MGB: Hedlund signs extension

Brett Vito · February 9, 2017

MGB:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2017/02/john-hedlund-signs-extension-with-unt.html/

MeanGreenTexan · February 9, 2017

With all of the football coaches shuffling around, this bit of news may get burried, but this is a big deal.

Congrats to coach Hedlund. He's earned it.

untbowler · February 9, 2017

so he now has 4 more years to actually win a tournament game. Nice to get to the tournament, but it is high time to take the next step.

Hunter Green · February 9, 2017

Well deserved.

GrandGreen · February 10, 2017

9 hours ago, untbowler said:

so he now has 4 more years to actually win a tournament game. Nice to get to the tournament, but it is high time to take the next step.

Agree, NT needs to take the next step to be an elite soccer program. However, it is very hard to fault the coach of easily the best program at NT.

However, I really don't like giving out long term contracts when unnecessary.

oldguystudent · February 10, 2017

I didn't know that the women's soccer team was that good. I also didn't know that UNT used to field a men's soccer team.

MeanGreenTexan · February 10, 2017

For y'all even slightly hinting that the extension is not deserved due to a lack of NCAA success...

What other UNT programs have been consistently ranked over the past decade (and I'm not talking being in the upper-90's in CFN's "Top 130", I'm talking respected publications)? For a while there, JJ had the b-ball team ranked in the mid-major top 25, and coach Stracke had his Ortiz/Cazoubon team ranked, but that's about it.
Coach Hedlund's teams pop up in rankings just about every year while beating some big programs regionally.

It's absolutely deserved.

outoftown · February 10, 2017

6 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

For y'all even slightly hinting that the extension is not deserved due to a lack of NCAA success...

What other UNT programs have been consistently ranked over the past decade (and I'm not talking being in the upper-90's in CFN's "Top 130", I'm talking respected publications)? For a while there, JJ had the b-ball team ranked in the mid-major top 25, and coach Stracke had his Ortiz/Cazoubon team ranked, but that's about it.
Coach Hedlund's teams pop up in rankings just about every year while beating some big programs regionally.

It's absolutely deserved.

Agree. Completely deserved extension. Also in the last few years UNT got hosed at least twice by the "local" seeding in the NCAA where they had an away game against an underseeded opponent. That kind of thing will not changee with another coach. Coach Hedlund keeps giving himself and the team opportunities, and eventually they will take advantage. Unless UNT or donors are gonna spring for a really big name in womens soccer, there is no reason whatsoever to change gears here, and I feel the AD has way bigger construction sites.

Edited February 10, 2017 by outoftown

UNTLifer · February 10, 2017

9 hours ago, oldguystudent said:

I didn't know that the women's soccer team was that good. I also didn't know that UNT used to field a men's soccer team.

The Men's soccer team was extremely successful too.

MeanGreenTexan · February 10, 2017

35 minutes ago, outoftown said:

Agree. Completely deserved extension. Also in the last few years UNT got hosed at least twice by the "local" seeding in the NCAA where they had an away game against an underseeded opponent. That kind of thing will not changee with another coach. Coach Hedlund keeps giving himself and the team opportunities, and eventually they will take advantage. Unless UNT or donors are gonna spring for a really big name in womens soccer, there is no reason whatsoever to change gears here, and I feel the AD has way bigger construction sites.

Not to mention, there's no telling what might have happened with the Tech game in the opening round of the 2015 tourney if the most dominant goalie we've ever seen here (and a sure-fire NT HOF'er), Kerestine, doesn't get hurt pregame. I mean, what does that do to a team when your anchor is yanked away from you just before the biggest game of the year? .... and they still hung tough for a 1-0 loss. Tech was the Big12 champ that year, btw... Does anyone think any of our other programs could hang tough with a respective big12 champion counterpart?