Jim O'Brien resigns from Fairfield U

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Princeton beat unc.......2 1. Your loss Fairfield

That is pretty amazing and unexpected

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That is pretty amazing and unexpected

Wow! UCONN better hire him ASAP. Maybe Princeton pays more?

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News flash. Any school or new coach that doesn’t honor the commitments will never get another recruit to come. ...

Oh, that's absolute tosh.

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News flash. Any school or new coach that doesn’t honor the commitments will never get another recruit to come. You have to think bigger picture. The new hire will get a 4 year contract and time to bring in their own players. For the first two years, they’ll need to win with the previous coach’s. That’s how it works.

That's absolutely not true. A new coach will lose no cred with future recruits if he dumps another coach's choices. However often the AD will block the new coach from dunping the senior commits.
However what is true is if a coach commits a kid and then the same coach takes another and pulls the scholarship offer at the nth hour, that is a problem for everyone not named Anson Dorrance.

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That's absolutely not true. A new coach will lose no cred with future recruits if he dumps another coach's choices. However often the AD will block the new coach from dunping the senior commits.
However what is true is if a coach commits a kid and then the same coach takes another and pulls the scholarship offer at the nth hour, that is a problem for everyone not named Anson Dorrance.

the AD will do no such thing- he just handed the keys to the car to the new coach- - do you honestly believe his first act will be to block his new hire- who would take that job
and why would the AD be so enamored with the recruits of a coach he just fired (presumably for lack of success)

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Junior recruits most likely play for well established clubs. And a coach would be foolish to jeopardize those club relationships, especially for a lower tier DI program. There will be a number of girls who self select out due to coaching change, and that will allow the new coach to bring in a few of his own. Sophomore girls should expect to be thrown into the general recruiting pool again.

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JO is a good family man. Coached my kid and cared about the girls and was a positive influence. Good luck to him and his family.

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Junior recruits most likely play for well established clubs. And a coach would be foolish to jeopardize those club relationships, especially for a lower tier DI program. There will be a number of girls who self select out due to coaching change, and that will allow the new coach to bring in a few of his own. Sophomore girls should expect to be thrown into the general recruiting pool again.

Totally agree. In the Northeast there are only a handful of committed 10th graders at this point. Those kids need to go back to the drawing board in this situation. With the coach being an unknown everything changes, there's just no need not be open minded. ECNL kids have Florida, Texas, Arizona and PDA. As Sophomores those are absolutely huge events. Going into them as "committed" player for coach that you don't know is a very tough call. For most D1 programs this is biggest recruiting window, why miss out on it over a shaky commitment to a MAAC school. Unless its a big time program, there's no upside to committing this early.

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It goes both ways. New coach may not want some or all of the commits; commits may not like the yet to be named new coach. Seniors are the ones in a very tough spot at this point. One would hope the school and coach would honor those commitments if they players still want to attend. But anyone past that would be at risk.

This is why you you don't want to burn any bridges when recruiting either- you may need to reach out layer on if something doesn't work out.

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the AD will do no such thing- he just handed the keys to the car to the new coach- - do you honestly believe his first act will be to block his new hire- who would take that job
and why would the AD be so enamored with the recruits of a coach he just fired (presumably for lack of success)

Ads care somewhat about girls soccer but many consider it dishonorable to take senior commits away.
I know its happened that ADs have locked in all even undocumented committments. look at the number of commits to Villanova. If mcLain could have dumped a bunch he would have no doubt. He did however appear to get a bunch of kids who fit his system and had fat 529s to jump on top of the previous coach's kids

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Ads care somewhat about girls soccer but many consider it dishonorable to take senior commits away.
I know its happened that ADs have locked in all even undocumented committments. look at the number of commits to Villanova. If mcLain could have dumped a bunch he would have no doubt. He did however appear to get a bunch of kids who fit his system and had fat 529s to jump on top of the previous coach's kids

he was a late hire december
no time to clear the decks- probs 50/50 this year and 100% his next and beyond
but thats why they give coaches 5 year deals

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Any Interviews yet ? Front Runner ?

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Heard from a source JN got an interview! Could this be true?

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Any Interviews yet ? Front Runner ?

JN in the lead.

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Heard from a source JN got an interview! Could this be true?

Yes, to keep JM from going elsewhere.