Marist Head Coach in name only

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What is wrong with the Marist coach letting her husband coach the team while she sits on the sideline and does nothing? Especially when her husband is a horrible coach. This is so unprofessional – where is Marist admin?

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I didn’t realize Marist was a team. When did that happen?

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I was at a game recently and I could not believe how fat that guy got. Man that he put on a lot of weight. And he’s a coach?

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What is wrong with the Marist coach letting her husband coach the team while she sits on the sideline and does nothing? Especially when her husband is a horrible coach. This is so unprofessional – where is Marist admin?

It is a pretty amazing situation. Marist bypasses a few quality candidates to hire a female coach and instead ends up with a volunteer coach (husband of the head coach) basically running the entire team. Head Coach does nothing and bascially makes no decisions. Meanwhile they also hire a female head coach with D1 experience and she's basically treated like an end of the bench player. No change she stays beyond this year. They have a huge roster littered with club players from a club they both draw paychecks from. If your kid is looking at this program, you should run very far. This place is putting the Captial D back in Dysfunctional. Far cry from the past coaching staff and shame on the Marist administration for allowing this situation. Volunteer coaches should be ordering team meals and dealing with equipment not running a team.

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Agree. Total clown show. It’s college so presumably parents are not complaining and definitely not parents of players not seeing the field. Very bad situation. Feel bad for the players recruited there, college goes quickly and this is not a situation most would willingly walk into.

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It is a pretty amazing situation. Marist bypasses a few quality candidates to hire a female coach and instead ends up with a volunteer coach (husband of the head coach) basically running the entire team. Head Coach does nothing and bascially makes no decisions. Meanwhile they also hire a female head coach with D1 experience and she's basically treated like an end of the bench player. No change she stays beyond this year. They have a huge roster littered with club players from a club they both draw paychecks from. If your kid is looking at this program, you should run very far. This place is putting the Captial D back in Dysfunctional. Far cry from the past coaching staff and shame on the Marist administration for allowing this situation. Volunteer coaches should be ordering team meals and dealing with equipment not running a team.

I have no inside info but this issue with schools rushing to hire unsuitable female or diversity candidates is growing. There are a few other schools in the NE that put in unqualified coaches and performances are quite poor. Then if you have a school or AD that doesn't really care much about performance - which happens at quite a few schools in lower conferences - then mediocre coaches can keep their jobs for a long time

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I have no inside info but this issue with schools rushing to hire unsuitable female or diversity candidates is growing. There are a few other schools in the NE that put in unqualified coaches and performances are quite poor. Then if you have a school or AD that doesn't really care much about performance - which happens at quite a few schools in lower conferences - then mediocre coaches can keep their jobs for a long time

I have no horse in this race but hiring a coach with zero college coaching experience seems pretty suspect to begin with.

In the case of Marist, they have female Head Coach and an Asst Coach and neither actually coach the team. It's the volunteer coach (not paid by Marist) that is coaching the team. Is this really what the AD hired?

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They should count their blessings. There is hardly any D1 level kids there. At best they are NESCAC starters. It’s just the way it is there.

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They should count their blessings. There is hardly any D1 level kids there. At best they are NESCAC starters. It’s just the way it is there.

What are they counting their blessings for? Top NESCAC shcools and D1 programs like Marist, Fairfield, CCSU, Sacred Heart, Manhattan etc are all somewhat interchangeable as far as soccer talent goes. None of these kids were turning down offers from ACC schools. No one is disputing that. Kids playing at mid major D1 programs and solid D3 programs were all excellent high school players and most have great club pedigree as well. I'm pretty sure that is not is what is being discussed here.

Marist hired a new female coach and also recruited an assistant from another MAAC school. Neither coach the team, the team is coached by the spouse of the "supposed head coach" and he's not even an employee of the college. Regardless of your opinion on the talent level of the players it is not a good situation for that school or the program.

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What are they counting their blessings for? Top NESCAC shcools and D1 programs like Marist, Fairfield, CCSU, Sacred Heart, Manhattan etc are all somewhat interchangeable as far as soccer talent goes. None of these kids were turning down offers from ACC schools. No one is disputing that. Kids playing at mid major D1 programs and solid D3 programs were all excellent high school players and most have great club pedigree as well. I'm pretty sure that is not is what is being discussed here.

Marist hired a new female coach and also recruited an assistant from another MAAC school. Neither coach the team, the team is coached by the spouse of the "supposed head coach" and he's not even an employee of the college. Regardless of your opinion on the talent level of the players it is not a good situation for that school or the program.

You really don’t know what a college coach does. I fell bad for you. You will always be frustrated and angry with trying to steer your daughter. Good night bubby!

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Not the poster you replied to but since you replied and seemingly have some insights, please enlighten us as to what a college coach does?

im following this thread as my kid “has/had” an interest in the school.

im an employer myself. So riddle me this…. I take a chance on young woman and offer her a job that is maybe a bit over her head. Should I expect that her husband comes as part of the package? What other services does he provide? Maybe some Car washes?

so are you saying that all college coaches have input from their spouse? How about Alabama football? Does Nick Saban’s wife make the line up?

Do you understand how utterly stupid this situation is?

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Not the poster you replied to but since you replied and seemingly have some insights, please enlighten us as to what a college coach does?

im following this thread as my kid “has/had” an interest in the school.

im an employer myself. So riddle me this…. I take a chance on young woman and offer her a job that is maybe a bit over her head. Should I expect that her husband comes as part of the package? What other services does he provide? Maybe some Car washes?

so are you saying that all college coaches have input from their spouse? How about Alabama football? Does Nick Saban’s wife make the line up?

Do you understand how utterly stupid this situation is?

I only understand how stupid this post is. My daughter is on the team And is one of the few 15 kids that are seeing a lot of field time.....I mean a Whole lot of playing time. Now the person involved that started this post definitely has a kid on the team that has not seen any field time. If you understand anything about soccer, it’s the game starts at 11 happy kids and everybody else is super pissed off including the parents. At Marist there’s over 30 kids on the roster. So now you have 2/3 of the team ,and 2/3 of the people watching the game hating the coach. Quit your crying and transfer.

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I only understand how stupid this post is. My daughter is on the team And is one of the few 15 kids that are seeing a lot of field time.....I mean a Whole lot of playing time. Now the person involved that started this post definitely has a kid on the team that has not seen any field time. If you understand anything about soccer, it’s the game starts at 11 happy kids and everybody else is super pissed off including the parents. At Marist there’s over 30 kids on the roster. So now you have 2/3 of the team ,and 2/3 of the people watching the game hating the coach. Quit your crying and transfer.

Nearly every school in the area has a huge roster. This isn't exclusive to Marist. Take time and do a 5 minute google search. I don't see playing time referenced anywhere. Collegiate soccer is buyer beware, those rosters are published and everyone should be eyes wide open going into the situation. I agree that players that don't see the field should probably consider a transfer if it is important to them.

As parent are you ok with a volunteer coach running the program? The prior coach had an equally large roster with basically the same numbers of players not seeing action and you didn't see this general misery in the program. Husband needs to go which was the original point of the program.

The victory here is that this issue gets out there and new recruits at least understand the dynamics.

PS. My kids plays, I didn't start the thread and she still hates the experience. The ones that have been around know how things can run so presumably your kid is a freshman.

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Nearly every school in the area has a huge roster. This isn't exclusive to Marist. Take time and do a 5 minute google search. I don't see playing time referenced anywhere. Collegiate soccer is buyer beware, those rosters are published and everyone should be eyes wide open going into the situation. I agree that players that don't see the field should probably consider a transfer if it is important to them.

As parent are you ok with a volunteer coach running the program? The prior coach had an equally large roster with basically the same numbers of players not seeing action and you didn't see this general misery in the program. Husband needs to go which was the original point of the program.

The victory here is that this issue gets out there and new recruits at least understand the dynamics.

PS. My kids plays, I didn't start the thread and she still hates the experience. The ones that have been around know how things can run so presumably your kid is a freshman.

And if the coach was not a volunteer you would still find a reason that the program hired the wrong person like , They never played pro, they are the wrong gender, they are too old/young. They have the wrong experience. They don't develop the players, they can't recruit, they recruit too many foreign players or too little foreign players. The think too American, they are too European. College soccer is different than pro soccer... blah blah blah..... If your kid was better at choosing a school and not stroking their ego they AND YOU would be A LOT happier.

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Nearly every school in the area has a huge roster. This isn't exclusive to Marist. Take time and do a 5 minute google search. I don't see playing time referenced anywhere. Collegiate soccer is buyer beware, those rosters are published and everyone should be eyes wide open going into the situation. I agree that players that don't see the field should probably consider a transfer if it is important to them.

As parent are you ok with a volunteer coach running the program? The prior coach had an equally large roster with basically the same numbers of players not seeing action and you didn't see this general misery in the program. Husband needs to go which was the original point of the program.

The victory here is that this issue gets out there and new recruits at least understand the dynamics.

PS. My kids plays, I didn't start the thread and she still hates the experience. The ones that have been around know how things can run so presumably your kid is a freshman.

Player data is available under the Statistics tab on almost every college website. Usually team stats pop up first then there is a page for players. It shows games played, starts, minutes, shots and goals. If you poke around you'll see many players get very few minutes. It's easy to see who the consistent starters are and subs with good minutes. Lots of college players are practice cones