2020 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, but that's a solid resume.

bingohire wrote:

https://arizonawildcats.com/sports/track-and-field/roster/coaches/tatijana-jacobson/5263

What a resume!

It must be nice to stand next to Petros for 2 years and then find yourself in a career destination job at age 29, gaht damn!

She's set for life. The coaching carousel of positions she can enter in, will be endless.

I don't begrudge her. I wish her well. Have a great career.

It makes you wonder, with all the negative press following Harvie, and having fired a (albeit f*cking GREAT jumps coach, Sheldon) white guy, it was a foregone conclusion that the University of Arizona was going to make a Diversity & Inclusion hire.

Hope it works for them.

Anyway, does anyone know the grave eternal sin that Blockedberger committed?

I see Georgia State added an asst. XC and track coach this past week named Zully Douglass. I do not believe this position was ever posted and if it was it was on a random website. Has anyone ever heard of this person? I cannot find anything about that person doing any coaching but I maybe wrong? With the track coach recently being named director looks like distance program will be less of any factor which is unfortunate because 50% percent of their scoring at conference for indoor and outdoor came from England’s distance runners. Maybe it will work out for them, I hope so.

WhoRunTheWorld wrote:

bingohire wrote:

https://arizonawildcats.com/sports/track-and-field/roster/coaches/tatijana-jacobson/5263

What a resume!

It must be nice to stand next to Petros for 2 years and then find yourself in a career destination job at age 29, gaht damn!

She's set for life. The coaching carousel of positions she can enter in, will be endless.

I don't begrudge her. I wish her well. Have a great career.

It makes you wonder, with all the negative press following Harvie, and having fired a (albeit f*cking GREAT jumps coach, Sheldon) white guy, it was a foregone conclusion that the University of Arizona was going to make a Diversity & Inclusion hire.

Hope it works for them.

Anyway, does anyone know the grave eternal sin that Blockedberger committed?

Lol so if she didn't coach at Georgia then she doesn't have the resume, but if she did coach at Georgia she "stood next to Petros"

You can have it both ways. She has a solid resume under some great teachers. She probably knows her stuff. Stop blaming race and look at why your resume wasn't good enough.

There have been rumblings on this forum about the Georgia State position but I do not recall seeing it on USTFCCCA Jobs or NCAA Market. Maybe it was on the GSU HR site?

Additionally, Xavier decided to close their assistant coach search without hire.

Limestone Head XC/Asst Track (Now looking for whole staff minus HC)

https://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/13826889/head-men-s-women-s-cross-country-assistant-men-s-women-s-track-field-coach

Bluefield State College (D2 new program) Head Coach

https://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/13838405/head-coach-men-s-and-women-s-cross-country-track-field

When other schools are mAkung drastic cut backs in programs, budgets, and coaches, Bluefield is adding 12 new sports!!! How is this possible esp in the first few years before numbers are up?

Coal

Here's a link to Zully's coaching announcement on the GSU website. Zero mention of coaching experience or any experience with the sport herself. Instead, it's a Q&A that reads more like a middle school icebreaker than a coaching announcement for a Division 1 program. Not sure if this is more sad or embarrassing on GSU's behalf. At least give the GSU sports community some insight into why this new coach is a positive hire. Good luck to the new coach.

https://georgiastatesports.com/news/2020/8/24/womens-cross-country-introducing-zully-douglass-new-cross-country-coach.aspx

Thank you for posting Maytheoddsbeinyourfavor. I am sure she is a nice person. Usually within 60 seconds I can find where somebody coached at and ran at. I spent about 15 minutes searching and I could not find any place she ever coached distance athletes at - usually a prerequisite for a D1 job unless you ran professionally and I could not find that either. if you look carefully at the new head coaches accomplishments the past few years they are few and far between. So this hire may have checked many boxes

A) no experience, no threat of head coach losing his job to the new applicant

B) female

C) minority

I feel bad for the distance athletes especially the senior runner who is the returning Sun Belt Champ in XC, 6th at Regionals and Sun Belt Champ in the indoor 3K and 5K

No knock on the new hire. Not her fault. I do wish her the best

Most likely Bluefield’s enrollment is way down and they are rolling the dice hoping they can up enrollment by adding sports. This is not a good situation for coaches in that roster size is all that matters. Just me speculating but you see it all the time at the lower levels.

Well, maybe your google skills need work as I was able to determine where she was coaching and what university she ran for in under 3.

Care to enlighten us? Because I was also unlucky in my searches

whatever22 wrote:

Care to enlighten us? Because I was also unlucky in my searches

Why?

It's not the job of anyone on here to determine the reasons that make someone hire one person over another. Maybe GSU had a minority inclusion grant that set a path for them. Maybe they just didn't want a white male at a PBI.

This griefing about who gets hired doesn't make someone a better candidate. A lot of young and wannabe coaches (especially in the distance world) think that hiring is an objective process, and it never has been. Every person has a different set of metrics that determine the choice that they'll make in hiring someone, and there is no God-given right to be a collegiate coach.

If you cut out all the butthurt posts on this thread we'd be down to 15 pages.

JucoAthleteXC wrote:

Most likely Bluefield’s enrollment is way down and they are rolling the dice hoping they can up enrollment by adding sports. This is not a good situation for coaches in that roster size is all that matters. Just me speculating but you see it all the time at the lower levels.

You do realize these are going to be the only programs left outside of the top P5’s by this time next year...right?

I mean, she’s fairly attractive if that helps. Looks like a glamour shot!

Pogo wrote:

whatever22 wrote:

Care to enlighten us? Because I was also unlucky in my searches

Why?

It's not the job of anyone on here to determine the reasons that make someone hire one person over another. Maybe GSU had a minority inclusion grant that set a path for them. Maybe they just didn't want a white male at a PBI.

This griefing about who gets hired doesn't make someone a better candidate. A lot of young and wannabe coaches (especially in the distance world) think that hiring is an objective process, and it never has been. Every person has a different set of metrics that determine the choice that they'll make in hiring someone, and there is no God-given right to be a collegiate coach.

If you cut out all the butthurt posts on this thread we'd be down to 15 pages.

So you couldn't find anything, either?

Yes, o think it’s common sense that Bluefield is trying to add sports to drive enrollment up. They also have

Never been a residential campus until this year. So starting 12 new programs and adding the salaries, benefits, budgets, and infrastructure to support al of them the first 3-4 years is crazy.

Let’s say they pay the average head coach 40,000 a year and the average team budget is 40,000 a year. Throw in 6-8 part time or full time coaches at 4.000 to 24,000 and that’s a lot of money before the butts are in the seats.