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Reply to "Head Coach Retention and the problem with Early Commitments"

@RJM posted:

Re D3 coaches who don’t win and keep their jobs …

It depends on the importance of winning in the athletic department. At a NESCAC before the current coach was hired the football coach and the baseball coach was the same person for years. Recruiting was mostly a matter of who showed up on campus who could play. Three wins was a successful football season. But, if you played hockey the coach had admission chits.

The head coach position at Harvard wasn’t funded by the athletic department until 2013. The coach hired in 2013 has a .428 win percentage. I don’t believe he’s in any danger of being fired.

“You may be beating us now. But you’ll be working for us later.”

Agreed.

IMHO, the community understands one size does not fit all.

Here are the annual changes by division

YearNCAA-D1NCAA-D2NCAA-D3NAIANJCAA-D1NJCAA-D2NJCAA-D3CCCAANWACNCCAAUSCAATotal Coaching Changes
2017333640291823126638214
2018361637251511139619178
20192126472728341874413229
202045344433182420134813256
202115102616142045212115
202239253428162924811414232
202344253025181766513180
Total23317225818312715897543822621404
# of Teams as of 202330525138620217214492882920321721
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