Emory

[backyarddawg]

Just saw this on Emory's website.  This has to be a top 5 job in D3.  Thank you Sonny and all the best at Coe?

http://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/msoc/2016-17/releases/20170814onrhe3

Who gets this job moving forward?

Anyone have any candidates they would recommend? 

[franklyspeaking]

Timing is not good, I am a bit surprised.

[Mr.Right]

Yea this is a strange move right before the season starts. Emory is a definite Top 10 job in D3 soccer and to leave to become an AD at a school in the middle of Iowa does not seem like a step up but I could be wrong. There has to be more to this story. Interestingly, Travis' son has been an assistant to Serpone at Amherst, not sure where/ if he played in college.

[Ron Boerger]

I know one thing he'll miss.

Endowments:
Coe College (IA) - $77.9M
Emory University (GA) - $6.4B

[Mr.Right]

Jeez...Coe is 1 financial crash away from bankruptcy and closure...I am trying to work a source or 2 but idk what happened here. Unless he has family from Iowa or has some background with this school. Some coaches want to be an administrator and get out of coaching. However, if you last that long in coaching usually you have a passion for coaching and retire as a coach not becoming an AD at a small school and dealing with all the headaches that AD's have..Also, the timing si extremely peculiar so close to the season.

[1970s NESCAC Player]

Jeez...Coe is 1 financial crash away from bankruptcy and closure...I am trying to work a source or 2 but idk what happened here. Unless he has family from Iowa or has some background with this school. Some coaches want to be an administrator and get out of coaching. However, if you last that long in coaching usually you have a passion for coaching and retire as a coach not becoming an AD at a small school and dealing with all the headaches that AD's have..Also, the timing si extremely peculiar so close to the season.

I have confidence that you will be able to get to the bottom of this Mr. Right!

[Falconer]

Jeez...Coe is 1 financial crash away from bankruptcy and closure.

I don't see any justification for this statement. Coe's endowment is (for example) slightly higher than that of Elizabethtown College, which has roughly 300 more students, and no one is saying that Etown is 1 financial crash away from closure. Indeed, the value of the endowment per capita is actually greater at Coe than at Etown.

To be sure, Emory's per capita endowment is much greater than Coe's, thanks to legacy gifts of Coca Cola stock (an Atlanta company) and such things many years ago. At the same time, Emory is a very large place academically, and it has a lot of pieces that are very expensive to operate, including a law school and a medical school. If they are anything like similar places (Johns Hopkins, Wash U, etc), then the undergraduate college (including athletics) is very much the poor sister to the rest of the institution. The very large part of their endowment earnings, almost certainly, goes to supporting the other pieces--and to funding the many endowed professorships in the arts & sciences. So, the comparison between Coe and Emory is not even apples to oranges, it's more like apples to automobiles.

A further comparison: the endowment at Messiah is 130 million, but their enrollment is much larger than Etown or Coe, such that per capita it's not too much larger. And if Messiah's about to close, it's news to everyone in this region.

[Mr.Right]

An endowment under $100 million is ok at best. Your hands are tied at attracting students with new facilities and dorms. With so many parents struggling these days with finances they would rather send their kid to a public university for far cheaper than that of a mid level liberal arts school with a low endowment and no facility upgrades in 20-30 years for a much higher price. I predict alot of these mid level liberal art schools will be in big trouble attracting students in the next 10-15 years.