I was wondering how long we can expect this to take, but on our end it's literally without precedent. I'd imagine it's been so long for a lot of schools they'd feel similarly.

Isn't Matt Mott HC at OU?

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85AustinAg said:

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An AI search of younger coaches with proven success includes:
1. Margueritte Aozasa, UCLA.
2. Jeff Hosler, Michigan State.
3. Margaret Rodriguez, UConn.
4. Toni Pressley, U-18 Women's Youth National Team HC.
5. Alyssa Johnson, Case Western Reserve University (DIII)

Interesting note is that the most successful coaches have been at their schools for long periods of time and I'm assuming would be hard to pry away.

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Aozasa isn't leaving UCLA for A&M, but maybe her hire at UCLA a few years back is the right template for us to follow? Find a young, strong P4 assistant that doesn't just have the coaching chops, but has experience recruiting elite players. Aozasa was lead recruiter during her 6-year assistant run at Stanford. I'd much rather go down that path than hire a head coach from non-P4 or a national team type coach with little college recruiting experience.

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What about Jane Alukonis at USC? Played at Duke, assisted at UCLA.

Yes

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What about Jane Alukonis at USC? Played at Duke, assisted at UCLA.

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I think she has recruited pretty well at USC, but have heard some bad things about her from players. She was assistant under Cromwell at UCLA and there are some nightmare stories from her days there. USC is also underperforming this year for the talent they have. They won't make the tournament unless they get another couple of wins.

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Stephensons and G. That bridge really burned ?

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I will note that they made an appearance at the game Sunday. It could have just been to support their seniors on senior night.

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I'm surprised they made an appearance if the relationship is really as bad as everyone on here thinks. Doesn't seem likely that they they were there for the Seniors as 1 of the 3 never played for him (nor recruited by him), 1 basically never played any minutes when he was there and 1 played sparingly in the single year they were both at A&M. Maybe their relationship with G isn't as bad as everyone thinks and maybe they knew it was his last game?

She's interesting. Young, good record, but lackluster postseason performance her 1st 2 yrs, great yr last yr, but struggling this yr.

So you want Paul Hart?

Wes Hart from Bama would be an interesting hire....good run at Bama...had his best season 2 years ago with a group of 5th years. Knows the SEC, at an age (48) where he could have a solid 10+ year run

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So you want Paul Hart?

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Huh?

Jeff Hosler at Michigan State looks like a good one.

He's the top asst at Stanford.

85AustinAg said:

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Aggies2026 said:

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85AustinAg said:

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An AI search of younger coaches with proven success includes:
1. Margueritte Aozasa, UCLA.
2. Jeff Hosler, Michigan State.
3. Margaret Rodriguez, UConn.
4. Toni Pressley, U-18 Women's Youth National Team HC.
5. Alyssa Johnson, Case Western Reserve University (DIII)

Interesting note is that the most successful coaches have been at their schools for long periods of time and I'm assuming would be hard to pry away.

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Aozasa isn't leaving UCLA for A&M, but maybe her hire at UCLA a few years back is the right template for us to follow? Find a young, strong P4 assistant that doesn't just have the coaching chops, but has experience recruiting elite players. Aozasa was lead recruiter during her 6-year assistant run at Stanford. I'd much rather go down that path than hire a head coach from non-P4 or a national team type coach with little college recruiting experience.

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What about Jane Alukonis at USC? Played at Duke, assisted at UCLA.

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Meh, Eric Bell was the lead recruiter at FSU when they were winning every NCAA title and he's got 10 years of big conference head coaching experience under his belt. Enough with the P4 assistants or the G4 directional school head coaches. We can find a P4 head coach to come lead A&M.

I mentioned in another post that players can transfer outside of a normal transfer portal window after a coaching change but did not know how for how long. Found the following this morning:

"A 30-day portal window opens for players immediately following a head coach's departure at their current school."

G retired on October 28 so the clock started ticking then.

Does anyone know of a D1 soccer transfer portal site that follows transfers?

Top Drawer Soccer consolidates a list of transfers but doesn't really break any news. They haven't started a 2026 thread yet and I know there's some posters on X/Twitter that keep up with it all.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2025-womens-division-i-transfer-tracker_aid54065

we are losing either Veronda of Fuller at GK and maybe both

anyone else would be foolish to enter the portal

The following is more appropriately put on the general soccer thread but it may have a bearing on transfers after a coaching change (if any) so adding it here:

https://12thman.com/news/2025/10/30/soccer-crooks-earns-sec-all-freshman-status

A new coach and staff will probably give Crooks a long look simply because of the award.

If I was a current player and thinking about possibly transferring I would want to wait to see who the new coach is IF possible before I make any decision. Of course, no idea when one will be named but, hopefully, for the players it will be soon.

Obviously, no one knows where they stand with the new coach and staff. Those who think they are good enough to start will probably hang around. Thing is, we want ALL of our players to think they are good enough to start.

Will just have to wait and see, right?

No Aggies on the first, second, or third all SEC team

I would suppose we're nearly a month out from naming a new coach.

Ideally, most candidates will be on staff for a tournament team and they're not going to want an announcement distracting their team.

Anyone going to Pensacola and wants to be on Trev watch

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No Aggies on the first, second, or third all SEC team

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I was expecting to see Yakel and/or Buchanan on the 3rd team, but I guess it is not a big surprise given the team's record. The only players who made any of the all SEC teams from the schools who missed the conference tournament were MacDonald and Villareal from Texas, and Crooks from A&M.

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Aggies2026 said:

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85AustinAg said:

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An AI search of younger coaches with proven success includes:
1. Margueritte Aozasa, UCLA.
2. Jeff Hosler, Michigan State.
3. Margaret Rodriguez, UConn.
4. Toni Pressley, U-18 Women's Youth National Team HC.
5. Alyssa Johnson, Case Western Reserve University (DIII)

Interesting note is that the most successful coaches have been at their schools for long periods of time and I'm assuming would be hard to pry away.

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Aozasa isn't leaving UCLA for A&M, but maybe her hire at UCLA a few years back is the right template for us to follow? Find a young, strong P4 assistant that doesn't just have the coaching chops, but has experience recruiting elite players. Aozasa was lead recruiter during her 6-year assistant run at Stanford. I'd much rather go down that path than hire a head coach from non-P4 or a national team type coach with little college recruiting experience.

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What about Jane Alukonis at USC? Played at Duke, assisted at UCLA.

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Meh, Eric Bell was the lead recruiter at FSU when they were winning every NCAA title and he's got 10 years of big conference head coaching experience under his belt. Enough with the P4 assistants or the G4 directional school head coaches. We can find a P4 head coach to come lead A&M.

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Funny that you mention Eric Bell and his success and then in same post talk about enough with the P4 assistant talk when TCU hired him when he was a P4 assistant. I'm not saying hire an assistant, but I'm not going to completely rule one out.

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Yes, that was an excellent hire for TCU, a then P5 lead assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. TCU was dogs*!t under Dan Abdalla and the team had a mutiny in his last season. Our very own Aggie alumni Michelle Royal was an asst coach there at the time. As I stated in my post, A&M can find a current P4 head coach,like a current Eric Bell, and hire them.

Eric Bell and TCU win back to back Big 12 regular season titles. Emma Yolinsky on a tear recently with 3 goals in the last 4 games

Offer him the job now

If I were Trev, my first call would have been to Virginia. I would have asked Mark Krikorian if he still has any interest in coaching. I would let him bring in someone like Ahmad Brown who was on his staff at FSU and spent some time in the A&M program and create a pathway for MK to build another winning program and for Ahmad (or whichever assistant he wants to bring) to take over whenever MK decides to hang it up for good. We are probably the only program who could give MK the salary and resources to coach in college again.

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No Aggies on the first, second, or third all SEC team

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you called them the Sunbelt champs and are disappointed a team that won 2 SEC games against the 2 worst programs and scored 5 whole goals has no awards

this team tried hard but they were not good despite the propoganda of coach G

Interesting