2025-26 Hot Seat

Wow, you’d expect more considering other p4s are moving to mid 20s or more.

 

At 14 scholarships , I’m sure they will find it difficult to pull a top head coach , especially when assuming that other programs in the conference are probably in the 20s . You need scholarships to be competitive.

 

Agreed, if they aren't upping scholarships and investing revenue share and NIL dollars into the program they are going to get left behind.

There are some high mid-major jobs that are better than some P4 jobs because of the willingness to invest in the programs.

 

OPEN:
Montana (12/12)
Wagner (12/18)
Sacramento State (12/19)
Louisiana Monroe (12/22)
UTRGV (1/6)
Michigan (1/8)

FILLED:
Bellarmine - Steve Bornhoffer (Northern Kentucky assistant; ??/??-7/22)
Central Arkansas - Derek Nichols (Central Arkansas associate head - 7/28)
Long Island - Jim O’Brien (Mitchell College head; 7/11-8/6)
Arkansas Pine Bluff - Emanuel Stephens (club coach; ??/??-8/7)
UNC Charlotte - Sinead Byrne (INTERIM; April 2025-10/17)
Northern Iowa - Alex Place Thomas (UNI interim, former Wartburg assistant and HS coach; INTERIM 6/20-11/10)
New Mexico - Karley Nelson (UNM associate head; 11/5-11/12)
McNeese State - Alexsis Cable (North Texas assistant; [2025 INTERIM] 6/17-11/20)
Texas - Margueritte Bates (UCLA head; 11/24-11/25)
Louisiana Tech - Matt Lodge (Murray State head; 11/10-11/25)
Ole Miss - Todd Shulenberger (Washington State head; 11/10-12/1)
Drexel - Shannon Grogan (Stony Brook associate head; retirement 10/28-12/3)
USC Upstate - Sam Odell (Shepherd head; INTERIM 9/30-12/4)
Southern Miss - Danny Owens (William Carey head; 11/5-12/5)
Florida - Nick Zimmerman (Miss State head; 11/12-12/5)
Mississippi State - Kevin O’Brien (Lipscomb head; 12/5-12/7)
Texas A&M - Bobby Shuttleworth (Florida State associate head; retirement 10/28-12/9)
Central Michigan - James DeCosemo (Western Michigan assistant; 11/3-12/10)
UNLV - Kacey Bingham (Western Oregon head; 11/4-12/10)
Akron - Maggie Kuhn (Akron assistant; INTERIM-12/11)
Troy - Jake Wyman (Montevallo head; 10/30-12/11)
UCLA - Gof Boyoko (UCLA associate head; 11/24-12/12)
Washington State - Chris Citowicki (Montana head; 12/1-12/12)
St. Thomas - Gretta MacDonald (St. Cloud State head; 10/27-12/17)
American - Phil Casella (Wagner head; 11/10-12/19)
Old Dominion - Will Roberts (Louisiana Monroe head; 12/3-12/22)
Nevada - Jeremy Evans (Lake Tahoe CC head; 12/4-12/22)
Murray State - Ben Madsen (Auburn assistant; 11/25-12/23)
Lipscomb - Dr. Kathleen Paulsen (John Brown head; 12/7-12/23)
Fresno State - Gabriel Bolton (Stanislaus State head; 11/18-12/24)
Le Moyne - Taylor Van Fleet (Binghamton assistant; 11/17-1/8)

 

Interim is likely to get that job. If she wants it. Did decently leading that team all season and almost made the conference tournament on the last day of the season. They had a fair bit of international players from Scandanavia on the roster.

I'd imagine they could hire someone more locally based and keep some RGV and STX kids at home and do well in that conference also.

 

I think most could agree that the Le Moyne hire was a pretty solid one. Not saying that Taylor's going to have success on a grand scale but qualifying for the NEC tournament would be pretty monumental at this point.

Taylor Van Fleet Named Head Women's Soccer Coach

 

well so much for those feeling sorry for Mark. The announcement made it sound like hes leaving because of health reasons. Next day its announced hes joining the Mississippi State staff.

Glad to see Mark is doing better health wise! just weird announcement

 

Who’s on the top of the hot seat list for 2026?

Any takers?

 

No, stop this. It's frickin' January 10th and the first games of the 2026 season aren't for another 7+ months.

 

Washington Assistant leaving, Montana???

 

Must be for Montana

 

I think Montana is between Boise State assistant and the former Denver assistant. He's a So Cal guy so possible going to be the assistant at UCLA.

 

Question: with the biggest upset in fa cup history today. Made me wonder, what was the biggest upset this past season based on rpi?

 

Max Weber??? He is good dude. Good call on UCLA, lot of folks moving to ATX.

 

Wash asst to UCLA is accurate and yes Boise asst and the associate HC 2 of the finalist at Montana.

 

Having met Dedini as a Riverhound, and then seeing him take over for my university, Sac State, I'm sorry his tenure ends like this. I hope his next chapter is good. I am eager to see who fills his seat.

 

Iowa State
Missouri

 

I still don’t understand how these two schools decided to retain their coaches after this cycle.

 

mizzou quietly extended their coach last spring through December 2028. Buyouts are very university favorable starting next year, though.

I will say that I know factually that Mizzou is not funded well compared to their SEC counterparts. I have heard 14 and no rev share or NIL.

 

I think Mizzou gets it. They don't care about women's soccer, they've never been good. They have a female head coach (hard to get in Columbia, Missouri) Golan has family in the area, so she's not going anywhere.

 

wife’s family is close by, he has good options hospital wise. Rumor was that UTRGV was not willing to let him stay on leave for another month while he got treatment in Houston and eased his way back on.

 

5 years at Missouri and she is 26-47-22 overall with her conference record being 10-33-7 why are some coaches getting let go after 3-4 years and she gets an extension? If Missouri doesn’t care about their soccer, why did they let the previous coach go?

 

One UCLA Asst staying, one UCI Asst moving to UCLA….

 

ULM announcement coming soon? AD tweeted “Exciting announcement soon for ULM soccer”

Exciting announcement soon for @ULM_Soccer ‼️ pic.twitter.com/idyA0bbMWl

— Sean Tuohy Jr. (@SJTuohy) January 14, 2026

 

Smoke entrance like Miami Hurricanes football? That'd be cool. Pelicans in Louisiana can resemble Sebastian the Ibis too