rutgers volleyball coach fired

“His vision was different,” Werneke said matter of factly. And he’d come in and we’d talk through it and he’d make sure I was OK and let me verbally throw up about some stuff and then we’d get to work on what was going to happen next.Werneke ended up as a graduate student at Montevallo, a job brokered by Judy Green. Barchi added that Hobbs has apologized to the reporter directly. 4 Illinois on Friday and then to Northwestern on Saturday before finishing the season with four consecutive home matches against Michigan State, Illinois, No. ''The athletic director said in a statement the questions "centered on concerns that were raised from parents and a number of former players regarding some of the practice drills and team activities for the softball team following the recruitment of a top-flight Division I softball coach. But the remarkably patient Werneke is optimistic and always plugging away and thinks the 2018 team is the cornerstone of the Scarlet Knights’ future.“My closest friends in this business knew this was the plan four or five years ago,” Werneke said. When she offered him the job, it came with $12,000 and no benefits. ""It was wrong for me to use the language that I did,'' Hobbs said in his statement. He’s been with Werneke since they joined the Big Ten.Luong had in roads in Serbia. DJR's AVP Blog, Episode 1 Rutgers’ CJ Werneke has taken unlikely path from student assistant to Big...You know how they don’t give you a blueprint for life? It would free you up to coach.”Ashcraft told him to watch the rest of practice and come back the next day and be ready to work.“I show up and she has like four players there who came early and she says, ‘Do exactly what I do and what I say.’ So for a half hour ran whatever drill she wanted me to run.”The left-handed Werneke tossed and hit a lot of balls that day.“I didn’t say a word to the team. Quite a pay cut from ETSU, which also gave him benefits.His old mentor, Hendricks, was still at Notre Dame, which was in the Big East with Rutgers.He had told Werneke, “If you stay (at ETSU) you’re going to become a regional coach.”Werneke said he wanted to see what it was like at the next level. She had a long pro career and played for her country’s national team.Werneke had connections in Germany, the Netherlands and Israel.”We went to go to tournaments to get understanding. Notre Dame had an opening and if he got it, he was going to live with Hendricks.And the head-coaching job opened up at Fairfield, a Division I school in southeastern Connecticut that plays in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.But he knew good volleyball and was successful from the get-go with the Stags, who won the conference title his first and third seasons.And then Leonard-House retired from Rutgers, which called Werneke.But he was less than impressed. His father, he said, thought he was crazy. You’re a godsend. I’m driven, but I’m not chasing anything. No additional scholarships, none of the promised physical-plant improvements, and he wanted Werneke to recruit only regionally and play a regional schedule. Head football coach Kyle Flood has reportedly been fired as well. “I told our players at Fairfield all the time, if you want to be the best you’ve got to play the best. Players Earl Johnson and Josh Sankes claimed they were forced to remove clothing for each free throw they missed and then were forced to run wind sprints while naked.

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The football team was making national waves and, well, then came the big announcement.Rutgers was moving to the Big Ten, but not before spending a season in the American Athletic Conference.“You can be really, really good and not move up at all,” Werneke said of the Big Ten.Rutgers competed in volleyball in the Big East for the last time in 2012, finishing 18-12 overall, 4-11. Recruiting was tough because of the losing.“American kids don’t like that. “People want to get there fast now and get there ahead of themselves and he was diligent, took the time to learn his craft, and I think that and his persistence is why he’s been so successful.” Why don’t you sell that to every international kid?”It’s been a long time coming, building the Rutgers roster into one that can hopefully compete in college volleyball’s toughest league. And in his first year, 2008, the Scarlet Knights finished 2-22.“The players in the program worked really hard,” Werneke said, commenting how much he appreciated that team’s enthusiasm and work ethic.And then a year later, the new athletic director, Tim Pernetti, pulled the rug out from under Werneke and the volleyball program. “He wanted to be a regionally strong program.”It was too bad, because the program was on an uptick. He was so athletic, so it didn’t take him long to learn any and everything. “Me and (Luong), the first year we didn’t go to look at a kid. Rutgers head coach Chris Ash watches in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Two Rutgers softball coaches, a husband and wife, have been accused of fostering a climate of fear, intimidation and abuse on the team.The university president said Thursday he wants an independent investigation of allegations made against softball head coach Kristen Butler and her husband, Marcus Smith, a volunteer assistant. ''Barchi said he understood Hobbs' "frustration'' at not being given time to "thoroughly respond to an expansive list of questions.''