I Just came across this thread and honestly I’m not surprised. UCLA keeps trending in the wrong direction every year. For a program with the name UCLA they need better leadership
I Just came across this thread and honestly I’m not surprised. UCLA keeps trending in the wrong direction every year. For a program with the name UCLA they need better leadership
Joanna Hayes really has struggled since taking over as head coach/director. At a place like UCLA, consistently being near the bottom of the conference just isn’t acceptable. Unless UCLA is okay with last-place type results, it’s hard to see this lasting long term.
Cal State Fullerton doing better than UCLA says everything. When a program with a fraction of the resources is outperforming UCLA, that’s a serious problem. UCLA should be competing for conference titles and NCAA trophies, not getting passed by programs with far fewer advantages. At this point, it’s embarrassing.
Cal State Fullerton doing better than UCLA says everything. When a program with a fraction of the resources is outperforming UCLA, that’s a serious problem. UCLA should be competing for conference titles and NCAA trophies, not getting passed by programs with far fewer advantages. At this point, it’s embarrassing.
Cal State Fullerton doing better than UCLA says everything. When a program with a fraction of the resources is outperforming UCLA, that’s a serious problem. UCLA should be competing for conference titles and NCAA trophies, not getting passed by programs with far fewer advantages. At this point, it’s embarrassing.
Hayes was a lot like UCLA’s recent football hire that only lasted a year because alum demanded his firing for similar bad results. A great former athlete, but being a great athlete doesn’t automatically make you a great coach or leader. The results speak for themselves. If UCLA cares about competing at a high level, this shouldn’t last much longer.
Cal State Fullerton doing better than UCLA says everything. When a program with a fraction of the resources is outperforming UCLA, that’s a serious problem. UCLA should be competing for conference titles and NCAA trophies, not getting passed by programs with far fewer advantages. At this point, it’s embarrassing.
Hayes was a lot like UCLA’s recent football hire that only lasted a year because alum demanded his firing for similar bad results. A great former athlete, but being a great athlete doesn’t automatically make you a great coach or leader. The results speak for themselves. If UCLA cares about competing at a high level, this shouldn’t last much longer.
I honestly think this was the worst NCAA Regional performance in UCLA track & field history.
Cal State Fullerton doing better than UCLA says everything. When a program with a fraction of the resources is outperforming UCLA, that’s a serious problem. UCLA should be competing for conference titles and NCAA trophies, not getting passed by programs with far fewer advantages. At this point, it’s embarrassing.
Hayes was a lot like UCLA’s recent football hire that only lasted a year because alum demanded his firing for similar bad results. A great former athlete, but being a great athlete doesn’t automatically make you a great coach or leader. The results speak for themselves. If UCLA cares about competing at a high level, this shouldn’t last much longer.
Hayes was a lot like UCLA’s recent football hire that only lasted a year because alum demanded his firing for similar bad results. A great former athlete, but being a great athlete doesn’t automatically make you a great coach or leader. The results speak for themselves. If UCLA cares about competing at a high level, this shouldn’t last much longer.
Hayes should be fired
I haven’t looked at the details of her contract, but she likely received a four-year deal. Based on the results so far, her first two years have been extremely disappointing extremely poor. The program has declined rapidly under her leadership, and being fired would only make sense
I haven’t looked at the details of her contract, but she likely received a four-year deal. Based on the results so far, her first two years have been extremely disappointing extremely poor. The program has declined rapidly under her leadership, and being fired would only make sense
I think a four year contract is pretty standard for a Director or Head Coach. That said, Joanna Hayes has been one of the least successful coaching hires UCLA has made in recent memory for Track. It also seems like UCLA’s athletic department has developed a pattern of questionable coaching hires, only to move on and start over again a few years later.
I had heard it was a 2 year deal! I wonder if she was able to renegotiate after last season? If not this could be it!!!
two year deal would be pretty unusual. In my experience, most head coaching/director positions come with at least a four-year contract. If this is this is the case UCLA just dodged a bullet.
I don't know why you people keep whining. There are a ton of programs with more resources that are doing far worse than UCLA. Her women's team in particular is doing quite well and are scoring more points at NCAAs prior to her arrival.
They just qualified 3 men, 3 women and 2 women's relays to the NCAA final round. Most are returning next year as well.
She's had only 1 recruiting class so far, and she started that recruiting class really late. It takes time.
I don't know why you people keep whining. There are a ton of programs with more resources that are doing far worse than UCLA. Her women's team in particular is doing quite well and are scoring more points at NCAAs prior to her arrival.
They just qualified 3 men, 3 women and 2 women's relays to the NCAA final round. Most are returning next year as well.
She's had only 1 recruiting class so far, and she started that recruiting class really late. It takes time.
That’s a weak argument. Most of the athletes scoring and qualifying were recruited before Hayes took over. She’s had two years and the program hasn’t improved, if anything it’s gone backwards. UCLA isn’t supposed to be judged against bad programs. With UCLA’s resources, facilities, and recruiting base, these results are underwhelming. If Hayes is in a two year contract she should be gone on two weeks
I don't know why you people keep whining. There are a ton of programs with more resources that are doing far worse than UCLA. Her women's team in particular is doing quite well and are scoring more points at NCAAs prior to her arrival.
They just qualified 3 men, 3 women and 2 women's relays to the NCAA final round. Most are returning next year as well.
She's had only 1 recruiting class so far, and she started that recruiting class really late. It takes time.
That’s a weak argument. Most of the athletes scoring and qualifying were recruited before Hayes took over. She’s had two years and the program hasn’t improved, if anything it’s gone backwards. UCLA isn’t supposed to be judged against bad programs. With UCLA’s resources, facilities, and recruiting base, these results are underwhelming. If Hayes is in a two year contract she should be gone on two weeks
Obviously someone that only has 1 recruiting class has 75% of the team that was inherited from the prior coach and those athletes will be the older / more experienced / more competitive ones.
UCLA has very little resources compared to the more competitive teams in the Big 10 right now. UCLA is way behind in terms of NIL money.
You can cry online all you want but Hayes is not at any risk of getting fired or nonrenewed.
I follow the team and the other sports pretty closely. She's not doing a great job, but let's be real; the sport is so low on the school's totem pole regardless of past history that firing her is nowhere close to a consideration. The truth is that most of the qualifiers are her recruits. I count two that she inherited. The men had some bad luck with injuries this year. I like some of the incoming recruits, but there are not enough. They failed to close on many of the big names they brought in for visits last fall. We'll see what they can do in the portal and maybe some of the remaining unsigned high schoolers.