After a disappointing 12-10-1 season, IU Athletics Director Fred Glass took a "deliberate, sober, dispassionate view" of the soccer program to see where he thought it stood.
Looking back on recent history, he decided to "reluctantly, but appropriately" refuse to renew former IU men's soccer coach Mike Freitag's contract.
"If we felt the program was going in the right direction, I could handle the record," Glass said. "But, we ultimately concluded that the program was not going in the right direction and that we needed new leadership."
Glass said the search for a new coach will begin tomorrow.
"We'll try to do it as expeditiously as possible," he said. "It's more important that we get it right than that we get it fast, but we'll try to get it fast."
He mentionend "multiple IU alumni" might be invovled in the search, bringing to mind Todd Yeagley, son of Jerry Yeagley and current coach of the Wisconsin program.
"It's the first hire that I'll make and it's really with our premiere program," Glass said. "I take this responsibility very seriously."
It was a decision, Glass said, to be made, and he has no doubts about that fact.
"Renewing Mike's contract would have been the easy thing, and it would have been the safe thing," he said. "But it just wouldn't have been the right thing. I wasn't eager to make that change, but I was absolutely convinced that it was the right thing to do. That's why I did it"
