Drake in 2001 was last WIU win over an MVC team in Macomb

Western Illinois at Loyola (Chicago) December 21

http://www.ramblermania.net/forum/viewt ... 1&start=20

Dave was hired by SIU after Sparks bolted for Notre Dame

http://www.siusalukis.com/sports/c-xc/m ... 17435.html

apparently a runner from WIU had transferred to SIU a couple years ago, so must have known something was up?

thanks for that info, that's too bad he went out that way, Dave seems like a good guy and a good coach, he'd have had WIU doing well had he been able to hang around a few more years. I wonder if he just wanted his family to stay in Peoria?

I too heard he was let go and also that few of the ...

I heard from a good source Dave was indeed fired, although the release states his contract was not renewed. I competed against Dave in college, and like I mentioned he's had success coaching in the past and has become involved in USA track and field. So something had to have happened here.

Not ...

can someone on here speculate on why David Beauchem was let go as the WIU track coach, guy is a pretty good coach, so something pretty bad must have happened for him to be fired??