There’s no reason to hire a different coach for men’s vs women's. It’s proven you can win by having 1 coach for both. It works for some programs, and for others having 2 different coaches works, although having 2 different coaches for men’s and women’s is dying. More and more programs are doing 1 coach for both. UGA women won the NC this year in women’s and their men finished 45th yet Caryl Smith-Gilbert is the HC for both. A&M men have been better than their women the last decade or so as their women haven’t won an outdoor NC since 2014 and Henry coaches both.
The blue bloods in indoor are LSU (w) and Arkansas (m)
The blue bloods in outdoor are LSU (w) and USC/Arkansas (m)
I’m not sure when Henry is going to hang it up (he’s 73) but A&M could cement itself as a modern blue bloods in track with a few more titles. What he’s done there is crazy amazing.
There’s a direct correlation to the rise of A&M with Henry and our semi-suckage, although I’d ague we were underwhelming and underperforming when Bubba was the HC because he only cared about specialty events. Texas rarely had sprinters. After sleeping on it, I am going to backtrack on my previous post about Flo. what Flo has done since he arrived has been great. This just happened to be one of those years.
A snapshot in time of almost losing a director’s cup that is awesome to win but nobody cares about shouldn’t be the leading thought as to why a successful coach should be fired.