Wetmore out at CU! Who replaces him?

Might be the dumbest post ever on LR. What a moran.

OTOH, as a troll, 2.5/10 because he/she/they got at least one response.

Fingering during a massage might have something to do with it.

Testosterone on his sons might have something to do with it.

I doubt they could get Diljeet Taylor, but that would be cool? Is Diljeet Mormon?

Salazar did not finger her during a massage. That was the accusation. Didn't happen.

Not sure they can do that. NCAA requires a minimum number of sports for D1 and CU does not offer a lot. Plus the athletic department is going better financially thanks to Prime.

Yeah, college administrators take such allegations seriously and also investigate them too.

Let's face it, it might well have been time for a change.

I read the executive summary. First almost half the women reported issues with the body comp testing. That is more than a "few". Second, having probably done more body comps on elite athletes than almost anyone else, the use of that as described is inappropriate. To begin with there is no single "ideal" sum of seven value (the sums of the seven measures are put into a formula that gives an estimate of body fat %). Any coach who thinks that really needs to be evaluated for how well they understand this. One person can run well at 14% and crappy at 12% (leaving out the error in the measurement issues). So lower is not always better.

Also, rather than a focus on improving times, the shift seemed to be changing eating or training to reach some mythological figure for sum of seven. Again, isn't the outcome you want faster times or better placing and not a score on a lab test? (As a guy who once loved lab testing athletes this is still a little hard to write.)

Some of the other things such as pitting athletes against one another is dicey since that happens in sports. You have 7 runners you can enter in a meet so a few people are competing for those final spots. I think there are ways to develop all your runners and reduce that sensation, but some of that is inherent.

Also, sharing the body comp results with other athletes is not ethical. (Athletes are free to share, but staff should never share individual data.)

Also, technically they did not fire him. Not renewing a contract (from a legal perspective) is very different from firing a person.

Let's also face that the last national title came in 2018. Incoming freshman runners for the fall of 2024 were not in high school yet. Many might not even have been running as their primary sport.

Did anyone else see the Daily Camera (local Boulder newspaper) article tweeted out this morning (and then soon after deleted) titled: "CU Boulder alum, Dathan Ritzenhein, set to take over the men and women's cross country and track and field programs following Mark Wetmore's departure"?

Would be surprising since that job is way more of a pain than his current gig. Probably pays more, though.

Also, it costs them nothing since they did not fire him. They did not renew his contract.

The men won in 2021 and 2019. CU had a great run that ended in 2016 (That is a very long time ago in college athletics where the incoming frosh were 10 years old.) Women won in 2022 and 2021.

Coaching post-college athletes seems in many ways a way better gig than being a college coach. Maybe not the stable income, but also coaches get fired...

CU is CU due to Merk Wetmore!!! He built that program into a National Power Period! He deserves better than this BS Crap! He should have been able to leave on his own accord when he wanted, and thrown a Huge Retirement Party by CU!! He is VERY respected by the Peers that he cares about though. He doesn't give two craps what this young weak soft generation thinks of him. He will retire in style and know that he built a LEGEND! Congrats Mark! Kick back and laugh

This rule is ripe for being changed. With all the changes coming to the NCAA the minimum sports requirement seems like it's living on borrowed time. Whether it will require a lawsuit or the SEC and Big10 leaving the NCAA all together, I think the vast majority of us agree that non-revenue men's sports are in big trouble:

forbes.com

NCAA Division I’s 14-Sport Minimum Rule Is Ripe For Antitrust Challenge

Marc Edelman

If college presidents and their allies continue to claim that the NCAA Division I 14-sport minimum rule is the reason why they cannot invest more into intramurual sports or pay their commerical athletes, it is time to bring a...

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She is not Mormon

Hey maybe CU would at least start getting Niwot athletes.

CU is CU because of 1) Boulder and 2) altitude. Boulder has always been a running mecca. In the 80s and 90s you couldn’t throw a rock and not hit a professional runner. Wetmore had a successful tenure, but the idea that nobody else could have taken a program that is located in one of the most popular places to be a serious runner on the planet and turn it into a national power is silly. Of course, many people could have screwed it up. He deserves some of the credit, but location, location, location deserves some of the credit as well.

How do you know?