But I think for different reasons - Akron upping their support of the program (and) probably personal reasons as well - he decided to stay. “I certainly had a chance to get to know Jared,” Tyra said. Read more: Scott Satterfield is in step with Louisville football's changing culture Previously the program’s recruiting coordinator, Embick’s recruiting classes have ranked first or second nationally six times in the last 10 years.Įmbick did not respond to a request for comment from the Courier Journal, but U of L board members, boosters and website operators believed he was bound for Louisville as late as last Saturday. Despite the inherent disadvantages of coaching outside the Power Five Conferences, Akron has won more games (94) in Embick’s six years as head coach than any other Division I program. One thing I know: There’s no person that knows this team better than me.”įresh from a second-place finish in the NCAA’s College Cup, Akron’s Embick was sure to show up on every serious school's short list. “I truly believe that gives me the blueprint for what it takes to run a successful program. I’ve won championships at Indiana, I won an MLS Cup.
But I’ll tell you this: I believe in myself. I know there’s a lot of interest in the program, as there should be.
“This is an unbelievable chance and opportunity to take this program to another level,” Hayden said Thursday. Read this: Vince Tyra uses unorthodox approach, 'crap detector' to hire coach Yet since perceptions of that sort are often influenced by a distorted view of the collegiate pecking order - and not just here, but nationwide - U of L fans are advised to withhold judgment pending actual results. Granted, some of Tom Jurich’s loyalists and Jeff Brohm’s admirers will see this as a sign of Tyra’s inability to hit his targets in hiring.
Granted, both Hayden and Satterfield were selected after higher-profile candidates withdrew from consideration. Neither of those situations has a clear connection to the November firing of Bobby Petrino or the subsequent hiring of Scott Satterfield to run U of L football. Whitney Wade Young, who will take over as head women’s golf coach on July 1, replaces Courtney Trimble, whose upcoming retirement from coaching coincides with her husband taking a new position in Chicago. Hayden replaces Ken Lolla, whose baffling resignation blindsided his boss earlier this month. What might look from a distance like a calculated housecleaning appears on closer inspection to be mainly a matter of coincidence. In 15 months as U of L’s athletic director, Tyra has now filled vacancies for seven of his 17 head coaching positions for a range of reasons that contain no common thread.īackground: Louisville replaces Ken Lolla with internal candidate, hires golf coach We kept coming back to a ‘Why not?’ rather than a ‘Why?’” “But we kept coming back to John Michael. “We made it clear to John Michael, when I met with him first, that we were going to meet with other coaches and kind of look at the landscape of things,” Tyra said Thursday after Hayden's promotion was confirmed by the University of Louisville Athletic Association personnel committee. He was prepared to go big before deciding to stay home. He interviewed the University of Akron’s acclaimed Jared Embick before promoting John Michael Hayden to head coach of the University of Louisville’s men’s soccer team. it's what happens in that six minutes.Vince Tyra kicked the tires in the rubber capital. let me tell ya, kid - it was pretty goddamned glorious. Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us sad-assed human beings, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute. I'm here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying.Įlmo: That's right, I start crying. Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. the goddamn goalie never knew what the fuck hit him. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in - upside down and backwards. I'm watchin' what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Louden Swain: Yeah, he's a, a soccer player.Įlmo: I was in the room here one day. I mean, it's six lousy minutes on the mat, if that.
Louden Swain: It's not that big a deal, Elmo. Louden Swain: You never took a night off to see me wrestle before.
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