Adrian College Gripefest

[FranchisePlayer]

Re: Adrian College Gripefest

I have to agree with you. The amount of hires over the past few years with little or no experience coaching, or coaching women. I am not saying this will be a bad hire, just really interested in a trend we a experiencing.

The trend is that, time and again, colleges will select a male with limited to no experience to coach a women's hockey team. Happens all the time at both the collegiate and secondary school levels. Men coach girls teams ... but women don't coach boys teams (except something like volleyball or track). The standard assumption seems to be simply that a male can automatically coach girls sports, even with limited experience.

I have no gripe against Mr. Davis and have no interest whatsoever in Adrian College - although I will say that the entire situation is both sad and comical at the same time (did I actually read that players were upset because the coach didn't listen to their "suggestions"???) - I can't imagine people taking similar complaints seriously if they came from a mens' team, especially given that Adrian made it to the NCAA tournament - but, hey, the most important things is that the girls "have fun", right? But I do find this type of hiring trend to be disturbing. I wonder when/if the NCAA will ever come up with a guideline that colleges must interview a certain number of women before making a hire (sort of like the NFL rule about having to interview minorities before making a head coaching hire).

 

[crazyhkyfan1]

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Well stated !

dogwatcher's posts certainly affirm that the inmates were running the asylum. (especially the WWII Germany reference)
It's become more and more obvious that a very young Coach Lomanto had her hands full with this disfunctional group of parents and players. Hopefully her replacement will get this bunch under control.

clearly you know absolutely nothing about what was going on with the program!

 

[OnMAA]

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The trend is that, time and again, colleges will select a male with limited to no experience to coach a women's hockey team. Happens all the time at both the collegiate and secondary school levels. Men coach girls teams .....[Snip]........[End Snip]...... But I do find this type of hiring trend to be disturbing. I wonder when/if the NCAA will ever come up with a guideline that colleges must interview a certain number of women before making a hire (sort of like the NFL rule about having to interview minorities before making a head coaching hire).

Disagree. You simply interview and hire the best available candidate(s) irregardless of gender, race, religion etc.

 

[brookyone]

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Disagree. You simply interview and hire the best available candidate(s) irregardless of gender, race, religion etc.

Precisely!

 

[123kidd]

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And don't let the NCAA be involved when hiring a coach. We don't want them setting rules/regulations for conducting an interview. The less they know the better.

 

[gojackets]

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The trend is that, time and again, colleges will select a male with limited to no experience to coach a women's hockey team. Happens all the time at both the collegiate and secondary school levels. Men coach girls teams ... but women don't coach boys teams (except something like volleyball or track). The standard assumption seems to be simply that a male can automatically coach girls sports, even with limited experience.

I even saw signs of this earlier in the year when I was working a boys basketball game. The opposing team had a female coach coaching the boys team. The two guys sitting at the scorers table with me, expressed concerns on how a woman could ever coach the boys team. That a woman couldn't understand the boys game as well and if they had a female coach they wouldn't have listened to her. I responded "my guess is you probably wouldn't have played then."

It still blows my mind with that BS, male superiorority crap that other men seem to have.

 

[5 4 Fighting]

Re: Adrian College Gripefest

I posted in another thread during this years AHCA Conference referencing a topic on the agenda "The Decline of Women Coaches in College Hockey" or something to that effect. (The PDF has since been taken down). A few ppl blew the post off saying that it comes up every year or so..blah ba blah. My point was...If they're talking about it then it must be of some concern. What's the problem? I mean that generally and not specifically about Adrian College.

 

[UCBadger]

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Well, today it was announced that Ashley Carlson was named Synchronized Skating Head Coach!

To the person who neg repped me for this.....well she was and that information was posted on Adrian College's webpage before (by about 30 minutes) the hockey coach was.

 

[Captain Obvious]

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I posted in another thread during this years AHCA Conference referencing a topic on the agenda "The Decline of Women Coaches in College Hockey" or something to that effect. (The PDF has since been taken down). A few ppl blew the post off saying that it comes up every year or so..blah ba blah. My point was...If they're talking about it then it must be of some concern. What's the problem? I mean that generally and not specifically about Adrian College.

It was me that said it comes up every year. It was not crack at you, it was directed at the coaching body. Every year it comes up, and then nothing is done. I would imagine that it is the same coaches up on the soap box, and then, nothing happens.

I do not have a stance either way, I was just making the point that it always comes up, but there is never a plan put in place that forces AD's to interview. So, you and I will have this conversation again next spring (so that is my blah,blah,blah)