Melissa Hodgdon Resigns from Wheaton

Most likely not. Wheaton is very liberal and they will certainly make the politically correct hire for that position if you know what I mean.
I think one job to watch is Fitchburg State. The position is open and rumor is it will be fulltime. Interesting to see if he would apply. Fitchburg is D3 and a state job with security and allows him to keep coaching.

Most of the D3 full time jobs carry other responsibilities*. I think he'd be more interested in a gig like Calhoun's.


*like coaching another sport, being assistant AD, that sort of thing.

Tyler Simms, former assistant at Brown. 

Kevin Ollie is in the professors' union at UConn. 


www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-sp-kevin-ollie-uconn-lawsuit-hearings-arbitration-dispute-20190422-20190423-apo5f6ztb5az7a526luvpmhdwy-story.html

I have no idea if that setup is the exception rather than the rule. 

I remember Mel and your post triggered some thoughts.  First he was a knowledgeable and amiable football analyst as a radio broadcast partner with Bob Fouracre after his tenure at WPI.  When Gordie Lockbaum succeeded him as analyst I found him knowledgeable and amiable but also critical of bad play more than gentleman Mel.  It was perhaps just a difference in style and technique but it was clear that Gordie was not afraid to point out HC deficits that should be corrected.  As someone who played in the well coached Duffner era I thought Gordie reacted like someone who had heard the Beatles play at Symphony Hall and now had to sit through a Beatles tribute band concert in a high school auditorium.  That is the reason why I think Gordie would shake up Holy Cross Athletics and not be afraid to demand excellence as an AD.  Realities may limit results for any AD but I think Gordie would attack issues from both sides of the ball, so to speak.  

Second, Your recollection of Mel leaving HC for WPI and faculty status rings true because I remember reading an article about Neil Wheelwright's complaints after he was let go (I think he was let go) as Head Football Coach.  Neil criticized many aspect of support for football at Holy Cross including facilities and produced stats that would make PP proud showing how Holy Cross Football had averaged four wins per season for decades, the same amount of wins he averaged while Head Coach at HC.  In the Massucco and Wheelwright eras Holy Cross faced strong D-1 foes with apparently less than average institutional support so your recollection makes sense.  How Dr. Eddie Anderson succeeded so well while also maintaining a medical practice, I don't know.  Anyone old enough to remember? 

I remember back then and was one of those surprised by the apparent lack of support that Mel received as HCHC. Dr Anderson came back to HC because he found even less support at another college than he remembered at HC. It was not great back then for too many college head coaches.