ISU Softball coach Jamie Trachsel to Minnesota
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Did a Google search on this as I wondered what happened as well. He resigned from Arkansas and it sounds like it was because they weren't going to renew his contract. Even though he made the NCAA tournament his last 2 years there he only had 1 season with a winning record while he was their head coach so guessing they were looking for more success.
2005 (Arkansas) ... 19-43 (4-25 SEC)
2006 (Arkansas) ... 26-35 (10-19 SEC) (SEC tournament)
2007 (Arkansas) ... 21-43 (6-22 SEC)
2008 (Arkansas) ... 37-29 (8-20 SEC) (NCAA tournament)
2009 (Arkansas) ... 27-29 (10-16 SEC) (NCAA tournament)
Record at Arkansas: 130-179
JFC, hire the best person you can find for the job. You don't have to be a woman to be a head coach of a women's team. I have my doubts that UCONN is in any hurry to get rid of Geno.
ISU is doing nothing but losing money, pretty much on all sports except for FB and MBB. Fill the job with someone competent, hope they win at .500 and don't worry about it.
Well JFC - how do you know Pinkerton was the "best person they could find?" You don't.
Well who the f*ck do you suggest? Send a letter to JP if your so worried about the hire.
JFC calm down. Its a valid discussion topic. And pretty all schools lose money on everything but MBB and FB.
The SEC is a pretty dang tough softball conference to play in.
For example, UGA finished dead last in the conference at 6-18 this season and didn't even make the cut for SEC tournament.
They did make the NCAA tournament field, however.
And the person who hired him was a woman - guess like she felt he was the right person for the job.
Iowa State softball hasn't had a male head coach since 1977.
They haven't had a winning record since 1998.
I'm not saying there's a coincidence, but I do know for a fact our athletic department, from talking to those who work within, has made a conscious effort to hire female head coaches for softball, even if it means turning down a male with a better resume.
Jamie Pinkerton coached at Arkansas and has been a head coach for a Power 5 conference team that has gone to the postseason. He has been an assistant coach for team USA.
So anyone who is against this hire because he has a penis probably needs to set their priorities straight. I can promise you no one has a better resume than him. Not Jamie Trachsel, not Stacy G-C.
They haven't had a winning record since 1998.
I'm not saying there's a coincidence, but I do know for a fact our athletic department, from talking to those who work within, has made a conscious effort to hire female head coaches for softball, even if it means turning down a male with a better resume.
Jamie Pinkerton coached at Arkansas and has been a head coach for a Power 5 conference team that has gone to the postseason. He has been an assistant coach for team USA.
So anyone who is against this hire because he has a penis probably needs to set their priorities straight. I can promise you no one has a better resume than him. Not Jamie Trachsel, not Stacy G-C.
Well then you better tell our own Christy Johnson-Lynch she "needs to set her priorities straight;" she has been very outspoken about the lack of female college head volleyball coaches.
Also, when ISU's female women's gymnastics coach left for OU, we hired a male coach to take over, and things have plummeted. I can play that game too.
Again, I'm not going to make it a sex thing. Christy Johnson-Lynch has done a phenomenal job as the head coach for volleyball.
The point I'm trying to make is that softball has done its fair share of having female head coaches. I don't think that because one has a wiener, they should be eliminated from coaching a girls sport.
Honestly, I don't know anything about gymnastics. I do know that Iowa State softball has gone 40 years since having a male coach. It isn't like our department is anti-women coaching women sports.
I don't care what sex our head coach is. I just want our girls to have success. There's room for upper movement in our conference, and college softball especially is a sport where you can quickly transform a roster if you know what you're doing. I would love for our softball team to make the tournament.
This is a great change for us in my view. Trachsel appeared to be on track but I see no reason Pinkerton can't take it up another notch based on his recent track record. We had three freshmen playing the infield this year and Sami WIlliams is going to be a star. Plus we have the top JC player, Nearad, (2 years in a row!!!) transferring in. Obviously it's all conjecture at this point but this seems to be going in the right direction, IMO.
It's only a valid discussion topic if there is legitimate proof that ISU turned down a better-qualified woman to hire a man. If there is no proof of that, then it is just PC ******** and/or somebody trying to incite suspicion and distrust where none is warranted.
And now we have the control freaks deciding what are "valid discussion topics" and what are not. That's great...
And apparently it is a "valid discussion topic" to Christy Johnson Lynch, who has openly questioned the lack of female head coaches in volleyball. But hey, what does she know?
What does CJL and the hiring of female volleyball coaches at other schools have to do with the hiring of a male softball coach?
Your hatred for anything related to male coaches at ISU who coach women's sports is pathetic.
