True, but I think we'd agree lawsuits back then about this kind of thing didn't matter nearly as much to the board of trustees, donors, etc as they do now - powerful people outside Athletics who care primarily about how such things look and play in media. UNC Wilmington fired a successful coach last year, even after a lengthy investigation turned up no wrongdoing and in fact exposed his accuser as a serial fraudster, presumably just because the school didn't like the way it looked or the media attention it received. I've also wondered if the UNC stuff would be brought up again, but presumably the settlements preclude that, at least with the original accusers.
This post shows the ACC in steady decline from being the clear #1 conference. It would seem the league expansion several years ago is the problem. Were the new ACC teams Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, & Miami? If so, Syracuse getting better should be important to the other ACC coaches. Did other conference additions move them up? 1. Here are the ACC's conference standings since 2007 (which is as far back as my data go), according to the only data (average ARPI) the Women's Soccer Committee is allowed to look at: 2007 #1 2008 #1 2009 #2 2010 #1 2011 #1 2012 #1 2013 #1 2014 #4 2015 #1 2016 #2 2017 #2 2018 #3
Miami was in prior to the realignments. Notre Dame came in and then Louisville, Pitt, & Syracuse a year later. SEC has been stronger than usual the past two years in an RPI sense.
Honestly, I was asking. I have no insight at all. I was just wondering what the hold up might be. It's been open for a while, yes?
Rumblings in Houston that the Rice coach didnt take take the Syracuse job. Now the admins need to just give it to the asst. It is embarassing that NOBODY wants this job
Saw where Portland has posted yesterday they are in search of an assistant coach. Maybe the head coach for Northern Arizona is coming from Portland.
Too bad for Syracuse then if she turned it down. Nicky has done well at Rice and has a good resume there. Actually got a mid major to get an at large bid which is very difficult. At least Syracuse looked at a good candidate which can’t be said of others they looked at. The debacle at Syracuse goes on then. And probably takes a hiatus for a bit given the recent terrible news regarding Jim Boeheim. The crazy thing is could the Syracuse debacle happen again somewhere else? I don’t think it could given the ineptitude of the administration there over how all of this has been handled (almost 4 months!). But I think if an athletics program is dead set on hiring a female this shows how difficult it can be to get a serious and well qualified woman candidate. Obviously interest in the job and area plays a big part. According to this grading method of female head coaches represented at different Division I programs: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercente...ad_Coaches_Comprehensive_NCAA_D-I_2017-18.pdf there were eight Division I programs with an “F” grade: Syracuse, West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas. All of these departments have a male coach for women’s soccer except WVU (and of course Syracuse has had no head coach since late October). If any of these male coaches left those mentioned programs how many of them would do what Syracuse did and look strictly at females. As shown by Syracuse that won’t be easy. Yes Lexington and an SEC program that had success not too long ago under Jon Lipsitz would be a more desirable scenario for many over a bottom dweller in the difficult ACC. Many on this forum have spoken of Kentucky for next year. Will be interesting to see if they will limit themselves to females and if they have issues to find a qualified female with legitimate interest in the position, and anyone else for that matter that goes the female only route.
Sorry, false alarm on my part. Yes, a U of Portland assistant coach position is open, but from what I've seen today it's for perfectly good reasons not related to coaching.
The only thing Syracuse gets a failing grade at here is the time it took to fill the position. She would have been a great hire from the start of the process, and to get her to take it at this stage represents pulling the rabbit out of the hat.
SO who will be the front runners for the Rice job? Nicky Adams is leaving the next person in a decent spot.
Shows what I know. Good hire for Syracuse, especially at this point. She was probably one of the top female candidates with success at the mid major level willing to make the Power 5 jump. Worked out in the end. Administration at Syracuse probably set a record with how long it took to make a hire. Any poor processes in the future (Kentucky could be in for this if they look just the female route as well next year) will be judged against this one. Don't think as inept a process will occur but who knows. Good luck to Adams and her staff. They have to get recruits in for 2020 and 2021 pronto as well as of course following after that. Anyone hear how long the contract was? She should have been given a minimum of 5 years as that rebuild is going to take a while.
Adams must be a great person and get along with other teams' staffs, as she's getting compliments. Looking at Rice over time, it's not as clear as the comments seem to make it. I hope she does really well at Syracuse. But it makes me wonder about how objective comments here are.