Lol, OP must be a mediocre DI player.
This is what makes DIII Great!
Division two and three are schools have sports so inferior athletes can play.
Does not count for what?
Reallynowpeople wrote:
Division two and three are schools have sports so inferior athletes can play.
Meh. Division I isn't the top just by definition. LOTS of kids run Division I that would not make the varsity team at my daughter's high school.
The BEST Division I school are better than the best Division III schools, but the Middlebury or Johns Hopkins women's CC teams would beat a TON of Division I teams.
Remember that Cleveland State is a Division I team...go look at the times on that team.
I'm choosing D3 over D1 with a 4:19/1:56
The only reason DIII schools have sports is so upper class preppy kids can say they are athletes.
deethreeisJV wrote:
The only reason DIII schools have sports is so upper class preppy kids can say they are athletes.
And D1 has sports so the hood rats and meathead jocks of the world who can barely spell their name can make millions in a meaningless career.
Well, in theory college athletics are part of the educational experience. In my view, a high rate of participation in intercollegiate and intramural sports is part of a healthy educational environment -- learning to be a spectator of your local minor league (aka BCS) football team is not. Striving to improve and maximize your skills is a positive, not everyone is going to be a world class athlete, but there is value in the effort.
Please, enlighten us as to what your career is. I'm sure it's really meaningful. There are like 8 people on the planet who have a career that is legitimately making a difference. And I would put 2 athletes in that group of 8 people.
I'm sick and tired of hearing people say that athletes are undeserving of the money the make. For myself (and for many others) sports are one of the greatest things in the world. In a world that is consumed by technology to the point where you can barely get a young person to look up from their goddamn cell phone, sports remain one of the few pure things left in the world. Sports are full of more passion, emotion, and desire than almost any other endeavour in the world. These athletes sacrifice their entire life to make it to the top, and they deserve every penny they get. What else in this world can move a man to tears, or to scream in ecstasy, or to rage in frustration? Sports can. I'm not so sure that sports aren't the greatest thing in the world.
The OP, while most likely trolling, also simply is unfamiliar with Grinell Basketball and their system. Since this is a running board, I will let it go. 109 points is nothing for Grinell players, in fact last year or the year before they had a guy score over 130 pts. Their coach runs a system that is much more similar to hockey than basketball. They rotate almost the whole line up every few minutes. They are required to shoot ever X seconds and shoot a 3 every y seconds. If a player is taking that many shots and is shooting at a decent percentage, they are going to score a ton of points.
Horse wrote:
deethreeisJV wrote:The only reason DIII schools have sports is so upper class preppy kids can say they are athletes.
And D1 has sports so the hood rats and meathead jocks of the world who can barely spell their name can make millions in a meaningless career.
And LetsRun is for u to b1tch about them all...
Horse wrote:
And D1 has sports so the hood rats and meathead jocks of the world who can barely spell their name can make millions in a meaningless career.
Also, so I have an NFL team to bet on and create a fantasy league around. I don't have to play that sport, I'll let that large man hit himself over and over until he has brain damage.
Nick Symmonds and Will Leer.
you sound like a retard - 8 people who have meaningful careers and 2 are athletes LOLOLOLOL
deethreeisJV wrote:
The only reason DIII schools have sports is so upper class preppy kids can say they are athletes.
The reason D3 schools have sports is so they can get kids to come to their school. Give them enough financial aid to be priced just below the state schools and good (not great) high school athletes can continue their sports careers. It's a pipeline to keep enrollment up. College degrees are more of a commodity now anyways, except for all the Ivy Leaguers on Letsrun, so it's actually not a bad deal for kids. Pay less than the state school, do your sport, get your degree.
you're a corny douche...top 5 DII cross country teams are better than the majority of D1 teams..so you get your irrational mediocre bitchass out of here
The rest of the civilized world laughs at how seriously American colleges take themselves. Really, no-one gives a crap about Western Buttfvck State Community College making it to the Northeastern Central Kentucky Division 12 (West) pingpong quarter finals.
corny wrote:
you're a corny douche...top 5 DII cross country teams are better than the majority of D1 teams.
But you still have to run at Baby nationals. Baby.