Skidmore College
NCAA DIII • NULL
Date: August 23, 2025
Would Recommend
The type of coach that tends to play favorites and becomes too close to certain players, which often leads to distrust between players and coaches. For example, having direct texting and phone calls with certain players while discussing other players is no way to build trust. Despite having a large roster at the Division III level where there is unlimited substitutions, he relies heavily on just 13–14 players. As a result, Skidmore frequently struggles late in games, giving up leads due to fatigue and overuse of the same athletes game in and game out. Even at the most elite levels, no one expects a player to be effective over 180 minutes in a span of 3 days. Last season(2024), this pattern contributed to injuries among key players and multiple games that ended in losses or draws, even when the team had been ahead. While the coach may be knowledgeable, his lack of trust in players he did not personally recruit is evident. He's a young coach and is trying hard to build a better team, but he's going about it in all the wrong way.