William and Mary Head Coach GONE

Whats the deal here? they just posted an assistant distance position. whos leaving besides walsh? who will be the director long term?

That probably means solinsky is leaving

I don't know whether Solinsky is ready or not, but it is nice to see an AD not just go with the easy hire of the star athlete who is there. Chris had a couple years to show his ability and didn't impress enough. That's how the real world works 98% of the time.

Walsh was the director of the track program and head men's distance coach. Now that he is gone and Heacock, the throws coach, is interim director, the head men's distance job is open. A job posting for assistant distant coach could mean Solinsky is bumping up. It doesn't mean he was fired. Also, Walsh will no longer be coaching. He is making a career change.

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Whats the deal here? they just posted an assistant distance position. whos leaving besides walsh? who will be the director long term?

now that the dust has settled. solinsky has the job.

what's the outlook going forward?

their web site and social media presence are opportunity-rich for improvement.

and what was the deal with walsh? there had to be something juicy going down that forced him out.

Flagpole, you are right that most college head coaches are too lazy (and ill-paid) to even maintain their websites, provide useful information, or respond to interested parties contacting them. They also make the cardinal mistakes of failing to provide good and useful injury prevention exercises and adjustments in training to keep their athletes healthy, as well as failing to coach the whole team. When you don't coach the whole team, but only your top athletes, you lose out on the potential of many runners. Look at what some of the Oregon male runners have managed to do after years of running well below the top guys. Last year and this year, you had numerous guys who had never been stars running from 3:34 to 3:40. And you had a former Oregon guy winning an NCAA title. In distance running, you do not know well the potential of an athlete until they have been maximizing their training for a number of years.

Two coaches on the UF staff...the distance coach was hired straight from the high school ranks. Holloway as the director was originally coaching high school.

d1 coach, how hard is it to send the information to the sports information people to upload it to the site?

thanks, however, to those coaches who posted detailed and I think, based on my institutional experience, credible accounts of the way things go in many programs and the accordant reasons for what they do or don't do.

I may be late on this one but you can bet dollars to donuts Walsh was forced out. Ask any of the athletes from his 2014-2015 tenure and they will tell you what REALLY happened. Just saying. And, yes, it is very juicy....someone (ADs, Associates, and Coaches) buried a bone with a lot of meat on it. Walsh was not the only administrator forced out. Check for more details. I smell cover up - Baylor style.

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I may be late on this one but you can bet dollars to donuts Walsh was forced out. Ask any of the athletes from his 2014-2015 tenure and they will tell you what REALLY happened. Just saying. And, yes, it is very juicy....someone (ADs, Associates, and Coaches) buried a bone with a lot of meat on it. Walsh was not the only administrator forced out. Check for more details. I smell cover up - Baylor style.

Sooooo, at Baylor the athletes were raping people and the coaches, athletic directors, and president's/Deans office knew about it and interceded with law enforcement on behalf of the football program to thwart the investigations. Is this what you are inferring happened at William and Mary with Coach Walsh? Which cross country and track athletes were raping their fellow team mates and how was it not a bigger story than a rumor on a message board?

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Perhaps it was possible that he was burned in the past by uncommitted athletes? Don't judge too quickly.

This story is nonsense. She could go to the team doctor or any doctor and get this diagnosed. If it was a bigger fracture than a stress fracture, it would have shown up on a bone scan and I'm sure he would have let her alone.

There's always two sides to the story, I'm sure for him to blow up on her she must have been a "repeat offender" in the non commitment aspect.

I think the William and Mary women's team might be in desperate need of a coaching change. First place to seventeenth in only three years. Yikes.

BRING BACK WALSH! So many names not even making results lists anymore, and the ones that do aren't looking too hot. A program should not jump from winning their region to SEVENTEENTH! wtf happened there

go tribe.

Unfortunately, there are too many A Holes like that in coaching. It will be good if he does change profession, will make the sport a tiny bit less toxic.