What's happening with Oregon Distance?

Not with the money they put into the training facility inside new Hayward.

Bowerman and Dellinger had Mac Court and nothing else to train inside.

I'm surprised they didn't even go for a DMR Weekend mark, but generally no one but Cook was in a position to do anything indoors, where they have no conference meet, no regional qualifier, no home meets, which is basically all their outdoor season is.

Next year they have coming in

Burns 3:58/8:43i

Birnbaum 3:59 at 16

Watcke 1:49i

I'm curious about this whole turf approach too. Are they doing most of their workouts on turf? And why? The energy return seems to make it much harder especially for some athletes. And do they do sessions indoors, or is it all outside?

Also, I really appreciate the insights from some of the posts.

Well said. Also it's well-known that many runners struggle in their first year under Jerry given the intensity of the program. He likely recognizes that and is redshirting a lot of the team to be even better next year.

I think Oregon will likely not be placing an emphasis on indoor track. Especially with no indoor conference meet there is really no pressure on the distance athletes to go time chasing like the rest of the country does. Will be interesting to see how the team turns out in the spring.

they were going to have a down year anyway with most of their roster from last year done and in a new system.

Lol only if you recruit immature men I guess? You have support staff who help you with keeping these kids in line. You have the leverage at Oregon to cut a kid who can't hack it.

What happened to Rheinhardt Harrison? 3:59 in high school last year but has pulled the classic freshman disappearing act at Oregon. I don't believe in redshirting. Put him out there.

I think jerry would disagree with this, he probably doesn't want them racing for nothing (national qualifiers would be hard to get considering the relative talent of the team compared to the rest of the ncaa) early in the season and wants to get in a solid chunk of uninterrupted training under his program, if they don't race indoors ever again I would be surprised, but I think it makes sense this year and maybe next as well

Aussie Tom Palfrey went to Oregon with high school pr's of 3:40 1500m and 1:48.5 800m and have seen virtually no results in his 2 years there.

I don't think he's raced at all.

Has anyone thought of this, "Perhaps Jerry doesn't want them to race until they are ready to shine." He's probably saying, "Look this is Oregpn. We have a standard of excellence we expect here. Until you are ready to hit that standard, you aren't racing."

Rheinhardt Harrison isn't on scholarship to run 3:58 and come close to making NCAAs.

Plenty of big names go to Oregon and don’t impress though. It is a notch above Stanford these days. NAU has been kicking their butt for a long time and way before they were getting better recruits. Harrison’s trajectory has greatly slowed anyways. I expect another Austin Tomango honestly.

They stopped using EPO and steroid cocktails,so theyve gone down the tube.

hows larry josh edwards doing there

So he's on scholarship to jog around campus for two years? Thanks for the useful insight. 👎

I get that freshman get a pass, but the other 20 guys don't. The guys that aren't injured are doing workouts, but apparently not up to Jerry's high standards to race? That's a waste of scholarships.

I just think it's a young team and Jerry wants to get everyone adjusted to his training. He historically takes athletes to big indoor races. He's capable of having his athletes run well in indoor and outdoor.

Seriously! No AD would be ok with spending scholarship money on athletes so they could intentionally NOT compete for two years (literally half their time in college, assuming they don't redshirt).

And where does scoring 2 points to finish in 48th place at NCAA Indoors fit in with Oregon's "Standards of Excellence," keeping in mind the previous coach (who was fire for this guy!) was winning this meet nearly every other year for a decade and as recently as 2 years ago?

The amount of interference and number of excuses Rojo has for Jerry is astonishing.

"we have a standard of excellence so we are going to concede two full years / 6 seasons and not even try to score points"

I just checked performances on TFFRS. Outside of Cook the Oregon men’s mid distance and distance were very bad. Not even relative to where they were in 2021, relative to the rest of the NCAA. It is actually the worst indoor season for Oregon in probably decades. Wtf is Jerry doing.