In the days after Columbia football completed the worst
season in Ivy League history, Columbia Athletic Director Dianne Murphy snapped into
action immediately… by firing Head Women’s Soccer Coach Kevin McCarthy.
Here we are two months after the season ended, and not only
is Head Coach Pete Mangurian still in place but so is his entire staff.
Are we supposed to believe that the most horrific season in
Ivy history doesn’t merit ANY change in coaching personnel? The lack of any
accountability at any level is shocking, even for this insular and defensive
group.
But perhaps it wouldn’t be fair to dismiss any of Mangurian’s
assistants considering the way he micromanages, or I should say micro-MIS-manages
this team.
Magurian, not the trainers or doctors, decides who is
injured and who is not.
Mangurian, not the position coaches, decides who plays and
who is lower down the depth chart.
And the list goes on.
If we go into spring practice with no coaching changes, the
endorsement of failure will be 100% complete.
8 comments:
The world looks upon us as losers because....?
Because our administration accepts it and makes no changes to fix it.
I see it in two possible ways; if any of you can think of others, chime in.
1) PM has sold the concept of a long range "plan", of which the past 2 seasons were expected, and that his real capability will be demonstrated in another year or two. 0-10 is the price of the strategy.
or 2) Any change to the coaching staff will be seen as "weakness" in the face of criticism, and the admin cannot be seen to cave in.
I think CU will have a decent yr this season with the great class theyre putting together combined with all the young players that saw significant time last yr.
I just don't understand how anyone can say we're putting together a great, good, or bad class right now. I see some players that look good on their highlight videos, some that do not and a lot of unknowns in between.
If any of the assistant coaches had better offers they would take it. It's hard to justify such bad numbers to a new employers though.
Also, Pete does not have a pipeline of referrals since he is not well regarded by coaching peers. He knows he won't get any better coaches through the help want ads either so what the hey, let's try it again boys, see if we can't get it right.
How can the man not be "well regarded" by his peers when he coached 20yrs in the NFL? And as far as assistants, its ALOT of hungry good young coaches that would LOVE a shot at coaching on the D1 level. How can you just dismiss all his coaches with the experience they have coaching at a even higher level? Because they had one 0-10 season? wasnt Princeton like 1-9 a yr or two ago with the same coaches?
1-9 last year for us would have been nice.
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