Dick Booth out at Arkansas

Dear "Some Coach": You will never be a successful D-1 head coach. Never.

Being a good leader means making the tough decisions for the good of the program. This thing happens in football and basketball all the time. Nobody expects the new football or basketball coach of a major program to retain the leftover assistants, no matter how good or respected they might have been. Track is a sport of weenies who have no stomach for tough (and necessary) decisions. I bet you won't find one successful D-1 head coach who has a problem with Buchnam's decision.

Finally Happy wrote:

Dear "Some Coach": You will never be a successful D-1 head coach. Never.

Being a good leader means making the tough decisions for the good of the program. This thing happens in football and basketball all the time. Nobody expects the new football or basketball coach of a major program to retain the leftover assistants, no matter how good or respected they might have been. Track is a sport of weenies who have no stomach for tough (and necessary) decisions. I bet you won't find one successful D-1 head coach who has a problem with Buchnam's decision.

That analogy is complete crap. When a guy takes a DI football or baskets job he brings with him a "system", and needs to have a staff who knows that system and can implement that system. That's why you rarely see a football coach not bring his whole staff with him; basketball is a little different, the game adapts better but you will still see key guys staying with the head.

You should know that track is completely different. No program system, just event guys who know what they're doing. And Booth is the flat out, best collegiate LJ/TJ coach in history. And you let him go .... I don't care how you cut it, this is not going to turn out to be the best possible decision for Arkansas track.

And thanks for your analysis of my chances for future successes ... I'll take it under advisement.

You know, the more I think about it, this has shades of Wariner/Hart. Now I know ... athlete/coach vs. Head/assistant is apples vs. oranges. And don't get me wrong ... Clyde Hart is the single greatest collegiate coach in history when it comes to a single event group, although Booth's record is pretty amazing as well. We know Wariner made a mistake ..... well, you know how I feel about it now.

Irving "Boo" Schexnayder is the Best overall field event coach in the USA........... He can coach it all.

Crawdad wrote:

Irving "Boo" Schexnayder is the Best overall field event coach in the USA........... He can coach it all.

Boo is outstanding, no doubt about that .....

Are you sure? wrote:

Dorian should be completely done with the NCAA since he is getting management and monies that Fernandez and Emmauel are not getting this summer!! Dorian still cannot run the 5k and with his great 3:35.23 being a time trialist and not a racer should be evident.

If he wasn't a racer, he wouldn't have managed to make the World team by coming top 3 at USAs, always a great acheivement for a college guy to make a World/Olympic team (bigger than a NCAA title). If anyone is a time trialer, it very well might be German, going for a lowly AJR in 5k instead of the World championships in the 1500m. And he may be getting some short term coaching, but no real money. Certainly if German had made it, you wouldn't be saying German "should be completely done with the NCAA since he is getting management and monies" that Emmanuel and Dorian weren't.

Some Coach,

When you become a head coach, if the ship goes down you get fired. In no way is it your responsibility to "make it work" with coaches that you inherit. It is your responsibility to win in whatever way you know how.

Booth is a good coach. Buck DID HIM A FAVOR by keeping him around a year and letting him "interview" for his job. Booth did not do a good job in his interview (see NCAA Outdoor results). Buck is still coaching with another guys athletes (except one, and that one just broke the NCAA record). Booth is coaching his own guys and didn't get it done. You all say Buck has 3-4 years to turn this thing around.... I think he knows that and he isn't going to wait 3-4 years until Booth gets on board with him.

Good luck Buck, and good luck Hogs.

New Era wrote:

Buck is still coaching with another guys athletes (except one, and that one just broke the NCAA record).

Not trying to be a smart ace here, but what record and what athlete? Does Dorian's 3:35 count as a record after the NCAA season? Haven't guys run faster after the college season? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Seems to me Jim Ryun ran 3:33.1 in July of 1967 - that would have been early in his college career.

"at least for Dick Booth he was not a $35,000 a year Asst. Coach with 3+ kids between 4th and 10th grade."

wow, keep it in your pants if you cannot provide for them....

35k? really? better off at a grade school in a coaching/janitor position.

pantersark wrote:

"at least for Dick Booth he was not a $35,000 a year Asst. Coach with 3+ kids between 4th and 10th grade."

wow, keep it in your pants if you cannot provide for them....

35k? really? better off at a grade school in a coaching/janitor position.

I am missing your point. My point was that Coach Booth was not in as bad of a position as many other coaches in the NCAA have been through. He was making $120,000+. His family is is grown and out on their own. He was out of a job for 4 days.

There are a lot coaches who don't have that security. Do you think all college coaches are making six figures or do you think only those who make six figures should have a family?

There are a lot of coaches who deal with situations that are much more difficult than what Coach Booth just dealt with. If every coach whow as making less than $40,000 quit and went to work as a janitor, there wouldn't be too many coaches left...

That is a good hire, get people in your comfortable with and can trust. Are there better jump coaches, yes but none better he can trust and hit the ground having success with.

Is that you Melvin Lister (You Non-Degree Dude) backing up your white daddy.... We need you back here taking pizza's to the guards.

What do most 65 year old men do?

RETIRE

Instead we have a man with a fake hair piece trying to act like he is 40-50 years old.

Bucky is the head coach and let him run his own program...

he is ruuning his own program! part of that is dealing with the backlash that comes with firing a popular coach.

What Bucky did was hand Texas A&M, LSU and everyone else a recruiting gold mine. If he does that to a popular winning coach, what will he do to an athlete who fails to score points?

Bucky is WAY over his head here, with an inability to EVER match Macs and Booths successes. Bucky is an amateur who has lost all respect of the officials who make thier meets shine.

The Hog faithful are now going to knitpick Long on every move he makes. It is going to be nasty!

Bucky Sucks bumper stickers would tell it all.

Never say never. It only took him one season. 2010 SEC XC Champs. Who's the dumb@ss?

You are obviously..look at the roster...who's recruits won the SEC title? Danny Green's?

Congratulations Coach, you can finally tell all those haters, that have been telling you how many championships you won't win, for the past 3 years to f*** off!!!