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Post by underthenet on May 24, 2023 12:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by volleyplayer2303 on May 24, 2023 13:25:29 GMT -5
Has anyone heard any word on the Denver situation? Their 2023 Roster has 11 players. One just committed to Iowa, one is in the portal.. 4 DS's, 1 middle, 0 Setters currently on their roster... Report day in under 11 weeks now! Have to be losing good candidates due to the timing and them not wanting to deal with the dumpster fire..? Also no pre-season schedule, just the Summit League schedule. Word is they are getting closer, but still probably at least a week or two at a min from making any sort of decision or announcement. For their sake, I hope it's on the first half of June as the staff will have to hit the ground running to snap up any 24's and organize quickly for 25's. Not to mention patch together a full team for the fall. Going to be tough out of the gate for sure. I have heard of one very qualified and eager candidate (mango) they don't seem very interested in from the sounds of it. I am not sure what direction they are going to go.
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Post by karellen on May 24, 2023 13:28:05 GMT -5
Good luck and god speed, Mike. That job is going to be tough. Do not know if it is still true, but in the past coach had to fundraise entire scholarship budget
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Post by silverlining on May 24, 2023 14:04:53 GMT -5
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Post by hangonsloopy on May 24, 2023 14:22:06 GMT -5
Well that didn’t take long. Denver can learn a thing or two from ULM.
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Post by karellen on May 24, 2023 16:41:52 GMT -5
Only took a little over 5 months...congrats
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Post by n00b on May 24, 2023 17:06:09 GMT -5
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Post by tommyboy on May 24, 2023 18:01:17 GMT -5
Seems like a fairly good hire considering the path they took.
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Post by Winbabywin on May 24, 2023 18:46:25 GMT -5
You can start in the winter semester
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Post by volleydad323 on May 25, 2023 0:03:32 GMT -5
Word is they are getting closer, but still probably at least a week or two at a min from making any sort of decision or announcement. For their sake, I hope it's on the first half of June as the staff will have to hit the ground running to snap up any 24's and organize quickly for 25's. Not to mention patch together a full team for the fall. Going to be tough out of the gate for sure. I have heard of one very qualified and eager candidate (mango) they don't seem very interested in from the sounds of it. I am not sure what direction they are going to go. Wait, who’s not interested.. the mango? (Did I do that right?) or Denver in that Coach?
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Post by volleytips101 on May 25, 2023 10:04:45 GMT -5
I have heard of one very qualified and eager candidate (mango) they don't seem very interested in from the sounds of it. I am not sure what direction they are going to go. Wait, who’s not interested.. the mango? (Did I do that right?) or Denver in that Coach? I would imagine with their roster situation and budget cuts that they will have a lot of sitting coaches wondering if struggling for a year in the Summit League is worth it. Denver has done this to themselves. They could have easily had someone in place by now.
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Post by Phaedrus on May 25, 2023 10:11:50 GMT -5
Only took a little over 5 months...congrats No disrespect to Matt Kearns, all disrespect to ULM. How long before they are in the market for another sacrificial lamb?
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Post by underthenet on May 25, 2023 11:44:28 GMT -5
Only took a little over 5 months...congrats No disrespect to Matt Kearns, all disrespect to ULM. How long before they are in the market for another sacrificial lamb? We'll set the line at 2.5 seasons.
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Post by volleyballislyf on May 25, 2023 12:19:48 GMT -5
Wait, who’s not interested.. the mango? (Did I do that right?) or Denver in that Coach? I would imagine with their roster situation and budget cuts that they will have a lot of sitting coaches wondering if struggling for a year in the Summit League is worth it. Denver has done this to themselves. They could have easily had someone in place by now. So while I totally agree that Denver's hiring approach is completely ridiculous, I think it's not exactly fair to assume they will struggle for a year. They have 10 really good players on their roster now and are a couple setters and a middle (or two) away from a decent, albeit pretty inexperienced, team. With a good leader and coaching staff that's eager to get to work and put things together they could surprise people. They've dealt with a lot of adversity already this year and seem to be a pretty resilient and close group from what I saw of them this spring.
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Post by karellen on May 25, 2023 14:54:58 GMT -5
Long open DII Glenville State is reaching out to another group of potential candidates.
Lake Land College (DI JuCo, Illinois) is scheduling interviews for next week.
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