Just in case anyone was wondering,, the team is still conducting off season practices. I stopped by last weekend and everyone was out there working. The practices are led by Mike Bristol and Morinao Imaizumi.
Heard Mike withdrew his name from the HC candidates... Not sure how true it is, but really seems like no one on the current staff wants to stay around this AD...
What a mess. Any reasonable candidate is giving Mark a call to get his take before considering an offer as well. Gonna take a lot of otherwise potentially solid options off the table.
One would think the President could have just assigned Mark to report to someone else, rather than the AD to keep him happy.
Multiple national championships or otherwise, I don't think the Prez is going to undermine his new AD over disagreements with the women's soccer coach.
Fair enough. But, this happens with nepotism situations all the time. They report to someone else. It is not like it has to be public information.
Alford is all in on football, but the jury is still out on the direction of football. Part of me hopes football continues to dwell in mediocrity and Alford is gone in two years. The guy napalmed one of the best women's soccer programs in the country.
I think it would be fair to say the best women’s soccer program in the country. Certainly it was a few months ago.
7 kids on the transfer portal from FSU in one day. Wow. Includes 3 of the 7 committed freshmen (didn't realize they had to go on the portal to get out of an NLI). Includes Roque and Madril too. Can't afford to lose many other kids than that if they want a roster with some depth.
where do they think they are going that they are sure will be better? The portal isn't a fun place to be right now and they still have a strong team. I am sure they will hire a good coach so I would think they would wait it out and see first before jumping ship
Maybe they know who the coach is going to be?? If they don't, someone may have advised them to get into the portal so they can explore their options and have some planning done when and if the new coach is announced? I think that's probably pretty smart since the last burst of portal activity is underway. btw - 6 of the 7 checked "do not contact" so they don't get bombarded with emails. Also a smart move. Madril and Robbins are shown as grad transfers so if they only have one year left to play, plenty of coaches would take them for a year. They could be deciding just to play another season and be done by Christmas so they won't cost much even if they want the scholarship dollars. They could just be looking to improve their draft status somewhere else in case they don't see FSU doing that next fall. That's just speculation but would make sense.
7 so far — the portal doesn’t close until May 1. And this entire team is composed of highly talented, driven, proven, respected players that will find good homes if they choose to do so.
Yeah, most of these women had offers from other great programs. I suspect all it took was entry into the portal, plus a phone call or two, to reestablish those contacts and start packing.
Who are the seven? Robbins and Madril are huge losses. AD’s actions just gutting the program. Agree it makes sense to get your name in there either way if you don’t know who the coach will be to leave your options open. Some of it may be out of a sense of protest, too. Many of them clearly unhappy with how things played out with mark leaving.
I find it interesting that most have them have indicated in the portal that they “don’t wish to be contacted by other institutions” (including Madrill, Rocque, etc.) … any chance they are looking to go pro? If so, timing is bad for anywhere but Europe, or maybe just waiting on the new hire.
To me, that suggests they already have decided which school they’re transferring to, or have a couple to choose from and don’t want to be bothered by all the other suitors that don’t stand a chance. As for growing pro, they wouldn’t need the portal.
Okay, so how do we know that this information is correct? Is there any sourcing at all for the information? I am not implying that posters are lying or anything but all we have so far are hints about who is in the portal. We don't have all of the names or any way at all to verify this information. Therefore, right now this information is little more than a mere rumor.
My understanding is that on-line access to the portal is limited to one (or possibly two) individuals on the staff at each school. Typically, posters of details about who is in the portal are on school staffs and have been allowed by those with access at their schools to see who is in the portal. I have seen many posts about who is in the portal and do not recall ever seeing a post that says, no that person is not in the portal. So, it seems likely that posts about who is in the portal are reliable.