Yeah, If you put in the effort to hire an assistant that works with the distance crew, that is a great idea.
I am talking more about the colleges that only hire 1 coach to coach both XC and Track. It seems like a lot of colleges use this approach to save money. That situation is what I was addressing. A distance coach can cover both XC and Track and be effective. A sprints coach can be an effective Track coach, but XC takes a hit.
Are you saying that some programs are hiring a sprint or jump coach to also coach cross country as well? If that's the case it makes no sense. No decent director would do that, unless he/she just doesn't want to invest in cross country because that's not the vision for their program. For example I know plenty of staffs who have four distance coaches because they don't invest in the other disciplines.
Because XC is viewed/setup by the NCAA to be a subset of track the result is exactly that... you will have some ADs/universities valuing distance and others valuing track over distance. Pretty simple really.
Are you saying that some programs are hiring a sprint or jump coach to also coach cross country as well? If that's the case it makes no sense. No decent director would do that, unless he/she just doesn't want to invest in cross country because that's not the vision for their program. For example I know plenty of staffs who have four distance coaches because they don't invest in the other disciplines.
Yeah that is what I was saying. There are colleges that are hiring 1 coach (no assistants) to coach Track and XC. If an AD is going to do this, hire a distance coach instead of a sprints coach. Obviously they are not the top tier colleges, but there is a good number of these colleges.
Are you saying that some programs are hiring a sprint or jump coach to also coach cross country as well? If that's the case it makes no sense. No decent director would do that, unless he/she just doesn't want to invest in cross country because that's not the vision for their program. For example I know plenty of staffs who have four distance coaches because they don't invest in the other disciplines.
Yeah that is what I was saying. There are colleges that are hiring 1 coach (no assistants) to coach Track and XC. If an AD is going to do this, hire a distance coach instead of a sprints coach. Obviously they are not the top tier colleges, but there is a good number of these colleges.
So then you're going to have a distance coach working with track events that they know nothing about? Dumb.
Also, I never see college programs with literally one coach and no assistants. Would love some examples (that aren't complete jokes of a university)
I have seen sprint coaches recruit and sign very good distance athletes, domestic and international and those athletes in turn win individually or combine to win team XC titles. It is more common than you think. As a coach its not hard to be well rounded understand other events. It's also easy to recruit when you care about your job and your program doing well. Don't lump everyone into one category
I agree that a sprints coach can help recruit great distance talent for their teams, but can you give an example of a XC title going to a team with a head sprints coach in the last two decades? Pretty sure every D1 NCAA champ team in the last two decades had a distance coach who was also director of track.
I agree that a sprints coach can help recruit great distance talent for their teams, but can you give an example of a XC title going to a team with a head sprints coach in the last two decades? Pretty sure every D1 NCAA champ team in the last two decades had a distance coach who was also director of track.
Uh....Oregon won XC and the Director wasn't a distance coach
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