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D1 Coaching Changes

Scott_TG said:
If the players are such a problem, maybe the new coach should follow the lead of Grambling State's volleyball coach and replace the entire team at once.


https://www.kcrg.com/2022/04/07/coll...-scholarships/
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The speculation - and I understand that it is more than mere speculation - is that the new coach cut all the Grambling players so as to be able to bring the players from her previous job at Arkansas Pine Bluff through the infamous transfer portal. Talk about a way to kill a program and any future recruiting! Hard to imagine Grambling will allow this, or that there won't be lawsuits, etc.

A hot topic at the VB equivalent of this web site, VolleyTalk

https://volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/88892/grambling-state-coach-entire-roster?page=1
 
Scott_TG said:
Multiple officials from Grambling are quoted supporting it so it seems like they will allow it
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If you mean the article you posted, multiple equals two. And what do you expect them to say when they know the lawsuits are coming. According to comments posted on twitter etc, the decision was made after a grand total of three spring practices, meaning that excuse is a sham. And if you're a 2023 or 2024 recruit or their parent, are going to go play for such a coach or school?
 
pucko said:
It can't be about the record, especially if he was hired in 2019. For a Division 1 coach to be let go because of their record (and that's assuming the Administration actually cared about Win/Loss) their performance should be evaluated after at least 6-7 years, once the coach has all their own recruits. It seems like the programs that always lose are the ones whose coaches have the constant revolving door. Yes, you can say that maybe it's the coaches that have been hired, but the dominant theme is that these programs constantly lose. Why is that? Kids in losing programs have very loud voices. If a coach comes in and wants to make a change -- and the Administration doesn't support that change and/or does not want to deal with the headache involved with making the changes -- loud voices typically prevail. Again, you have to ask yourself why all the bottom D1 programs are usually the ones who are looking to hiring within 3-4 years. And also why these programs never improve.
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While you may be onto something, I have two thoughts: (1) if the players at St Cloud were that unhappy wouldn’t several of them have entered the transfer portal after the 2020-2021 season? and (2) I realize I am na?ve in this matter, but it boggles my mind that - especially at the college level - players and/or parents would complain to anyone above the coaches’ level (i.e, the AD). My daughter played high-level hockey in both high school and college and it never once occurred to either of us to complain about anything regarding the coach to the AD. And, as parents, we never even complained to the coaches as we did not see that as our role. If she had a beef with a coach that was up to her to deal with directly to the coach.

Lastly, OSU must have a top-notch athletic administration. Muzz‘s tough-love style surely had to ruffle some feathers of players and parents her first couple of years but the athletic department clearly supported her 100% as they should have and look how that turned out!
 
One thing the OSU win may have done is remind people of what’s possible. Granted Muzerall inherited a more talented roster than most but she had that team in the Frozen Four in year two. She really has made the most of the 2 Olympic years. Perhaps it reduces the clock of how long an AD is willing to give a coach to turn a team into a decent program with a decent record.

Looking at St Clouds record this year they went 1-2-1 against first year D1 program St Thomas. That seems difficult to excuse, even if St Cloud went 5-1 against non WCHA teams and even if St Thomas is expected to be good sooner rather than later.
 
I am a sick person....the dog barking at 3 woke me up and Watts is the first thing that pops into my mind? How to stop world hunger? No. How to get peace in Europe? No. How to survive a nuclear holocaust? No. Possible coaches for St. Cloud? YES. I have big problems.

So I wonder if Idalski wants to come back to the midwest? He's from WI, he's a heck of a coach. He's a great recruiter (how do you convince someone to want to live in North Dakota for 4 years???). I can't imagine living with the commies eating riceballs everyday is a lot of fun. You don't get any beer battered yellow perch where he is. Jackie Crum and Dan Koch have been working for MJ for years, would either of them want to give it a shot? Maybe holding out for a better opportunity? They certainly have the pedigree and know recruiting. One crazy idea....Shannon Miller. Yes I miss her antics behind the bench. Probably too disengaged from the women's hockey scene and a bit radioactive as an employee. One even crazier idea....Don Lucia. He's a coach at heart and being the CCHA commissioner is like a nothing job.
 
I hope Amber Frycklund will come out of retirement and go for the job. I think she interviewed when McDonald got the job but the McDonald decision may have been a done deal and the other interviews just for show. She’s been a professor at BSU the last couple of years but maybe a HC job could pull her back to the game. She’d be great and the players would love her.
 
Timothy A said:
One crazy idea....Shannon Miller. Yes I miss her antics behind the bench. Probably too disengaged from the women's hockey scene and a bit radioactive as an employee.
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You did say it was a crazy idea. Not sure too many AD's have a slush fund in their budgets to settle multi-million dollar lawsuits stemming from women's hockey programs.
 
Any assistant/associate head coaches who might be up for it?

Walkland or Decosse from Colgate, Kimball from Yale, Jackson at Cornell?

Those are all eastern coaches but maybe there are some western assistants who might be considered? What about Natalie Darwitz?
 
Scott_TG said:
Any assistant/associate head coaches who might be up for it?

Walkland or Decosse from Colgate, Kimball from Yale, Jackson at Cornell?

Those are all eastern coaches but maybe there are some western assistants who might be considered? What about Natalie Darwitz?
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Don't know about the others but Kimball has shown he's not a head coach type of person and is in his happy place as an assistant coach. That's his comfort zone and from all reports he's very good in that role.
 
Timothy A said:
"She will report to Shannon Miller, vice president of branding and community relations." Can't be the same Shannon Miller. No way.
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What -- you don't think Shannon can relate to the community? I've definitely seen her attempt to brand an official or two.
 
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