aggiesccr99 said:

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Hearing Higgi, Higgi, Higgi is the Biggie, Biggie, Biggie……

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Are you excited or just rhyming? I am a casual soccer fan so I don't know who you are referring to and if those who do know soccer would be happy with Higgi.

Ryan Higginbotham. Longtime Asst at TCU who has a strong recruiting history. Former club coach and director in DFW.

Tcu assistant

MarcAg said:

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Tcu assistant

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Would be okay with the hire not a splash one but if he could build this program up to something it will be great.

aggiesccr99 said:

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Ryan Higginbotham. Longtime Asst at TCU who has a strong recruiting history. Former club coach and director in DFW.

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Thank you

I'd be very surprised if it was HIggi. I had heard Big10, but at this point, who knows. I know we've been turned down several times already (LSU most recently) and also highly doubt it will Lie.

starting to think Trev is a chubby chaser

King Koda said:

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I'd be very surprised if it was HIggi. I had heard Big10, but at this point, who knows. I know we've been turned down several times already (LSU most recently) and also highly doubt it will Lie.

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I share that view, though I think Higgi would be terrific. He and Bell have built a premier program. Hearing Dave Diianni a possibility. I suppose it might make sense that Trev would reach back to B1G folks he came to know while at Nebraska

Higgi's son graduates high school this year and is set to go to TCU, among other things. But, money may talk, who knows. He would do a very good job at A&M if it is him.

Dilanni has done a nice job at Iowa and they play a good style of soccer. Same can be said for Hosler at MSU. Either of those two would be very good hires.

Kevin O'Brien (Lipscomb) fills the Moo State vacancy

MookieBlaylock said:

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starting to think Trev is a chubby chaser

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Weirdo

Lemmys Rickenbacker said:

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MookieBlaylock said:

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starting to think Trev is a chubby chaser

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Weirdo

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Yup

I just want an announcement… this is taking way too long

Trust
In
Trev

King Koda said:

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Mark Krikorian at FSU never had highly rated classes. I'd say he did ok. TCU did ok this year without a ton of highly recruited athletes.

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They supplemented with international players, recruited largely by Eric Bell.

I thought he preferred Higgy over Higgi and Higgie.....

jessexy said:

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King Koda said:

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Mark Krikorian at FSU never had highly rated classes. I'd say he did ok. TCU did ok this year without a ton of highly recruited athletes.

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They supplemented with international players, recruited largely by Eric Bell.

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Spot on. FSU has had some world-class internationals, and is a monster in the portal. Comparing their recruiting class ranks (which didnt historically account for such things) to A&M is disingenuous.

It's clear we have been turned down by AT LEAST our top 3 choices. Which means it's also clear we havent been "waiting on our #1 target" with a likely deal already in place. This is on track for not turning out well at all. And the chatter is because we are being fairly cheap with salary (and NIL/Revenue Share).

Somebody mentioned van Bennekom. I would have been quite disappointed with him 3 weeks ago, but at this point I think he would be a fine hire and about as good as we can reasonably do.

Of all the games that have popped up recently, would be happyiest with Iowa's Dave Dillani .

Higgy declined to interview immediately after G "retired". He could change his mind but hearing that is not the case.
Baylor and LSU coaches both turned the job down. Hearing administration is either strongly recommending or requiring coaches to keep Strader and Dir of Ops. That along with no guarantees of financial investment in facility and/or program is turning established head coaches off.
Since G "retired" Strader has been charged with recruiting and keeping current players here. He's been visiting homes, handling scholarship $, etc.
At this point my guess is it is the DBU coach or Trev elevates Strader on short term deal.

Trev not wanting to pay the asst coach buyout is not surprising

The new coach should be allowed to hire the assistants he wants to hire - it's his career

Offside said:

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jessexy said:

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King Koda said:

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Mark Krikorian at FSU never had highly rated classes. I'd say he did ok. TCU did ok this year without a ton of highly recruited athletes.

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They supplemented with international players, recruited largely by Eric Bell.

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Spot on. FSU has had some world-class internationals, and is a monster in the portal. Comparing their recruiting class ranks (which didnt historically account for such things) to A&M is disingenuous.

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Bell took the TCU job in 2011. The data I posted was for 2014-2021. I hope he wasn't recruiting international for FSU during that time period. Comparing it to what Texas A&M did in recruiting isn't disingenuous. It is showing you the path many other non-blue blood programs have to take in order to get to that level. There are three teams from Texas to ever make the College Cup (1995 SMU, 2014 TAMU, and 2025 TCU). There is way more talent in Texas than that signifies. Most of the U15/U16/U17 YNT players are headed to one of UNC, FSU (now-adays), Stanford, Duke, UVA, Notre Dame, Penn State, and to a lesser extent UCLA and USC. If you aren't one of those schools, you have to find other ways to make it to the top without consistently getting top 5 recruiting classes.

TCU leaned on a senior class with lots of starts, some transfers, and three or four top 100/150 freshman/sophomores. They also played a style which allowed them to dominate possession vs inferior opponents but also defend well enough against very talented teams to make it a coin flip at the end of games. They won two coin flips and lost the last one.

If you think whoever A&M hires is going to come in here and start getting all of the YNT players from DFW, you are mistaken. You try to get a couple and then supplement with a style that keeps them here and let's you win the games you are supposed to but also keep it close against the teams with a multitude of YNT players on them. You start to win enough of those games (like FSU did) and more YNT level players begin to look at your school as a viable option. Now, FSU is considered a blue blood and can recruit those type of players (they are also paying them well, but that's a different story).

Offside said:

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The difference between how we have handled our transition from an underperforming coach to how the 'Sips handled theirs is quite disappointing.
And Trev knew this was coming for an entire year, yet here we are.

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This x eleventy billion…embarrassing

I can't share everything I heard in KC this last weekend, but I will say I heard from multiple coaches this search has been a bit of a cluster. Started with a firm with lots of feelers to just about every top level coach but I think we have moved on from them now and are getting further down the rolodex. That doesn't mean we won't get a quality coach, but I don't think the constraints are fitting of where the program is at this time.

I did have a G sighting before the first game as well. I wouldn't be surprised to see him join the NCAA staff or United Soccer Coaches staff. He is still very well liked and respected in the profession.

Is the Iowa Coach a possibility?

Trev has not handled this search well and way too long knowing we had a head coaching opening for quite some time.

85AustinAg said:

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Is the Iowa Coach a possibility?

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This is what I said earlier.

Dilanni has done a nice job at Iowa and they play a good style of soccer. Same can be said for Hosler at MSU. Either of those two would be very good hires.

When you ask possibility, it really depends. Most soccer coaching HC/AC combos become very tight with one another and will stick with each other for a long time. If Trev expects a coach not to bring his own assistant you may be searching for a while. It's a hard ask to leave somewhere you are having success to go to another school without having your safety blanket and without know what type of relationship you will have with your Associate Coach.

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85AustinAg said:

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Agree. What an idiotic requirement to saddle a coach with.

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I'm wonder if that's the only way G could get an asst to join a lame duck staff was to promise he'd be kept on to the next staff?

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thinking the same.

85AustinAg said:

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Astroag said:

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85AustinAg said:

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Agree. What an idiotic requirement to saddle a coach with.

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I'm wonder if that's the only way G could get an asst to join a lame duck staff was to promise he'd be kept on to the next staff?

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thinking the same.

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Then trev should be ashamed of himself and embarrassed as an AD doing something so stupid