It's easier to recruit than to coach.
It's easier to recruit than to coach.
Danicmic1 wrote:
I think if you have a young family, it is very difficult to balance all three. Something always has to give.
We have a winner.
The reality is there is only so much time in a day.
Coaching is coaching. Coaching college and pros is doable.
Coaching college and pros while raising a family is much harder.
And coaching both genders in college and pros while raising a family us harder still.
Mike Smith was c oaching men and women at NAU. That's six seasons of competition (xc, indoor/outdoor x 2) . Add in 2 each for the pros (indoor/outdoor x 2) and that's 10.
If you are a single sexed coach, you are coaching 3 seasons of competition in college. Add in 2 pro seasons and it's five.
I should also add in the toll of recruiting. Recruiting is the most time intensive of it all.
I know Eyestone has a few track athletes as well but coaching marathoners also is a less time/ travel intensive than the track runners.
Young and Mantz only race a few times per year. I doubt Ed goes to the non major road races.
Coaching a 1500-10k group requires more time at meets.
The way the college schedule has organized itself over the last few years, coaches are gone half the spring.
Azusa/ Mt Sac/ LA weekend- 4 or 5 days.
Conference 4-5 days
Regionals- 4-5 days
Nationals- 5-6 days with travel.
Thats not including any other meets that are squeezed in there.
If you are a pro, do you really want to see your coach once a week for a workout from mid April until USAs?
Spread Thin wrote:
“Coaching both NAU and the pros felt like a tempo run started way too hot—you can fake it for a while, but everyone knows how that ends.”
-Mike Smith-
His point, you don’t double dip at the highest level you dilute. College is a full-time grind. Pros are a full time grind. Trying to run both is just ego pacing… and the wheels always come off.
Coach Taylor’s system works at Brigham Young University and pretty much only at BYU. From a coaching standpoint, it’s almost impossible not to succeed there. But there’s a reason pro athletes who didn’t come through BYU aren’t lining up to run for her so-called pro group