Solinsky to Oregon

Mouse coaches them actually

I have two children who contacted Solinsky. They would have been top 5 upon arrival. He did not respond either time.

Mickey or Minnie?

Florida gives him credit for it and Barrett has been quoted as saying her coach is Solinsky.

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Chris Solinsky - Cross Country Coach

5th Season at Florida 5-time NCAA Division I National Champion 4-time SEC Champion Chris Solinsky, enters his fifth season as an assistant coach for the

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I can't see the instagram content so I don't see any internet confirmation. He's in close contact with Jerry, as he mentions in the Valby interview after NCAA's, and with her at this level but no other athletes anywhere near, it's likely this is the height of what he can achieve at Florida, so, like Brosnan, it would make sense for him to take advantage of the leverage he has right now to get a better job. Plus, he lived in Oregon for a long time, so it's a bit of a homecoming for him, if this is true. What wife would not want her man to get out of that situation before it became a problem? But then his leverage might actually come from the fact that Valby would bring enormous value to Oregon's distance program immediately and validate Jerry's hiring instantly, and she would have no top coach if he left and still have no teammates close enough to her level to help her training. So, if he's going, expect her to go even though she went to hs in Florida.

I don't see Parker Valby staying at Florida if Solinsky leaves.

But I don't think it's a guarantee that Valby will transfer to Oregon. There are several other top distance schools that might be more to her liking than Oregon. Plus closer to her friends and relatives in Florida.

Hey would she leave a great school in a great area with a team who is winning national championships? There isn't a better situation anywhere.

She would be losing her coach. Plus she still doesn't have any other fast runners to train with.

Florida's best shot at keeping Valby would be to have the new coach already chosen and make sure Valby approves of the new coach.

How many distance coaches do they need over there

Perhaps this is the start of the BTC rebuild? Maybe Valby signs nil deal with Nike as part of this?

More than they have. Remember that they are coaching both a college team and a pro team.

If Valby is smart that's exactly what she would push for. "I'll transfer to Oregon only if I get a NIL deal like Touhy just got."

And I bet Nike would give it to her.

So don’t know, but I suppose an extra perk probably wouldn’t hurt. I mean, c’mon, this is going to be hugely disruptive to her current training environment and home lifestyle. She might have been assuming life-events would move along around the age of 22. But now, all of a sudden, this!

I checked and don't see anything on instagram

Does she even have an agent, yet? She probably could use some professional counsel, independent of her coach. And the clock on the current transfer window is ticking down.

I wish our sport had trusted reporters who could either break news or confirm rumors such as this one. The NBA has Woj bombs, why can’t we get something similar for track and field? @letsrun staff: can you please reach out to Solinsky about this?

He had a post that said in the visible part without clicking on it that he'd rather be the guy who said, "I've done that," than the guy who said, "I should've done that."

Before NIL, students couldn't hire an agent without the intention of going pro.

But with the new NIL rules I'm not sure how that works. Are agents now split into "professional running" agents and "NIL only" agents?

In any case, yes, I agree that she could use some advice from someone who isn't her coach.

If there is a distinction in rules between agents, Ray Flynn, for example, puts on an ‘NIL hat’ for collegiates, and then a ‘Pro’ hat for professional athletes?

The agents probably get versed in any additional stipulations with NIL deals, but this is a fairly new landscape, so maybe the rules are getting made up by the stakeholders on the fly. 🤷‍♂️