It seems like every DI and DII college job that opens up has Dr. Jack Daniels name attached to it as an applicant, but nobody will hire him. What is the deal?
It seems like every DI and DII college job that opens up has Dr. Jack Daniels name attached to it as an applicant, but nobody will hire him. What is the deal?
The man should retire and go fishing or something, write another book.
1) Why do you care?
2) Why don't you hire him?
Is he asking too much money?
Could be politics or the fact that he would rather do research instead...
sometimes coaches apply for positions they have no intention of taking to gain leverage at the institution they currently work at. Don't know if that's the case here, but I guess it's a possibility.
ageism.
and he is working on another book.
He is getting old and probably asking too much to do too little. I don't think he does that much at Corland.
Writing awesome training books that even posters on here can understand and coaching is not a job? Don't some of you ever stop and laugh at yourself?
Well it is nice of you to let the world know that he has tried to get a coaching jobs at a good deal of other colleges and not been hired. I am sure you would like it, if someone posted info on all the jobs you had not gotten in your life?
Thanks for the valuable input, Sol. By the way, is your father Renee Richards? I thought so.
I don't think too many colleges are interested in an old guy from a DIII school who really hasn't done much other than write a book. Too old, over-rated, and not that many references.
Over-rated wrote:
I don't think too many colleges are interested in an old guy from a DIII school who really hasn't done much other than write a book. Too old, over-rated, and not that many references.
Hasn't he won about four national championships? Aren't his training methods being used by at least a quarter of the serious running population? Hasn't he worked with some of the top runners of all time? How many current coaches out there have changed the way a quarter of the population trains? How many current coaches have won a single national championship? If you are right about the perception, I am confused.
Coaching at D1 or D2 is more than just developing the athletes. It also entails recruiting, program finances, fund raising, university politics, NCAA compliance, etc. I can only speculate that Dr. Daniels prefers research and hands-on coaching and probably doesn't care for the extraneous aspects of a collegiate coach's life. He's got a family also and probably doesn't relish the 12-15 hour days a D1 coach has to put in to be successful.
Portland Runner wrote:
Coaching at D1 or D2 is more than just developing the athletes. It also entails recruiting, program finances, fund raising, university politics, NCAA compliance, etc. I can only speculate that Dr. Daniels prefers research and hands-on coaching and probably doesn't care for the extraneous aspects of a collegiate coach's life. He's got a family also and probably doesn't relish the 12-15 hour days a D1 coach has to put in to be successful.
...And the difference between that and the 12-15 hours a day a DIII coach puts in with recruiting several hundred athletes a year, coaching (usually several different groups), teaching 3 classes each semester, serving on committees is what?
His methods are not original. His book just spells out what others have already stated. Not many programs use HIS methods, HE writes about theirs. How many years has he coached? I would think he could get an All American at Cortland in that span. Whoever is there now is doing just as well as he did. He wouldn't need the job if he wasn't robbing the cradle.
No one has developed much new in training since the evolution of the species homo sapiens. Jack has studied and reported more than most on what is there and known.
Jack has many many all americans at Cortland. And you are an uninformed troll.
Over-rated:
You get the award for the dumbest post ever!
Over-rated wrote:
His methods are not original. His book just spells out what others have already stated. Not many programs use HIS methods, HE writes about theirs.
The man performed physiological tests on Gerry Lindren, Jim Ryun.
Back in the day before anyone understood the why's and how's of distance running, he was one of the people trying to uncover the mystery.
His coaching methods are based on much of the research that HE personally performed. So don't give me this bullshit that he's not original. Every coach since him who has based part of his program on the principles of exercise physiology are the ones not being original.
Jack lives in Cortland and coaches the men's and women's cross teams which should be making a dramatic turn around this fall after a school record breaking track season.