rammer wrote:
CoachXCTFsprints wrote:
Congrats to all the coaches getting jobs (young, old, white, black, male and female and so on) It is a gratifying profession that most likely will not reward you well financially but will reward you many other ways if that is what you are looking for. It is so predictable and sad to see the announcements of a new coach hired (an exciting time for that coach and his/her family) and to read the replies which are almost always negative (this person sucks, inexperienced etc.) that this thread produces. Good luck to all the coaches who have decided to pursue this profession and landed jobs.
yes ... also very difficult to judge coaches abilities purely on results - which is how most are judged on here
you can be a great coach but if you are at a school with very limited T/F resources competing against other schools with a much larger commitment you aren't going to have a lot of conf champions or even athletes placing on your resume - let alone all americans
do you develop the runners that you are able to get - are they getting faster and staying healthy
I think some of these schools would be better off either committing to distance or sprints rather than being lower 1/2 in the conference in both - even if severely limited I think you are better off getting 2 very high quality runners for XC and focus on getting them to place high rather than spacing things out to get 7 mediocre runners and place low in the conference
quality over quantity for schools with limited resources and forget about team scores
As a former collegiate athlete I judge my coaches on the impact they made on me as a man and how they taught me lessons in work ethic and dealing with adversity. When I was competing times matter but now being removed from college do I really give a f*** if my 5K could have been a little bit faster? Not really, I would take a coach that makes me a better man over a coach that all they care about is winning no matter what the cost. The funny thing is the best coaches are often the best people, which says something about where intergrity can take you. Don't get me wrong there's plenty of effective coaches who aren't great people, but I still believe that is the exception not the rule.