I don't really think he would take a pay cut but based on the fact that he didn't respond to my daughter, it seems likely that he is leaving. That is unless he is a terrible recruiter.
You've apparently missed the threads on here that are talking about how bad college coaches have been recently at responding to high school students.
Many college coaches don't seem to be responding to anyone at all under any circumstances, not even responding to girls who would make the top 5 on their cross country team.
Why does she have to transfer? If Solinsky does leave maybe wait to find out who the new coach at UF will be
If Valby is just finding out right now about her coach leaving, then maybe that is too short of notice for her to decide which school to transfer to before the next semester starts.
But maybe Valby has known about this for awhile and has already made plans.
Well, add him to the list. I was surprised. I sort of thoght this rumor may have some truth to it if he was disregarding his recruiting duties. Maybe he is just bad at it or lazy like most of the others.
Well, add him to the list. I was surprised. I sort of thoght this rumor may have some truth to it if he was disregarding his recruiting duties. Maybe he is just bad at it or lazy like most of the others.
Apparently it's because all the current athletes were given an extra year of eligibility because of Covid, which means there are too many current athletes on the college teams and not enough new spots for incoming freshman right now.
So if a coach doesn't have any open spots then they just don't bother responding to emails. It sucks for high school seniors right now.
It is the opinion of an ononomous message board poster that their girl would be top 5 on college teams. This probably isn't reality, but dreams do sometimes become reality so you never know.
also worth noting, and I don't think I've seen anyone mention this, that while presumably jerry/chris/shalane have similar coaching philosophies (all coming down from jerry), even if Valby transferred to Oregon she'd almost certainly be coached by Shalane not Chris.
Still totally reasonable to want to go over with him, and have a familiar face in the room and someone who can discuss you/your training with Shalane rather than staying at UF and having someone come in who doesn't know you and could change everything about the program, but unlikely Chris would be her day to day coach even if she left
If you actually listened to her online interviews, one of her main motivations to come back last spring was in order to contribute to her team’s Championship Title.
So? Valby wanted to be healthy so she can train with Florida sprinters? So they can run 35 miles per week and spend 2 hours everyday cross training together? Is that what you are implying?
Let me tell you something, Perez and Valby are in the same team but they are not even close. Don't be suprised if Valby goes where Solinsky goes.
Valby said in a recent podcast, she considered west coast schools before choosing UF, but they were too far away and she'd be home sick, so I doubt shes going to oregon
also worth noting, and I don't think I've seen anyone mention this, that while presumably jerry/chris/shalane have similar coaching philosophies (all coming down from jerry), even if Valby transferred to Oregon she'd almost certainly be coached by Shalane not Chris.
Still totally reasonable to want to go over with him, and have a familiar face in the room and someone who can discuss you/your training with Shalane rather than staying at UF and having someone come in who doesn't know you and could change everything about the program, but unlikely Chris would be her day to day coach even if she left
That might be true. But Solinsky understands Valby's injury history and how best to cross train her. So even if Solinsky wasn't Valby's day to day coach he would still have some input into her training, which would be different than the other women that Shalane would be coaching.
Shalane Flanagan is not going to be ok with some random guy coming in and coaching what would be her best runner by a massive margin. Flanagan is charge of the women and she has a gigantic ego.
Flanagan would resent both Solinsky and Valby and would probably start resenting Jerry Schumacher for not letting her coach the best runner on the team.
What? Flanagan's best runner? Who wouldn't even be a possibility if the "random guy" wasn't also coming? Worse take in this whole thread. Flanagan's ego is a problem? Please.