Careful to overrate....very weak conference (look at his opponents outside of conf.)...school is academically outstanding and sells itself...downtown SA, sells itself as do the top notch facilities...couldn't ever win the big game! UTSA was open twice during his tenure at TU, so why now make the jump to D1 and as a second assistant (not certain)...Kristine Lilly, who is the volunteer assistant, will have more say than him. TU will draw 1000 apps, good luck to that search committee..lol....last 2 coaches that cover over 18 years (Greg Ashton and Lance) were both internal hires....expect the same.
Good grief! Your critique is that his team did not win a DIII national championship game. They did everything but that.
Kristine would be the most powerful volunteer assistant since Anson Dorrance on the UNC Men's team. Good luck to her.
Thanks for making my point even clearer...at Trinity its ok, and tolerable to be 25-1, 23-2, 20-5, whatever...but at Texas.....ask Mack Brown or Rick Barnes.
Well, if you're saying the Longhorns have the same expectations of their women's soccer program that they have for their football (Brown) and men's basketball (Barnes) programs, you can say whatever you want, but it doesn't make it true. The evidence says that whatever expectations they have for other sports, their expectations for women's soccer aren't as high as you suggest: 1994 9 7 2 .556 1995 7 14 0 .333 1996 8 10 2 .450 1997 10 10 0 .500 1998 6 9 3 .417 1999 8 9 2 .474 2000 12 7 0 .632 2001 14 6 0 .700 2002 15 5 1 .738 2003 12 9 0 .571 2004 15 7 2 .667 2005 11 9 1 .548 2006 18 4 3 .780 2007 16 4 5 .740 2008 13 4 4 .714 2009 9 9 3 .500 2010 11 6 4 .619 2011 11 9 1 .548 2012 8 10 2 .450 2013 12 6 2 .650 2014 11 8 4 .565 2015 8 6 4 .556
cpthomas...thanks for setting me straight....Trinity cares about soccer, and Texas doesn't....so why the move!!
how come you are so bent out of shape on this? you know, we are talking about an assistant coach position for soccer. The administration doesn't care who the assistant coach is. the players won't care, the fans won't care, so why do you care?
Maybe for a new challenge. The challenge of helping an underachieving program compete at a higher level may be a reason? I would be concerned about job security with the move; if Texas ever care about soccer the staff may not be there long so could be a gamble but based on recent years probably not.
I frequently wonder this....there is an 'ECNL Debate' thread with a couple hundred replies. We're talking about kids' soccer here. Now fair enough, if you're a soccer parent, this can be relevant, but to everyone else...who cares?
Or aspirations to be a HC at the DI level. Regardless of success at the DIII level it would be difficult to break in as a HC at the DI level unless one is willing to start at/near the bottom. Even highly successful DII HCs find it a challenge to overcome the DI experience bias of many administrators. Bottom line, it doesn't need make sense to you whatsoever; the only person who really matters in this is Lance.
Totally agree. Anybody have insight into who may be a front runner for Western Michigan? Big shoes to fill but seems a great job for whoever gets it.
Maybe if a head coach takes the Western Michigan job something could open. Otherwise we are onto 2016 postseason where the front runners are most likely Miami and Syracuse amongst the ACC. Maybe Iowa State and Texasamong other top conferences, although who knows about the latter pair. Oregon must surely be feeling the heat too.
Updated List 28 openings; 26 filled University of Northern Iowa - Chris Logan (North Dakota St. Associate Head Coach) Brown University - Kia McNeill (Northeastern University Assistant Coach) Binghamton University - Neel Bhattacharjee (Syracuse University Assistant Coach) Iona College - Sarah Brady (Manhattan College Assistant Coach) The Citadel - Ciaran Traquair (Anderson University Head Coach) Stony Brook - Brendan Faherty (University of Washington Assistant Coach) Youngstown State University - Fabio Boateng (Mississippi Valley State Head Coach) Eastern Kentucky University - Nick Flohre (Ohio State Assistant Coach) Grand Canyon University - Derek Leader (Georgia State Head Coach) College of the Holy Cross - Casey Brown (Boston University Associate Head Coach) Kennesaw State University - Benji Walton (Indiana University Assistant Coach) LIU Brooklyn - Scott McLaughlin (Stony Brook Assistant Coach) Mount St Mary's - Joe Nemzer (Central Michigan Assistant Coach) Western Illinois - Dr. Eric Johnson (Current Western Illinois Men's Head Coach) Maryland - Ray Leone (Harvard Head Coach) Mississippi Valley State - Sean Mapson (University of Southern Mississippi AC) Lamar University - Steve Holeman (former Georgia Head Coach) University of the Pacific - Kerri Scroope (Delaware State Head Coach) Eastern Illinois - Kiki Lara (Current Eastern Illionois Men's Head Coach) McNeese State - Drew Fitzgerald - (McNeese State Assistant Coach) University of Louisiana Monroe - Keyton Wheelock (South Alabama Asst Coach) NJIT - Ally Nick (La Salle Assistant Coach) Harvard - Chris Hamblin (Harvard Assistant Coach) Northeastern - Ashley Phillips (Northeastern Associate Head Coach) Georgia State - Ed Joyce (Campbell Men's Soccer Assistant Coach) Delaware State - Liberty - Nate Norman (Western Michigan Head Coach) Western Michigan -
Any word on Delaware State? Perhaps they are having a tough time with bringing in a quality hire? If someone leaves there for Pacific perhaps there are issues beneath the surface?
She was applying elsewhere after season so was definitely looking to get out before being pushed out. Losing to a poorly coached Stetson team probably didn't help her cause.
Poorly coached Stetson? 2011: 4-10-2 2012: 2-13-1 2013: 6-10-2 2014: 5-12-1 2015: 10-8-1 I don't know anything about how he coaches, but the 2015 record is pretty good given where he started out when he arrived in April 2013.
Saw them once in 14 and once in 15 they are poorly coached. Coaches from his former conference will tell you the same thing.
Could be, as I said, I wouldn't know -- but he still apparently was an upgrade. Perhaps says something about Stetson athletics.