2017 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

not the jumps coach - the volunteer assistant pole vault coach

Whatever bro

The Wizzard wrote:

not the jumps coach - the volunteer assistant pole vault coach

Oregon looking for a jumps/multi coach. I'm assuming their guy is heading to A&M

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/9169464/assistant-men-s-women-s-track-field-coach

Nope. Oregon's jumps/multis guy, Jamie Cook, is not going to A&M. At least, not at Nationals he wasn't.

Air Force Academy = 7200 ft

Naval Academy = sea level

Frazier wrote:

Seattle University should of never moved to Div I to begin with. What a bloody joke...no track. Who ever gets that job....kiss your coaching career good bye.

I think you are a bit out in left field big guy. There are successful programs out there that don't have a track facility. One comes to mind that is very similar in funding, tuition costs, and city- USF.

I'd bet they have enough funding on the women's side to get the XC Team rolling. In the WAC, that will be good enough to win titles in the fall and finish mid pack on the track.

The issue is poor recruiting. I don't know much about the program but it's pretty easy to spot the holes in that roster.

If the right coach gets in there and gets some initial support from the new AD, I could see that being a solid distance program in the future.

The problem with that program is that since they became full time D1, they couldn't qualify anyone for the NCAA champs in either XC or outdoor track. Trish had one guy who missed qualifying for XC nationals by one place a few years ago. She had a female athlete win the WAC XC title last fall, but wasn't even a factor at the regionals in Sacramento.In track, they've only had three people qualify for the first round (aka the West regionals)--a javelin thrower twice, and a high jumper. They have never quaiified a woman for the regionals, and even worse, no one has ever qualified for the NCAA finals. Every other school in the state of Washington in NCAA D1 has qualified at least one male and one female athlete for the national finals since SeattleU has been D1, and that is unacceptable by any metric (I believe they became full time D1 during the 2012-13 academic year).

LA Tech sprints and hurdles coach position is open

Any insights on what is going on at Oral Roberts? They have a cross country post on ustfccca jobs.

They have had some solid distance runners over the years...but not so much recently.

Is Dial looking to revamp distance? Or do they need a babysitter?

He didn't resign bro - he got himself fired.

????? wrote:

USC wrote:

USC just posted for a Distance Assistant

https://usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/ExternalUSCCareers/job/Los-Angeles-CA---University-Park-Campus/Assistant-Track-Coach---Distance-and-Cross-Country_REQ20046067-1

Questions now is whether. David Freeman is going to Florida or LSU ??

David Freeman was fired at USC for not achieving results. They don't spend much scholarship money in the middle and long distances at USC. But you better get results with the scholarships that they do give you. The previous Trojan distance coach did a better job of getting results.

So, they didn't get enough talent to make it to NCAA's......recruiting.

Seattle U's coach was never a track athletes. She was a crew athlete, I think.

First mistake.

Just another guy wrote:

LA Tech sprints and hurdles coach position is open

Where is it posted?

so is syracuse really looking for a throws?

Gator Alley wrote:

????? wrote:

Questions now is whether. David Freeman is going to Florida or LSU ??

David Freeman was fired at USC for not achieving results. They don't spend much scholarship money in the middle and long distances at USC. But you better get results with the scholarships that they do give you. The previous Trojan distance coach did a better job of getting results.

I wonder why it is so hard to get results. A program as good as that should have no problem attracting 1-2 quality mid distance guys and girls that could contribute to the powerhouse.

JStats wrote:

Gator Alley wrote:

David Freeman was fired at USC for not achieving results. They don't spend much scholarship money in the middle and long distances at USC. But you better get results with the scholarships that they do give you. The previous Trojan distance coach did a better job of getting results.

I wonder why it is so hard to get results. A program as good as that should have no problem attracting 1-2 quality mid distance guys and girls that could contribute to the powerhouse.

Well if you're willing to walk on at USC then you'd probably be also willing to drive across town to walk on at UCLA or the other solid programs that aren't located in a crappy inner city. I don't think it's as easy as it seems, but I'm sure their head coach over there would agree with you.

Well if you're willing to walk on at USC then you'd probably be also willing to drive across town to walk on at UCLA or the other solid programs that aren't located in a crappy inner city. I don't think it's as easy as it seems, but I'm sure their head coach over there would agree with you.[/quote]

Being a successful distance coach at USC has nothing to do with walk on athletes, and everything to do with maximizing the few scholarship athletes that you do get. The distance coach they had at USC when Ron Allice was head coach succeeded because he brought in Eastern Europeans, and got good results from them.

Freeman is not a bad coach. I just don't think he was ready for the tough task at hand with so little scholarship money, and so no room for error.

Yes, Los Angeles isn't the best place to be a distance runner or a distance coach. The PAC 12 isn't the best place to try to become a distance power house and southern California schools generally prefer to take advantage of the heat and sun to scrape up sprints, throws and jumps points instead.

USC, the expensive white Republican private college in the rough, low income part of town didn't put $$$ into distance. As a private college, they can admit whomever they want and scholarship whomever they want on the team.

UCLA, the less expensive white Democrat state school that can't budge on their admissions standards (because they are a state school) is in between Beverly Hills and Bel Air, but neither town will let the runners traipse all over any green areas. UCLA has been lucky to have mountain man Forest Braden to coach in the city. The teams have done well under his watch, considering they don't have trails nearby and UCLA has de-emphasized distance (i.e., barely scholarshipped it).

But don't forget how hard it is to do well in distance in the PAC 12. It's a tricky conference. USC dominates the sprints, so they have come along without any distance points. That, too, is impressive.