So to start off I'm going to buck a LetsRun trend and tell you exactly who I am. My name is Jay McMahon and I run (ran) at Umass Amherst. I'm a steeple chaser with a 9:09 pr, 8:29 for 3k, 25:11 for 8k (paul short).
We did pretty awful as a XC team this year and especially bombed at the conference meet. And by that I mean 90% of the team ran about 45 seconds slower than last year, some much worse. Coach O'Brien scheduled a meeting with the top 7 upper classmen to discuss what went wrong with the season, particularly at A10s. Everyone had the same viewpoint: we barely trained this season; we did less than half as many workouts as last year. Basically, nobody has any faith that OB still knows what he's doing at 80+ years old. In the meeting we started off talking about the workouts, but then it got sidetracked into a long tangent about lifting and eventually Coach basically blamed everything on us questioning him too much and not just doing what he said. To be honest, that kind of pissed me off. My response was that I don't just blindly trust the training he gives us if it doesn't have an accompanying explanation.
Come this morning I get an email from coach that I am off the team. Mostly likely cannot transfer because I'm on significant academic aid and need the money. Current plan is to join a local club team (Western Mass Distance Project) and race unattached. Anybody have any alternative ideas or information on how transferring even works? never thought it would be anything I needed to consider.