Womens College Coaching Hotseat

UOP job is high risk, high reward. Any person that can turn this program around will set themselves up for a big job in the future (I.e. men’s UOP coach who got the job at UCLA).

No head coach would touch this job In fear of failure and relegation back to an assistant for 5–7 years.

Perfect for an up and coming dynamic assistant or overlooked assistant veteran. Worse thing that can happen is they are unsuccessful and go back to assistant coach.
 
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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Why would coaches from SMC deserve jobs? They are perennial bottom feeders of the WCC. SMC is just lucky they get to play UOP every year. The bottom half of the WCC was especially atrocious this year. No wonder Watkins was able to turn around Gonzaga to the best of the worst.
 
that’s the danger of accepting a SMC or Pacific job as a previous winking D2, naia head coach. The chances are great you’re going to lose and take steps backwards in your career.

Kai and Jon will likely have to head up a D3 program or get lucky with a good asst. job.

To get a great coach both of these schools will have to take a chance on a young local asst. and hope they do great. Lots of diamonds out there looking for a shot.
 
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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What about GCU HC? Any thoughts on candidates/applicants?
 
UOP said:
UOP job is high risk, high reward. Any person that can turn this program around will set themselves up for a big job in the future (I.e. men’s UOP coach who got the job at UCLA).

No head coach would touch this job In fear of failure and relegation back to an assistant for 5–7 years.

Perfect for an up and coming dynamic assistant or overlooked assistant veteran. Worse thing that can happen is they are unsuccessful and go back to assistant coach.
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I disagree with your assessment of UOP being "high risk" for a coach. Look at what the former UOP coach did for the men's soccer program. Why would the women's program be any different? So what if they hire a really good D2 or D3 coach, just need to find that someone who is willing to take it on.
 
Soccer4evr said:
I disagree with your assessment of UOP being "high risk" for a coach. Look at what the former UOP coach did for the men's soccer program. Why would the women's program be any different? So what if they hire a really good D2 or D3 coach, just need to find that someone who is willing to take it on.
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women’s college soccer is quite different than men’s. Look at SMC - coach has been there a while and now has a strong team. Hard for a women’s coach to recruit there but there are far fewer men’s programs. Not saying it can’t be done on the women’s side at UOP or SMC (Paul R did well before moving to Stanford) but it is different and I think harder.
 
dk_b said:
women’s college soccer is quite different than men’s. Look at SMC - coach has been there a while and now has a strong team. Hard for a women’s coach to recruit there but there are far fewer men’s programs. Not saying it can’t be done on the women’s side at UOP or SMC (Paul R did well before moving to Stanford) but it is different and I think harder.
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If comparing the UOP's mens team with the women's team isn't apples-to-apples then UOP's athletic director should take a look at what the Oregon State coach has done with the Beaver's women's program, and yes, I understand that the WCC and PAC 12 are very different conferences. The Oregon State team is basically the prior coach's recruits and I wouldn't say that recruiting to Oregon schools is exactly easy compared to other PAC 12 schools. Kudos to Kagan and UOP needs to look for someone of his pedigree and who is willing to take a chance.
 
Soccer4evr said:
If comparing the UOP's mens team with the women's team isn't apples-to-apples then UOP's athletic director should take a look at what the Oregon State coach has done with the Beaver's women's program, and yes, I understand that the WCC and PAC 12 are very different conferences. The Oregon State team is basically the prior coach's recruits and I wouldn't say that recruiting to Oregon schools is exactly easy compared to other PAC 12 schools. Kudos to Kagan and UOP needs to look for someone of his pedigree and who is willing to take a chance.
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I agree with you that the comparisons have to be w/in the women's game and I think that OSU is a good example for UOP (is Corvallis the Stockton of Oregon or Stockton the Corvallis of Northern California?). I wonder what the right comparison would be for SMC? The Moraga suburb is not the hotbed of a college town and while Randy Bennett has done a great job for men's hoops, the baseball team has produced some really good players and the men's soccer team is quite strong, I am not sure those experiences extend to women's soccer.
 
......and I think cost comes in to play for SMC.

Loyola, USD, Santa Clara , Pepperdine—-excellent locations. And of course SC and Pepp have great coaches that have instilled a winning culture.

places like UOP and SMC are stepping stones to the next big job at a great location. So even if these
Schools turn it around, which they could, the coach leaves and they are back to square one.
 
eastbaysoccer said:
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.
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The other rumor for UW is Julie Woodward -HC @ Seattle U - as a potential front runner. Also Mark Carr, USYNT coach, is a rumored candidate. Guessing he's applying to a number of these jobs.
 
olympico11 said:
The other rumor for UW is Julie Woodward -HC @ Seattle U - as a potential front runner. Also Mark Carr, USYNT coach, is a rumored candidate. Guessing he's applying to a number of these jobs.
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Carr is an interesting name given 2020's U20 WWC - isn't he coaching the U20 USWNT?
 
soccerobserver said:
FWIW after 28 years and 15 consecutive years of Conference Finals or Championships John Hopkins University moved on from their Head Coach...

hopkinssports.com

Johns Hopkins Announces Women's Soccer Coaching Change - Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Leo Weil Guided Blue Jays for 28 Seasons
hopkinssports.com hopkinssports.com
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Maybe JHU will finally get someone in there who actively recruits. Historically 95% of their recruiting is done at their summer camp, the other 5% effectively walk-ons.

With undergraduate enrollment of 6,000, a top-10 academic ranking, world-class STEM programs, target school status with every major employer, and a decent women's soccer budget (due to the Title IX offset of having a top D1 men's lacrosse program), this program should be more dominant than they have been, a D3 college cup participant every year, and a first choice D3 women's soccer school in the East Coast.

A few years back, I heard from reliable sources they were negotiating to join the Ivy League, but things fell apart over their men's Lacrosse program not wanting to give up the scholarships, and the Ivies demanding all or nothing participation.
 
Dos Equis said:
Maybe JHU will finally get someone in there who actively recruits. Historically 95% of their recruiting is done at their summer camp, the other 5% effectively walk-ons.

With undergraduate enrollment of 6,000, a top-10 academic ranking, world-class STEM programs, target school status with every major employer, and a decent women's soccer budget (due to the Title IX offset of having a top D1 men's lacrosse program), this program should be more dominant than they have been, a D3 college cup participant every year, and a first choice D3 women's soccer school in the East Coast.

A few years back, I heard from reliable sources they were negotiating to join the Ivy League, but things fell apart over their men's Lacrosse program not wanting to give up the scholarships, and the Ivies demanding all or nothing participation.
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Johns Hopkins is one of the grandfathered exceptions to the DIII rule that are allowed to have one traditional sport (in their case lacrosse - all the other grandfathered DIII schools put up a DI ice hockey team, with corresponding DI women's teams added later). I would think that giving up the DIII competition in all those other sports would have been more of a stumbling block for the Ivy League and JH.

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