Cal Poly Coach finally hired

Sorry, I meant Cal State Pomona

HAHAHAHAHAHA

You just belittled everybody on letsrun, then you couldn't get the school right!

Maybe you should go to the Gore Vitter thread. Hypocrite!

skinny runner dude wrote:

HAHAHAHAHAHA

You just belittled everybody on letsrun, then you couldn't get the school right!

Maybe you should go to the Gore Vitter thread. Hypocrite!

HAHAHAAHA YOU'RE A MORON!

I corrected my mistake and made no dramatic and guaranteed claims about who is getting various jobs, which was the point of the post. Apparently you missed that point.

both Cal Poly SLO and Pomona are Cal State schools.

HAHAHAHA wrote:

http://dsa.csupomona.edu/athletics/?nfid=2563

This just shows how full of crap people on Letsrun are. The Letsrun "experts" had this job guaranteed to be going to Mike Powell, with a smaller group saying it would go to Michael Fries.

I also noticed that the University of South Carolina Upstate position went to a man, when the "experts" on here were repeatedly declaring that only a woman would get that position.

Not that I believe anything anyone posts on here, but just in case anyone does.

I don't believe you.

yeah... Cal State Pomona is a cal Poly...

Who is Wade Watkins? They said that he's coached XC @ CPP for 3 years, but he's not even listed in their media guide as a coach for XC.

The job was first offered to Friess. He turned the job down. We don't know if it was offered to Powell before then offered to Johnson.

Stanley Tool shed wrote:

Who is Wade Watkins? They said that he's coached XC @ CPP for 3 years, but he's not even listed in their media guide as a coach for XC.

Watkins is an assistant track coach, pole vault specifically, assigned the position by the new coach. CPP actually had one of their former athletes and former All-American Tony Reyes ready to coach the XC teams as a volunteer. Goes to show how much Johnson cares about the distance program.

I know that the alumni base that donate $$ is made up mostly of former distance runners. The guy that coordinates most of their fund-raising isn't too happy about the way that the distance squads are being brushed aside, and the athletes will be selling candy and having car washes instead of getting alumni support. Will be an interesting first year at Pomona.

I have known Troy personally for the last 12 years. I am confident that Cal Poly Pomona made an excellent choice for head coach. I don't believe that he will neglect the distance program at all. He understands that a team requires all facets and he respects all events. One of the first conversations I ever had with him was in 1995 when he came to Stanislaus to train with us and his friend Geoff Bradshaw (D2 decathalon champ) for a year. We were both in the training room, icing something. I said to him that I'd never have the wheels that he or the other sprinters had to be able to run sub 47 for 400m. He demured saying that he would never have the wheels to run 59 for the last lap of a 10,000. I knew him later at Utah State. He had moved back there to train for the trials and I was doing an MS there. I remember having many conversations about training with him. Finally, after I had been back in Ca. for a couple of years, he was hired for a pittance to come in and serve as the assistant to Kim Duyst. He took a program that had been struggling to produce sprinters and built it into a conferenc player. I know that his athletes at CSUS are really disappointed that he is going.

Good luck, Troy. I know you will do a great job.

I don't know Troy as well as you do, but I think he'll do a good job as well. Hopefully he'll bring in a knowledgeable assistant to coach the distance guys.

midwaste wrote:

Hopefully he'll bring in a knowledgeable assistant to coach the distance guys.

He already has: Wade Watkins, as mentioned above. Formerly the pole vault coach. So far, not such a good job.

CPP has actually posted another assistant position. They hope to have someone hired by September 17th, which is already into the third week of XC.

Great job, Troy!

Although I am somewhat embarassed to say this, Watkins does have some high school coaching experience in cross.