2014 College Track and Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

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Is Tampa just promoting assistant? Not on their website anymore.

It's on indeed.com

Coach T wrote:

D1:

Clemson (Jumps)

Washington State

IPFW

Grand Canyon

Michigan

Louisville

Southern Utah

Hawaii

Eastern Michigan (Graduate Assistant)

Central Arkansas

I'm not aware of an opening at Louisville. Is the Louisville job being advertised, or is this word of mouth?

I think the 2013 thread missed this one...

http://www.gocreighton.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=89358&SPID=72&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1000&ATCLID=208734401

Apparently I should have come to college coaching as a triathlete and former volunteer high school and youth club coach.

heard that the coach at Lewis & Clark (NAIA school) is the leading candidate at Washington state

Hahahahaha!

Thank you. I needed a good laugh.

You aren't missing anything. The last "Head Coach" is now working for FREE as a volunteer assistant at Cal Berkley. Please understand that he left a PAID position to go live in an expensive part of the country to coach for no dollars!?! This(Creighton) position is what is known in the profession as a coaching coffin because it could be the last place you ever work at in the coaching world. At some point a lack of positive results can leave a coach stranded in a position like this one b/c even though they may have logged years of experience, they haven't proven to be able to produce. It is not likely that a coach, especially a young coach, will ever be able to build a succesful program b/c the support from the upper levels just isn't there. Cross only??? Why bother? Most candidates who would accept a position like that reak of desperation, which usually ends up with them fleeing, and either dropping out of college coaching, or taking on another, possibly more desperate situation, ergo the aforementioned tale of woe. The lesson is, as long as there are suckers willing to take a shyte position, we will always have programs that stay in the gutter of their respective conferences.

Runner THX1137 wrote:

You aren't missing anything. The last "Head Coach" is now working for FREE as a volunteer assistant at Cal Berkley. Please understand that he left a PAID position to go live in an expensive part of the country to coach for no dollars!?!

He's been full-time at Cal for some time now. It appears he is the first in program history to remain in college coaching after leaving however...

Canisius College (D1, MAAC) has just reinstated men's and women's indoor and outdoor track & field, expanding Nate Huckle's role to three-season head coach. No new assistants. Niagara is D1, not D3 (also MAAC) and announced in September that Christine Kloiber will be the head coach for the women's track program in its first year.

Hurdlez wrote:

Irvine will post soon. But Jeff Perkins is all set to be head coach, and the distance coach has been decided. I think there will be a part time throws position available at UC Irvine. But everything else has been decided.

You probably are not at liberty to say but just in case, you know who the distance coach will be? I've got recruits in limbo.

Omaha observer wrote:

Runner THX1137 wrote:

You aren't missing anything. The last "Head Coach" is now working for FREE as a volunteer assistant at Cal Berkley. Please understand that he left a PAID position to go live in an expensive part of the country to coach for no dollars!?!

He's been full-time at Cal for some time now. It appears he is the first in program history to remain in college coaching after leaving however...

Yeah, like I said, a full time volunteer. If you don't believe me, check the website. It goes, Sandoval, Houlihan, then Davis as a volunteer. Only time will tell if it was wise....

Runner THX1137 wrote:

Omaha observer wrote:

He's been full-time at Cal for some time now. It appears he is the first in program history to remain in college coaching after leaving however...

Yeah, like I said, a full time volunteer. If you don't believe me, check the website. It goes, Sandoval, Houlihan, then Davis as a volunteer. Only time will tell if it was wise....

You mean this website?

You trust sports info people to be on top of the xc/track site? It looks to me like they recently updated their track schedule/roster/coaches for the coming season and didn't bother with xc. I was at Convention and his hire to full-time status is old news (no not big news) in the Pac12. Sure, he went from "head coach" to "assistant coach" but I think it's pretty obvious to everyone why and that's fine. Yes, you are right, Creighton was a side-track dead end that appears to have been a very poor career move (not knowing his reasons)...but avoided the coffin even if it's not a top-tier distance program. Now the next guy who took over at Creighton? You could be very correct there...

Vince O'Boyle was the distance coach for several years at UC Irvine. I wonder if they will go with an established distance coach or try to break in a former UC Irvine runner. Does anyone know if there are any quality distance coaches who could take over at UC Irvine in the middle of the year like this?

Hank Kelly wrote:

Vince O'Boyle was the distance coach for several years at UC Irvine. I wonder if they will go with an established distance coach or try to break in a former UC Irvine runner. Does anyone know if there are any quality distance coaches who could take over at UC Irvine in the middle of the year like this?

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The info I heard is that UC Irvine will hire a former UC Irvine athlete to coach the distance runners. It will be the guy who helped Vince O'Boyle coach the distance runners for a few years. I am not sure that is the right choice.

The info I heard is that UC Irvine will hire a former UC Irvine athlete to coach the distance runners. It will be the guy who helped Vince O'Boyle coach the distance runners for a few years. I am not sure that is the right choice.[/quote]

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That info tells me that Chris Evans is going to be the new distance coach at UC Irvine. I just think its lazy on UC Irvine's part to just take the guys they already have and bump them up. I have no problem with UC Irvine for naming Jeff Perkins as head coach. But automatically bumping up the other assistants is just laziness on the part of UC Irvine. Why not open up the other assistant coaching positions instead of being so closed minded. Its not like UC Irvine is a Championship machine. They are an average program at best.

Pfieffer is filled.

So you don't think someone who volunteers, knows the athletes, knows the school, can continue with the recruiting, knows the administrative side of things doesn't have more of an advantages then some one outside? Of course they do.

Clearly, the IL women's job is formality. But do they promote the volunteer vault guy?

The Lynchburg job opening is for a grad assistant in the throws area. They should have the job filled by January 1st, 2014.