Opinion corner: Grass not always greener
June 6, 2012 at 2:08 am in The Jamestown Sun
Calls or emails from coaches this time of year make me a little nervous.
Not in a negative way, but if a coach gets a new job and is going to leave, usually it’s sometime in the spring or early summer.
If I was an athletic director at a Division II or big-time NAIA college and needed a basketball, baseball, volleyball or any other kind of coach, I’d be sniffing around Jamestown College.
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Of course, Lickliter was paid $6 million for his three failed years at Iowa so what the heck do I know?
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That’s exactly the reason to make the jump if the offer is there. Even if they fail, or just don’t like it, they can always find a coaching job at a lower level school in a podunk town.
Lickliter set his family up for life by failing miserably for those three years. He made a brilliant move and it paid of handsomely.
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Big time sports is and always will be D1. NAIA and D2 are basically nothing more then also rans.
A few of the younger coaches might use these entities as stepping stones, but anyone who’s still coaching NAIA after age 35 or 40 is basically admitting the coaching world has passed them by.
For the successful coaches, it’s always going to be D1.
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