Is Fernandez the next Jeff Nelson

Oh and to sight my knowledge of what happened to Nelson at Oregon. It came from an All American who ran for Oregon in the 80's with Salazar and Nelson. I won't name his name, but he's legit and has told me many stories of that era at Oregon.

Well if that is the case, you have to credit Salazar because it certaintly seems that he has gotten out of that ultra-competitive mindset in his older age as a coach. His guys love running for him and with their teammates and are having tremendous success.

German is the next Haile - sucks at XC. It is what it is.

From Pete Magill's blog: LetsRun thread, "Is Fernandez the next Jeff Nelson" - amazing, Fernandez has a bad xc finale and people forget that he set the NCAA indoor mile record as a freshman and ran in the 13:20s for 5K ... and as for Jeff, he won the Cal JC xc meet by about two minutes, then decided to hang up the running shoes, play in a rock 'n' roll band, and then settle down with his current wife (assistant coach for Saugus, one of the best girls xc teams in the country) and a couple great kids, and he remains one of the nicest guys on the planet ... yeah, let's hope Fernandez doesn't do that

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Dellinger ... definately didn't make freshman feel welcome. Sure if you are a Salazar, Cruz or the likes I'm sure he gave those guys a descent welcome.

Not to spoil your excellent post, but Nelson arrived in Eugene with better credentials than Salazar originally did.

Yeah I find it hard to believe that an 8:36 guy wouldn't be treated well

All the post race photos I have seen with German in them he is smiling and appears to be very happy. Why, because of DS and his teammates. Smith will not throw away the defending NCCA 1500 champ. His teammates seem to say something about GF in most of their interviews. It seems he is well liked by his coach and teammates. With their support he will not fall as JN did. I can't wait until the spring when GF defends his NCCA 1500 title.

i was curious last year about something but never posted it.

since fernandez had several injuries throughout high school and has now had several injuries throughout his still short college career, i was curious if dave smith would formulate a plan for fernandez that would become part of his routine training to prevent future injuries. i'm sure if what he's experience is the same thing recurring, but it seems obvious that fernandez is going to need to be doing either certain things different from the rest of the team or extra things that are different from the rest of his team, because his situation of being prone to injury is definitely not like anyone else on the team.

i didnt post because i thought, 'oh, smith is a veteran and proved top ncaa coach- i'm sure he knows what he's doing', and i'm sure there would be plenty of people on here to tell me, 'you think you know better than dave smith?'

no, i don't think i know any better than smith, but i do know that fernandez consistently recurring injuries is not like anyone else in the top 5 guys he trains with.

to clarify about what i mean by doing 'extra things differently' or 'certain things differently', i mean core exercises, plyos, swimming, the 200 pushups and situps he use to do everyday in high school. i don't know, but something to keep his body strong and sound. and maybe smith is doing this but fernandez just has certain issues. the questions is, who knows?

I'm sorry but you are either lying or your friend is the biggest bitter pvssy in the history of mankind.