Some love for Geoghegan and D'Ags of Dartmouth running Ivy records?

how do you pronounce his name?

No idea. I say "George-hogan" but I don't think that's right.

Also, if you Google his name you get results about him checking into rehab to deal with being molested or something. This is NOT the same person, I believe.

Go Georgehogan! Run like you're being molested!

It's pronounced: Gay-Gan.

Just my opinion, but I'm not sure why somebody would care about an Ivy league record. School records have meaning, NCAA records have meaning, but league or conference records I find meaningless.

the only interesting thing about ivy league records is that they are all done by non-scholarship athletes.

Other conferences...there is some historical inteerest in pac 12 I suppose, but not much.

(This is part of my long term project to fight against athletic scholarships.

Meanwhile, 13 year old girls are being asked to commit to play soccer on scholarship for major universities. this is crazy *(&^. )

Respect? This is Letsrun... a place reserved for tearing runners down, offering advice when it's not warranted, etc. Praise and congratulatory messages have no business here.

I heard his name pronounced "Geo-he-gan," is this correct?

runnerdnerd wrote:

Just my opinion, but I'm not sure why somebody would care about an Ivy league record. School records have meaning, NCAA records have meaning, but league or conference records I find meaningless.

I find it meaningful that an Ivy, non-scholarship school had the top milers in the NCAA (Div. I) on both the men's and women's side this weekend. (*Now Geoghegan sits #2, I believe). Not only that, the Dartmouth men currently have three 4:02-or-faster milers.

Dartmouth is certainly proving that you CAN be among the nation's best at an Ivy, and in the northeast.

Oh I agree that their performances are worth being excited about and worth mentioning. I was just saying I don't get the point in being interested in these performances as a league record.Also let's not make the mistake of assuming no Ivy league athletes are on scholarship. They just aren't on a specific athletic scholarship. Plenty of them could be on full rides for academics, or even have money from private scholarships from high school. As an example, I didn't get an athletic scholarship in college, but I did get $2k of scholarship from my high school's boosters based on athletic performance in high school as well as a total of about $15k of academic money, before I even got accepted to a specific school. After I chose my school, I ended up getting a bit more from the school for academics. Better athletes and students than me doubtless have gotten more.

GBG wrote:

runnerdnerd wrote:

Just my opinion, but I'm not sure why somebody would care about an Ivy league record. School records have meaning, NCAA records have meaning, but league or conference records I find meaningless.

I find it meaningful that an Ivy, non-scholarship school had the top milers in the NCAA (Div. I) on both the men's and women's side this weekend. (*Now Geoghegan sits #2, I believe). Not only that, the Dartmouth men currently have three 4:02-or-faster milers.

Dartmouth is certainly proving that you CAN be among the nation's best at an Ivy, and in the northeast.

There is no sport- or merit-based ("full rides for academics") financial aid in the Ivy League. If you get aid from an outside source, your Ivy aid package, which is strictly based on family need, will be reduced accordingly. At each Ivy all the students, not just those competing in athletics, receive aid according to the same formula.

Pretty impressive, especially sounds like a great run by Geoghegan with a fast last lap or two.

I think Korolev's 13:42 at the same meet was also an Ivy record.

it's pronounced go-hegan. or go-he-gun

Go Big Green you dirty mf's