2025 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

What are reasons a school cleans house? Mostly a D1 thing?

Whole staff?

Not true , but nice try

Eric Houle at Southern Utah announced his retirement to the team. Not sure if it is now or after the track seasons.

They have been awful lately

I don’t think anyone was slandering Mike Smith; it seemed more of a commentary on how much turnover is going on there. Whether good or bad, the lack of continuity is tough on an athlete, especially at a place as challenging as West Point.

I think we all can agree that having the same voice throughout 4-5 years of competing can only be beneficial to development. If this is really one of their coaches, it is good to hear they are sticking around despite challenges of a strenuous workload, tough work-life balance, struggles of coaching at a military academy, and not having salaries as high as other programs around the region. I imagine the cadets are appreciative!

Arkansas Distance

arkansasrazorbacks.com

Cale Wallace hired as Arkansas men’s distance coach

Arkansas men’s head coach Doug Case has announced the hiring of UA alum Cale Wallace as the Razorbacks men’s head coach in cross country and assistant coach in track and field.

Open link

Any word on Minot State?

Beavers welcome track coaching candidates Ryan Hershberger, Erik Stevens - MSU Athletics

Beavers welcome track coaching candidates Ryan Hershberger, Erik Stevens - MSU Athletics

MINOT, N.D. – The Minot State Athletic Department is in the final stages of hiring a new leader for the Beaver track and field programs and will host two head coaching candidates next week.
The Beavers welcome Ryan Hershberger to campus on Wednesday, December 3, to meet members of the Minot State campus and community, and welcome Erik Stevens to campus on Friday, December 5, to meet members of the Minot State campus and community.
The community is invited to meet both head coaching candidates at an open forum scheduled for 2 p.m. in Hartnett Hall's Collaborative Space, located on the 2nd floor facing the MSU Dome. Coach Hershberger will meet the public at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3, and Coach Stevens at 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5.
A 2014 graduate of Kansas State with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, who will earn his Master's in Kinesiology with an emphasis in coaching from Adams State (Colo.) this May, Coach Hershberger currently is the strength and conditioning coach for Serco Inc. in Fort Riley, Kansas, where he coordinates physical training programs for more than 400 soldiers.
Hershberger also brings six seasons of NCAA Division I coaching experience with him as he previously spent one season as an assistant coach for the throwers at NCAA Division I Purdue (Ind.), three seasons as an assistant coach for NCAA Division I Army (N.Y.) where he coached throwers and managed the track and field strength facilities, and two seasons as an assistant coach for throwers at NCAA Division I UNC Charlotte.
Coach Hershberger holds a USATF Level 3 coaching certification for throws, a USATF Level 2 coaching certification for jumps, and is an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning coach.
Coach Stevens is currently in his fourth season as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I North Texas where he leads the distance runners for the track and field team, and is head coach for the cross-country program.
Prior to joining the Mean Green's staff in the fall of 2022, he served as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I Florida State for one year, spent two years as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I Georgia, and two years as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I UCLA.
A 2006 graduate of Arizona with a degree in History Education and a minor in kinesiology and coaching, Coach Stevens holds USATF Level 1 & 2 certifications and is a USTFCCCA Endurance Specialist.
Minot State's new track and field coach will replace current Beavers head coach Jordan Aus, who currently is splitting duties as head coach and as Associate Director of Athletics for Revenue and Ticketing, a role he took over on November 1.

A press release for interviews is actually insane.

Did they ask the coaches to do this? I would not want current athletes or recruits to know if I didn't actually get the job.

I was wondering that myself, they didn't give any athletes a heads up at North Texas.

That said, Erik Stevens is an amazing coach. Head coach would be a step up.

This is actually pretty common in higher Ed for positions such as President and upper level directors.

Not a Higher Ed Position. It's an athletic department position.

This is not for a Lead Academic Professorship or to be a Dean, Chancellor or President of a University, it's a coaching position. There is no need to announce this sort of thing, and it's actually pretty silly that they did. Maybe it was a slow news day up there in the hinterlands.

I can't explain it, little Division 2 program and student intern in press department? If I was interviewing and they did this, that would be a huge red flag. I wouldn't even show up for the interview at that point.