Charlie S wrote:
Do an in your face.Form a W team. Recruit all top guys who suffered the same rejection as you did.Train with a goal of entering a XC race as a club and beat the fricking A team.
Re: Charlie S.
that's going to be very difficult. id rather he talk to a coach at a competitor school and see if he can walk on....but definitely transfer schools. It's clear that he's not going to get a great experience trying to be a rebel and running for this school
Re: TO THE OP (original poster)
i knew some kids trying to walk on CU-Boulder- like 9:30 HS 2milers (much faster than i was back in HS). rumor is that at Boulder Head coach Mark Wetmore wont let anyone walk on i heard unless they can run like 26:30 8K at the 1st time trial at the beginning of XC. pretty hard plus Remember it's at altitude too. Well, perhaps not surprisingly, most of these kids who tried to walk on in the fall at CU Boulder, frosh or soph year, are not with the team and because they arent with the team, most of them pretty much quit competitive running are concentrating on their studies and occasionally get back into running doing local road races but are running much slower than they did in high school.
im not dissing these guys for basically giving up, my point of all this is just that it's a shame because if running's important, important to you that is, you should transfer to a school where you'll be part of a team and be coached. because if you're attending a big-time D1 university and training by yourself because you're not good enough to be on the varsity team, it's very likely that your studies are going to dominate and you wont be able to treat the sport as and important part of your college experience (or as important as you desire - and assuming you want to run in college, it sounds as though running must be important to you.
Good luck.