My daughter attends a Big Ten school, runs T&F and XC.
She was provided with one pair of Pegasus for the entire season. She overpronates severely and inquired about replacing with Structure Triax or Zoom Elite. She was told to purchase an orthoticm (at her cost) and place it in the Pegasus.
Is this normal for a D1 school? Cheap bastards!
What school?
Ohio State
Michigan State
Penn State
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Purdue
Really?I find that hard to beleive.I give my athletes a new pair of trainers every 500 miles.
Yes, this is normal. It seems to me you are the cheap bastard...
if your daughter sucks it is normal
Some athletes are "on scholarship" for just shoes or just books.
I love it when kids or parents say they got a scholarship to a DI school. When in reality its amounts to very little.
20 years ago, Illinois only gave $40 for shoes per semester to it's athletes.
whatthe? wrote:
My daughter attends a Big Ten school, runs T&F and XC.
She was provided with one pair of Pegasus for the entire season. She overpronates severely and inquired about replacing with Structure Triax or Zoom Elite. She was told to purchase an orthoticm (at her cost) and place it in the Pegasus.
Is this normal for a D1 school? Cheap bastards!
Funny thing is the coach might read this, know the situation explained and then know you called him a bastard online.
It all depends on how good your daughter is. I go to a big ten school and my freshman year i got two pairs of shoes, one in the fall, one in the spring. As i got faster and more competitive i got more shoes
whatthe? wrote:
My daughter attends a Big Ten school, runs T&F and XC.
She was provided with one pair of Pegasus for the entire season. She overpronates severely and inquired about replacing with Structure Triax or Zoom Elite. She was told to purchase an orthoticm (at her cost) and place it in the Pegasus.
Is this normal for a D1 school? Cheap bastards!
If shoes were that big of a deal.....your daughter should have checked this out before going to the school.
Mens program is allowed to choose from the catalog, 2 pair and allowed spikes.
She ran 17:50 HS. She is not on scholarship.
It is not a big deal douchebag, I was just curious if that is normal.
If you would have attended school, would you have asked "how many shoes do I get per season" and would that have been the deal breaker?
At our school shoes were given in accordance with how good you were. The better you were, the more gear you got. I would say most programs work like that.
The walk-ons got a pair of shoes per season, while the scholarship guys got pretty much whatever they wanted.
Is she top 7? If not, minimal free stuff.
First off as a parent you are not very wise to come on a message board and state what you did. Many coaches come on and read this. It would probably be easy to figure out if one of my athletes parents wrote on this board. I find it hard to believe that your daughter actually did run 17:50 in HS and didn't get a scholarship. There isn't one Big10 school that that time wouldn't be in the top group. I could (but won't) list about a dozen young women runners who are at 6-7 Big10 schools getting scholarship money that didn't run anywhere close to 17:50 in HS. I know for a fact that sub-18:00 in HS got full scholarships at 3 Big10 schools since I recruited the athletes. I think what most coaches do is as the athlete gets better they give more equipment. But I still find it hard to believe that a 17:50 won't get at least 2-3 pairs of shoes.
Maybe the easiest thing to do would be to pick up the phone and call the coach and ask what the policy is.
Good luck.
It does not depend how good she is. This school is a joke when it comes to track and field. But at least she doesn't go to a baby school that competes in those adorable little baby nationals. Chico State you are soooooooooooooo cute when you compete at your special little event. I'll cherish those moments forever. GOO GOO GA GA. XXXOOOO
My school gives me 0 shoes. We pay for our own warmups. I often find myself paying my own way across the nation to run track meets. We have basicaaly no training room and no fancy training equipment. When we do travel, we stay in cheap hotels. And I get no scholarship money.
But, I can still beat 98% of D1 runners.
I think it's funny that a guy who has a daughter in college uses the term douchebag. Letsrun really has helped you.
Momoneymoproblems wrote:
Some athletes are "on scholarship" for just shoes or just books.
I love it when kids or parents say they got a scholarship to a DI school. When in reality its amounts to very little.
Yes, this was always good for a laugh (or at least a rueful chuckle) when I was coaching. Many, many times a student turned down a DIII school and took the DI scholarship "to help pay for school" when I *knew* that the total cost for the student was lower at the DIII school, which (in some cases) was considered to be the academically-stronger school.
In other words, the family ended up paying *more*, at a lesser school, just so they (Dad) could say that Little Suzy Creamcheese got a scholarship, which often amounted to less than a thousand dollars.
OTOH I know some savvy DI coaches at lower DI schools who rely on this phenomenon. They can actually fill their squad by splitting up the one or two tuition-only scholarships that the school doles out to them annually, giving $500 to this kid and $800 to that. Granted, you'll rarely get a kid who qualifies for Nationals, but you might get a bunch--20 or more--who could score in your conference meet and can say that they're "on scholarship."
Do you realize that other officials of your Big 10 school read what you post, as well as folks from Nike?Calling your school cheap, especially one of the seven Nike-sponsored schools is not very smart. All seven Nike schools in the Big 10 have multi-million dollar all-sports deals!Have fun looking for a team for your daughter after the coaches run her off.
whatthe? wrote:
My daughter attends a Big Ten school, runs T&F and XC.
She was provided with one pair of Pegasus for the entire season. She overpronates severely and inquired about replacing with Structure Triax or Zoom Elite. She was told to purchase an orthoticm (at her cost) and place it in the Pegasus.
Is this normal for a D1 school? Cheap bastards!
I walked on a Big Ten team in college. My first two years I got my ass handed to me. I got a pair of shoes a year, and warmups. I didn't dare ask for more, and I probably wouldn't get more than that if I did ask.
My last two years I proved myself a bit, ran some decent races, and competed at Big Tens. Those two years I got several pairs of shoes, pretty much when I needed them.
Just because you're on the team does not mean that you have free access to the equipment room, you have to earn it. Your daughter is lucky they gave her one pair of shoes, and that they put up with coaching her, since they don't even have to do that.