2019 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

Iona (Byrne/Santos), Furman (Gary’s), Toledo (Hadsell), Portland (Connor), Providence (Treacy). None in P5 conferences; they have dedicated and knowledgeable coaches. The fact is distance running isnt that expensive, you don’t need state of the art facilities, they are usually good students and don’t get in a ton of trouble. These niche programs do a great job of making the most of limited resources. I often wonder what my college career would’ve been at one of these types of schools instead of being a P5 number?

Furman has a fleet of Alter G treadmills and other resources (check out their social media doting their “testing” this week.).

Most schools/programs do not have this funding. I assume the other top ‘distance only’ programs have the same.

Size of fight in dog wrote:

Iona (Byrne/Santos), Furman (Gary’s), Toledo (Hadsell), Portland (Connor), Providence (Treacy). None in P5 conferences; they have dedicated and knowledgeable coaches. The fact is distance running isnt that expensive, you don’t need state of the art facilities, they are usually good students and don’t get in a ton of trouble. These niche programs do a great job of making the most of limited resources. I often wonder what my college career would’ve been at one of these types of schools instead of being a P5 number?

Having a huge number of scholarships help, especially when you put all of them into distance like the schools you listed. Pretty sure all of those schools are fully funded or close to it.

Size of fight in dog wrote:

Iona (Byrne/Santos), Furman (Gary’s), Toledo (Hadsell), Portland (Connor), Providence (Treacy). None in P5 conferences; they have dedicated and knowledgeable coaches. The fact is distance running isnt that expensive, you don’t need state of the art facilities, they are usually good students and don’t get in a ton of trouble. These niche programs do a great job of making the most of limited resources. I often wonder what my college career would’ve been at one of these types of schools instead of being a P5 number?

You can clearly hear it resonated in Craig Engels recent interview. Maybe someone can post a link to It for my lazy butt. But basically he said at NC STATE... let me repeat.. NC STATE they run you into the ground there and if you can handle it, keep running... if not then oh well it’s a farm mentality! He made it clear that for someone trying to enjoy the sport and progress naturally, NC STATE is NOT the place to go.

You can clearly hear it resonated in Craig Engels recent interview. Maybe someone can post a link to It for my lazy butt. But basically he said at NC STATE... let me repeat.. NC STATE they run you into the ground there and if you can handle it, keep running... if not then oh well it’s a farm mentality! He made it clear that for someone trying to enjoy the sport and progress naturally, NC STATE is NOT the place to go.

Same with Colorado.

Quack Quack duck wrote:

Hello Stanford, your new director of ops

https://usfdons.com/coaches.aspx?rc=692&path=tf

Am I the only one that doesn’t understand snag this person is saying?

Hopefully Stanford has their offers out this weekend. Next week we should know something solid finally.

Expect no distance coach at Oklahoma this year.

Okla noma wrote:

Expect no distance coach at Oklahoma this year.

Probably no one wants to take a one-year gig. Turned down by small college coaches and others.

Hard to compete for jobs that are not advertised and then appoint a guy with no experience!

https://savannah.scadathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=643

speedmaker1 wrote:

Drake has no program

you would think that there would be more support or track and field at Drake given the relays.

Their big homecoming/alumi event each year revolves around track and field

Correct. An absolute meat grinder that runs quality runners into oblivion. Rather than developing them. I have no idea why anyone would sign with them in 2019.

Lameness of canard wrote:

Turned down by small college coaches and others.

Which ones?

Where is this article you speak of???

Any news on Northridge distance coach?

Ground round wrote:

Rather than developing them.

No where is "development" in any P5 coach's job description.

Good Question wrote:

walker/runner wrote:

Any news on the Memphis and Northern Colorado jobs?

Good Question! And the other sprint jobs

FSU

Memphis

N Colorado

Louisville

Miami

Chapel Hill

Alabama A&M

Western Kentucky

Stanford

CSUN

Akron

BIG SHR hires so far!

Brandon Hon to Texas A&M

Abigi Ig Deen to USF

Charles Ryan to CAL

Shannon Hatchett to ASU

Inquiring minds for 500 wrote:

Where is this article you speak of???

Too lazy to find link wrote:

You can clearly hear it resonated in Craig Engels recent interview. Maybe someone can post a link to It for my lazy butt. But basically he said at NC STATE... let me repeat.. NC STATE they run you into the ground there and if you can handle it, keep running... if not then oh well it’s a farm mentality! He made it clear that for someone trying to enjoy the sport and progress naturally, NC STATE is NOT the place to go.

I would take one right now ?