Don't get me wrong. 13:34 (closing in 55 or 56) and 3:39 closing in 56 are great accomplishments.
But I don't know if anyone with those credentials has ever had a worse cross country career. He was 172nd today at NCAAs.
Other cross country accolades include finishing 2nd to last at Pac-12s, not making nationals any other time, running lots of races over 25 minutes etc.
Just mind blowingly contrasting to what he does on the track.
I still don't under how Sandoval has his job
He get's athlete's whose parenst give the school money.
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He is a middle distance runner.
I'd like to see an XC race between Joyce and fellow Pac 12/sub 4/sub 13:40 man Jeremy Elkaim, but unfortunately Elkaim hasn't been on UO's travel squad in over two years.
Now that Metcalf has finally found competency, Tony stands as the all-time champion talent-waster in the PAC 12. It was long tough road...wasting all those runners yet keeping his job; walking that fine line!
K CESAROTTI wrote:
I still don't under how Sandoval has his job
I don't see to many top 1,500 elites running world cross on that level. Just saying.
So can anyone actually find evidence of people having such disparate 5k: XC performances?
Or are the points you're making just based on anecdotes that you think are probably true.
Justyn Time wrote:
Now that Metcalf has finally found competency, Tony stands as the all-time champion talent-waster in the PAC 12. It was long tough road...wasting all those runners yet keeping his job; walking that fine line!
K CESAROTTI wrote:I still don't under how Sandoval has his job
Now that Henner is unemployed, Sandoval is unequivocally the no1 champion talent-waster.
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