This actually feels like a great idea, or at least as good as current strategy of a go fund me linked to the men’s soccer team.
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2026 Coaching Changes
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Whockeyfan
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LIndenwood and Syracuse looking for new coaches.
Reddington
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Yikes, the wrong timing for sure - the current players and the dreaded current recruits that have not signed are going to have a pit in their stomachs.
Scott_TG
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Players at both schools will have a 15 day window to enter the portal beginning the sooner date of either 5 days after a new coach is named or 30 days after the departing coach resigned.
So what happened at Lindenwood? Two years and out after a big improvement in year 2 over year 1. I don't get it. They've had 4 coaches in only 14 years. That's just 3.5 years average per coach. That seems like a very high turnover rate. Only 3 seasons in program history with double-digit wins including this year. What's wrong here? Something internal?
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There was a conduct issue with the coaches on road trips.
If that's true then that's a big shame. Do people not realize that they are always at risk of being recorded by video and audio everywhere they go?? There are no secrets that don't eventually get out anymore. That's just the world we live in.
The Lindenwood website shows just Arielle DeSmet listed as an assistant coach and nobody else. That means both Taylor Wasylk and Connor Chatham are both gone so obviously they both were the ones with the conduct issues, whatever that might have been. Taylor's bio shows she's bounced around through a lot of coaching positions, so either she was building her resume or she was just bouncing around. Either way I guess her coaching career is over now.
With the school retaining DeSmet, would she be the heir apparent to become the next head coach? Not a lot of coaching experience yet, but that hasn't stopped other schools from hiring under-qualified head coaches before.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
Don't be a big buyer on what Bucky says.......
No way she becomes the head coach and a very good chance she has ruined her career outside of Lindenwood…. And that story will play out when the new head coach takes over. They have kept her for now. Someone has to be there for the interim.
It’s a small small community in Women’s hockey… Rats get terminated eventually.
Are you saying she was involved in whatever the incident was that happened too? If she was it doesn't make sense that she was kept on while the other two coaches were fired. I'm just wondering if the athletic administration is a bit of a sh*tshow at Lindenwood with so much turnover in the head coaching position since the beginning of this program.
She wasn’t involved but rather ratted out the other two in an effort to, in her mind, advance her own career.
She bypassed the AD and went higher up in the administration.
Ridiculously dumb move and her time coaching in collegiate hockey will be short.