Particularly in coaching it is WHO you know; not WHAT you know.
NEPOTISM is rife in the NCAA.
Particularly in coaching it is WHO you know; not WHAT you know.
NEPOTISM is rife in the NCAA.
codger wrote:
Particularly in coaching it is WHO you know; not WHAT you know.
NEPOTISM is rife in the NCAA.
For better or for worse...get used to it and change it when you're the guy everyone wants to know...
If you are young and you want to be a college coach. It is pretty easy, find a place to be a grad asst., then kiss the head coaches ass night and day. That will do it eventually, you might have to do all their grunt work for a couple of years, but the ass kissing is key. Most Head college coaches have huge egos, some can actually coach, but not as many as you would think, so kiss up to them and they will help you out.
Brief practical tip: Check the job listings in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" and "NCAA News."
[If memory serves, I got my last coaching job by seeing a notice in the NCAA paper about the college's coach having resigned. Those notices usually appear considerably after the fact, but I called the asst. AD, who had probably offered it to several people already (all of whom said "no dice" to coaching men's and women's xc/t&f, with no asst. coach--plus ~20 hours of teaching--for ~$20k), and he invited me for an interview without even having seen my resume.]
Oh, and when you *do* get an interview, don't try to prejudge how successfully it went. I had a tremendous interview at a Big East school--even the AD said so--but I was underquotafied for the position and didn't get it. Interviewing is somewhat like recruiting: a lot of times, you just don't know how it's going to come out, so you might as well let yourself enjoy the process, and just realize that the final result is not in your hands.