They need to hire someone who can create a great strong team culture and has ncaa experience and can develop athletes to a high level. The women’s team culture has been horrible for the last 15 years and they need someone that can address this.
if they want to hire a woman Sara Slattery was a head coach for a small D1 school and wrote a book on women’s distance running and how to have longevity in our sport.
wetmore had this coming. eating disorders are a serious issue within distance running among women and men. the most recent example is poor Allie Ostrander and how she and her teammates were treated at boise state. listening to my dad who though anonymous was very elite in the 90s talk about eating disorders and male distance running is heart breaking. nobody’s career should end due to catabolysis or any other eating disorder related reason like my dad’s did. Wetmore was never asking scholarship distance runners to not be obese, he was telling borderline anorexic people to eat even less. he would have an issue with Elle St Pierre’s body type. coaches like Wetmore hate men with anything beyond starvingly lean muscle and women who don’t look 15 years old. people don’t have to be burning muscle instead of fat to be fast and it’s time that people who act this way like him face some consequences.
While the excerpt doesn’t mention the track team using the track, I can personally assure you that they do use the track. Not sure how I can prove it to you, but I hope you can take my word for it.
I've always wondered if wetmore's talk about losing weight and flattering Adam Goucher's thinness in Running with the Buffaloes would eventually hurt Wetmore. I bet it did.
If anything happens to a CU athlete all a lawyer has to do is bring out a copy of Buffaloes and say 'but the U knew this was going on for decades! why didn't CU stop it?'
That book is a smoking gun, in this sense.
But why do they have to stop it? A football coach can tell linemen to get huge and not get fired. A track coach can't tell a runner to be skinny?
Prime can openly brag about cutting and running away all the shitty kids and he gets praised? Think about. How many guys has Prime absolutely ruined in 1 year at CU? THey ahte his guts as he forced them to leave? I bet it's higher in 1 year than all of the runners who are now bitching about Wetmore as they didn't have the body type or discipline to succeed at the top of d1.
Why not Mike Friedburg? He coached a few places after he graduated including NAU, was a walk on who earned his spot and he knows the area/dynamics/altitude. Then have Jenny or someone be the women's coach a lot of schools are doung that with two head coaches. Jerry has Shalane. I think they need someone who knows how to develop kids at altitude it's not easy to go from sea level up and not every kids being recruited to CU comes from altitude (I know from personal experience) the coach has to be knowledgeable and willing to let athletes adjust.
Interesting analysis. I would like to add something, I read the report completely twice and went back and took some notes. I lost my notes, but a significant number of witnesses said they came to CU with eating disorders. Asking the CU XC team to solve a national mental health crisis seems profoundly unfair to me.
Amen. Why isn’t anyone realizing these people were troubled already? How do we know they are telling the truth, not saying I’m doubting them but 14 people out of 30 years of coaching? How come the hundreds of people saying that didn’t happen don’t matter?
I called this back in May. He should have been let go back when CU went to the PAC 12.
Burroughs is the real deal and should get her own program. The throws coach should have been let go a long time ago. The guy has been at CU for 20 years and has one NCAA All-American. Look at his multi at the Olympic trials, 30 meters in the jav, 11 meters in the shot, not good.
Maybe Colorado will go out and get a real coach who knows more than the steeple chase.
While the excerpt doesn’t mention the track team using the track, I can personally assure you that they do use the track. Not sure how I can prove it to you, but I hope you can take my word for it.
They do, but not much. Not like a P4 school should. I mean, they have to halt running to do jumps in there. Good times.
Mike Smith should be on the short list. He's been at NAU long enough to be ready to make a change, and it's usually a good career move as a college coach to go from a non-P4 school to a P4 school.
I doubt she’s interested/certified, but Jenny Simpson would be an interesting pick, or Emma Coburn. Both CU alums at the end of their competitive careers (Emma doesn’t seem ready to admit that yet though). Hiring a woman would definitely start a new era. They might suck at first but I think Jenny in particular could grow into a great coach. She always seemed thoughtful and relatable to me.
I have known about this for awhile now and heard they were heavily interested in a female and alumni/former athlete. I'd pick Sara Slattery, she's coached collegiately as well. However the demands were also what caused her to resign...
Why not Mike Friedburg? He coached a few places after he graduated including NAU, was a walk on who earned his spot and he knows the area/dynamics/altitude. Then have Jenny or someone be the women's coach a lot of schools are doung that with two head coaches. Jerry has Shalane. I think they need someone who knows how to develop kids at altitude it's not easy to go from sea level up and not every kids being recruited to CU comes from altitude (I know from personal experience) the coach has to be knowledgeable and willing to let athletes adjust.
What ever happened to Oscar Ponce? Another alum with name recognition who understands the program culture. Could he be a potential candidate?
Why not Mike Friedburg? He coached a few places after he graduated including NAU, was a walk on who earned his spot and he knows the area/dynamics/altitude. Then have Jenny or someone be the women's coach a lot of schools are doung that with two head coaches. Jerry has Shalane. I think they need someone who knows how to develop kids at altitude it's not easy to go from sea level up and not every kids being recruited to CU comes from altitude (I know from personal experience) the coach has to be knowledgeable and willing to let athletes adjust.
What ever happened to Oscar Ponce? Another alum with name recognition who understands the program culture. Could he be a potential candidate?
Just what the program needs, another coach banging an athlete as an assistant position recruiting tactic.
Why does everyone insist the new coach is distance orientated? How about someone well rounded and can coach more than two milers.I think after 20 years, you should have a multi that throws farther than 30 meters and 11 meters.I call the coaching staff (under Wetmore) lazy.