It must be really nice to be a track and field coach because you don't really have to run a fitness test. I think the whole sport is a fitness test.
Either you did your workouts and you want to win and be a part of the team or you didn't. It's cut and dry. Either you are getting better and continuing to get better or you are not.
It must be frustrating to be a coach of a team that has to do fitness tests as well as play a game. You need to be fit and good at a game as well in order to be successful. In order to be great you have to be excellent at both playing and fitness. Great example are the UConn Women's Basketball players. They not only are very talented and great at the game of basketball, but if you just watch them play and see how cut their arms are, you know just how fit they are. Many teams try to play like them, but few look like they have prepared fitness wise like them.
You can't win championships if you aren't fit at the college level.
I'd quit if I had to put up with a team that couldn't be prepared for fitness. I'd be too embarrassed to coach them and would label them as a bunch of people content with losing and being mediocre. I'd be unable to put in the commitment to coach if I knew that the players put in so little commitment to their fitness.
It would be like trying to help the student in the classroom who doesn't pick up their books or show up to class. Why bother teaching these people? It's just wasting your time and effort.
They don't want your help because they don't want to be any good.
If I had to coach a sport in college I think I'd want it to be track and field. Don't have to worry too much about fitness as it's clearly a big part of the normal preparation for the sport.
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