You don't seem to understand that when the season starts is not up to you and that he absolutely can sit home all summer and dictate what has to be done when school starts. You don't like that. I get it. But it's how it works at every high school in the country.
That's not how it works at 9/10 HSs by me? Coach or proxy should be running base program over summer/ I mean what program doesn't do that?
How it works is that coaches and ADs, not parents, decide when seasons start and what does or doesn't happen in the summer.
What I meant I didn’t speak to him this year, I did have the same issue with him in the past, it’s not just this year, and that’s why I said in the past he lied to me… read through my message. and the same goes with the AD and the principal, I did talk to them in the past 2 years, nothing changed. I am seeking advice here, and I got plenty good ones, no thanks to you. You seem to be irritated because you probably do the same thing as the coach I’m talking about.
What I meant I didn’t speak to him this year, I did have the same issue with him in the past, it’s not just this year, and that’s why I said in the past he lied to me… read through my message. and the same goes with the AD and the principal, I did talk to them in the past 2 years, nothing changed. I am seeking advice here, and I got plenty good ones, no thanks to you. You seem to be irritated because you probably do the same thing as the coach I’m talking about.
No, I don't coach. But I have listened to LOTS of parents who think they know better than the coach (and they sometimes do, perhaps so in this case) who bad mouth the coach behind his/her back and never go talk to the coach. Yeah, you said you talked to him once before about an unrelated subject (JV races in invitationals) and he lied to you. You also said you haven't talked to him, the AD or the principal since because it would be a waste of time. Now your story has changed about that. You seem irritated that I've called you out on not speaking up to the powers that be and your ever changing story, probably because it hits too close to home (see how easy it is to throw out snide comments?) I'm glad you got some advice that may help your son. I'm done.
In high school we ran two invites to start the season, an early season all-league meet, enough dual or tri-meets so all ten teams in league ran against each other once, league champs, district champs, then state meet.
Oh, in my state the coach couldn't work with runners over summer (law).
He could (and did) give us a general training plan, which we could follow or not.
We had runners who trained together, and those were the ones who qualified for state if at times the team didn't.
Championships are won in the summer, but coach is not neccesary.
I can get the disappointment about not being in the meets the OP wants but the complaint about the coach not doing anything over the summer puzzles me because as you say, that isn't keeping anyone from running in the summer.