Womens College Coaching Hotseat

full90 said:
I don't think Miami is the draw that our generation thinks it is. Which of their sports teams is consistently good? It's not like w soccer was the only olympic sport under-performing and the other sports are killing it. I don't think Miami the location is the huge draw anymore. A good coach can recruit anywhere and Miami has some natural positives going for it, but for us older folks the name Univ of Miami means something different, IMHO, than it does to kids today. It used to be this school in a tropical paradise, now I think of it as Vegas with a beach. Meh. I'd think twice before sending my kid there.
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Your HO is way off the mark. You're obviously uninformed. It's small, it's private, it's ranked 46th in the US news 2018 edition of Best Colleges. Coral Gables is stunning, along with Key Biscayne and Coconut Grove, not to mention Miami Beach. The med and law schools are well regarded. If you're from back east, outside of the Ivy's and the Carolina schools, it's one of the most pursued universities.

As far as sports go, the basketball team is good. Jim Larranaga does a fantastic job. Mark Richt will have the football team in the title hunt soon. Baseball has won mutliple Nati's.
The women's sports are well supported.

If you're ever in the Miami area and have a chance to take a trip around the campus, do it.
 
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No matter anyone's take on UMiami(FL), it's gotta lotta upside and can become a real player in the ACC with the right coach IMO.
 
Any school can become a player with the right coach. And yes, Miami has some major assets, but which of their women's olympic sports is consistently top 25? Like year in, year out? Golf? I'd just think if we are throwing UM in with the other private, top academic schools in big cities with fabulous weather as a premier destination to go to school, i'd expect their athletic teams to be consistently very good in lots of sports.

And then there's this (which admittedly might not impact college kids, but still) http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/m...ica-which-is-the-wake-up-call-we-need-8561790
 
And then there's this (which admittedly might not impact college kids, but still) http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/m...ica-which-is-the-wake-up-call-we-need-8561790[/QUOTE]

Seriously @full90 ? here's a link for ya..... http://www.islandsofcocoplum.net/

Looks terrible huh? Cocoplum is right down the street from campus.

Just speaking from experience. Tuition has always been the #1 reason why they get clobbered by the publics in the olympic sports specifically. The state of FL, as big as it is, has nowhere near the amount of top level players that CA has. Can you name any private schools outside of CA that have competitive non-revenue generating athletic programs? I can think of a handful that MIGHT be considered, but the list is very short.
 
goldentoe said:
And then there's this (which admittedly might not impact college kids, but still) http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/m...ica-which-is-the-wake-up-call-we-need-8561790
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Seriously @full90 ? here's a link for ya..... http://www.islandsofcocoplum.net/

Looks terrible huh? Cocoplum is right down the street from campus.

Just speaking from experience. Tuition has always been the #1 reason why they get clobbered by the publics in the olympic sports specifically. The state of FL, as big as it is, has nowhere near the amount of top level players that CA has. Can you name any private schools outside of CA that have competitive non-revenue generating athletic programs? I can think of a handful that MIGHT be considered, but the list is very short.[/QUOTE]

Creighton, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Cornell (although that one is partially funded by New York State as their Ag college).
 
Another Midwest coach opening at Michigan. That program has a lot of resources and top young recruiting classes.
 
surfrider said:
Greg Ryan out a Michigan. Is he leaving for Notre Dame or Miami or did he just get canned?
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GKDAD said:
Another Midwest coach opening at Michigan. That program has a lot of resources and top young recruiting classes.
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Is Michigan getting serious? What Ryan's coaching history? Unless he's a killer recruiter or is like what's his name Waldrum(?) looking to get back in, ND would seem to be a stretch. Miami maybe not so much?

I agree. A P5 program with a bunch of money. Other than Penn State, I wonder about the commitment of the Big10 to any sport other than football and basketball.
 
GoWest said:
Good point. Without NLI's (and maybe even those that do have NLI's) the 2019's, 2020's etc., have some soul searching to do it would seem.

So close to signing day for 2018's too! A situation I will try to avoid for my DD but you just can't control some things. Puts renewed perspective on emphasizing the school over the soccer program maybe in the event the coach is replaced for whatever reason.
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A great school, a recent teammate of my daughter is an incoming 2018 there. I wonder who is coaching the players and '18s who graduated early to train. Seems Miami is in the same boat.
 
Win_some said:
A great school, a recent teammate of my daughter is an incoming 2018 there. I wonder who is coaching the players and '18s who graduated early to train. Seems Miami is in the same boat.
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A bunch of speculation @Michigan as to why Ryan is gone....especially with the Michigan soccer banquet in Detroit (which happened this last weekend) planned out. Michigan is going to be fine and will find a good coach.

Miami on the surface looks to be a "diamond in the rough" but as many on here have already stated, Miami has built in challenges of its own.

I'm most intrigued by the Notre Dame situation. I hear the position is officially opening today.
 
Agreed, Michigan will be fine. Their program is poised to go to the next level. Great school academically. Great academic tradition......The Team, The Team, The Team. Tremendous support for athletes and some of the best athletic facilities in the Country. And Ann Arbor is a great college town. I think they will wind up with a great coach. In addition, they had a top 6 recruiting class in 2017 and a top 4 recruiting class in 2018. Big upside for the future. Go Blue!
 
well, so many things wrong with this.....

loved his tweet on the day after he "resigned"to "take care of his father" --------- "Always remember family comes first!" - maybe he meant the escorts are part of his family.

And why does he get privacy in this situation? He was texting escorts with a university phone, during official university business trip, paid for by the university, and discovered through actual phone records? Reminds me of the catholic church moving the pedophile priest to another parish or monastery to protect him and avoid embarrassment. We certainly don't want to call it like it is and honor the players that deserved a safe and appropriate sporting and academic environment. I would like to say he was stupid but was actually just brazen because he decided he had the power to do whatever he wanted.... and apparently he did without real consequences.
 
Sheriff Joe said:
This story is far from over.
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Is anyone else disturbed by how the UM AD is handling this? Kudos to the two brave women who stepped forward. I’m sure if was not easy for them to do. The fact the AD is not investigating this sends a clear message to their female athletes and future recruits. AD clearly wants to make it as easy as possible for Plakorous to resign with dignity while sending a message to his former players that their safety is of secondary importance.

Even if you take the escorts/texts part out, there are so many red flags to his coach player behavior that I cannot believe more is not being done to send a clear message to UMs athletes that UM will not tolerate this type of behavior.

“Two team members said Plakorus, 49, had a history of acting inappropriately with them and other young women their age.

The players said Plakorus would regularly touch young women's legs, play with their hair, and that he matched on the dating app Tinder with women they knew were their age.

We weren’t the only ones who went to the athletic directors,” one player said, adding that several former assistant coaches also brought the Tinder activity to the athletic director's attention.

It’s hard because he was such a prominent figure in a lot of our lives for a long time, which gave him a lot of power and it made it hard for us to feel like we could say anything," said a player.

The players also said they felt their concerns about Plakorus were not taken seriously over the years..

Now that Plakorus has left the university, it won’t continue to investigate claims against Plakorus, Haslam said.”
 
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