old school football college wrote:
If you think your coach is hard on you, you should've seen how hard penn state football coaches used to be back in the day.
I went to an NAIA school and coach was only hard on some of the athletes. Caused jealousy and friction amongst the team.
Hoo, boy. I don't know if D1 is for you, man. Daily attendance is like the absolute bare minimum for any serious team.
>> "It feels like micromanaging when my coach wants to make sure we’re doing every little thing every single day."
That is quite literally his job. He is a coach. He coaches.
>> "But he often gets upset when other kids on the team have other commitments that aren’t always communicated before practice."
If there are other commitments and they're not being communicated, he is absolutely in the right to be upset about it. Its on you and your teammates to communicate that stuff. But also, other commitments? At 6:30-8am? What other commitments? You're on a D1 team, act like it. Your sport is your commitment.
It amazes me that there are kids with this kind of mentality at the D1 level. In case you're not aware, the NCAA is in the process of tightening belts and instituting roster caps in the next year or two. You are just not going to make the cut when that happens. There are a million kids in line waiting for your spot, and they don't mind your coach's "micromanaging" and "demands"...
Spanish flu wrote:
Sophomore at a mid-major D1 in the Midwest. I want to see what everyone thinks about this: my coach sets high standards for all of us and holds us to a standard which I’m ok with. But he often gets upset when other kids on the team have other commitments that aren’t always communicated before practice. He also sets practice for early in the morning (between 6:30 and 8am depending on the weather or what we’re doing that day) and expects everyone to be there, no questions asked. I feel like it’s a little much to expect that for every single practice. I feel like sometimes his demands feel like the military instead of a college sport. Did anyone else have a similar experience in college and does anyone have advice on how to bring this up to to him without it coming across as me being soft?
Good troll. 8/10.
No one's showing you any sympathy here. I will - 6:30 am practice in college sounds like it sucks.
Now once you get to the real world that just might be how it goes. I wake up at 5 am to get my runs in because it's the only way I can with work and kids. But man I don't want to. If I could run at 3 pm every day instead I definitely would prefer that.
Maybe you and the rest of the team can talk to the coach. I don't think I would have lasted with practices that early in college, honestly.
old man early riser wrote:
No one's showing you any sympathy here. I will - 6:30 am practice in college sounds like it sucks.
John Chaney, the longtime basketball coach at Temple, had practices at 5am every day. Basketball players, whose games are mostly at night, were able to handle that; shouldn't track/xc guys, whose meets frequently start in the morning or at midday, be able to handle 6:30 or 8am as well?
Two big advantages to early morning practices: Nobody has a legit conflict (class, job), so the whole team is together; and guys are a lot less likely to be drinking the night before.
And yes, I'll admit that the OP sounds like a troll. Entertaining, though.
Spanish flu wrote:
Sophomore at a mid-major D1 in the Midwest. I want to see what everyone thinks about this: my coach sets high standards for all of us and holds us to a standard which I’m ok with. But he often gets upset when other kids on the team have other commitments that aren’t always communicated before practice. He also sets practice for early in the morning (between 6:30 and 8am depending on the weather or what we’re doing that day) and expects everyone to be there, no questions asked. I feel like it’s a little much to expect that for every single practice. I feel like sometimes his demands feel like the military instead of a college sport. Did anyone else have a similar experience in college and does anyone have advice on how to bring this up to to him without it coming across as me being soft?
If you aren't trolling, you will have a very hard time if you ever have a job that requires showing up at 6:00am or earlier! Early morning practices are not unreasonable for a college team. For many student-athletes 6:00am actually works well since it doesn't (usually) conflict with lab classes the way a middle-late afternoon practice sometimes does.
Spanish flu wrote:
Sophomore at a mid-major D1 in the Midwest. I want to see what everyone thinks about this: my coach sets high standards for all of us and holds us to a standard which I’m ok with. But he often gets upset when other kids on the team have other commitments that aren’t always communicated before practice. He also sets practice for early in the morning (between 6:30 and 8am depending on the weather or what we’re doing that day) and expects everyone to be there, no questions asked. I feel like it’s a little much to expect that for every single practice. I feel like sometimes his demands feel like the military instead of a college sport. Did anyone else have a similar experience in college and does anyone have advice on how to bring this up to to him without it coming across as me being soft?
In order to be great you do the sessions whether your coach is there or not. Simple.
Have the conversation with your coach and let him see your training data through garmin.
The goal of every great coach should be to not hold the athletes hand.
Good luck!
Punctuality and communication. Not sure what's wrong with that? Your future employers will be pleased someone introduced those skills to you.