2021-22 Hot Seat

Wow. Good luck to Keidane. Wished I had made it up to USC for a match.

 

well you don’t have to live in the Presidio or Beverly Hills. La county has an average home price of $790K according to Zillow. Orange County is $943K.

since you mentioned Santa Clara, a coach is going to want to live close to campus, the average home price in that town is $1,541,447. I’m pretty sure San Jose isn’t cheaper and taxes aren’t cheaper than other places.

Cromwell came from ( and moving back to) Orlando, right? The average home there is $328K.
Mcalpin will be moving from a place where homes cost $800-$950K to Athens, where the average home costs $255K

 

Nobody from California wants to move to Republican lands. Pretty sure both these Dems are doing it for the money and selling their soul. They leave two great programs, their loss.

 

Actually a lot of people want to leave CA because of the high cost of living, earthquakes, floods, fires, smog, absurd traffic and suspect public schools. People are also flooding out of the major cities like NYC in droves since COVID. Quality of life is key.

 

Bet that job has an avalanche of applications.

 

The question isn't 'Is California more expensive than Florida or Georgia.' Obviously it is. But averages are not reflective of reality, as there are megamansions that drive averages way up. The new coaches at these places are going to find comfortable homes and they'll do just fine. And by the same token, Amanda and Kedaine will find that the lower cost of living in the South comes with some tradeoffs, too.

 

It's more nuanced than that. Rich people left rich neighborhoods like the Upper West Side and Greenwich Village. Working class people in Queens and the Bronx didn't go anywhere. And new people are moving in at a faster rate than before the pandemic.

https://www.curbed.com/2021/11/new-york-moving-pandemic-report.html

 

Yes, the defiantly dumb Trumpian redneck tradeoff, if they dare to venture far from Orlando or Athens.

 

Whoa. Can we keep politics off of this board? Politicians aren’t worth discussing or worrying about on either side of the aisle.

 

Says the person who has never lived in Los Angeles. Small houses in below average neighborhoods are going for 1.5 to 2 million. Salaries are more but not that much more. Even if someone made 400K at UCLA with camps and clinics all in, you’d be able to afford a townhouse at best. Rentals are reasonable because there are so many of them, which I suppose would be an option for someone that just wanted to spend 5-10 years there. Don’t get me wrong, I love LA (nod to Randy Newman), but it’s not for the middle class.

 

That is pretty harsh. One of them is seeking a new challenge.

 

I agree something went or was going down at UCLA. But with the Dorrance/Ellis examples, that was before the NWSL existed (Anson) or had become established and viable (Ellis). I do think that now, yes, you'd have to have pro experience to get the job. I mean this is where the majority of your players and player pool are playing. It makes sense.

 

I lived in Malibu for a year. I'd recommend it to anyone, although I got lucky and had a sweet mother-in-law cottage in a friend's backyard for $600/month (in 2004).

I'm not disagreeing with you that LA/Cali is expensive. I don't see your greater point tho. The new coach will get a townhouse, or rent, or buy further away and get comfortable with a long commute. These aren't big deals and certainly won't stop them filling the position.

 

Folks, I think we can assume these high level p5 coaches understand the cost of living and quality of life aspects of their decisions. Market forces and the laws of supply and demand are on display all the time, especially in real estate. Anyone slamming S California as a good place to live is just comical. There are good reasons it's expensive compared to say, rural GA......the same reasons millions more people want to live there!

And grouping USC with UCLA is also a little misleading. Both great jobs with great history and great resources in the Pac12 and will get tons of applicants...
but one is in perhaps one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the nation and one is 5 times larger and on multiple city blocks in downtown LA.

 

Men’s College Coach leaving for the MLS is always going to be a step up financially. Not the case in the NWSL. Most coaches in the league don’t even make 100k. Let’s hope the league will continue to grow but we are not there yet.

 

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sooners?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Sooners</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trojans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Trojans</a></p>&mdash; Robert Hefner V (@RobertHefnerV) <a href="

Lincoln Riley USC contract details (not confirmed; best I could do):
- $110 million
- USC buying both his homes in Norman for $500,000 over asking ($1 million bonus)
- Buying a $6 million home in LA for him
- Unlimited use of the private jet 24/7 for family#Sooners #Trojans

— Robert Hefner 🇮🇱 (@RobertHefnerV) November 29, 2021

Looks like USC is going cheap on Lincoln Riley, only paying $500k over market for each of his houses. Hope they do better for women's soccer...

 

Not sure why he would make that move for that….man will be in the poorhouse soon.

 

LOL

here’s the mega mansion you can buy right now in Santa Clara, about a mile and a half from where the College Cup is being played.

This mega mansion has the added bonus of being next to an elementary school and baseball fields ( see light stantions in the background. ) you can hear screaming kids all day and have baseballs come crashing through your patio door at night.

 

This is getting pretty far off topic. I concede that much of Cali is absurdly expensive, but I said the new UCLA and USC coaches will do just fine and you know as well as I do that's true. Amanda had enough disposable income to invest in an NWSL team and Keidane's twitter is full of pictures of him going to Lakers and Kings games. I don't think they were living in studios in San Jacinto.

 

It has been reported that this tweet is not true. They are absolutely not buying his Oklahoma houses per his own realtor.

 

Fair enough but the point remains. It's laughable the things these schools do to have to attract top football coaches.

 

I'm curious. Do you currently live or have you ever lived in CA or this just what your media sources tell you?

Listing "earthquakes" as one of the reasons someone wants to move out of CA is a sure give- away that you're not familiar with people who actually live there.

 

Waiting patiently for Orlando Pride to release something. UCLA starts winter quarter January 4th and hopefully they will have a coach by then.

 

Lol, I had the same reaction. Hello from San Francisco!