Any chance Zeb Sion gets the position given his success with the throws athletes?
Do we really need a "Director of Track and Field"??? Ziggy, you know way more than I do about this kind of thing, but I've always been in favor of splitting the program again. Many of the successful programs are split.
It will be interesting to see what happens. I believe Coach Sion was named the athletic department assistant coach of the year in 2014 so he's been recognized as an up-and-comer by the university. Millar just didn't make it happen at Wake for whatever reason.
wakephan, If a head coach is a good administrator/leader then they can run a combined program. Part of the issue with our program is how much direct coaching the head coach needs to do versus the event coaches. While allowing the new head coach to following his/her vision of the future of the program, hopefully Dwight Lewis and Ron Wellman will be pretty hands-on with helping the head coach find the proper balance between the administrative and direct coaching roles.
If we get a real leader to head the program, I think we can make some gains on both the men's and women's sides (especially the women's with 18.6 scholarships)
Sure; I guess I've always just preferred split programs. And I wasn't around when Wake was split (but split by people that communicated properly).
I guess my really argument would be that if we we were hiring a "director of T&F", we should invest in a distance-minded person (which I guess Annie was supposed to be). The good money is in the distance program...
Any chance Zeb Sion gets the position given his success with the throws athletes?
Absolutely.
Whatever happens, I hope Sion stays. He's done a great job with the throwing events...........men and women.
I don't think there is any way he'll be offered the Director position, nor would he probably want it. Agreed with y'all, though, I hope we keep him.Any chance Zeb Sion gets the position given his success with the throws athletes?
Never was impressed with Millar. Turned off a couple of kids I know wanted to come to Wake and walk on and he told them not to bother. What did he have to lose? They went on and did very well at Davidson. Their times would have been competitive at Wake. Guy just seemed like a jerk.
I heard the exact same thing. He gave them a list of times that probably would warrant a Div 1 scholarship, and said if you can't do this, then don't bother walking on. I thought that was strange with limited scholarships for men's XC.