HS xc dad wrote:
[quote]runn wrote:
I'm a high school coach- Nike is seen as the real thing. Footlocker is for runners who can't make it at NXN so the settle for Footlocker.
FL missed the boat when they let Nike take over and didn't go with the team thing.
Anyone who thinks XC is an individual sport hasn't been watching.
You're a high school coach.
And you think xc is not an individual sport.
Have any of your runners ever been recruited by college coaches?
My kid got letters and calls from about a hundred of them this year and not one of them asked about the team.
Have you had a lot of college recruiters coming knocking to recruit your whole team?
If not, what exactly are you talking about? YOU might get applause from your peers for putting together great teams, but the name of the game for individual kids is individual performance.
Any college coaches reading this? Are you planning on not recruiting the Foot Locker national finalists this year?
Hey Dad,
I'm a coach, had a kid recruited by Stanford (ended up going there, multiple time AA), anyways, what they asked was, would this athlete give up individual track events to be part of a relay? They said, we want runners who put the team ahead of themselves, those are the kind of kids we want.
Just something to think about.