you eh eh wrote:
WIAC be crazy wrote:
I ran in the WIAC. We kicked nobody off. What is the process? D1 coaches go to kids and inform that they are gone. I did not know that D3 coaches could do that.
It's not quite like that.
I ran at a UAA school, I had a friend who was a HJ who max was clearing 5'4, 5'5" in practices. He was a good guy, but was of no use to the team and was somewhat open about using it for resume padding.
Anyway, the coaching staff clearly told him that he could come to practices, but not to expect a lot of attention to be paid, traveling to any meets, or competing at the conference level. It may be D3 but it's not a rec program.
Whether that fits your definition of "on the team" depends on you. He may as well have been the janitor. He basically just stopped showing up after a month or two.
Also ran at a UAA school. Typically, once you were on the team, you stayed unless you had behavioral issues or serious work ethic problems. That does not mean that anyone could get on the team, however. There were recruiting standards. You had to be good in high school or have a great tryout to get on the team because our coaching staff was under serious pressure from the administration to keep the team numbers down. The school straight up told my coach that they would not fund a roster over 35 male athletes, so the 36th guy wouldn't go to any meets. So it was a big roster, but not exactly all comers. Certainly not required to take everyone that showed up.