Former Rutgers assistant lacrosse coach has been an assistant at Florida for a few years. The Gators have won six straight conference championships. Just beat Cincy for this years title. They have been to the NCAA tournament every year since 2011. Florida has recruits from up and down the East Coast with four New Jersey players on the current roster. She graduated from Loyola and has played pro lacrosse. She is young,but I wonder if Pat Hobbs has reached out to Florida to see if she has interest in being a Head Coach back at RU. Anyone know if she is a possibility?
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Nuts do you think we are looking at a top New Jersey high school coach, a head coach at a minor school who has some experience at a major school, a head coach at a major school, or an assistant at a major school? Any thoughts are which way you think Hobbs is leaning? Can we assume he has been thinking about this for a few months?
Jesus dude ...lol...here’s the person we should go after AND land:
https://stonybrookathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=825&path=wlax
https://stonybrookathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=825&path=wlax
Wait you want us to have Jesus coach the team ? I think the football program needs him more.
Why not the Florida Head Coach & Assistant as a package.
https://floridagators.com/coaches.aspx?rc=984
https://floridagators.com/coaches.aspx?rc=985
https://floridagators.com/coaches.aspx?rc=984
https://floridagators.com/coaches.aspx?rc=985
Nuts you probably know a thousand times more than I do about girls lacrosse but almost that whole team is from New York or Arizona. Does he have any ties with NJ high school coaches or is NY better for girls lacrosse than New Jersey? I guess he could always bring in NJ assistants.
Onthebanks I am a huge Rutgers fan who rarely takes off his scarlet glasses but my nephew goes to UF and I can’t see any Gator head coach leaving there for any sport.
Ego. Not talking SEC. It's Big East vs B1G. Coaches have Northeast ties.
Onthebanks I would love to see it, but I just can’t see someone doing that unless we just went insane with money which of course we never do for any coach. Florida plays in the American conference for now, but apparently there has been talk of starting programs at other SEC schools and for many of the schools a lacrosse program would be like a drop in the bucket.
Also, the Florida head coach has been their only head coach. This is her baby from day one in 2010.
I just spotted that change from Big East to AAC after I posted it. Still worth a shot with the new facilities being built for lacrosse and soccer.
Thats the first person Hobbs better call about the job opening. Pike probably knows him well and coaching in the B1G > coaching in the AE.
I’d like to think with our B1G $$$ increasing each year we should be able to make a decent move, no? Unfortunately Spillina (Stiny Brook) is just finishing year 2 of a 5-year deal.
https://stonybrookathletics.com/new...-new-five-year-contract-for-joe-spallina.aspx
I don’t know. Syracuse pays their coach something like $800K. We aren’t doing that full share or not.
What do the other budgets around the program look like?
Why are Earth are you asking me this question? With your insider access you should be able to get this info, right?
Cali,was that a typo ? Is it really $800,000 ? I think that is more than we paid Flood. Of course, we did over pay him looking back.
It was $700k in 2015 and it’s Gary Gait...creator of “Air Gait” (no longer allowed (really stupid if you ask me)...and a ‘Cuse/USA lacrosse legend. They’d give him $2n/year if he asked. Also a Canadian.
and the fact that Pike Daughter plays lacrosse may also be an indicator
You post as if you know everything about every sport. I’d figure you’d know this mundane stuff.
Why not? Plus he gets to coach in the B1G, right? Plus I never said he would but, IMHO, it would be a slam dunk hire for us so I’m betting heavy that we’ve either reached out already or soon will be. Agree?
Spallina is as Long Island as it gets. The only reason a guy like that leaves is if the money and support are too good to pass up.
So is it, is the question.
So is it, is the question.
For perspective, Florida Head Coach made this year 150 k base/ 175 k with incentives.
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20190323/university-of-florida-quietly-raises-pay-for-coaches
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20190323/university-of-florida-quietly-raises-pay-for-coaches
And their Women's BB coach made $508K. What does our WBB coach make? What would her replacement make if she doesn't return?
I suspect around the same as Florida, saving us a ton of $.
Listen I would love to get a person like Spallina but he has be (as Cali said) on LI his whole life. SB has built him pretty nice facilities.
You mean this?
Highlighting the outdoor facilities is the $22 million, 8,200-seat Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. The stadium is the home to the Stony Brook football, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s lacrosse teams. This state-of-the-art facility is the largest outdoor facility in Suffolk County, and has quickly become the venue for some of Long Island’s most exciting sports events.
https://stonybrookathletics.com/sports/2016/8/25/facilities-ston-10-lavalle-html.aspx
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- Coaches' office for Football, Men's and Women's Lacrosse
- Men and Women Coaches' Locker room(s)
- Athletic Training room located downstairs in the South Building
- Locker rooms located downstairs of the stadium for Football, M & W Lacrosse Teams"