2014 College Track and Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Horns Down wrote:

Ride em wrote:

Marr to TCU

good let Marr go stab someone else in the back.

This is not a done deal.

wind aided wrote:

Any updates on the West Coast jobs?

Idaho - Director-DONE

Hawaii - Dist

Utah - Sprints

Cal Fullerton - Jumps and Sprints-DONE

WSU - Assistants-DONE

Hawaii conducting interviews this week.

D1 coach. wrote:

And the problem with Head Track coaches hiring other coaches of various events is that...

They don't know anything about other events!

It's sad, but the days of coaches being able to coach every event are gone. The days of Bill Bowerman and Tom Tellez knowing each and every event are pretty much over.

So what you get now is a Sprint coach not knowing anything about distance trying to figure out who is talking BS and who actually knows what is going on. Or a Distance coach who has no idea about throws doing that hiring.

The Assoc Head Coach at UCLA coaches sprints through 1500 and all the field events. He coaches all the multis from beginner level to world class. When he was a DII head coach he coached every event at some point.

Not enough guys like Coach Hoyt. Rare gem...

assistant coaching staff announced at Idaho, with others to be added later.

Julie Taylor - throws - from Idaho

Angela White - hurdles - from Idaho

Allix lee - distance - from Idaho

Matt McGee - jumps - retained from WSU

Now what does the new guy at Idaho do?

Who is going to Fullerton?

Updated? Maybe?

What is open:

NAU - multis

Davidson College - Men's HC/Director

Davidson College - Assistant

ND-Head Men's Coach

Missouri State XC

Georgia Southern - 2 assistants maybe?

WSU assistant positions?

Loyola New Orleans- head track/xc

Northwestern- Assistant XC

FIU - Head Coach

Costal Carolina - Hire within for the assistant?

IU - 1 position open

OSU - 2 assistants

Murray State - Asst

Eastern Michigan - assistant

Idaho State - Director

TN Tech - Head Coach

Penn State - director

Penn State - 5 assistants

Univ. of Tn - 1 asst spot left?

Wisco - Assistant position (female)

Troy -HC

Iowa - assistant position

San Fran - assistant distance

Louisville - sprints coach

Univ mass- associate HC

Michigan

SIU

Ole miss - 2 positions

TCU - distance - Marr?

Kentucky vert jumps and Multis

Morehead State - Head Coach distance

Bradley - Head coach Distance

Bradley - assistants all distance

Air Force Academy - Distance

Virginia Tech- distance assistant, female

Columbia- Director, internal hire

West Point - Director

Temple - Heac coach

Filled:

Georgia Southern Head Track- MTSU Coach

Iowa - Director- Sprints guy

Missouri XC - Marc Burns

Univ. of TN - Beth Sullivan

Univ. of TN - 4 assistant coaches

OSU - Karen Denis

Colgate - Danielle Hunt

Standford assistant - filled with female

Uconn- JJ Clark

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Cross Idaho State off the list. Dave Neilson is not going anywhere. The U of Idaho filled their opening with Cawley. I think he needs a full complement of assistants. Anyone know how many he will get, or who is in the running?

The Big Sky is a step above the WAC, but I think the U of Idaho will have the funding to be up there with the top third of teams. Good possible job for northwestern assistants.

Confused here, don't you mean assistant coaching staff announced at WSU, not Idaho?

I don't think the new Idaho coach (from CSU) has announced yet.

So what was going on at the University of Idaho. I checked their website for XC results and it is out of date back to 2006. To me that shows no respect for the athletes or the sport. I was there because UofI came up as a good academic fit for my incoming senior. With the lack of interest in distance that they show on the website we elected not to visit.

Actually UI is solid in distance, what they're not good at is PR/sports information/marketing. Their A.D. is clueless, too. But they've won a bunch of women's X-C conference titles. A bad conference, yes, but they won them. But you would be correct: They are horrific with their website, statistics, historical records, and PR. The A.D. doesn't care so the SID doesn't care, etc.

It's one of the worst managed D-1 athletic departments in the country.

It's seems to me that coaches are just being recycled from one team to another. Coaches get fired and hired 1 week later, no one is asking questions as to why they were fired. If you've been coaching 10 years you're guaranteed a job. Does anyone look at athlete progression when hiring? Probably not, just looking at awards. Which is why you see coaches hired and 2 years later they are fired.

Latti31 wrote:

It's seems to me that coaches are just being recycled from one team to another. Coaches get fired and hired 1 week later, no one is asking questions as to why they were fired. If you've been coaching 10 years you're guaranteed a job. Does anyone look at athlete progression when hiring? Probably not, just looking at awards. Which is why you see coaches hired and 2 years later they are fired.

If this is true, then where is BOOGIE Johnson?!

Wasn't there an opening at Miami???

And I'm ASSuming you can add Kentucky sprints to that list as well

According to google he's with HSI. He's only a year removed from NCAA violations so he will probably be coaching in 2015 again at the college level. Disclaimer: I had no idea who he was until i google searched him

Anthony Acklin is the new sprints coach!! Good guy GREAT COACH

Who left William & Mary?

http://ustfccca.site-ym.com/networking/apply_now.aspx?id=210102&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+USTFCCCAJobOpenings+%2528USTFCCCA+Job+Openings%2529&view=2

From what I have heard - Idaho is very poorly funded. Low pay - low budgets - only 3 full time assistants. They will struggle in the big sky... The WAC the past several years was horrible... any average team (some high school teams)could have won that conference.