONE lmao. Just because you're not given the lion's share of the scholarship power does not nullify its attractiveness, you idiot. Last time I checked? Wendell McRaven at A&M is benefitting from those team bonuses. Also among the longest serving assistants at that SEC school. You think he cares? Job security and salary are far better than whatever superficial accolades you attempt to doll out. James is a "minority", too. So again, being a distance coach there comes with major job security.

3) It's the SEC and Distance. You can get 1-2 scholarships and mold a star or two every year. Distance kids are nerds anyway generally speaking and could probably get a good deal of academic money.

4) Lastly, segwaying from point 3, you CAN succeed. You simply have to define what "success" is from a Conference standpoint and timeframe.

We'll await your idiotic retort when you wake up from your hangover.

Downvote me.
I seriously take it as a badge of honour on this parade of stupid forum and it's obvious these points are salient when I see that arrow pointing down : )

Illinois State adds two assistant coaches.

goredbirds.com

Illinois State Track & Field adds Jake Gillum and Steve Luke to Coaching Staff - Illinois State University Athletics

@RedbirdTFXC

Steve Luke and Jake Gillum added to the Illinois State Cross Country and Track & Field program.

Link:goredbirds.com/news/2024/1/8/illinois-...

Well I applaud your optimism.

The SEC is going to be a really deep conference distance wise, especially for the women.

Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Bama, Texas, Ole Miss, throw in the random International from some of the other schools, O yeah and Texas AM that you mentioned. They also made NCAA cross.

that’s a lot of schools shooting for a top 8 spot at conference.