2012 Coaching Openings

Not a dilettante

RE: 2012 Coaching Openings 7/12/2012 1:07AM - in reply to A True Track & Field Coach

If you have six coaches, each one has their niche/general specialty. Or if you can only afford to fund one aspect of your program, you concentrate on that.

Or would you say Mark Wetmore is a lazy coach because he is primarily a distance coach? He also gets it done in cross country, which is another season. He is a distance guru and you are well out of touch with reality.

A True Track & Field Coach wrote:

Who is to say you can not play the other sports without having all of the other positions. It is called having a bad team or crappy athletes in positions they are not made to be playing. Track and field is made up of 19 open events and 2 relay events. How can you make an intelligent argument to focus on 5 out of 21 events. Yes our sport is different, but all sports are different from one another (hence a different sport). The biggest difference in our sport is we have too many distance focused head coaches and not enough track focused head coaches. In what sport can you have success if you only focus on 23% of your sport??? The correct and only intelligent answer is NONE!!!

There is a sport made up of only distance runners it is called cross country. So if you want to have a distance only program why would the administration want to keep a track program that will never have as much success at the National and especially at the Conference level as a complete track program. Do the math a sprint & field event program has 77% more opportunities to score points then your distance only program. It is simple math and logic people, please try using it sometime.

Track and Field is made up of 21 events and it is bad for our sport when you have a distance only programs of 5 events. Track and Field is a sport as the name states where you have track athletes and you have field athletes. A good coach can coach any event/sport, you just have to put in the time and effort to learn the event or sport you want to coach. There are too many lazy coaches who do not want to put in that time and effort, I have a name for them its called BAD coaches.

Go run some more miles because obviously you are not thinking clearly enough yet, or better yet you should stop running so many miles so you can start thinking like a Track and Field coach and not a distance runner!!!

[quote]Coaches News Network wrote:

You're comparing apples to oranges. You cannot play those other games without having all of the positions. But, there is no requirement in track and field to have all of the events. I'd rather see this than having a small staff trying to coach events they know nothing about. Focusing your investment is a smart use of the funds and I'd rather see that then programs being cut as if more often the case in D1.

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