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Originally Posted by Slava
Herdman could be on to bigger and better things? Obviously that’s a little premature, given the WC is a week away, but he’s made an enormous impact with both the Women’s and Men’s programs here and surely that’s not unnoticed.
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A) He wants to leave, tired of battling the CSA for funds and the basics required to create an environment to develop elite players (men and women) in his 9 years in the country. I think he got some of that leeway to do things his way when the CSA had to save its face after the last disastrous hire (where the search took longer than the guys’ tenure) that other coaches didn’t get over the years, but he’s still having to make due in any number of ways.
B)Someone throws a huge pile of money at him to fix their program that he can’t say no to and would be legitimately hard to match.
C)He wants to stay through 2026 and would take a discount to stay over other offers, but the CSA doesn’t really want to pay him…they got their WC out of him 4 years earlier than most anticipated, and the CSA can take back the control
they have ceded to him if he goes. They could name everyone in this thread as co coaches if we promised to do it for free, and we have no risk of not qualifying for 2026…so why pay someone huge coin? The CSA has been far more shortsighted than that on various things in the past decades.