Their winless, despite it being, ya know, Harvard. Obviously, that has *some* recruiting challenges but also a whole hell of a lot of advantages, too. They should be much better than they are. This is Pieter Leher's seventh season. He's never won an Ivy League title, never made the NCAA Tournament. And since they cancelled the last couple of games of the 2016 season - when Harvard was on pace to win the Ivy - because of the scandal (that happened before Leher) where the players rated the hotness of the women's team... and created a record of it - they haven't been the same. Now, that wasn't Leher's fault. But he also hasn't seemed able to get the program back on track. 2013 - 7-8-2 2014 - 11-4-2 2015 - 9-6-2 2016 - 10-3-2 2017 - 2-10-4 2018 - 3-13-0 2019 - 0-10-1
They gave the previous head coach a similar amount of time to clean up: Carl Junot 2010 5-7-5 2011 2-12-13 2012 3-11-3 Jan 2013- Announces resignation : https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/msoc/2012-13/releases/SOM130110CarlResignation
Quite frankly, I'm shocked this is the only opening so far this season. Calm before the storm, maybe?
Accompanied son to a soccer camp at Harvard where there was a lunch time discussion with head coach Leher and the players. The culture of the programme was presented in a most impressive manner until someone asked about the team's formation and patterns of play. No one was able to answer the question - players, coaches, no one. Not at all surprised that they can hardly win a game.
They've never recovered from the controversy that cost their team an Ivy League Championship and NCAA Tournament which was just three years ago.. You would imagine massive impact on recruiting. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/4/soccer-suspended-scouting-report-harvard/
They are playing for the Toddler World Cup. Do you expect a non-partisan parent to be able to run the lines without bias? LOL
Speaking of, what are everyone thoughts on Grand Canyon? I know Schellas is a great coach but they have a lot of resources and have not performed.
most concerning is that they have had a lot of turnover from 1 year to the next in player transfers. Is there a bigger problem?
Almost half the students overall after one year, so there may be something unattractive about the place.
Grand Canyon is the opposite of unattractive. Great campus and a top ten stadium that they fill. Dodgy name though. That can't help recruiting.
I would expect the next 7-10 days we'll see the first round of jobs open. It's not the usual, but to increase WoSo awareness, maybe I'll post the women's jobs here too?
Please don't. There's a women's college soccer forum. Feel free to post women's soccer content there to your heart's content.
I did not know this. Never have seen it. I'll look at it. EDIT: For those who haven't seen the hot seat thread, it's here.
Are there any remaining dual coaching posts (men and women)? I remember them being fairly common in D2 and NAIA.
A little off-topic but the mens team at D3 NYU has a woman HC - Kim Wyant. This is Wyant's 5th season at NYU and to my knowledge she is the only female coach of a men's team in all NCAA divisions. I am unsure about NAIA schools. Wyant is 35-32-6 as a HC. NYU plays in the ultra-competitive UAA conference. https://gonyuathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=2025&path=msoc
Gotta think John Kerr at Duke is on this list. His season ended tonight two games under .500, the fourth time in the past eight seasons he's failed to post a winning record. He's only made the NCAA Tournament twice since the end of the 2011 season (2017 and last year) and this season he finished last in the ACC and was the only school in the conference with a losing record and to not be in the top 50 of the RPI. I have no idea if the AD or alumnae care enough about soccer to oust Kerr, but he's certainly not a coach who has his program going in the right direction and the past eight years show this is more the norm than the exception.
This is Lev Kirshner's 20th season at San Diego State and they're coming to the end of their third straight losing campaign and seventh in the past eight years. Under Kirshner, SDSU has had only seven seasons with a winning record and made the NCAA Tournament just three times, lastly in 2016. They haven't won more than 10 games in a season under Kirshner. This is the program of Eric Wynalda and Marcelo Balboa, the 87 team that finished second in the country, that produced Kevin Crow and Cle Kooiman, Joe Corona, Carlos Menijar, Steve Beitashour, David Quesada and Ted Chronopooulos, all of whom got capped (Menijar by El Salvador, Beitashour by Iran, the rest by the US) at the senior team level. Hell, throw in Chris Sullivan and Jimmy Conrad, who started at SDSU and transferred and went on to play for the US in a World Cup , to Wynalda, Balboa, Kooiman and Beitashour and you've got six former SDSU players that made a World Cup team. Besides Beitashour, recently they've produced solid MLS players like Tally Hall and Daniel Steres. And now a coach who has been there 20 years can't have more than one winning season in eight years? It might be time for a new direction in San Diego.
Many clubs have come and gone, DA have arrived, huge turnover in youth and HS coaches...could be reminiscent of college football say in the Midwest...as populations shifted, the relationships with big catholic high schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania became less impactful. Then, the Florida and Texas college coaches had to deal with midwest coaches coming down to get players from their back yard. A college soccer program that aspires to be top 50 likely needs to recruit across the country and outside the country. Recruiting skill, connections, facilities and budgets likely outweigh past success.