2019 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

what was the misconduct??

Texas sprints, Cornell jumps, UConn throws and??? Who’s going where?

Patiently waiting for the same people who complain about women with zero experience coaching getting jobs to complain about a male with zero years of experience coaching landing a full-time position fresh out of college.

eiu is a terrible job. the school is going out of the business. their support is terrible. very bad image in the state. nobody wants to go there, it's a back up to the back up to the back up school. i bet he is making less than 20k and will only be there for a year. this is entirely different than a female getting a job at stanford after leaving the sport years ago after having some kind of nefarious relationship with a male athlete.

35k for Head XC/Assistant TF at a D1 school is amazingly low. Considering that you'd be coaching all 3 seasons, that'd be tough to live off of unless you're single and have little to no debt or your spouse makes good bank.

http://jobslist.kent.edu/cw/en-us/job/496767/head-cross-country-coach

EIU is a mid-major that hosts the state meet every year and is under recruited. Has indoor and outdoor facilities and scholarships available. Worst case scenario the school closes in 4 years and you give an experienced coach who has been stuck volunteering or just wrapped up a GA the opportunity to build something respectable that helps sustain their career. I I agree that this coach will only last a year or two then move on if they are good at coaching. If not they will stick around and sit on the comfy 30k and low expectations of the head coach until they find their coaching groove then bounce. Not the best place to find a job, but full-time going to no experience is still no experience getting a job.

What you have to consider is the applicant pool. I would bet that the applicant pool to eiu was terrible. Everyone knows how bad it is getting there so my guess anyone with good experience was not applying. In a scenario with a guy with bad experience and a hungry up and comer I take the up and comer. So even if it were a woman I would be ok with that. EIUs of the world are supposed to be how you break in. OVC is a great first chance conference.

I guarantee the applicant pool to Stanford had far far better than svoboda. They just happened to have hang lows.

He’s paying his “dues”. Then, when he takes a power 5 job it’ll be justifiable. Let’s run critics can be quiet then

Audra Smith is a solid hire by JD, after spending the last several years at D2 Seattle Pacific.

What's with all the married couple hires? NCAA track/xc just keeps getting weirder.

whatdoyouthinkaboutthisone wrote:

https://goterriers.com/news/2019/9/17/mens-track-field-kristin-and-stephen-fleagle-added-to-track-field-staff.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1cSqZw859DtoMzJ_tAHle0O2CPVdIsJ0enV5BcDDERJGOByJ32M1jj26E

Gabe was so desperate to hire a female coach that he was forced to hire the husband too.

It would be nice if postings would just say female applicants only on job postings.

Well that would be illegal

HR wrote:

Well that would be illegal

Yea, but it would be the truth!

I know it would just be nice. Odd how it’s illegal in theory but pushed for in practice.

Eggerth to Cornell possibly Stanford.

Eggonearth wrote:

Eggerth to Cornell possibly Stanford.

Now this background check surely wouldn’t pass!