Its Oregon State. Sullivan out and David Dumble takes over as head coach immediately.
Its Oregon State. Sullivan out and David Dumble takes over as head coach immediately.
Dumble the interim I guess
Randy Cole to LSU as Distance Coach! Great Hire!! He was amazing at Wyoming and built a dynasty in Missouri recently!
DistanceGuru776 wrote:
Randy Cole to LSU as Distance Coach! Great Hire!! He was amazing at Wyoming and built a dynasty in Missouri recently!
He didn't build jack at Missouri , he was at Lindenwood in the state of Missouri
national search for new coach
Glad he is gone he did a terrible job at that program. Hope they keep dumble on staff.
Too bad about Kelly. Did a lot with very little.
How you figure?
wow you're good wrote:
http://www.osubeavers.com/news/2017/5/31/womens-track-field-coach-kelly-sullivan-retires.aspxnational search for new coach
National search as far as Wyoming? Brian Berryhill is from Oregon.
Cole and Shaver go all the way back to Barton County CC together.
For one, they just got a facility that could host meets. They just recently started getting respectable funding for the team. How many other PAC 12 schools have that problem? This is the PAC 12 we're talking about, one of the premier conferences in the country. If you don't have either of those, you're screwed!
Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to recruit PAC 12 level athletes with bare bones facilities. If you can't bring those kids in, it would be hard to compete on a high level like that. You have to develop "lower level" athletes to compete on the PAC 12 level. You can deny it as much as you want, but kids take stock in what kind of facilities you have, a lot seem to put more stock in that, than the coaching itself. If you look at majority of the athletes he's had, they've improved every year.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but I base mine on facts, not feelings.
Lots of worse off mid majors develop better. Just saying.
DistanceGuru776 wrote:
Randy Cole to LSU as Distance Coach! Great Hire!! He was amazing at Wyoming and built a dynasty in Missouri recently!
Geez, this would be a horrible hire. They'll continue to be back of the pack in Cross. I doubt this guy will be able to recruit 800m talent either.
I still think they're going after Vanhoy.
Mercer is a very toxic situation. They demoted Bailey after finished last on the men's XC side and next to last on the women's XC side. I hear the administration had been looking to so this for awhile since Bailey has been there forever and they A.D. isn't the one who hired him.
The women's Track team is only like 3-4 years old, used to be XC only.
Wims was just some dude from the area who ran fast once upon a time... exactly what the A.D. wants there: Someone who will stay quiet, take very little pay, and has no idea what it actually takes to run a D-1 program. In a sense: They want someone they can treat like crap and won't complain or ask to build a track.
When you see the G.A. position come open there, run far-far away!
Anybody know the interest level for the MIT sprints position?
OSU has their facility 5 years and many have bare bones seating so thats not an excuse. Program has had full funding for 4 years with 18 fulls and 3 years of good pay for assistants. Sullivan had about 13 scholarships devoted to distance and was losing to programs such as Portland St (with like 2 scholarships in xc), Sac St, Idaho, etc in cross and even Western Oregon, a D2 down the road was producing sub 2:10 800 meter runners out of local girls and OSU never had a sub 2:10 gal in 800. In last 5 years they had like 3 women score in the Pac 12 meet and only 1 make it all the way to nationals on the track.
Time for a change, no energy within the program this spring. Question is who will be interested and which direction the new AD at OSU elects to go with the program.
theblaze wrote:
OSU has their facility 5 years and many have bare bones seating so thats not an excuse. Program has had full funding for 4 years with 18 fulls and 3 years of good pay for assistants. Sullivan had about 13 scholarships devoted to distance and was losing to programs such as Portland St (with like 2 scholarships in xc), Sac St, Idaho, etc in cross and even Western Oregon, a D2 down the road was producing sub 2:10 800 meter runners out of local girls and OSU never had a sub 2:10 gal in 800. In last 5 years they had like 3 women score in the Pac 12 meet and only 1 make it all the way to nationals on the track.
Time for a change, no energy within the program this spring. Question is who will be interested and which direction the new AD at OSU elects to go with the program.
Wow...you seem to have a lot of inside info & a bone to pick...wonder who this could be...
Swampthing wrote:
Mercer is a very toxic situation. They demoted Bailey after finished last on the men's XC side and next to last on the women's XC side. I hear the administration had been looking to so this for awhile since Bailey has been there forever and they A.D. isn't the one who hired him.
The women's Track team is only like 3-4 years old, used to be XC only.
Wims was just some dude from the area who ran fast once upon a time... exactly what the A.D. wants there: Someone who will stay quiet, take very little pay, and has no idea what it actually takes to run a D-1 program. In a sense: They want someone they can treat like crap and won't complain or ask to build a track.
When you see the G.A. position come open there, run far-far away!
In fairness, there was no program to begin with! Finishing last on both sides in the conference meet doesn't say much for the previous coach! I saw that the ladies finished 7th at the track conference which isn't last! In fact they beat 3 teams! That's improvement already! You seem to be a sour grape!
Can't imagine LSU situation would be enticing enough to draw interest from Vanhoy. Would be great for Tiger fans, but hard to imagine he leaves Ole Miss unless a great opportunity presents itself.
Hopeful Tiger wrote:
Can't imagine LSU situation would be enticing enough to draw interest from Vanhoy. Would be great for Tiger fans, but hard to imagine he leaves Ole Miss unless a great opportunity presents itself.
He's not going to LSU. It has absolutely nothing over his position at Ole Miss. 0% chance he goes to LSU. Move on.