NCAA 2025-2026 Coaching Changes

[blueghost]

its not about money as much as institutional support

I agree that support is huge too.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

John Carney posted on fb that he was back in gymnastics and at Cal.

 

[irichluck21]

John Carney has been named Interim Head Coach.

 

[irichluck21]

 

[GEMINAM]

Huge loss for Cal, just awful.

There's no amount of money in the world that would make me move from Berkley to Clemson. Wretched place.

Why would you say Clemson is wretched? It is an amazing school!

 

[ugadawgkat]

Evidently Snyder and Reihl committed to the coaches and not the school.

 

[blake]

Josh Nilson takes over for Nadalie Walsh at Illinois.

https://fightingillini.com/news/2025/5/20/womens-gymnastics-nilson-named-head-coach-of-illinois-womens-gymnastics.aspx

 

[irichluck21]

Interesting choice at Illinois.

 

[hi_bieja]

I admittedly don’t pay much attention to Clemson sports, but are they really that sports crazy? I know the football team is usually good, but do they care that much about women’s sports?

Two years is not a lot of time to give a coach, especially one that is starting a new program. I’m wondering if they always regretted the hire after all the dirt came out and are using her underwhelming results as an excuse to get of her.

I’m curious to see who they hire. It should be easier to get better candidates now that the program’s established and the facility is built. They could try to lure the Griffeths from LSU. Maybe Taylor Spears? I wonder what Lisa Bowerman at TWU could do with more resources.

Yes, they knew. They were willing to see how it goes and excuse the s**t sandwich if she got results. But she didn't, because she's not a good coach at the end of the day, so that's that.

Have we ever had another situation where a top 10 program had their head coaches bail on them for a fledgling program?

 

[irichluck21]

The results were there. Clemson qualified to regionals both years in existence.
They advanced to the regional semi-final this year.
Both year's results were perfectly acceptable for e fledgling program.

I am not sure how you can expect a 2nd year program to be an immediate contender so soon.

I believe there were several issues at play, and probably Smith's past caught up to her or she didn't change her ways at Clemson.

We will probably never know the full reason.

 

[Kara]

I'm choosing to believe Smith was fired for designing the most god awful leotards ever.