College running standards

Because it doesn't matter if you are better than the guys in their team, it matters if you are better than the guys on the teams they compete against.

If you want the specific answer, ask the specific coach.

Are you saying that you looked up the high school and college PRs of every guy on the team?

No I think he looked at their college stats and saw that if you had the walk on times you’d be their 1st or 2nd best runner

I know what he did. He looked at their first low key dual or intrasquad meet and thinks that a guy who ran 4:22 or 8:45 will not run faster when they will run 4:10 and 8:15 at the end of the season. TFRRS is a wonderful thing.

Usually people look at past seasons to get a general idea, not current seasons

Read his post. He looked at recent results.

Coach watching wrote:

I know what he did. He looked at their first low key dual or intrasquad meet and thinks that a guy who ran 4:22 or 8:45 will not run faster when they will run 4:10 and 8:15 at the end of the season. TFRRS is a wonderful thing.

Most teams have a profile for each runner on their website. If I was curious what kinds of times the current team members were running, I'd just go through the profiles and look at their PRs. Not sure why the OP would sift through meet results when this would be so much easier and more informative.

TFRRs dummy. Click on a team and 2020 and top performances. Much quicker and more accurate than looking at each guy on a team website.

Coach watching wrote:

TFRRs dummy. Click on a team and 2020 and top performances. Much quicker and more accurate than looking at each guy on a team website.

OK. Why are you assuming that the OP didn't do this? He said that he looked at recent results. If one did as you say, they would be looking at recent results, no?

In my experience thats what they want only really for walkons. They really just want to know you at slower schools if they think they can work with you then they'll probably like you more

HSrunning wrote:

I recently reached out to a college coach of a smaller school sealing to find out what their walk on standards were and what they needed for their team. The coach replied with the team’s standards and after looking at the recent results of the team the walk on standards would make you the team #1/2 runner, why do colleges have such high standards of their teams aren’t that fast?

There are a couple teams like this in my experience, not sure why you're getting so much negative feedback. But also, those are the schools I avoided.

Notice how he hasn't provided any additional details after realizing his mistake?

I looked at the schools tffrs and looked at the seasons best performances for the 800m/1mile which showed muliple performances from each athlete at the event