Wetmore out at CU! Who replaces him?

nobody. dropping CC/TF for budgetary reasons

COACH PRIME, BABY!!!

I'll go ahead and get it started: Brosnan. It's inevitable on this site anyway...

You should be outed if they stay at CU. You start these threads every few weeks. Piss off.

runnersworld.com

Coaches Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs Are Out at Colorado

A 2023 investigation into the use of body composition analysis within the program showed significant numbers of athletes were negatively impacted.

Open link

They gone.

This job will get a ton of attention from top coaches. It may be one of the few programs with which you can take on NAU consistently. Altitude, great trails...it is expensive, but you can live nearby for somewhat normal costs. What coaches/athletes have a past connection to CU?

Ritz and Vig on the high level coaching side stand out.

Good call

Would be a step down for Ritz.

Taken down by a couple disgruntled runners. Not sure how much longer they intended to stay anyway as CU was getting out recruited on a regular basis - so maybe it was time for a change.

I was under the impression that body composition analysis was a better alternative to caliper tests? Now they can't even do that without worrying who will be negatively impacted by the results.

Brosnan will now need to decide whether he wants to coach at FSU or CU.

It’s only a step down if he cannot continue coaching his pro athletes and take this job at the same time. But we saw how well that has worked out for the Bowerman group.

We are at the end of the school/fiscal year. Unless CU has been quietly recruiting a new coach, I'd venture that Jenny Simpson is a one-year gap/audition while they conduct a full search and/or assess how they stand in the new Big XII against BYU, Utah, and OK State.

What a BS way for Wetmore to go out

Gjert Ingebrigtsen

Skeleton with a condom pulled over ya

"But others—including Lesley Higgins, who ran for CU from 1998–2002, and
several more recent athletes, many of whom asked to remain anonymous for
fear of backlash—reported being encouraged to maintain low body fat or
match other athletes’ scores on body composition testing."

A Division 1 coach asking an athlete who is receiving money to perform to maintain a body fat % that is conducive to elite performance. The horror.

You can't be fat and be a good distance runner. Why this is suddenly taboo is beyond me.

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.

I agree but do we all know the context of the discussions with the athletes? What was the manner in which they were encouraged to maintain a low body fat percentage. There’s probably a correct way to do it and a wrong way to do it.