FB: Midwest Conference

SNCOLDAD · December 03, 2010, 06:27:12 PM

Wow. I guess I better go check out the other conference boards and see what is going on. I have NO DOUBT that UWW fans are making it more than knee deep. ( I guess they have earned the right to) Just came in and no snow yet. May do a post later tonight if it starts.

SNCOLDAD · December 04, 2010, 10:42:11 AM

I would say we have about 4 inches of snow 15 miles west of NCC. And is it HEAVY stuff!!!

Footballfan99 · December 06, 2010, 07:51:03 PM

Rumor today coming from Waukesha, WI is that Henny Hiemenz the head coach of Carroll Pioneers was either asked to step down as coach or be fired. He supposedly tendered his resignation after 5 years of being the head coach. He did have two teams in his 5 years at the helm that did post a 7 and 3 record. Obviously there is probably more to it than this, but that is what I was told.

SNCOLDAD · December 06, 2010, 10:01:25 PM

Interesting. I guess when you have Beloit, Grinnell and IC passing you by it makes it tough on a coach.

Footballfan99 · December 06, 2010, 10:23:28 PM

I would say Carroll has been in the upper part of the conference the last 5 to 6 years, but has not gotten over that hump of beating one the of the upper teams. Always brought teams to the brink of upsets but unable to finish. I thought Coach Hiemenz did a decent job over his 5 years at head coach, but he has been a coach at Carroll for almost a decade. I wish him the best in the future, and heres to hoping Carroll rights the ship and gets back to competing for a Conference Championship soon!!

SNCOLDAD · December 06, 2010, 10:30:13 PM

Well I wish him well also. He seemed to have his team prepared for us most of the time. Last year was a very interesting game. This year was a little different than most though. Where did you hear about this?

Footballfan99 · December 06, 2010, 10:40:12 PM

I'm sure in the next few days it will be posted on Carroll's website, but I have heard from players now and who just graduated that he was asked to submit his resignation or be fired. No specific reason has come up, but I'm sure a few things will surface once the dust clears.

scottie · December 07, 2010, 09:33:29 AM

Taking the Good Guys to overtime in Week 9 should have been worth a contract extension. I wonder if this was due to "an unspecified violation of team rules."

carrollu62 · December 07, 2010, 10:53:59 AM

hot off the press from waukesha http://athletics.carrollu.edu/news/detail.asp?newsid=3195&teamid=368
I am gonna take it as 7-3 not enough twice in a decade. Hopefully the d coordinator goes from interim to full time.

The Roop · December 07, 2010, 12:12:33 PM

I'm waiting for hickory_cornhusker to chime in on this one.

hickory_cornhusker · December 07, 2010, 04:51:03 PM

I didn't see this one coming at all. Not going to school there has taken me out of the loop quite a bit. I was on campus yesterday but didn't hear anything about it. Granted I never did ask but when you haven't been there for a couple of months how can you ask "Did anyone get fired/resign recently?" I walked past his office and the door was closed but I didn't think anything of it. He'd sometimes be in the film room or around campus or maybe took the day off.

I have noticed there has been a lot of turnover in coaching at Carroll in recent years. In just the last 24 months they've gotten new head coaches in men's basketball, softball, baseball, volleyball, women's tennis (Craig Mours was the men's tennis coach and took over women's also when Al Preufer stepped down), football and women's soccer. The last two currently have interim coaches. That's 7 of 20. I don't have any information on the cause. The school itself is going through a lot of changes with enrollment growing, the second new resident in 4 years is being built, the general education requirements is being overhauled.

I'd love to know more on the situation, not that I've always come forward on this board with what I knew, but this time I don't have any answers.

The Roop · December 07, 2010, 11:13:19 PM

You can't disclose everything people tell you or they stop telling you things. That's the first rule of networking.

Footballfan99 · December 07, 2010, 11:29:30 PM

Hickory being an alum of the school myself, I can tell you that the end of the year meetings and evaluations had a big part to do with Henny stepping down as head coach of the program. Meetings were held with the AD to discuss certain things with players and coaches alike, but it came down to certain issues I'm sure consistency with winning was one of them. Coach Mark Krzykowski has taken over on an interim basis, but I'm sure many current and past players would like to see Coach K get the nod as the new head coach. It says Henny had resigned, but took another position within the school not sure if that is an expanded role as a teacher or not.

The Roop · December 07, 2010, 11:46:12 PM

Carroll isn't exactly in the best part of town. So my guess is off campus issues are involved somehow.

Footballfan99 · December 07, 2010, 11:49:00 PM

Roop, not sure what you mean by that statement by the school being in the best part of town, but I doubt off campus issues had anything to do with Coach Henny stepping down as coach. Where Carroll is located in Waukesha is a pretty nice part of town, not sure if you are from the area or not.