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Mark Plakorus FIRED as UM Soccer coach

MissoulaCanucksFan

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Kind of caught by surprise by this move. His teams were always very competitive year after year and were always a force to be dealt with in Big Sky Conference play. Led team to conference tournament title in 2011 (his first season in charge), one year after a program in shambles basically won only 3 games and scored only 8 goals.

I liked what Mark did to turn the program around and that first year in charge proved it.
 
Yes. Very unexpected. Thought he was doing a good job and seemed like a top notch guy. Haslam's comment that this was a mutual agreement and that it was a good time for him to step down both for the UM and himself makes me think this wasn't entirely voluntary. I could be totally wrong though. Good luck to him!
 
cmtgrizzly said:
Yes. Very unexpected. Thought he was doing a good job and seemed like a top notch guy. Haslam's comment that this was a mutual agreement and that it was a good time for him to step down both for the UM and himself makes me think this wasn't entirely voluntary. I could be totally wrong though. Good luck to him!

Agreed. Way more questions than answers.
 
The comments made in the article are very interesting, and as suggested, way more questions than answers.

Looking ahead, one person who might be worth looking at for Head Coach would be Vijay Dias.
http://gogriz.com/news/2011/10/6/The_Passion_of_Vijay_Dias.aspx?path=wsoc

He is currently on the Stanford staff as a Volunteer Assistant Coach.
http://gostanford.com/staff.aspx?staff=710
 
Brother Bear said:
The comments made in the article are very interesting, and as suggested, way more questions than answers.

Looking ahead, one person who might be worth looking at for Head Coach would be Vijay Dias.
http://gogriz.com/news/2011/10/6/The_Passion_of_Vijay_Dias.aspx?path=wsoc

He is currently on the Stanford staff as a Volunteer Assistant Coach.
http://gostanford.com/staff.aspx?staff=710
grizzlyjournal said:
cmtgrizzly said:
Yes. Very unexpected. Thought he was doing a good job and seemed like a top notch guy. Haslam's comment that this was a mutual agreement and that it was a good time for him to step down both for the UM and himself makes me think this wasn't entirely voluntary. I could be totally wrong though. Good luck to him!

Agreed. Way more questions than answers.

Will be intersted to see who we hire. I still think Plakorus seemed like a great coach based in what I knew of him which was relatively little. I listened to pre and post game pressers some of the time, read some articles, watched a fair number of games and know we improved significantly after he arrived. Could we have been a little more successful last year? I think so but that wasnt necessarily his fault. I certainly dont know details of his coaching prowess or tactical ability but I don't have any reason to think he is deficient.

Would love the opinion of anyone closer to the program and also any updates on coaching prospects would also be greatly appreciated. I bet this coaching search closely rivals the angst and energy of the football coaching search ;).
 
I hope Don Trentham applies for the job.Was the head coach at MSU Billings for about ten years. Was asst head coach at Colorado when they went to the Elite 8, now asst head coach at Missouri.
 
84GRIZ said:
I hope Don Trentham applies for the job.Was the head coach at MSU Billings for about ten years. Was asst head coach at Colorado when they went to the Elite 8, now asst head coach at Missouri.

Sounds like a good prospect. Thanks for sharing!
 
Just in this evening, Mark Plakorus was fired by UM after multiple texts to Las Vegas-based escort services surfaced. Some players also alleged inappropriate behavior.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-women-s-soccer-coach-fired-after-texts-to-vegas/article_00330f39-ef73-5629-b3a0-5efb9c90f507.html
 
Amie said:
Just in this evening, Mark Plakorus was fired by UM after multiple texts to Las Vegas-based escort services surfaced. Some players also alleged inappropriate behavior.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-women-s-soccer-coach-fired-after-texts-to-vegas/article_00330f39-ef73-5629-b3a0-5efb9c90f507.html

Wow! Thanks for posting Amie. Very disappointing. Sounds like this was a source of stress for the girls. Glad it is over and my alma mater did the right thing. Lets find them a great coach Kent! They can go far next year with a little leadership!
 
Here's additional information on the situation with Mark Plakorus... most of it from his perspective.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/missoulian/status/959569631307542528[/tweet]
 
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