Interesting study regarding number of female head coaches: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercente...ad_Coaches_Comprehensive_NCAA_D-I_2017-18.pdf The Power 5 schools that are amongst the lowest for female representation are West Virginia, Vanderbilt, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Syracuse. Each school can have their own merits as to why this is the case and how it affects women's soccer. WVU has a female coach, very successful one at that. Arkansas had a female coach who hasn't successful and has had good success since with hiring their current male coach. On this list is Kentucky and Syracuse which get mentioned a lot on this board. Perhaps this means that if these programs are making a change they will go the female route. In which case I wonder what qualified female would be up for taking over a struggling SEC or ACC side. Or maybe these programs don't care of what their female head coach representation is any way and that is why their number is so low. Personally I feel these programs just need to make the best hire available if they want to dig out of the hole.
You would have to think Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Monroe and Georgia Southern of the Sun Belt are all at least very warm.
If the NCAA limited non-revenue practice times and allow the players to be students, and greek, you'd get northern party schools back into the woso mix. The appeal of the northern schools is the tremendous bar and greek scene (since there's nothing else to do). Otherwise, why would any soccer player go field turf and share bubble times? Sans sane limitations, all of these will be chronic warms/hots.
I will take a shot at this: ACC Syracuse- Gone Everyone else is new (Miami, Pitt) or tenured (Wake.) Wake has been very underachieving in the last few years. SEC Kentucky- Got an extension? Seems to be going nowhere fast. Georgia- Does he have to make conference tournament and probably NCAA tournament to get some time? Alabama- 1 NCAA in 4 years? What are admins expectations. Missouri- He has tenure but is admin becoming impatient? Big 12 OU- 2 NCAA tournaments in 6 years. Is 2 in 7 enough if they don't make it? Iowa St- Not sure anyone cares Big 10 Michigan St- Seem to have bigger fish to fry Indiana- 1 NCAA in 5 years if they don't make it this year. Pac 12- Oregon St.- Gone Oregon- Has to make NCAA tournament this year? It would seem to be a great time to being hiring. So many top coaches that one would think are attainable.
Unfortunately I read your response to Holmes before I logged on. Since I have Holmes on ignore I've got to remember to log in before reading these forums so I am not subjected to his drivel. Holmes talks out of his ass. You're wasting your time asking him your question. Besides, anything that he writes in response will be nonsense.
The ones never seriously in the woso mix, or the ones who did make a flash in the pan run with foreign players (Morgantown). Examples of northern P5 party schools are the B10 west of State College,, Big 12, Syracuse, The choice between soccer and greek destroys the have-nots talent pool. The have-not coaches (non-southeast and cali P5) don't seem to realize the football-like regimens are self-destructive to their own security. I realize they are validating their jobs but you can't make less talent more talent.
Kentucky lost (2-0) at Ole Miss Rebels scored at 1.27 in the first half and 52.21 in the second half Nine game losing streak for the Wildcats
Thanks for the response, and I'm sorry for making you repeat the information. I am familiar with Chris Henderson's ratings, and I do agree that many team evaluations, especially those done by writers or coaches, do over-emphasize current information, perhaps because of the prevalence or appeal of the "eye test". I'm curious about the ability of any approach to predict actual performance or measure the impact of a coach (or any other factor). Baseball, for example, has for years lead the way in the collection, analysis, and utilization of data, and the advanced metrics have been particularly useful in predicting outcomes, both of games (probably more accurately in the aggregate than for individual games) and particular plays. But unlike baseball, which is statistics-rich, soccer seems to have fewer actions that can be (or at least have been) meaningfully counted. And so it seems we are further away from developing accurate predictive models for soccer, although addressing that problem is one I have been wondering about quite a bit recently. Thanks again for the explanation, as well as for all the work you put in here.
And some coaches with winning -- or least "respectable" records -- will find themselves on the hot seat not on the basis of accumulated wins and losses, but as a result of other problems in their programs. You definitely do have to look beyond the record.
"FINAL - #10 Vanderbilt 4, Kentucky 1 Congratulations to Vanderbilt, who clinches the 2018 SEC regular season championship." Great job by Coach Darren Ambrose. Coach of the Year in the SEC?
Hot Seat Syracuse Colorado State Georgia Idaho State Iowa State Kentucky Michigan State Marshall Oklahoma Oregon Oregon State Pacific (CA) Seton Hall St. Bonaventure Temple Tulsa App State Akron Canisius Creighton Davidson Georgia State Georgia Southern Grand Canyon Iona IPFW Lafayette Louisiana - Lafayette Louisiana - Monroe Nebraska Omaha Robert Morris Saint Peter's
Oddly enough, the jobs at Vanderbilt and Georgia were both open at the same time. Vandy, league champs and #10 in the country, made a very good hire...UGA, not so much It seems very fitting that Georgia's last game is against last place Kentucky (quite possibly could be the last game for both coaches). The Bulldogs should be playing in November on a consistent basis, not finishing near the bottom of the SEC
Not sure why Georgia State is on this list still. Greatly improved over last season. 5-4-1 in conference play Tied for 4th. App State is safe as well.
Georgia State 2016 - 5-6-6 2017- 3-11-3 2018- 7-9-2 Georgia State and Georgia Southern are not playing at a decent standard. Both have an advantage of having a huge player pool to recruit from every year and should be doing better than 4th in Sun Belt. Maybe Georgia State gets hot after 2019 season, perhaps they are only warm right now..
I believe he means huge player pool for that level. Plenty of Georgia kids that could win at that level. Tophat, GSA, Concorde, and Atlanta Fire just to name a few.
Good program in the beginning and in the middle of their history, bad hires during the rest of it and in a bad place currently. Should be better, no question.
Wieland out at Louisiana (Lafayette) https://katc.com/sports/2018/10/22/cajuns-soccer-coach-wieland-resigns/
Good job for someone. Athletic department has decent resources and facilities for a sunbelt school. I know there have been alleged Title IX claims in the past about inequality towards women’s sports but don’t know how much of that is true. Either way, the silly season of coaching changes has begun