2019 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

UConn will be combining programs with Coach Roy taking over the women.

Wow big news out of mid Michigan. Sources are telling me that’s Mike Scannell (Grant Fishers old HS coach) is strongly considering coaching MENS distance only at Saginaw Valley and apparently was on campus yesterday for interviews.

Watch out for this big news to be announced in the next day or two

Alright this is the Open Jobs page not the california open jobs page. Can we hear some rumors from the rest of the country. Even, gasp, not D1 jobs.

We need the hero of last year who posted the long list of open jobs once a week.

He may be interviewing but this crap the “he’s considering” isn’t how it works. Nice try to drum up 3 seconds of fame. College coaching is light years different than HS.

MagglioOrdonez wrote:

Wow big news out of mid Michigan. Sources are telling me that’s Mike Scannell (Grant Fishers old HS coach) is strongly considering coaching MENS distance only at Saginaw Valley and apparently was on campus yesterday for interviews.

Watch out for this big news to be announced in the next day or two

No. Not. wrote:

He may be interviewing but this crap the “he’s considering” isn’t how it works. Nice try to drum up 3 seconds of fame. College coaching is light years different than HS.

MagglioOrdonez wrote:

Wow big news out of mid Michigan. Sources are telling me that’s Mike Scannell (Grant Fishers old HS coach) is strongly considering coaching MENS distance only at Saginaw Valley and apparently was on campus yesterday for interviews.

Watch out for this big news to be announced in the next day or two

Running is running. They’ve offered him the job. Get over it !

MagglioOrdonez wrote:

Wow big news out of mid Michigan. Sources are telling me that’s Mike Scannell (Grant Fishers old HS coach) is strongly considering coaching MENS distance only at Saginaw Valley and apparently was on campus yesterday for interviews.

Watch out for this big news to be announced in the next day or two

Why men only? Who is coaching women?

There are other Jobs wrote:

Alright this is the Open Jobs page not the california open jobs page. Can we hear some rumors from the rest of the country. Even, gasp, not D1 jobs.

We need the hero of last year who posted the long list of open jobs once a week.

If you have something to share about another part of the country, then do so....

It just happens to be a year where it seems like half the of the 30+ DI schools in California have turned over their head track coaches. A lot going on out west.

[quote]No. Not. wrote:

He may be interviewing but this crap the “he’s considering” isn’t how it works. Nice try to drum up 3 seconds of fame. College coaching is light years different than HS.

No, it is not. Running is running at any level, one foot in front of the other.

So says every high school coach to the amusement of every college coach.

one foot in front of the other wrote:

[quote]No. Not. wrote:

He may be interviewing but this crap the “he’s considering” isn’t how it works. Nice try to drum up 3 seconds of fame. College coaching is light years different than HS.

No, it is not. Running is running at any level, one foot in front of the other.

No. Not. wrote:

He may be interviewing but this crap the “he’s considering” isn’t how it works. Nice try to drum up 3 seconds of fame. College coaching is light years different than HS.

MagglioOrdonez wrote:

Wow big news out of mid Michigan. Sources are telling me that’s Mike Scannell (Grant Fishers old HS coach) is strongly considering coaching MENS distance only at Saginaw Valley and apparently was on campus yesterday for interviews.

Watch out for this big news to be announced in the next day or two

I don’t think he was a HS coach, was he? He coached kids privately and ended up with a small group. But he had a pretty good non coaching job at the time so maybe the considering part is that he’s retiring or cutting back on that.

Any word on the Head Coaching positions at Frostburg Sate University and Southwest Minnesota State University?

[quote]Hahahahagafa wrote:

So says every high school coach to the amusement of every college coach.

Yea, try again bro. Most of the best distance coaches in this country are probably HS coaches, they identify talent and develop it from scratch, the so called good college coaches recruit the talent and if hope they don't screw it up. The most successful of that group are the ones who recruit enough talent so that even when they do screw it up, they have enough able bodies left to be successful.

try developing athletes instead of recruiting them wrote:

[quote]Hahahahagafa wrote:

So says every high school coach to the amusement of every college coach.

Yea, try again bro. Most of the best distance coaches in this country are probably HS coaches, they identify talent and develop it from scratch, the so called good college coaches recruit the talent and if hope they don't screw it up. The most successful of that group are the ones who recruit enough talent so that even when they do screw it up, they have enough able bodies left to be successful.

He didn't say one was harder than the other. You just proved his point that they are DIFFERENT. Running isn't just running as someone previously claimed. Recruiting as a college coach is so different than developing raw high schoolers. Both have their challenges. The point is a high school coach can't just move into college and expect to have the same success because the challenges are different. Doesn't mean there aren't good HS coaches who could do it.

Any word on who will be filling the Montana XC job?

Rumor has it that they have already found their man. Local.

dfgsdhsf wrote:

Any word on who will be filling the Montana XC job?

This guy

Where’s our Stanford insider on the latest news in Palo Alto?

Any ideas or insight... XC is just around the corner.

Going to make for a chaotic August for many athletic departments.

Crickets wrote:

Where’s our Stanford insider on the latest news in Palo Alto?

Any ideas or insight... XC is just around the corner.

Going to make for a chaotic August for many athletic departments.

Great point! There are three coaches at USA Nationals that JJ Clark is very interesting in having on his Stanford staff. He has talked to all three at length. And offers have been made to two of them. Two of them are distance coaches. And one of them is a middle distance coach who coaches in the Pac-12. The ball is rolling!

Well good for Montana! Bringing in a coach that produced a plethora of 26:00/27:00 8k guys and 23:00/24:00 6k women. Should be competitive in the Big Sky and Mountain Regional. And yes, I know he was at the DIII level.

Is this further evidence of the current debate on this thread about HS coaches having trouble transitioning to college no matter how good you were at the HS level. This guy was a former 18 time coach of the year in Montana. Note: this isn't a commentary on his personality, how good of a family man he is, or any other non-coaching category, it's about results and the ability to produce them.