Numbers per stride report.
How does that work? What’s the plan?
Numbers per stride report.
How does that work? What’s the plan?
*19 women.
Planning for the fact that half of them will transfer before their four years are up. Reality of the modern NCAA.
Tennessee has been really active in grabbing transfers with 1-2 yrs eligibility left. Seems like they are trying to rebuild/reload a little each year with established/proven runners
Have you ever heard the expression, "Buy a lot of eggs, throw them against the wall, and see which ones don't crack"?
It seems to show a lack of confidence in their staff. I think they have multiple transfers coming in on both sides, correct?
I'd transfer too if my coach brought in 18 other athletes in one class. Tough to compete with all that. At some point, athletes need individual attention from their coach. And you can't give that attention to 20-30 high end athletes all at once.
Schools can offer more scholarships to the women than the men.
Schools can also offer more roster spots to women than men.
They did say it was going to be a unique structure to how this XC team was assembled. I guess the structure is having a ton people. No doubt they are working hard, looking at HS results across the country, coaching their recruits beforehand to ensure they are prepared for the fall, and scouring current college rosters for who they deem worthy.
Maybe in basketball but in distance running, transferring is absolutely not the norm. Highly doubt anywhere near that many transfer unless they are instructed to do so after a year or two which would be scummy coaching to take so many athletes knowing full well that you’ll force out the half that doesn’t improve quickly enough
way it seems to me is that they already had a small roster- around 15-20 guys and they’re losing a good chunk of them since they’re graduating. So they’re just replenishing all at once. 25-30 guys is a fairly normal distance team size but it definitely is different to fill it up all in one class. I’m sure Carlson has a plan though
Graduating? Or cut from the roster?
Just on their roster right now, here are all the people who transferred in (including the two most high profile members):
Yaseen Abdalla
Dylan Jacobs
Nate Kawalec
Will Cronin
Jacob Lewis
Maybe Sean Carlson is a great coach and took the program to the new heights? And maybe he is a beast at recruiting too?
Maybe already mentioned. UTK has one of the best funded NIL collaboratives in the NCAA. This allows them to hand out bonus or incentive type compensation in larger volume.
…nil collectives
NIL Collective money certainly hasn’t fallen through for significantly more premier athletes at different schools in other sports….
Hi Sean, simmer down now!
How will all these incoming recruits AND transfers receive any real, quality coaching and all remain on full rides (through NIL loot)? The only way it is sustainable is to be able to get rid of non-performing kids (like stated above in basketball).