Another change. Cleveland State. http://www.csuvikings.com/sports/m-soccer/2018-19/releases/20190305hsq9t8
Filled Rutgers -- Jim McElderry (Fordham) Creighton -- Johnny Torres (assistant) Wofford -- Joel Tyson (Charlotte Independence) James Madison -- Paul Zazenski (was interim) Liberty -- Kelly Findley (Davidson assistant) UAB -- Jeff Kinney (VT assistant) American -- Zach Samol (Georgetown assistant) Louisville -- John Michael Hayden (Louisville assistant) Belmont -- David Costa (Xavier assistant) UNCG -- EJ O'Keeffe (High Point head) Incarnate Word -- Chris Fidler (interim in 2018) Davidson -- Mike Babst (University of Chicago head) SIUE -- Cale Wasserman (Michigan State assistant) Fordham -- Carlo Acquista (NYRB scout) High Point -- Zach Haines (Denver assistant) Cleveland State -- Sinisa Ubiparipovic (Cleveland State assistant) Vacant VMI
I’m guessing the players at Cleveland State will refer to the new coach as “Coach U”. Hopefully he can turn interim into permanent.
I may be wrong, but I thought that I saw Ubi playing in a MASL (Major Arena Soccer League) match this year (yes, it's a long off season). During that broadcast, they announced he signed a longer deal. Do I have him confused with another player with a long name (that I can't spell).
San Francisco now open. Eddie Soto resigns for Cal State Dominguez Hills. https://usfdons.com/news/2019/3/7/eddie-soto-resigns-as-mens-soccer-head-coach.aspx
He must really want to be back in LA. It's not a great endorsement of your program when your coach leaves your D-I program for a D-II one.
Also, what happened to Joe Flanagan as CSDH? He was a legend there and won a couple of D-II national titles and coached the men and women and he appears to have apparently left the school about a year ago with little notice (at least on line that I could find). It seems really odd to have a longtime coach who has won so much as Flanagan did leave a program - remember, he coached the women, too - quietly and abruptly with nothing publicly announcing it by the school. It's hard not to think something sketchy happened, given all that.
Sandon you are correct. Details weren't publicized but It was sketchy. And oddly enough I heard his pension was due to become vested the next year. I would guess there is a lawsuit going on for wrongful dismissal.
Filled Rutgers -- Jim McElderry (Fordham) Creighton -- Johnny Torres (assistant) Wofford -- Joel Tyson (Charlotte Independence) James Madison -- Paul Zazenski (was interim) Liberty -- Kelly Findley (Davidson assistant) UAB -- Jeff Kinney (VT assistant) American -- Zach Samol (Georgetown assistant) Louisville -- John Michael Hayden (Louisville assistant) Belmont -- David Costa (Xavier assistant) UNCG -- EJ O'Keeffe (High Point head) Incarnate Word -- Chris Fidler (interim in 2018) Davidson -- Mike Babst (University of Chicago head) SIUE -- Cale Wasserman (Michigan State assistant) Fordham -- Carlo Acquista (NYRB scout) High Point -- Zach Haines (Denver assistant) Cleveland State -- Sinisa Ubiparipovic (Cleveland State assistant) Vacant VMI San Francisco
For the five years Coach Soto was in SF, his immediate family including a teenage son remained in the LA area. I’m sure family consideration came into play with his deciding to move to a local, albeit D2 role.
I think the seat at UCLA just got very hot...https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admissions-and-testing-bribery-scheme
No. Just the former Yale WSOC coach, who happened to resign in November. Additionally, some shade thrown by former UCLA player Brandon Terwege on Twitter. I left my meeting with UCLA athletic directors telling them that in a year from now they’d remember me telling them “I told you so”... I was wrong. It was 3 months.— Brandon Terwege (@brandonterwege) March 12, 2019 Maybe they should’ve listened to us https://t.co/RNZ0rNVZgV— Brandon Terwege (@brandonterwege) March 12, 2019 EDIT: finally got caught up on them a little more. Former USC head and assistant coaches, Ali Khosroshahin and Laura Janke, also implicated.
Apparently, Salcedo has been placed on leave. Longtime UCLA men's soccer coach Jorge Salcedo has been placed on leave in the wake of his indictment in the college admissions scandal that's breaking today.— Ben Bolch (@latbbolch) March 12, 2019
Wow. Just, wow. Remember all those "as long as his kids don't get in trouble, the AD probably doesn't care about men's soccer enough to fire Salcedo" posts I wrote? Damn, do those look ironic now.
I think being arrested by the FBI is enough to Salcedo fired. But what possible sanctions will the NCAA place on these athletic departments after everything is said and done!?!
Why would the NCAA apply any sanctions? Not only did the schools not gain a competitive advantage from these actions, they actually were placed at a competitive disadvantage, as admissions preferences that could have been used on legitimate athletes were instead used on others.
When I saw Salcedo's name on the list of the people indicted, the first thing I thought of was your posts, and that Salcedo had found a way to get fired after all.
This is an interesting sub-plot to all this. As I understand it, most non-rev sports get a finite number of exemptions for admissions for athletes who normally wouldn't get in. So if coaches are using their exemptions to line their pockets and get non-athletes in and in doing so putting their team at a competitive disadvantage, that's a real issue and one the NCAA could look at.
While individual schools certainly have limits on the extent to which they'll offer admissions preferences to athletes, and certain conferences (e.g., the Ivy League and the NESCAC) also have restrictions, I'm unaware of any NCAA limits on this. And even if there were such limits, the allegations aren't that policies on the number of tips that were offered were violated. It's that the students receiving the tips shouldn't have received them due to lack of athletic ability. Now, given that standardized test scores also seem to have been manipulated, I suppose you could say that if a student's true test scores had been known, he would not have been eligible for a tip that he received, which might have placed that school in violation of a conference policy limiting tips. But once more, it seems to me that applying sanctions in such a case would be a bit much, because the school didn't gain any advantage from this activity.