JK37 wrote:I'll clarify my statements by echoing PH: I'm sure it is a fine academic institution, but it is a dead-end coaching job. I'm not putting them down, rogers3, because they are a crosstown D3 "counterpart". It's simply not a good job. Lack of support, difficulty recruiting, etc. some D3 jobs are fine jobs, others are glorified club programs because the administrations don't really care of the program wins or not. Randolph is the latter. LC, on the other hand, is the former. Makes it a tough gig when you'll simply never be as good as your crosstown rival. The ODAC is a tough league; Randolph will most likely always be a bottom-feeder WBB program in the ODAC. I hope I'm wrong.
That's about the case for all their women's teams other than softball. Softball team has ben decent to good for what seems like a decade now.
The women's teams don't get any less resources than their men's counterpart as far as I know (other than probably head coach salaries), but they can't shake the decades of being awful. What they do have going in their favor is that ODAC women's basketball is pretty bad when compared to the D3 national scene. League is almost always a one-bid league (but there are much less at-large bids in D3 compared to D1) and rarely is there even a second team on the bubble. And the team that does get in rarely ever gets more than one win if they even get one win.
At least the men's teams got to start fresh, has worked well for some like basketball and soccer, not so much for lacrosse but D3 lacrosse is a completely different beast from basketball and soccer in terms of recruiting. Hell, has worked out great for men's soccer, soccer team has arguably been the best program in the conference for what seems like 5-6 years now. Basketball hasn't consistently been among the best but they are always at worst competitive nowadays, will be interesting to see if the to-be-named coach can keep it going.