College recruiter priorities - XC vs. Indoor vs. Outdoor vs. Road Race

Outdoor > Indoor = XC >>>>>>>> roads

Does he have outstanding marks from his junior year outdoor? If he is kind of a known quantity, say a sub 9 guy as a junior, he can get away with almost anything unless he wants to run for Oregon or the like.

If he is more like a 9:1X junior who does better on the longer road distances, he needs to find some open XC races and do say Footlocker regionals to show where he stands vs the other recruits.

"He isn't a head case or bucking the authority of coaches."

OK say a coach buys this but is he dumb as a post or mostly parent coached/schooled?

We haven't see this yet in track, but football and basketball has been trying to enroll kids in the spring to get them ready for the next year. I wonder if the college coach is directing this?

But to answer your question, more emphasis is placed 1. place and 2. junior year track times. Once you get in senior year, its cross county, track season is almost too late to quality programs to start up the recruiting process with kids. Although, coaches will go after good kids right up to the last minute.