Likely an HR formality. They’ve been deep in their process for a few weeks— expect the job to be offered end of this week or early next. Likely someone in state. just some “inside soccer”—in this day and age if you’re waiting for the HR to apply you’re rarely getting the job. Almost all of these (d1 jobs) are now handled by search firm or proactive ADs/SWAs/Asst ADs
OPEN: Montana (12/12) Wagner (12/18) Sacramento State (12/19) UTRGV (1/6) Michigan (1/8) Southern Utah (1/??) 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) Louisiana Monroe - Antony Blackburn (LSU assistant; 12/22-1/17)
Data tidbit: With this change, the average DI head coach tenure at a team dropped from 7.4 to 7.3 years.
What happened to Kai there at SUU? Kind of a late fire if that's the case, if they were planning on parting ways, maybe should have done it a bit sooner to take advantage of the portal. Just my thoughts. Anyone have any insight.
Tell me you're not a coach without telling me you're not a coach. Apparently you have no idea how uncomfortable it would be to be outed interviewing for a head coaching job if you're currently the head coach of another, possibly competitor, program....and how much worse it would be if you don't get the job. How do you explain that to your players? How do you convince them that they should stay and be proud to be a part of that program when you're actively trying to leave, yourself?
I've heard Kai was let go at Southern Utah. I don't know what for, and I'm told it was kinda out of left field.
Agreed on this part. If you are job hunting you need to keep your ear to the ground and eyes on the department releases.
LOL I am sure that BS is on the bookmarks list of every women's collegiate soccer player. You are so in the know you will dangle that "I know something you do not know" so you can feel a sense of pride....on an ANONYMOUS board. Anyways, maybe all those players at the subjected programs will want to go to UM just like they did at Miss St, Montana etc....you can't judge them.
Good time to revisit this. Chris Henderson put this work in right at the start of the fall 2025 season. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...pSacrWf_uk/edit?gid=1619370184#gid=1619370184 On paper Michigan may look like a good job. Great brand name and strong academics. But is the job that good? I mean, they're 10th in funding out of 16 teams. Nowhere near the level of support as Penn State, Michigan, or Rutgers. Henderson probably got his data from FOIA and that is available for public schools, so this list doesn't include USC or Northwestern so really Michigan probably is at 12th out of 18 programs. Maybe they'll increase support with a new hire, but if not it's really not a sexy job. One poster mentioned Dilanni from Iowa would have interest - but would he? He would have to leave a well funded Big Ten program with recent success to go to another that has less funding and looking at a rebuild. Outsiders sometimes get caught on the name of the institution and perhaps what other athletic teams do at that school and assume it's a "good job", but so much of it comes down to the level of support that is given to women's soccer. Bohon was let go at Florida and they were 14th out of 15 so is that on her, or lack of support she had to work with (really probably 15th out of 16 as Vanderbilt wasn't listed)? Rouse at Ole Miss was 11th out of 15 and then let go so same thing can be asked there. No surprise that well funded programs typically do well, and lesser funded programs typically don't do well. For a well funded program that doesn't have success then it's time for change like seen recently at Texas A&M and Texas (and still not sure how Iowa St coach has a job). A few great coaches are out there do pretty well despite funding challenges support (South Carolina and UCF as examples), but typically those are rare exceptions. Anyone interested in Michigan has to get a true understanding of budgets and support while on an interview to get a sense of if they have the backing needed to compete at the Big 10 and national level.
I get your logic but Michigan is a Big10 Flagship school with great facilities, big salaries, and in-state tuition. Michigan is one of the best academic public universities in the country. How did the MSU coach do it? I will make an educated guess- just compete for the best Michigan, Chicago, Ohio kids. Mix in a few from CO,CA, NJ or some international. Good homers and legacy kids will just go to some of these P4s if you ask them! The parents will pay less for state college tuition then they did on youth soccer with just a combo academic/soccer scholarship. Maybe you don't get the 'obvious going pro' level kids w/o NIL cash but these P4 jobs are destination jobs with no shortage of applicants. Very many mid-major coaches think they can get to .500 and make a great living at their big state school. What else would they aspire to do? There's over 1000 NCAA schools but only 70 P4s that can pay soccer coaches in 6 figures. IMHO, it's negligent not to find a strong coach at MI. Now - being anonymous. It is funny to hear folks say "I know something you don't" and also funny how coaches want to be able to "secretly search for another gig" but certainly don't want their players to. Imagine if there was a coaches portal? The cliche' I believe is the coaches portal is always open...
Michigan have 14 scholarships. Latest I've heard is MSU has somewhere around 24. Still think they're the same? It's a whole new ball game from when Klein took the UM job.
The MSU job is not open is it? You think some great coach out there is thinking "I'll wait around for MSU" since they have more money? You do know some Michigan folks wouldn't touch MSU no matter what you paid them! Some people here seem to think recruiting is some kind of logical decision... No shortage of applicants at a place like Michigan.
I would say, “buyer beware” there are a lot of inaccuracies in that file, and a lot of it is outdated. Also, Chris Henderson (who I like and is a great asset to college women’s soccer) did was compile this. He paid for access to a guys library who FOIAs every athletic department and has lots of contract info. But again, most are dated. I know 3 or 4 programs listed on that intimately, and I’ll say that only one is spot on. Ironically of the other few, some are way high in terms of resources and the other vastly low balls the scholarship budget. also, all of this was compiled pre rev-share, pre house settlement and when NIL was in its infancy, so it’s pretty outdated. Makes a lot of the numbers way off. But a lot of the salaries and budget numbers are crap or are travel heavy. See Iowa State; etc.
I have no idea who is interviewing and no idea why you think that I'm dangling anything. I just brought up a very plausible hypothetical. BS may not be on the bookmarks of every player out there, but its 2026 mate, all it takes it one kid, one parent, one friend of a parent, one club player's club coach, one bitter rival who is more than happy to mention it to their own players, knowing that it will find its way around. The rumor mill starts and once you lose the locker room, there's no getting it back. That shouldn't be the consequence for interviewing for a different coaching position.