'If he wanted it easy, he should have stayed at G'Town. You get what you ask for, If I'm the AD at Stanford, "Home of Champions" I'd be asking coaches to stand up as well.'
This is one of the most unintelligent comments I have found on the topic of competitive college coaching. It starts with the fact that competitive college running success for a team isn't easy anywhere. Many teams from Stanford, Gtown, Colorado, Oregon, Princeton, Ole Miss, Syracuse..... have built in advantages ranging from cost, admission standards, available scholarships, facilities....Those combinations are dang near infinite in number as each coach tries to recruit and develop runners. If it was so easy why can't any of them win year in and year out? Oregon seems like it has it all and I think they even missed NCAA XC nationals two years ago. How about Wisconsin? (Well, the current coach has bonked that one).
You think Ohio State with all of it's resources devoted to football has it easy compared to Alabama? Point being even with all the built in advantages of places it is still hard to win in sports. How about Notre Dame football? They seem to have it all but can't win NCAA titles.
I don't think he left Gtown thinking Stanford was an easy gig. He has proven himself to be qualified and highly competent even at Stanford. If he is looking at Notre Dame it might be because he has other priorities in addition to winning NCAA titles. I am sure that his goal is to win NCAA titles but perhaps he wants a few other things that Stanford doesn't provide.
"I'd be asking coaches to stand up as well" is a statement that shows extremely little understanding of the big picture and virtually zero comprehension of what it takes to actually win a championship. Nothing to be ashamed about in winning a title but finishing 4th among 350 teams in the sport is puts you in the top 1.5% of your craft. Highly significant success even with the built in advantages. This because other programs have a different set of advantages.
I hope the statement was a joke because there are a lot of people who think they are experts on this board who either have little knowledge of what they speak about or they have a whole set of other personal issues that prevent them from earning the opportunity that others like Milt have earned.