FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[wallyworld12]

Good morning friends, here from behind enemy lines in Greencastle, with an update on DePauw's coaching search. JMV, an Indianapolis sports radio personality, tweeted this morning "Bill Lynch returning to DePauw today?"

Not sure what our Dannies-in-residence on the boards have to say this morning, but this is what I've got.

Happy Holidays!

[smedindy]

I wonder if it's for negotiations,contract signing, or a smoke signal to Butler for more $$$??

[DPU3619]

I'm following closely today, as well.  I've made several calls, but have heard nothing concrete yet.  Standing by for news.

[D3_DPUFan]

Bill Lynch will be DePauw University's next head football coach. Great hire. Will be difference maker for football program and university. Props to President Casey for making the right call.

[ExTartanPlayer]

In partial response to the statement about not knowing how coaching searches are done...You might or might not be surprised to know that many schools conduct head coaching searches in the same way, or in about the same way, that they conduct faculty searches.  Institutional culture often demands that there be a comprehensive (read "national") search.  There is a search committee often consisting of (some variation of) players in that sport, coaches, faculty, sometimes others, with the AD taking the lead (but sometimes the Faculty Athletic Representative taking a central role) that has input on candidates, frequently (but not always) after the total list of applicants has been reduced by the AD or by a sub-set of the search committee.  After that, the process can go in several directions.   There can be telephone conversations, etc, but eventually the finalists (sometimes 1, and if he is not satisfactory, then another, or sometime 2 or 3) are invited to campus.  That's when the process becomes more public, and in some cases a coach finalist may get cold feet knowing that his candidacy will be known back home.   In a lot of cases the entire campus has the chance to meet the finalists--meetings with players, faculty and staff, the athletic department, the college's administrators, including the president.  Then there is a decision (the committee acting to recommend or actually nearly selecting, with the AD and president--in some combination-- having the final say.)

Adding two more cents to the equation...

As an outgoing senior (the semester before graduation - they didn't want any "returning players" involved for obvious reasons), I served as a player representative on two search committees - one to hire a strength coach who would work with all CMU sports, the other for a third full-time assistant football coach (beyond the coordinators).  My recollection: echoing the "national search" described above, we received a hundred-plus resumes for each position, the committee met once and quickly narrowed it down to about a dozen "realistic" candidates (people that actually met the minimum requirements such as previous college experience, appropriate NSCA certifications, etc).  We had a one-hour conference call with the top six or so candidates based on our committee discussion, and after some discussion brought three candidates to campus for in-person interviews (which were really full-day things - meeting with other coaches, meeting with AD, facilities tour, lunch with a few senior players to get their opinions, and other stuff). 

So, as sigma one says, despite the perception from the way Division I coaching hires are often handled...it's not a quick-trigger decision to just hire a dynamic young guy who's having some success at a steppingstone job down the road.  It's usually quite involved.

I know that head-coaching search may vary somewhat from the above, but still, worth noting.

[wallyworld12]

http://www.thedepauw.com/sports/back-for-more-1.2969103#.UNM6Ppg_Ebk

And it's official, DePauw University has hired Bill Lynch to be it's football coach. Great hire IMO.

[Li'l Giant]

Great hire for DePauw. In my opinion he was the best case scenario of the final four candidates. Let's hope for the sake of the rivalry that he and Coach Raeburn can duke it out for years to come.

[D3_DPUFan]

Great hire for DePauw. In my opinion he was the best case scenario of the final four candidates. Let's hope for the sake of the rivalry that he and Coach Raeburn can duke it out for years to come.

Amen.

[smedindy]

Great insight on coaching hires and the processes. I wonder if St. Thomas' hiring of Caruso was the exception (since it seemed he was definitely targeted by the Tommies and already next door to them at Macalester.

[bashbrother]

Great hire for DePauw. In my opinion he was the best case scenario of the final four candidates. Let's hope for the sake of the rivalry that he and Coach Raeburn can duke it out for years to come.

I hope the administration at Depauw is now interested in stability within their football program.   Time will tell in the support and attention they give it.   Time will definitely tell in their ability to climb back on the competitive football field.   There has been a bunch of damage done and that doesn't fix itself overnight, especially when talent is a big part of the issue.

We saw with OWU, that a coaching change definitely made an immediate impact.   But I submit, that the existing talent in place helped magnify their 2012 result to some degree.

Good Luck to Depauw is rebuilding it's proud program. 

[Pat Coleman]

Great insight on coaching hires and the processes. I wonder if St. Thomas' hiring of Caruso was the exception (since it seemed he was definitely targeted by the Tommies and already next door to them at Macalester.

I don't know about the details behind the process but there were other finalists named at the time Caruso was hired, including UWW offensive coordinator Jim Zebrowski:
http://www.d3football.com/notables/2008/tommies-hire-mac-coach

[smedindy]

I guess D-1 has jaundiced my view of searches. 

[grboob]

DePauw Search Committee Members,  Admin and Loyal Fans,

Congratulations from the Monmouth College fan base on selecting Bill Lynch as your new coach.  Hope you and he  are successful, especially in the upcoming  Mono Bowls.

We are joyful during the Christmas season to still have our favorite  coach, Steve Bell, with us to continue Monmouth's winning tradition in the MDC and the DIII playoffs.

A relieved Monmouth Illinois Fan

[smedindy]

Finally found the link to largest upsets in D-3 via Massey:

http://masseyratings.com/extgms.php?s=181623&sub=11620

Biggest upset is Albion over Wheaton, but Wabash was #2 and #3.

Oh, what could have been...

[sigma one]

Hope Wabash players post those upset numbers somewhere close to home--though I'm guessing they hardly need to be reminded.