Women's Lacrosse Kayla Treanor to Penn State!

[SURules]

If Carolina wins on Sunday, it wouldn’t be shocking if they take 3 of next four. They are ridiculously loaded with young talent with more to come.

They are loaded with phenomenal freshman!!

 

[CoopSwoop]

That's messed up. Way to throw away a career.

She's already moved on and collecting a paycheck.

 

[outoftownie]

So who are the names yall are hearing for the job?

Real Candidates
- Regy Thorpe
- Michelle Tumulo
- Caitlin Defelise Watkins

Possible Candidates (with asterisks)
- Katrina Dowd
- Joe Spallina (he would love to be a candidate, just ask him)
- Katie Rowan Thompson

Unlikely Candidates
- Erica LaGrow Bamford
- Danielle Spenser
- Charlotte North
- Sam Apuzzo
- Riley Donahue

 

[UrbanaOrange]

Real Candidates
- Regy Thorpe
- Michelle Tumulo
- Caitlin Defelise Watkins

Possible Candidates (with asterisks)
- Katrina Dowd
- Joe Spallina (he would love to be a candidate, just ask him)
- Katie Rowan Thompson

Unlikely Candidates
- Erica LaGrow Bamford
- Danielle Spenser
- Charlotte North
- Sam Apuzzo
- Riley Donahue

That is a good/comprehensive list my friend!

 

[swish7]

Crazy BC / Northwestern game. NW was don 7-11 & has fought back to take the lead. Would love to hire a coach from this coaching tree.

 

[Cuse4455]

Real Candidates
- Regy Thorpe
- Michelle Tumulo
- Caitlin Defelise Watkins

Possible Candidates (with asterisks)
- Katrina Dowd
- Joe Spallina (he would love to be a candidate, just ask him)
- Katie Rowan Thompson

Unlikely Candidates
- Erica LaGrow Bamford
- Danielle Spenser
- Charlotte North
- Sam Apuzzo
- Riley Donahue

Yikes...

 

[RoofBeam]

I heard a while ago it was likely Michelle's job if she wants it (see the post "K-train off the tracks" Women's Lacrosse - SU vs Stanford (10-15): Wed Apr 23, 8 PM [ACCT Qtrs] she and her female partner have a young child and she has established herself at Army and I think her partner might work in NYC (not sure about that) so there might be practical issues that would prevent her from taking the job even if she wants it. She might be the consensus among the alumnae- seems like that was the case several weeks ago but things can change rapidly and Wildhack might have his own ideas

 

[OrangeXtreme]

We need a coach with three names...

Franny Dart-Brown.

 

[SURules]

Real Candidates
- Regy Thorpe
- Michelle Tumulo
- Caitlin Defelise Watkins

Possible Candidates (with asterisks)
- Katrina Dowd
- Joe Spallina (he would love to be a candidate, just ask him)
- Katie Rowan Thompson

Unlikely Candidates
- Erica LaGrow Bamford
- Danielle Spenser
- Charlotte North
- Sam Apuzzo
- Riley Donahue

Who can get us to the promise land? That is the only thing that matters.

 

[Cuse4455]

I'm just sick of Alum/past cuse coach hires, Tumolo is up there for me tho. She has done really well at Army. But can she do it at a big time program.

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Spallina would be an absolute home run hire.

 

[SURules]

Spallina would be an absolute home run hire.

He’s as good or better than anyone else on that list.

 

[SURules]

I'm just sick of Alum/past cuse coach hires, Tumolo is up there for me tho. She has done really well at Army. But can she do it at a big time program.

Going from Army to beating UNC, NW, and BC is a very big jump. She went 13-4 this year but not against top level competition.

With Joe S., we know exactly what we are getting and has been a HC for a long time.

Also, Florida was absolutely blown out today by UNC and it wasn’t even remotely close.

If it was up to me, I would go with Joe S as I want someone who has run a solid program for a long time. I’m done with learning on the job for a while after the last run.

 

[SULAXAHOLIC]

He’s as good or better than anyone else on that list.

He’s never been to a final four even with multiple Tewarrton candidates good coach but not as proven as you would think

 

[outoftownie]

Going from Army to beating UNC, NW, and BC is a very big jump. She went 13-4 this year but not against top level competition.

With Joe S., we know exactly what we are getting and has been a HC for a long time.

Also, Florida was absolutely blown out today by UNC and it wasn’t even remotely close.

If it was up to me, I would go with Joe S as I want someone who has run a solid program for a long time. I’m done with learning on the job for a while after the last run.

The jump from Wagner to Army was pretty big too and now army is a top 16-20 team. Pretty good for a program that didn’t exist 10 years ago.

To play devils advocate, joe spallina hasn’t beaten those teams either and his level of competition is pretty much equivalent to army. I would say the patriot league is better than whatever leagues stony brook competes in previously or currently. He may be in the mix, but his behavior towards Syracuse staff both publicly and privately in the past couple years won’t do him any favors.

 

[SURules]

The jump from Wagner to Army was pretty big too and now army is a top 16-20 team. Pretty good for a program that didn’t exist 10 years ago.

To play devils advocate, joe spallina hasn’t beaten those teams either and his level of competition is pretty much equivalent to army. I would say the patriot league is better than whatever leagues stony brook competes in previously or currently. He may be in the mix, but his behavior towards Syracuse staff both publicly and privately in the past couple years won’t do him any favors.

I hear you on Joe S.. We’ll see where this goes but I just want to win, go to final fours, and be respectable again. Right now we are a long ways from that,

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

He’s never been to a final four even with multiple Tewarrton candidates good coach but not as proven as you would think

Does he get no credit for helping them become Tewaaraton candidates? Weren’t one or two pretty underrated recruits?

 

[im4cuse]

He’s far more accomplished than anyone on the list. Maybe a couple of his top players would join him. Of course getting his daughter back would be a game changer

 

[Whitey23]

Spallina just feels like there’s too much going on for it to come together.

He’s an outspoken guy, he got in a fight with the administration last year, Joey almost left and his daughter decommitted…

 

[outoftownie]

I hear you on Joe S.. We’ll see where this goes but I just want to win, go to final fours, and be respectable again. Right now we are a long ways from that,

I’ll disagree, we aren’t that far off from being back in the final four and respect will take a significant uptick no matter who is hired. Well almost no matter who is hired. There are a couple outliers that wouldn’t be super helpful. As long as the hire is strong and the previous coach doesn’t take key players, they should be back in final four contention almost immediately. A lot of teams not named UNC lose a lot of talent this year. There will be spots up for grabs in final four next year.

 

[SURules]

I’ll disagree, we aren’t that far off from being back in the final four and respect will take a significant uptick no matter who is hired. Well almost no matter who is hired. There are a couple outliers that wouldn’t be super helpful. As long as the hire is strong and the previous coach doesn’t take key players, they should be back in final four contention almost immediately. A lot of teams not named UNC lose a lot of talent this year. There will be spots up for grabs in final four next year.

I hope you are right. Getting beat by BC 2-17 is a low spot in the programs history. UNC will clearly be a force for the next few years.

 

[illestcuse]

I'm just sick of Alum/past cuse coach hires, Tumolo is up there for me tho. She has done really well at Army. But can she do it at a big time program.

this boards obsession with alum hires is so strange to me lol. the best coach should be picked and that is without a doubt Spallina! the dude could absolutely out-coach Jenny Levy and AW-W, especially if he starts winning the recruiting battles and getting the top talent. If Joe had the athletes/roster that Kayla had, there's no question in my mind that he would be able to get more out of them then whatever mess we had to watch this year.

If Joe is actually still interested, as someone on here has stated, I really don't even know what the big debate here is. This should be a no brainer for Wildhack. Spallina is a proven winner, has won everywhere he has coached, at multiple levels, probably the best x's and o's coach in wlax, lives and breathes lacrosse, etc. Keep it simple, let's not mess this up for a second time.

The fact that people think Regy should be the next coach, why? just, why? He's never been a head coach at the D1 level. When he was here coaching with Gary, their defense was always the weakest link, which was why he was let go and moved onto the NLL where he was a head coach and failed miserably. Fired after the first year. No thanks!

No offense to the other 'cuse alum's Rowan-Thompson and Tumolo, but I'd much rather have Katrina Dowd over them as my #2 after Spallina.

 

[SULAXAHOLIC]

I hope you are right. Getting beat by BC 2-17 is a low spot in the programs history. UNC will clearly be a force for the next few years.

SU beat UNC 20-5 last year look where they are now

 

[SULAXAHOLIC]

this boards obsession with alum hires is so strange to me lol. the best coach should be picked and that is without a doubt Spallina! the dude could absolutely out-coach Jenny Levy and AW-W, especially if he starts winning the recruiting battles and getting the top talent. If Joe had the athletes/roster that Kayla had, there's no question in my mind that he would be able to get more out of them then whatever mess we had to watch this year.

If Joe is actually still interested, as someone on here has stated, I really don't even know what the big debate here is. This should be a no brainer for Wildhack. Spallina is a proven winner, has won everywhere he has coached, at multiple levels, probably the best x's and o's coach in wlax, lives and breathes lacrosse, etc. Keep it simple, let's not mess this up for a second time.

The fact that people think Regy should be the next coach, why? just, why? He's never been a head coach at the D1 level. When he was here coaching with Gary, their defense was always the weakest link, which was why he was let go and moved onto the NLL where he was a head coach and failed miserably. Fired after the first year. No thanks!

No offense to the other 'cuse alum's Rowan-Thompson and Tumolo, but I'd much rather have Katrina Dowd over them as my #2 after Spallina.

Regy Thorpe was not let go he left on his own to be the head coach in the NLL and you ask any player on the women’s team who the voice in the locker room was it was Regy players adore him. He was part of multiple FF4 teams as a coach at SU. He has been to back to back FF4 with the Gators. Coached the Six Nations Arrows to a Minto Cup Women’s Team USA to a silver in sixes and Men’s USA to a silver in box USA’s highest finish ever want me to keep gong?

 

[illestcuse]

Regy Thorpe was not let go he left on his own to be the head coach in the NLL and you ask any player on the women’s team who the voice in the locker room was it was Regy players adore him. He was part of multiple FF4 teams as a coach at SU. He has been to back to back FF4 with the Gators. Coached the Six Nations Arrows to a Minto Cup Women’s Team USA to a silver in sixes and Men’s USA to a silver in box USA’s highest finish ever want me to keep gong?

You can if you'd like...? My impression of the situation was Gary told him he was being let go, but let him leave on his accord without firing him. Gary was sick of losing and knew what change needed to be made, and he made the right call at the time.

You can continue beating the Regy drum on here till the cow's come home. I'm sure Regy is an amazing guy. The reality is he's still never been a head coach at the D1 level. And if Wildhack was smart, which I think he is, there is no way he is handing Thorpe the keys to a top 5 program in the sport. That would be such a huge gamble and set the program back.

If I am Wildhack, I am going with a proven winner as the next HC. I mean, are we trying to win a national championship or what? Just go back and watch Stony Brook play BC in the tourney. Spallina had his team playing way harder and better than we did when we played them, and did it all with a bunch of unranked kids. Now just imagine what he would be able to do here with our roster/top rated talent. It's really a no brainer.