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blue_jays

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Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 23, 2019, 01:07:19 PM
Quote from: Mr.Right on January 23, 2019, 10:12:16 AM
Question is now can the next UC Head Coach continue to move the program forward. The pieces and support look to be in place but it only takes a few fumbles by the incoming staff to muck the whole thing up.

This must be a real kick in the head to Chicago athletics staff and boosters. The U of C does so well in so many team sports, reaching the Final Four in six of them a collective total of 17 times, but it has never managed to win a national title in anything. On the other hand, the U of C's archrival Wash U has hoisted Walnut & Bronze 23 times in eight different sports, which ranks Wash U in D3's top ten schools in terms of national championships won. Men's soccer, along with women's soccer and women's tennis, represented one of the three good chances that the Maroons had to finally break through and win it all for the first time. But losing Mike Babst is going to be a severe blow to the U of C's chances in this particular sport.

Also on the list is men's tennis which reached NCAA semifinals three times in four years with a golden recruiting class leading the way. The program routinely tops the D3 recruiting rankings most year and breaks into the top 35 of recruiting at all levels of NCAA. They are/were on short list of teams (3-5) that could actually win the title year in and year out.
The Babst departure is not totally surprising, he has some Carolina ties and plenty of past D1 experience. He turned an average  program into something special and D1 was going to notice.

Falconer

Quote from: Buck O. on January 23, 2019, 07:39:16 PM
Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 23, 2019, 01:07:19 PM
The U of C does so well in so many team sports, reaching the Final Four in six of them a collective total of 17 times, but it has never managed to win a national title in anything.

Chicago did win the national football championship in 1905, in pre-NCAA days.  So it's only a 114-year drought.
And, they have the distinction of being the only school whose football stadium was used as the site of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction.  ;D

Gregory Sager

That was the old Stagg Field, though, not the current one. The old one was razed in 1957. Regenstein Library, appropriately enough, now stands on the site where humanity first split the atom.
"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

Falconer

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 07, 2019, 03:45:26 PM
That was the old Stagg Field, though, not the current one. The old one was razed in 1957. Regenstein Library, appropriately enough, now stands on the site where humanity first split the atom.
Yes, I knew that; I've been to the actual site just outside Regebstein, not to mention many times inside Regenstein to use various resources.

soccerfan111

Conn College job is now open. Chicago is still open too. Is Murphy going there or is there something else going on? NESCAC jobs don't open very often so it will be interesting to see who the shortlist is.

nescacfan94

Quote from: soccerfan111 on February 19, 2019, 07:57:32 AM
Conn College job is now open. Chicago is still open too. Is Murphy going there or is there something else going on? NESCAC jobs don't open very often so it will be interesting to see who the shortlist is.

Wait. What?


d4_Pace

What are your thoughts on where you'd rather coach?  Chicago has obviously been more successful recently but to your point NESCAC jobs seem pretty stable.

Gregory Sager

Depends. Are you a New England guy or not? New Englanders often tend to be the type of people that don't move out of the area. Connected to that, is the NESCAC your gold standard for academic institutions, especially from an athletics point of view? And do you prefer life in a large town or a small city (however you choose to define New London) to that of a vast metropolis?

If your answers are positive, then Conn College is your place.

Are you attracted to living and working in a world-class city? Does being on the campus of one of the world's premier universities, as opposed to an outstanding small liberal arts college, appeal to you? Can you deal with coaching in a place where most people don't seem to be aware that there even is a men's soccer program on campus, no matter how much success it has? Are the plane travel and hotel overnights involved with coaching a UAA program a feature or a bug for you?

If your answers are positive, then the U of C is your place.
"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

Caz Bombers

FDU Florham hired the head coach from Centenary (N.J.)

Ejay

Quote from: Caz Bombers on February 20, 2019, 02:29:27 PM
FDU Florham hired the head coach from Centenary (N.J.)

That's a good hire.  FDU has been an also-ran for many years and O'Connor did a nice job at Centenary which is a tough school to recruit to.  Interesting that he's only coaching though as he was also the Centenary AD. 

Flying Weasel

Didn't see this until now, but Matt Smith (the highly successful coach at Johns Hopkins from the mid-90's to mid-00's) was "relieved of his duties as head men's soccer coach" at Shenandoah after just two years.  That comes after he resigned as head coach at Alfred after three just years.  After what he accomplished at Hopkins, it's kind of peculiar the places he's coached since he decided to get back into D-III college soccer.

https://www.suhornets.com/sports/msoc/2018-19/releases/20181025k7krxc

Flying Weasel

https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2018-19/releases/20190319kylq6l

Chicago has hired former assistant (2014-2016) Pat Flinn who spent the past two years as an assistant at Division I Loyola University Chicago.

Domino1195

This from May 6 - local (NW Ohio) newspaper:

ONU hires interim men's soccer coach

ADA — Former Ohio Northern University All-American Chris Matejka has been named the interim head men's soccer coach at ONU.

Matejka has been an assistant coach for the Polar Bears for the past six seasons after graduating from Ohio Northern with a bachelor's degree in creative writing in 2013.

The Spencer, Ohio, native played in 96 games as a midfielder from 2009-12. He tallied 19 goals and 24 assists for 62 career points.

Ohio Northern has decided to make a leadership change and has ended its employment relationship with former head coach Brent Ridenour, who served in that role from 1998-2019

The Polar Bears have won eight OAC regular season championships and seven OAC Tournament titles.

A national search for ONU's next head men's soccer coach will begin immediately.

Gregory Sager

Big news at North Park today, as the successor to retiring AD Jack Surridge has been named. It's John Born, who currently serves as the head coach of the NPU men's soccer program and as an assistant professor in the North Park School of Business and Nonprofit Management, where he runs NPU's Sport Management curriculum and major.

He's going to hold a new position, assistant vice president of athletics and sport management, which will combine his current academic duties with that of the role of athletic director. I'm not sure if this a cabinet-level position or not, although the words "vice president" seem to indicate that, and there's nothing in the press release that indicates to whom he would answer in the organizational chart aside from NPU President Mary Surridge. Given that he will have additional responsibilities aside from running the athletic department, my guess is that more of the paperwork and game-management oversight will be taken on by the associate athletic directors.

The big question is who will run the NPU men's soccer program, which is by far the most successful program in the athletic department and the only one that's currently enjoying any national success. The obvious answer is that associate head coach Kris Grahn, a former CCIW Player of the Year and All-American, will take over the reins of the program from John. This would make sense, as John's clearly been grooming Kris to be his successor; Kris is heavily involved in every aspect of the program, particularly recruiting. The prowess of the program should continue unabated with Kris running it.
"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell