Sounds like your frustrated and eager to improve-motivated but annoyed at your coaches methods. Suggest going alone and sorting your own schedules or join another local club.
Perhaps have a talk with your current team mates and form a breakaway group in order to have some training partners to work and train with regularly.
This football coach does have some strange ideas- suggest you part company!
Q: How is it that these former football players manage to get jobs coaching track? Just curious how that works. Can former runners get jobs coaching football?
Pissed off Nevada HS Runner wrote:
Mine's worse. Never ran, he was a football player/sprinter in high school and college. Never sent a runner to states. Of 16 years of coaching, we've won ONE, yes ONE, district title. That wasn't because of his coaching though, it was because they were all pretty talented guys and everyone else sucked that year. Claimed that when I was running 35 second 200's with a 1:00 jog rest in-between reps that I was "only running 6 minute mile pace", when the workout clearly didn't point to that at all. I've been training by myself all of summer, then he appoints a kid with a criminal record and failing grades, that finished horribly last in track in both his events (he got lapped by 4 runners from the opposing school, finished slower than a girl) to the title of team Captain. Also got me sidelined for 3 months by forcing me to do a workout that I knew would get me injured (I told him I shouldn't do it) yet he insisted. When I brought it up, he blamed me for it and said I just shouldn't have done it, despite his insistence.
We never won a district title in the 2nd least competative district of PA. We have had a team for 51 years.
Your coach seems worse though. And yeah the ony people that made State were a few talented kids.
Bell Lapper wrote:
Q: How is it that these former football players manage to get jobs coaching track? Just curious how that works. Can former runners get jobs coaching football?
Well, football coaches need that coaching stipend money, and since football is a Fall sport, and Track a Spring sport, it's a good way for the football coaches to get a little extra cash in their pocket.
It's difficult to find people who want to be a Track head coach - many distance coaches just want to focus on their own guys, not sprinters/jumpers/throwers, so it's an easy move for an AD to give the job to one of their football coaches.
The bottom line: there are lots of football coaches who aren't earning any money in the Spring, and Track is a good way to get that stipend money.
Now, as to why a football coach is coaching distance guys, or XC, I don't know. XC and football are in the same season, so most (good) football coaches already have something to do in the Fall.