Word is that Kevin Conry is Michigan's next lacrosse coach
Collegecrosse.com is reporting that Michigan is about to hire Maryland Associate Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator Kevin Conry as the head Lacrosse Coach. (Ed Lee of the Baltimore Sun is claiming that his sources say no offer has been made yet, but we know Michigan tends to get things nailed down before the formal offer is made.)
If this holds up, its a great hire. Conry is highly regarded as the architect that took Maryland to 4 straight Final Fours before breaking through and winning it all this year. (Maryland's offense has been great for years.) Michigan clearly needed a defensive minded coach. It would not surprise me to see Conry retain current Offensive Coordinator Conor Ford. They were class/teammates at Hopkins, both graduating in 2004 (NCAA runner-ups their junior year - Hopkins would break through in 2005.)
Why spend time compiling multiple posts full of links to validate your point? I think your point is that the Michigan job is better than previous results might indicate it would be. Money, facilities, support from the University are there. People are not downvoting your point or posts. They are downvoting the consistently dickish way and tone you use to make them.
All I did was literally copy and paste tweets. How in the hell is that being "dickish."
This place is hilarious.
But you don't care what other people think about you!
Troll...
Question of the day: Does anyone find whining to be attractive? Just curious.
Dude, how is Michigan not an attractive job? What built-in advantages does it not have again?
This is not building a program from scratch - they went 8-6 this year and beat a decent Ivy League team. Michigan is the perfect spot to create long-term success. Of the other open jobs - Cornell, St. Bonaventure and Delaware - which school do you think gives you the best opportunity to build a powerhouse program? Michigan has advantages over all of them (Yes, Cornell is a blue blood but they've sucked lately). I'm even surprised Amplo turned it down. Do you think Marquette or Michigan offers you the best resources to win games and build a legacy?
You're assuming future failure based on lack of success in the past, which is exactly why they're getting a new coach. The hate is so strong with you and I don't get it.
It's not Michigan's success at football that makes it attractive - its the success of virtually the entire athletic department. That's why people are interested. They want to be a part of it and create another legendary program at Michigan. And there's the fact that Michigan is one of the finest universities in the world. Recruits will want to come here and we need a coach to capitalize on all this.
Of course Michigan is not a championship-caliber program now, hence, the need for a new coach. And as I've stated before, this isn't an entire re-build - the program is not in horrible shape. And slow down with all that Indiana talk - the program has been around for 6 years. Indiana has had football since 1887. (I even like the way Hoosier football has played the last few years and if they added a lacrosse team that would generate interest too).
You're overstating the importance of previous success and you're assuming no coaches would want to go against top competition. Marquette, Richmond and BU have done very well since coming up to Div 1 and they've been around as long as Michigan. What's the difference? They have great coaches.
Let me ask you something - if Michigan started a Div.1 table tennis program, or sumo wrestling or bull-fighting or whatever - don't you think the top coaches would be interested? Don't you think it would have the potential to be successful? YES- BECAUSE IT'S MICHIGAN!
Look at the number again.
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I, too, read that name with an extra o in it and thought we were getting batman
Had to look up fogo. Feel kinda stupid for not realizing what it was.
Sounds good to me
It is, in fact, Conroy
Would instantly fortify the squad with studs from DC and Baltimore. Great hire
I had heard something different on pay. Amplo is currently a top 5(ish) paid coach AND has some very highly paid assistants. I had heard we were willing to match on pay, but not total budget for the assistants. So head coach pay would have been at market, but weren't willing to go above market on assistants.
I'm not concerned by potential coaches turning them down. Many are established where they are and have families there. Getting a job that maybe pays another $20k wouldn't be enough to get many people to leave their families. This isn't football/basketball. Coaches stick around for a while and the pay isn't enough to get buy anyone you want.
From IL:
The news brings to an end a back-and-forth that has kept the "lacrosse rumor mill" humming about Michigan's head coaching search over the last 10 days. Last week, IL reported that Marquette coach Joe Amplo had advanced through the process and turned down an offer from the Wolverine athletic department.
Between Monday, June 12, and Tuesday, June 20, sources informed IL that Michigan athletics officials and Towson head coach Shawn Nadelen were engaged in extended negotations that ended with Nadelen notifying Michigan of his decision to forego the opportunity Tuesday a.m.
This guy said you were dead on.
What you posted RE Nads was also what I've heard.
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) June 21, 2017
This would be crazy - I grew up playing soccer and lacrosse with Conry. He's a good guy - always was a really smart player.
Conry and I were teammates on our town's first lacrosse team in 1992 when we were in 4th grade. In addition to Conry and another Hopkins guy, we had guys go on to play for Duke, Penn, Harvard and Ohio State and others - not bad. We never lost a game.
I'm curious if the new coach will update/involve the alumni like JP did, or try to make a total break from the club background. I loved going to the alumni games, even if we were just playing each other. His email updates were great reading material, and I've always looked forward to O'Leary's annual videos. Made me feel more invested as an alumnus/fan/donor.
I was wondering what was going on with Michigan's search. It had been pretty quiet and seemed to take much longer than I thought. Delaware went with Ben DeLuca and St. Bonnie's hired Canisius' head coach, Randy Mearns so Michigan is the last one to hire somebody.
In other news, Utah has added Division 1 lacrosse, starting in 2019. This is a big deal. They'll immediately have a big recruiting footprint in the west, especially in talent-rich California. It could also interest their Pac-12 brethren (+BYU) to think about it now. They'll be the westernmost team in Division 1.
There are weirdly a good number of D-1 players from Oregon, Washington State, Colorado and Nevada as well. So I imagine Utah will have a leg up on recruits from those areas.
They hired Brian Holman, an assistant from UNC, to take over the club program this year and he'll be their head coach at the NCAA level. But if they didn't have him lined up it would still be an intriguing job to a lot of coaches out there.
I'm almost glad Utah already had a coach becausethey would be in competition with Michigan for available candidates.
Looks like NCAA lacrosse is gaining a foothold in the west like NCAA hockey has always dreamed of doing