Imagine never hiring someone because they don't have experience. What came first - the job or the experience? It's like the chicken and egg paradox
Imagine never hiring someone because they don't have experience. What came first - the job or the experience? It's like the chicken and egg paradox
coachy wrote:
Have they always done a time trial in early July?
I believe so. Since 2014 at least.
https://www.gohsathletics.com/page/show/6432190-time-trials-resultsWho cares? It's high school.
Nathan Lennox of Great Oak is an incoming junior not senior as listed in the article.
He ran the Cool Breeze freshman race in 2019.
Toilet Poster wrote:
Pope T-Bag II wrote:
Exactly. That coach's only job is to make her boss' job easier. Not to be competitive. How do you make the AD's job easier? Keep ANY and ALL issues off their desk. Having an elite program with dozens of kids does NOT do that. That's also why the AD wasn't going to go with a Doug Soles disciple but probably someone she trusted as a teacher on staff not to make problems. That simple.
No way that a school like Great Oak is this stupid and/or incompetent to want to sandbag a program because it means that the AD has to "do more work" and it comes with "drama". The good publicity and happy parents (who donate money to the school) outweighs the "drama" and small amount of paperwork. Parents will donate more money to the school and athletic department if their kid is doing good and winning. What "drama" even comes with a nationally competitive program? Milesplit and FloTrack writes some articles about you, comes to your school once a year to film a Workout Wednesday, and some people on the internet debate if your team will win NXN this year or not. That seems like nothing and the AD is a marshmallow if they can't handle that. If the AD is as incompetent as y'all seem to imply they should be fired and replaced with the guy who was AD at my high school. He was a football guy who knew nothing about running but even he had enough sense to sign off on whatever our program wanted. The head coach did all the work (scheduling, fundraising, talking to parents, etc.) He even had the brainpower to give head cross country coach the head track and field coach job (both indoor and outdoor) which came with a nice raise to keep the coach from leaving for a D3 position.
Happens all the time. Why did they hire someone with zero coaching experience then?
beodnight wrote:
The article states that Doug Soles didn’t know sh!t about running when he got hired so why would anyone care about new candidate background? My high school coach didn’t know jack about running and I ran 9:08 for 3200m. But he knew everything about motivation.
+1 million
Monopoly money wrote:
Looks like a dynasty has come to an end. Many programs would be happy with those results, but big drop off from previous years.
Are the chances of Great Oak boys and girls going to NXN over now?
I thought I had read articles stating that families look to move into homes in the school districts of some of the top HS cross country or track teams. I wonder what some of these parents and athletes are thinking now.
In the 70's and 80's it was not uncommon for some families of talented basketball players to move into the school district of a state powerhouse basketball program. It helped that the families got help with housing and jobs for the parents. The school eventually got busted for breaking the rules.
blehof wrote:
coach_rodney wrote:
Why is Soles leaving the program?
Because his family doesn’t want to live in California anymore.
https://ca.milesplit.com/articles/292481/breaking-doug-soles-to-resign-from-great-oak-program
He might be back. Larry Elders is hopefully about to become governor. Thank goodness because California is a beautiful state that’s been destroyed by democrats.
It’s called the teachers Union. They don’t care about her actual running coach experience or ability to coach. They care that she’s a “Union teacher in the building.” This is how Democrats operate.
Article from last August genius.
sadfdfsf wrote:
Who cares? It's high school.
Then why are you in the high school section of letsrun if you don’t care?
Even with that, the boys team autoqualified
sadfdfsf wrote:
Who cares? It's high school.
Notice how many threads this was said in. This means that a lot of people care.
14 sub-10s this year. 7 nonseniors.
You could say that the boys program didn’t disappear
not the fastest times at least much slower compared to last years but faster than the 2021 team that got 2nd to newbury at state and 7th at running lane. boys should be a state and national contender again however the girls look horrendous they may be finished for good
calpolyslobro wrote:
not the fastest times at least much slower compared to last years but faster than the 2021 team that got 2nd to newbury at state and 7th at running lane. boys should be a state and national contender again however the girls look horrendous they may be finished for good
The girls team was finished last year already. They took 12th at the state meet in the merge, and 3 of their top 5 (4 of their top 7) graduated.
Their team appears to getting smaller too (not sure how many girls did or didn’t choose to do the time trial).
Only 4 freshman and 2 sophomore girls in this race. If no other freshman or sophomore girls are doing XC, it appears suspect, especially for a school with 3000+ people
What the hell was that? Freddie Crittenden just ran 18 seconds in the hurdles
Kara Goucher failed to speak for 1 minute and 27 seconds after the race.
How much does someone like Ryan Crouser make? Why not join the NFL?
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