{"id":23465,"date":"1999-04-28T17:23:28","date_gmt":"1999-04-28T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/04\/28\/st-norbert-coach-coghlin-turns-down-uaf\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:06","slug":"st-norbert-coach-coghlin-turns-down-uaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1999\/04\/28\/st-norbert-coach-coghlin-turns-down-uaf\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Norbert Coach Coghlin Turns Down UAF"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tim Coghlin, head coach at Division III St. Norbert and the top candidate for Alaska-Fairbanks’ vacant head coaching position, turned down the university’s job offer Monday, the Fairbanks Daily Miner<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n
A perceived lack of institutional commitment to the hockey program was crucial in Coghlin’s decision, he said.<\/p>\n
“I needed to see some more institutional support for hockey,” Coghlin told the Daily Miner<\/i>. “[UAF] tend[s] to be underfunded in three or four critical areas that will make it difficult to compete in the CCHA. Once those issues are addressed, it will be a very attractive place to me.”<\/p>\n
Specifically, Coghlin cited a lack of funding for recruiting, assistant coaches’ pay and scholarships as fundamental barriers. He went on to say that that the Nanooks are “not even on a level playing field” with the rest of the CCHA, noting that UAF currently supports well fewer than the 18 scholarship players allowed by the NCAA.<\/p>\n
According to UAF assistant athletic director Kip Harmon, the remaining candidates are Guy Gadowsky, head coach and general manager of the West Coast Hockey League’s Fresno Falcons; Bowling Green assistant coach Brian Hills; and Boston College assistant coach Scott Paluch.<\/p>\n
UAF is looking to replace Dave Laurion, who resigned following the end of this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tim Coghlin, head coach at Division III St. Norbert and the top candidate for Alaska-Fairbanks’ vacant head coaching position, turned down the university’s job offer Monday, the Fairbanks Daily Miner reported. A perceived lack of institutional commitment to the hockey program was crucial in Coghlin’s decision, he said. “I needed to see some more institutional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n