Womens College Coaching Hotseat

Zerodenero said:
Truth....more to come out soon. Getting more of the 411 tonight.
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Geez so sorry your dd has had to deal with this crap in her young adulthood. Lesson to be learned is that you choose the school not the Soccer program as I know your dd did. Hopefully this won’t dampen her feelings about soccer and her team can be stronger due to the adversity of the last 2 years.
 
Fact said:
Geez so sorry your dd has had to deal with this crap in her young adulthood. Lesson to be learned is that you choose the school not the Soccer program as I know your dd did. Hopefully this won’t dampen her feelings about soccer and her team can be stronger due to the adversity of the last 2 years.
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I think we can all agree that as parents, you/me/we want to raise strong (but loving) young women.....Women, who make a positive impact in the world.

I will refrain from going Reverend ZD on y’all. However I will, with 100% certainty say that gut feeling, intuition, spirit, zen-ness, thin-slicing is real. Teach your girls to listen to it. Cultivate it. Foster it.

While my dd could not play this year. I will openly say there was a lot more going on, in different forms, that her antennas picked up, right away. And yet, she loves the school, and has hopes to potentially come back to the team, in some contribution capacity.

A prolific one once said...

.“You can fool some people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time”

-Bob Marley
 
More reason to hire good women coaches. No doubt a handful of these male coaches are looking at our daughters, possibly thinking things, but never acting. It’s the few that lack the filter to refrain like Brendan, who get themselves into trouble.
 
eastbaysoccer said:
More reason to hire good women coaches. No doubt a handful of these male coaches are looking at our daughters, possibly thinking things, but never acting. It’s the few that lack the filter to refrain like Brendan, who get themselves into trouble.
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Right now, in the Pac12, there is only ONE woman head coach under contract for next season (Cromwell). I have to believe the ADs at UW (gotta figure that hire has been known for a while, right?) UO are conscious of the impact of their hires (not that they won't hire a man but that they will at least give it more than a passing thought)
 
eastbaysoccer said:
More reason to hire good women coaches. No doubt a handful of these male coaches are looking at our daughters, possibly thinking things, but never acting. It’s the few that lack the filter to refrain like Brendan, who get themselves into trouble.
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Female coaches can and have also committed the same crimes/ethics violations. Don't follow yourself that your dd is safe because she has a female coach.
 
Fact said:
Female coaches can and have also committed the same crimes/ethics violations. Don't follow yourself that your dd is safe because she has a female coach.
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Not sure anyone is saying that women are incapable of doing the same things. They are. But the accounts of predatory coaches overwhelmingly involve male coaches.

(I will add as the parent of a GK: while my daughter has had some excellent male GK coaches, a woman GK is preferable b/c the position is played differently and a woman GK coach understands that from the athlete's and the coach's perspective)
 
dk_b said:
Not sure anyone is saying that women are incapable of doing the same things. They are. But the accounts of predatory coaches overwhelmingly involve male coaches.

(I will add as the parent of a GK: while my daughter has had some excellent male GK coaches, a woman GK is preferable b/c the position is played differently and a woman GK coach understands that from the athlete's and the coach's perspective)
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eastbaysoccer said:
Definitively possible. Guessing if you looked at statistics males are predominant perpetrators.
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Yes I agree more prevalent with men but I would never let me guard down. And it is often easier for women to “groom” their victims because of letting their guard down.
 
Agreed - AD’s, DOC’s especially those that are male may miss the signs and downplay what is going on as no big deal. Have definitely seen this in high school. Female coaches also are just not always the best - we have had a few that have not been good for many reasons
 
eastbaysoccer said:
More reason to hire good women coaches. No doubt a handful of these male coaches are looking at our daughters, possibly thinking things, but never acting. It’s the few that lack the filter to refrain like Brendan, who get themselves into trouble.
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Don't just hire a "good" woman coach, hire the BEST candidate for the job.
 
eastbaysoccer said:
Agree
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Of course you want an excellent coach for any team you or a loved one is involved with. But to me, all things being equal, I’d much prefer a woman coaching my daughters. That is not because I am worried about a man preying on them (despite an earlier comment) but because I think there are certain aspects of being a female athlete that even the best male coaches cannot coach. And, as noted above, that is particularly true of goalkeepers.

Before I went to grad school, I taught kids who were very different from me - racially, linguistically, socio economically. I cared about them and was, sometimes, even a good teacher. But all things being equal, I think they’d have benefitted more from being taught by a teacher from their community or from a shared background. But since Oakland started each year with hundreds of teacher vacancies, all things were never equal and there were never an abundance of candidates of any category.
 
So who fills the open positions in the WCC and PAC-12?

Univ. Washington - Theresa Romagnolo, Tiffany Roberts or any other top female soccer coach. Jill Ellis rumor....... There are rumors that the WSU could leave for UW if they ante up and pay. If the money is right I could see ANY coach uprooting their family to coach here. IMO best job in the country.

Oregon - heard they want a woman. Will assume a top female head coach at a mid major. Problem is the school is located in podunk Eugene

LMU - likely a top asst. from an elite D1 school. Money on Pepperdine asst. This is a good job.

St. Mary's- top asst. from winning D1 program or D2 head coach from winning program. Possible re-tread if they can't find anyone

Pacific - same as St. Mary's.
 
Free coaches that could deserve another HC chance?

Kai Edwards - volunteer at CAL, former SMC coach.
Jon Lipsitz - asst at SMC, prior HC at Kentucky.

Winning Coaches that could end up at UW or Oregon?

Tiffany Roberts - HC at UCF, pedigree and winner wherever she goes. She's from the West Coast. Her name always comes up.
Chris Watkins- former BYU Asst that has turned Gonzaga around in 2 years.
Jim Thomas - HC at Boise State. 1st place and made D1 NCAA
Lauren Hansen - HC SJSU. return to Oregon? Made D1 NCAA and makes playoffs every year
Theresa Romagnolo- UW volunteer, former Notre Dame coach

Coaches for LMU, SMC, Pacific?

Max Rooke - top asst at Pepperdine. Elite program that makes D1 NCAA
Jay Mason - Cal Poly Pomona HC, CP made D2 playoffs
Austin Risenhoover - CAL asst. and long time UCSB asst. CAL 1st round NCAA
Bernardo Silva - asst SAC state and long time Cal poly asst. SAC State made playoffs
Tina Estrada - long time asst at SMC, Depaul and now SJSU. SJSU has made playoffs
 
eastbaysoccer said:
Free coaches that could deserve another HC chance?

Kai Edwards - volunteer at CAL, former SMC coach.
Jon Lipsitz - asst at SMC, prior HC at Kentucky.

Winning Coaches that could end up at UW or Oregon?

Tiffany Roberts - HC at UCF, pedigree and winner wherever she goes. She's from the West Coast. Her name always comes up.
Chris Watkins- former BYU Asst that has turned Gonzaga around in 2 years.
Jim Thomas - HC at Boise State. 1st place and made D1 NCAA
Lauren Hansen - HC SJSU. return to Oregon? Made D1 NCAA and makes playoffs every year
Theresa Romagnolo- UW volunteer, former Notre Dame coach

Coaches for LMU, SMC, Pacific?

Max Rooke - top asst at Pepperdine. Elite program that makes D1 NCAA
Jay Mason - Cal Poly Pomona HC, CP made D2 playoffs
Austin Risenhoover - CAL asst. and long time UCSB asst. CAL 1st round NCAA
Bernardo Silva - asst SAC state and long time Cal poly asst. SAC State made playoffs
Tina Estrada - long time asst at SMC, Depaul and now SJSU. SJSU has made playoffs
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I like Lauren Hansen for the Oregon position. Tina Estrada could either take over at SJSU if Hansen leaves or take the SMC job since as you said she was a long time assistant there. I think Bernardo Silva would be a good choice for Pacific, SAC State just up the road.
 
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