what you really mean is Dorrance is not getting the SC State job! I don’t see Craig taking that job. Might be the kind of place that gets Mark Plakorus back into the game.
I believe Dixie State has been offered and accepted. Female P5 assistant. If true she’s super qualified and will honestly be one of the better hires this off-season based on resume/experience for a mid-major.
Filled Georgia Southern - Josh Moffet (interim in 2019) UNLV - Jenny Ruiz-Williams (Oregon State assistant) Yale - Sarah Martinez (Yale assistant) Southern Utah - Kai Edwards (Cal volunteer assistant) LSU - Sian Hudson (Colorado-Colorado Springs head coach) Stephen F. Austin - Tony Minatta (former Iowa State head coach) Iowa State - Matt Fannon (Bowling Green State head coach) Loyola Marymount - Jenny Bindon (UCLA assistant) Marshall - Michael Swan (UNC Charlotte assistant) Robert Morris - Chris Shaw (former UNLV head coach) Evansville - Chris Pfau (Evansville assistant) Colgate - Lyndse Hokanson (Georgetown assistant) Oklahoma - Mark Carr (women’s USYNT U20 head coach) Marquette - Frank Pelaez (Loyola Chicago associate head coach) Grand Canyon - Chris Cissell (UMKC head coach) American - Marsha Harper (former UMass assistant) Oregon - Graeme Abel (former USWNT assistant) Charleston Southern - Jose Gomez (former Liberty men’s associate head coach) Washington - Nicole Van Dyke (Pennsylvania head coach) Pacific - Ed Moore (Boise State assistant) Temple - Nick Bochette (Albany head coach) Louisiana Monroe - Sean Fraser (Lincoln Memorial head coach) ETSU - Jay Yelton (Samford associate head coach) St. Mary's College - Theresa Romagnolo (Seattle volunteer assistant) Long Island University - Collin Audley (Kentucky assistant) Bowling Green State - Jimmy Walker (Findlay head coach) Western Michigan - Sammy Boateng (interim in 2019) UMKC - Jess Smith (former Kansas State assistant) Albany - Leigh Howard (Marist head coach) Cornell - Rob Ferguson (Cornell assistant) Pennsylvania - Casey Brown (Holy Cross head coach) Jacksonville - John Constable (Nova Southeastern head coach) Arkansas Pine Bluff - Erik Solberg (Northwestern Oklahoma State head coach) Vacant South Carolina State Marist Saint Peter’s (maybe not open?) Holy Cross Dixie State (DI transition in July) Alcorn State Canisius
Filled Georgia Southern - Josh Moffet (interim in 2019) UNLV - Jenny Ruiz-Williams (Oregon State assistant) Yale - Sarah Martinez (Yale assistant) Southern Utah - Kai Edwards (Cal volunteer assistant) LSU - Sian Hudson (Colorado-Colorado Springs head coach) Stephen F. Austin - Tony Minatta (former Iowa State head coach) Iowa State - Matt Fannon (Bowling Green State head coach) Loyola Marymount - Jenny Bindon (UCLA assistant) Marshall - Michael Swan (UNC Charlotte assistant) Robert Morris - Chris Shaw (former UNLV head coach) Evansville - Chris Pfau (Evansville assistant) Colgate - Lyndse Hokanson (Georgetown assistant) Oklahoma - Mark Carr (women’s USYNT U20 head coach) Marquette - Frank Pelaez (Loyola Chicago associate head coach) Grand Canyon - Chris Cissell (UMKC head coach) American - Marsha Harper (former UMass assistant) Oregon - Graeme Abel (former USWNT assistant) Charleston Southern - Jose Gomez (former Liberty men’s associate head coach) Washington - Nicole Van Dyke (Pennsylvania head coach) Pacific - Ed Moore (Boise State assistant) Temple - Nick Bochette (Albany head coach) Louisiana Monroe - Sean Fraser (Lincoln Memorial head coach) ETSU - Jay Yelton (Samford associate head coach) St. Mary's College - Theresa Romagnolo (Seattle volunteer assistant) Long Island University - Collin Audley (Kentucky assistant) Bowling Green State - Jimmy Walker (Findlay head coach) Western Michigan - Sammy Boateng (interim in 2019) UMKC - Jess Smith (former Kansas State assistant) Albany - Leigh Howard (Marist head coach) Cornell - Rob Ferguson (Cornell assistant) Pennsylvania - Casey Brown (Holy Cross head coach) Jacksonville - John Constable (Nova Southeastern head coach) Arkansas Pine Bluff - Erik Solberg (Northwestern Oklahoma State head coach) Dixie State (DI transition in July) - Molly Rouse (Minnesota assistant) Vacant South Carolina State Marist Saint Peter’s (maybe not open?) Holy Cross Alcorn State Canisius
Thats a good find for Dixie. The question though will be can they keep her there. They've lost 3 coaches in 3 years to resignations, all three quitting without other jobs lined up just to get out of there. Any predictions on how long she'll want to stay? I'll start my prediction at 3 seasons then out to get her feet wet as almost D-1 head coach then try to move to bigger and better.
I have zero dog in the fight, just want to ask this question since nearly every hire has been considered "bad" by many on this board. Thanks for this a "good find" comment. What makes this a "good find" compared to others? She's not been a head coach, right? She has roughly 10 years of assistant coaching experience (Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska-Omaha, Buffalo, Alabama State). Minnesota is coming off a 3-12-4 season. I'm trying to figure out how others come to their decisions on good/bad.
Minnesota has been historically a strong program. This past season was an extreme outlier for them. I don't know if they graduated a lot the year prior, or had injuries. But Golan (and staff) have done a good job there.
I would call it a good hire because this isn't a job that needs immediate results. They still have years before they are able to genuinely compete and they hired a coach that has learned under many different views of coaches. I think it's a tough job to recruit many better coaches with the transition period.
How could anyone expect them to do better? She is a coach with a lot of experience, growing her career gradually up the competitive ranks. She has most recently spent several seasons in the Big Ten Conference. Candidly, I cannot believe they got someone with her resume. I would have expected a lesser experienced assistant or a head coach trying to resurrect their career after previous failed stints.
she will be there one year and end up going somewhere else. Her resume doesn’t exactly spell loyalty with how much she bounces around. One of the big ten assistants I spoke to this evening said a few of the other coaches in the conference call her ‘missing molly’ because one day the head coach will turn up at the office and she won’t be there because she got another gig lol.
I would say on paper Dixie State made a good hire. Not at the level of Iowa St but still a good hire overall for AD Jason Boothe. They even used a search firm which typically you only see for football and basketball. She's been at 5 different programs so has experience from different places which is good, although I would see why it would be concerning she has been nowhere longer than 2 years. Poor last season at Minnesota last season but very good year before that. It's a good hire in also that it's a good "fit". For a program moving from D2 to D1 to get a somewhat younger coach that's put in some time with some relevant experience this seems a logical next step. There have been a few bad hires this last cycle for sure where that fit didn't exist. Some of these were driven by gender (UNLV hiring a female with just 2 years of experience as an assistant). Some decisions just simply make no sense (the Kentucky extension for Ian Carry with $125,000 base salary, Cornell doesn't open up their search and hires the present assistant coach which was the exact thing they did last time; Penn hiring someone with a 17-37-14 record). Some make a "sexy" hire for the name with no other basis basis to it (Oklahoma because they can say a US Soccer tie even though Carr was a failure for the U20s and also at USF; Colgate for a female GK coach because they can say a Georgetown tie). The biggest blunder was LSU. Look at this contract: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_2a4773de-5fb9-11ea-b0a7-37138bbf09bd.html. $160,000 in 2020 with $5K increases that taker her to $180,000 in 2024. This is not a good "fit", this is a catastrophic hire. Only been a D1 assistant for two years before coaching D2 for three years. She would have made a good fit for jumping D2 to a mid-major D1, but this jump to an SEC Power 5 head job is simply inexplicable. Hiring a first assistant from a terrible Jacksonville program is sign of being out of depth here.
How can you question her career choices though? I don't know her, but she moved up the ranks with each move she made. Hard to question an assistant doing that. Who would have made different decisions than she did? And, her last move was Iowa to Minnesota. Minnesota is her alma mater, so that is also a logical move. Rouse rejoins the Gophers as an assistant coach after making multiple other assistant coaching stops since leaving in 2010. She most recently coached the University of Iowa (2017-18), Nebraska-Omaha (2017), Buffalo (2015-16) and Alabama State (2014). She was named to the Gophers' staff as an assistant coach on July 3, 2018.
I don't know how long she was there, but how can you judge her without knowing why she left??? You seem to have an axe to grind with her. Was she offered significantly better pay at her next stop? Did she see something or work with someone she did not agree with at Omaha? I don't mean to cast suspicion on Omaha, I am just saying that there are a multitude of reasons someone may leave after a brief stay. And, I would leave Omaha after two months if I was offered a Big Ten job. Name someone who wouldn't?
This is it with anyone who wants to continue to criticize any hire without knowing anything about the situation or coach. Assistants are hired knowing they'll leave anytime, anywhere. Simple as that. If a head coach is mad or questions why an assistant leaves, that's not a head coach anyone wants to work with/for.
Tarleton State job was open but they have decided to not fill the position at this time. I wonder how long they will wait to hire since the new coach would need to recruit a full team before 2021. I know this saves the school money in a tough time.
I've worked camps with Molly in the past, I quite liked her as I thought she had personality and quality within her sessions. She's young and seemed to relate to players well so maybe Dixie State sees that as a competitive advantage with obviously some pretty big name schools on her resume. I think it;s a good hire by them for sure. *posted this in regards to your questions earlier in the chat*
As a head coach I wouldn’t be too upset if an assistant left after a season but she left Omaha after four months. That’s pretty shady in my book. Jumping around other jobs a lot of assistants do but four months is screening over the person that hires you. I’m guessing she’s someone who doesn’t care about the program she is at or the kids she coaches so long as she is getting ahead.
You mean she is not supposed to take a promotion, in both pay and prestige? People do that all the time in all walks of life. She got offered a better opportunity. I am sure Omaha's head coach would have accepted the Iowa head coaching job if offered ... it is a Power 5 opportunity. Why can't we respect that this coach did what was in the best interest of her career. She literally climbed the ladder to a power 5 opportunity.
I understand why she did it. I simply don’t agree with her ethics. Just my opinion and that of a couple big ten coaches. I’m sure she will do a solid job at Dixie.