Honestly, please, if you have started or contributed a thread in the past year about what an awful human being you think Wetmore is, do chime in and tell how much you've learned and admit to being a complete and utter moron, because you were.
Honestly, please, if you have started or contributed a thread in the past year about what an awful human being you think Wetmore is, do chime in and tell how much you've learned and admit to being a complete and utter moron, because you were.
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No one thinks he's an awful human being. People think he has flaws as coach, including over-training many of his runners and causing injuries. Winning the NCAA Cross Country Championships doesn't change that assessment. He's won before, and he'll probably win again, but he's also had his fair share of coaching missteps as well. Now perhaps you can you go run along, graduate from high school and learn how to argue something of substance without calling people morons.
Congrats to the CU team, I wish them all the best, but I still think Wetmore is an ass
Californian wrote:
No one thinks he's an awful human being. People think he has flaws as coach, including over-training many of his runners and causing injuries. Winning the NCAA Cross Country Championships doesn't change that assessment. He's won before, and he'll probably win again, but he's also had his fair share of coaching missteps as well. Now perhaps you can you go run along, graduate from high school and learn how to argue something of substance without calling people morons.
Interesting. A concession followed by an attack of someone you do not know nor have ever met. I do so enjoy the powers of clairvoyancy demonstrated on a regular basis by Letsrun.com posters. You need to get yourself to a circus, and right quick. I hear they really go for that kind of talent. But then, maybe the fact that your predictions turn out 100% wrong might hurt you a bit.
I think I'm the opposite. I have always thought Wetmore was a great coach, but that his team took the easy days too hard. This isn't because of him saying so, just how it is done there. It would account for most of said injuries.
"Interesting. A concession followed by an attack of someone you do not know nor have ever met. I do so enjoy the powers of clairvoyancy demonstrated on a regular basis by Letsrun.com posters. You need to get yourself to a circus, and right quick. I hear they really go for that kind of talent. But then, maybe the fact that your predictions turn out 100% wrong might hurt you a bit."
Maybe calling you a Highschooler is giving you too much credit. I'm going to have to go with Junior High after reading this last post of yours. Lets see here, please tell me who am I attacking in this post? I am critical of Wetmore's coaching and I am critical of the tone that you used in your original and your poor argumentative skills (since you somehow equate people's criticism of his coaching with people thinking he's an awful human being.) Don't confuse criticism with attack. Secondly, clairvoyancy is not a word, nor does the actual word you are trying to use match have a meaning that matches what you are trying to say, unless you are calling me "a gifted person who can psychically 'see' auras and people from the afterlife and can see the future or past events." Also, tell me how you go about getting a circus "right quick." That's a good one. And, finally, what predictions I've made that will "turn out 100% wrong," other than to say that I think Colorado will NCAAs again with Wetmore as coach?
"Wetmore Bashers?",
I don't know if this was Californian's point, but no coach is perfect. They always make mistakes. From what I gather (b/c I've never run for, spoken with, or even seen Mark Wetmore the coach) I think that there are some things that he does very well, and others that I would disagree with. But he's the one hired by the AD, not me, and he got the job done and everybody's happy. He's a master tactition, but just keep in mind: Lydiard, Bowerman, Canova -- they all make/made mistakes.
Californian wrote:
Secondly, clairvoyancy is not a word, nor does the actual word you are trying to use match have a meaning that matches what you are trying to say, unless you are calling me "a gifted person who can psychically 'see' auras and people from the afterlife and can see the future or past events."
If you Google "clairvoyancy", you'll find that people who believe in mysticism and other hokey crap use the word quite liberally.
Also, I'm sure that most of us agree that the original poster is an asswipe. I'm fairly confident that we won't find "asswipe" in dictionary.com, either.
Wetmore's runners have not passed the real test yet. How will they do against the top African talent. Lets hope they do not flop like the standford runners
PEople on this Thread are idiots. Who got hurt at Colorado this Cross Country Season. Whoops no one. Billy Neleson was hurt before he got back to boulder from California
Wetmore Bashers? wrote:
Honestly, please, if you have started or contributed a thread in the past year about what an awful human being you think Wetmore is, do chime in and tell how much you've learned and admit to being a complete and utter moron, because you were.
Wetmore is a leg breaker and no amount of championships will erase that. As long as Wetmore gets enough talented runners, enough will survive and not break their legs so that he can win a championship. I would not call this a healthy environment for young athletes. Unfortunately, this championship will give Wetmore another 5 year contract extension to break more legs. I feel for the fallen runners at Colorado that have no voice since nobody cares about them.
Bottom line: every coach has had missteps and mistakes along the way, and no program works for every athlete. But you don't win NCAA titles without being a good coach. Wetmore deserves all of our respect regardless of your training philosophies. The fact remains that some athletes respond to high volume, and some respond to high intensity, and yet others respond to a combination of the 2. The key is matching the athlete and the program. Congratulations to Coach Wetmore on an impressive performance after the loss of some big guns. But congratulations also to Jerry at Wisconsin. An individual champion and 4 points away from the title is nothing to sneeze at (though I am sure it hurts right now).
Absolutely, positively, the biggest bullshit I have heard on Letsrun, muk. You probably run 25 miles a week. Or don't run at all.
2 in a day wrote:
Absolutely, positively, the biggest bullshit I have heard on Letsrun, muk. You probably run 25 miles a week. Or don't run at all.
Sometimes calling the truth bullshit is the only defense. Your statement is a clear example of this. I am not sure how my weekly mileage equates into the issue, but perhaps it does in some odd way that I have not figured out yet.
Hey muk. We must be bros dude!!
Wetmores NCAA XC record-
1999 ranked 3rd coming in the meet, finish 7th
2000 ranked 1st, finish 2nd
2001 ranked 1st, finish 1st
2002 ranked 2nd, finish 4th
2003 ranked 4th, finish 6th
2004 ranked 4th, finish 1st
So Wetmore has done worse than his teams ranking more times than hes done better than it. I still dont see what the big fuss about him is
Then you might want to take into consideration 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 too. Not to mention the women.
listen tards- the guy's the best in the nation- the BEST- B E S T- whether you like him or not- so criticizing him for another year is disrespectful to every coach in NCAA XC- who are all worse than he is- no coach is perfect- but every coach - for the next year- is worse than Wetmore- NEW JERSEY RULES!!!!! BERNARDS BABY
Wetmore coaches teams to championships. That's what CU hired him to do. He's done his job well. Fuck You.
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