TrueXCFan wrote:
Really? Why are you so mean to Watchout? What did he do to you? I know he has done a lot for the sport. I guarantee you that those kids would love to compete at NXN. Not because they were forced or coerced into it, rather because they want to compete in a national championship. And yes a statistician can be a good coach. They are a very small school. They have some success. No reason to bash him or his kids.
I know some athletes that chose to compete at FLW because they think it woill be easier to get to nationals than through the NXNNW regional meet.
Whether you like it or not, NXN is the only true style national championship. There is a competitive individual championship amongst a competitive team championship.
Thanks for the support, but this is Letsrun so I kind of expect plenty of people to be disrespectful of others. I don't really care if someone takes shots at me, but it is ridiculous that they would take shots at kids I help coach or the success they've had (or not had) while I've been there. Especially when they know nothing of the background information of the kids - and probably meets they attend - to judge in any way what they accomplish.
For the record, I'm not the head coach at my school, and through the years I've helped out (2006+) I've had varying influence on how the kids are trained (some years I've helped a decent amount in what the head coach has had the kids do, others I didn't have time to discuss training with him and played more of a moral support role for the kids at their meets, while other years I've had kids that I've trained directly). I don't think I've done a bad job in the roles I've been put in, and I don't think the kids would have anything bad to say about me either. For trolls on letsrun, I don't expect them to understand because either they've never been a coach before, have had no experience with me in person, or because they say what they say simply because that's the crap they want to say on a message board.