Maybe I missed something in that article. But I do not see where it says that all power 5 schools are REQUIRED to offer only 4 year scholarships. That was my point. Not all schools in the ACC HAVE to offer the 4 Years. I said nothing about cost of attendance. Some ACC schools may offer 4 year scholarships. But I know for a fact that not all the ACC schools opt into having to give the 4 year guaranteed scholarship. Some still go by the year by year model. If they sign someone to 4 years than yes they can not change that midstream. It is bound. But you do not have to sign someone to 4 years. Maybe you should check your facts. And prove to me that you know what you are talking about. If you are a parent of a prospect maybe you should take what a coach says to you As not always complete correct info. If there is anyone out there that would like to chime in with their experience or understanding of the 4 year mandatory scholarship rule please do. I am not beyond being wrong.
you can both be right, unless the NCAA/conference rule says the scholarship cannot diminish in value in out years, there's nothing to stop someone from setting years 2-4 to zero. Yes it would be very odd and awkward but it doesn't sound against the rule. It would have been really easy for the NCAA to say "can not diminish in value in any year from year 1" if they wanted to set a floor
It is good to see positions are getting filled. That leaves: Montana UNC Asheville UTSA Western Michigan Will western michigan just make emergency hire since it is so late? Interim head coach?
Jacksonville University is open. Spoke to someone who knows one of the coaches pretty well, happened over a phone call.
Agree. It is only May. They can hire a coach in a few weeks time. Season doesn't start until August. Far from an emergency.
SIU-Carbondale was in final negotiations with a head coach last week to start that program for fall 2019.
Confirmed? Would be hard to stay at Idaho if they did not say for sure the program would be around in the future. Someone was telling me it is a few year extension to figure out the finances. Montana: Is Citowicki on the rise or Trentham turn it down? Division 3 head coach (successful) to associate head at N Dakota to Montana in about 7 years.
Looking at how much the North Dakota program improved this past year I’m guessing Citowiki knows what he is doing. I thought Trentham would have been the obvious choice but maybe Montana looked at how the ND program turned around and felt the assistant was the best person to lead their team.
Montana is official: http://gogriz.com/news/2018/5/7/citowicki-named-montana-soccer-coach.aspx Anyone know if the Idaho Head Coach is officially the one hired at UTSA? Also, anyone have inside info on UNC-Ashville and Western Michigan?
Idaho almost cut their program so can’t blame the guy for wanting to get out but sucks for the players. Solid hire for UTSA. The Montana hire is interesting. Doesn’t really jump out as a great hire on paper and the Missouri assistant would have been the sure thing, but looking at the North Dakota record this past fall they made a big jump so maybe there is something more to this hire.
Citowicki does have interesting story - that write up was very different to most I have seen. Feel bad for the players at Idaho. Bad place to be right now.
Happy for the dude. Liked him when he was at Eastern Illinois and thought Evansville were lucky he went there. He will do a great job there. I think the Montana hire is solid based on how North Dakota improved last year but I just checked out the hire release and the guy seems a little too confident he’s just gonna go there and be a success. Going from a small D3 college to a good mid major as head coach is going to be a bigger challenge than he thinks. Does anyone have any idea what’s going on at Jacksonville? I heard the Mercer assistant is interested but not sure if there is interest on the other end or not.
I now have 6 openings -- I count a job as open until a school has published a statement about having filled the position: Arkansas Pine Bluff (posted here as having been filled) Idaho Jacksonville Prairie View (posted here as having been filled) UNC Asheville Western Michigan (identified at website as having Kyle Ferris as Interim Head Coach
This is from JU players/Coaches: Jacksonville Admin has strong ties to Longwood University. Someone mentioned Longwood Coach might be looking to leave leaving earlier this year? Look for this to be an option for JU as well? I can also see this being a great opportunity for a strong female hire. I say that with respect as JU only has like one or two female coaches currently.
As in Longwood University Farmville, Virginia? The Head Coach isn't a female and they do not have a female assistant listed on their staff. Think we need a fact check on that.