OT Coen to Siena?

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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5036425

It's towards the end of the write up on a potential move in teh coaching carousel. I don't like other mid major programs coming in and plucking our top coaches from the CAA. The ramifications of losing long time head coaches at both NE and Hofstra would be pretty bad and potentially very harmful to the two programs. This hurts VCU as well since it could result in less potentially tough opponents in confrence and god know we don't need anymore of those. I wanted to get the general opinion of people here as to why you think these coaches are leaving. Is money the main issue? Prestige?
 
I agree only in that the coaches are moving not too high....one to bottom feeder Fordham of the A10 and then to sienna - yes, certainly a very strong team under Mccaffrey....but it is still sienna.

Doesn't say much about the desire to be a coach in the CAA....or perhaps it says something about the former AE teams in the CAA.

Now if the moves were to higher profile/higher ranked programs then that is a positive for the conference (although no one wants to lose a coach).
 
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Perhaps he has alumni ties? Closer to home? Fan of St. Bernards? New jobs don't always revolve around the issue of prestige.
 
It could be worse, they could be losing a Coach of the Year to Horizon powerhouse Wright St.
 
Pavarotti said:
It could be worse, they could be losing a Coach of the Year to Horizon powerhouse Wright St.
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This statement registered on the Seismograph all the way to S.E. North Carolina.
 
Coaching is no different than most other professions: salaries usually move in increments and not big jumps, unless unique circumstances. Northeastern and Hofstra [and coaches] have not shown unique circumstances in CAA [major impact and/or records, etc.], so salary movements seem logical by going to teams that give then a nice bump but not home runs. These coaches are just punching the clock with these moves, keeping their love for the game but just getting paid a little better...not even much better schools [athletically speaking; I think highly of both moves academically--but who cares? When was the last time you heard a coach say he was leaving because he found a school that lived up to his academic standards of excellence, ha!].

To me what this really reflects is not so much advancement by coaches from either of these two schools, but rather the on-going reality that coaches in the CAA just aren't compensated very highly, certainly no higher than one would be expected of a top 10-15 annual conference ranking.

Why don't our conference administrators AND ALUMNI try something unique: pay their men's bb coaches at a much higher salary and in return expect them to return on that investment--yes, pay them well and hold them accountable. Kind of out-of-step with today's welfare state and politically correct college envrionment that suggests all sports are socially equal, forget economic return. VCU, like all CAA schools, will be good at what it values and where it puts its priority.

We pay Shaka half of what we paid Grant yet we expect uninterrupted growth and more in return? What next, free seats at Stu, or perhaps healthcare for everyone? We can pretend all we want, but long-term we will get what we pay for. Sports are no different than life.
 
ESPN reporting Al Skinner is out at Boston College. Gotta think Coen is going to throw his name in for that one seeing as he was a long time BC assistant and recruited Jared Dudley among others there. Don't know if he's qualified enough at this point, but he certainly has plenty of ties from his time there.
 
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