Strange equipment manager job listing...

[Harv 86]

I ran across this job posting for an Equipment Manager for a NCAA Div 3 school.. But the strange thing is that you're supposed to be the Head Coach as well as the Equipment Manager?

The job listing puts 39 tasks. Half unique to what an equipment manager would do and half unique to a head coach. Does this school really expect a head coach of a NCAA club to sharpen skates and wash jerseys? The only explanation I can think is that they combined positions because of budgets restrictions?

Anyone want to shed light on what they thinking on this?

I put up screen shots since a copy/paste link won't since it's a search based query.

[Chadd 916]

What are they thinking? They don't have much of a budget and they're trying to stretch it as far as they can. My guess is that there is some budget for an equipment assistant or that you will get a student intern to assist on the crap work.

[wrangler 157]

Maybe they're just fixing the responsibilities of the position, and there'll be lackeys, as Chadd said?

It's interesting that they listed the equipment manager description before the coach.

[Harv 86]

I don't understand how they put;

Equipment Manager duties and responsibilities:

2. Serve as head coach of an intercollegiate team.

It just isn't logical.

[shooter27 116]

It's not uncommon for a head coach in D3 to pick up some of the equipment manager type tasks. When I played our Head Coach was responsible for a good deal of the equipment stuff - ordering sticks, gear, pucks, tape, etc, When it came to the more crap stuff - doing laundry, keeping track of the uniforms, etc. - one of the school's general equipment managers did that. Generally what happens is anything hockey specific (ordering equipment) gets done by the coach because teams at D3 schools don't have dedicated equipment managers that know the specific sports well enough to do that type of thing. The equipment people work with multiple teams so they handle anything that is common to sports teams in general (laundry). One of our assistant coaches sharpened our skates.

[MarsB 33]

I don't understand how they put; Equipment Manager duties and responsibilities: 2. Serve as head coach of an intercollegiate team. It just isn't logical.

I think the others who posted are dead on, but I agree- it is strange that they listed it like that.

[Harv 86]

Am I wrong to think that NCAA teams don't have General Managers?

Wouldn't they usually handle all the purchases seeing as their handling the finances?

[shooter27 116]

Generally Division 1 teams have dedicated equipment managers that handle all of the equipment issues, from purchasing to inventory to distribution. At the lower levels it varies on a school by school basis. Some Division 1 teams also have a Director of Hockey Ops, which I believe functions similar to an NHL GM, but that's usually a luxury reserved for the biggest programs with the most money.

[Jordan 13]

A friend of mine coaches up here in the CIS (Canadian University Hockey)...he doesn't do laundrey. Has a trainer who works for him.

[forbs02 20]

Sounds like D3 to me. My guess would be the rink is not on campus so laundry is being run at the rink. As mentioned before, at the D3 level the coach is generally in charge of all the ordering of equipment. Once the season starts, the focus will be on coaching, not the equipment aspect. A student could be hired to do the laundry, sharpen skates, etc.

[iceNsteel 0]

D3 really is just a step above club sports. If you're coaching anything at that level you're going to have some duties that coaches in a D1 or 2 situation wouldn't be doing. Just the nature of stretching small budgets as far as they can go.

[shooter27 116]

D3 hockey is a little different than D3 in other sports because there is no D1aa or D2. There are some D3 hockey programs that have budgets that rival some of the smaller (Atlantic Hockey) D1 programs. But yes, the bulk of d3 coaches do get stuck with some duties that D1 coaches would never dream of having to do.