2025 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

In my opinion, no, unless you are in the same conference, or you know that the ADs know each other.

JUST A MESSAGE TO / FOR THE COACHES THAT ARE LOOKING FOR AND ACCEPTING JOBS.

Don't accept the low salary offers that the ADs are offering us, as this is diminishing our value as a group. I have been offered multiple jobs over my tenure, and at each stop they wanted to pay the head coach between $33,000 to $39,000 for that coach to be the head of 6 sports. 2-M/W Cross Country 2- M/W Indoor T&F 2- M/W Outdoor T&F.

You have to remind the ADs that we are coaching more athletes for more sports than the other sport's coaches. If we accept $39,000 for XC, Indoor, and Outdoor, then that is $13,000 a season. Split up the genders, and that is $6,500 a season.

Remember that they are paying for our services and we do not have to accept the low ball offers that are presented to us initially. If you are their 1st choice, they will be willing to negotiate.

Good luck everyone with the job searches.

Summer is the busiest time for switching jobs right? Would winter holiday be the second busiest time?

If you could get 100% of people to listen to you then AD’s would have to make a decision - drop the sport or pay for it. The problem is that somebody will accept that low pay and the cycle continues. I agree with you but it’s quite idealistic to think no one will accept the job. The issue is that ADs do not care about the sport. If you choose to accept a job paying so little then do not complain when you wake up and realize the the amount you are being paid correlates to the amount of respect administrators have for you. It will be shown in your budget and how administrators treat you.

absolutely agree with the sentiment and I see this playing out in the strength and conditioning coach sector as well. But at the end of the day its a question of supply and demand and a question of personal leverage.

Sounds like you were in a position to decline the low-paying offer and that is good for everyone. But you can’t blame someone who doesn’t have that leverage for accepting the offer. They are just weighing the risk of losing the opportunity against the reward of increasing the pay by some nominal amount.

Sometimes you are the 1st choice but the 2nd and 3rd choices aren’t that far off. And sometimes you are not the 1st choice. My advice: if you’re going to get into a negotiation be realistic about your actual levarage.

Any word/rumors on who Drake's new cross country/distance coach may be?

Heard from someone on the team Coach Greene was talking to Bob Braman and Chris Fox recently, and has now narrowed it down to Greg Metcalf, Adam Smith, and Chis Solinsky.

I missed you 6 months ago. Try being a better message board poster. You're kind of bad at it.

Adam Smith is the guy UK really needs to go after. Won a National Title as an assistant at Syracuse, coached professionally for 4 years, and he’s done really well with Ole Miss. If Big Blue is truly serious about being a contender, they would be hard pressed to find a better candidate when you look at his stellar recruiting, ability to develop runners, and his connections to the pros.

Nah Big Blue does not want to be good at distance running.

Honestly, most programs don’t care about half the program and it makes sense.

Sometimes the WORST thing you can do as an assistant is try too hard. Push for scholarship allocation, travel, really anything.

Most directors want have the staff to be quiet, score a few points, keep the kids happy and graduating

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So just summer then?

So just summer then?

This Arkansas position has been filled and was already deleted off this website

Lol, so like most jobs they already had a person and posted it for not even a day to say they posted it?

Hi Adam.

Out of all people why her?
last place in cross country big 12

10th out of 12 in PAC 12

never finished top 20 in the region. Wtf is this?

It’s Milwaukee…let’s not act like this some powerhouse. Lol