Flow of Applicants Keeps CSUN Busy

The advertisements go out, a steady stream of calls and resumes come in. So flows the tide at Cal State Northridge, which is seeking to replace more than one-third of its coaching staff.

Dozens of telephone inquiries and applications are pouring in to the Northridge offices for the 22--oops, better make that 23--vacancies in the school’s 18-sport athletic program.

The latest opening is for an assistant men’s soccer coach, a part-time position formerly held by Bill Durkin, who resigned Tuesday.

Debby DeAngelis, Northridge’s associate athletic director in charge of business affairs, will advertise the soccer job sometime in the next few weeks.

Already posted are openings for a head coach and three full-time coordinators for football, a head coach and a top assistant in women’s basketball, a head coach and a top assistant in women’s soccer, an assistant swimming coach, a diving coach, and eight positions as restricted-earnings assistants in various sports.

Northridge’s plight has been reported in newspapers and on radio, and the school uses additional media to spread word about the openings.

A complete listing of the vacancies was mailed to athletic departments at junior colleges statewide and to high schools in Riverside, Orange, Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

The jobs also are advertised in the weekly NCAA News--”clearly the bible for people who are looking for jobs in college athletics,” DeAngelis said.

Last week DeAngelis missed one of the ads Northridge placed in the NCAA publication, resulting in a phone call.

Susan Boyts, who supervises the News’ “Marketplace” section, was able to find the ad among the listings and assured DeAngelis that her oversight was understandable.

“I don’t know how you’re keeping track,” Boyts told DeAngelis. “Even I’m having trouble.”

Citing state education system confidentiality laws, DeAngelis declined to say how many applications Northridge has received other than to say they have arrived “in a steady flow.”

Northridge also could have as many as three vacancies in track and field as Coach Don Strametz expands his staff for the 1995-96 school year.