Dartmouth had an ATROCIOUS 1st XC season with Ben True

Whateverguy wrote:

Lots of armchair quarterbacking by either a troll, someone with a chip on their shoulder who thinks all Ivy League kids are “woke” and “rich” or someone misinformed. Likely a combo of all three.

The program just got a new Director two months ago, just weeks after True was announced. There is no way either of those guys could have turned things around in a few months when you had a team that was probably not getting any direction for the last six months to a year while the old coach was fired and the old Director had no focus on distance. Unlikely the kids came in with a proper base to do this much this Fall and you expect freshman to make immediate impact? Are you expecting that from other teams?

The old coaching was to run them into the ground. I don’t believe that has anything to do with the new regimen - not sure why you are applying old methods to the new team.

Whateverguy wrote:

Lots of armchair quarterbacking by either a troll, someone with a chip on their shoulder who thinks all Ivy League kids are “woke” and “rich” or someone misinformed. Likely a combo of all three.

The program just got a new Director two months ago, just weeks after True was announced. There is no way either of those guys could have turned things around in a few months when you had a team that was probably not getting any direction for the last six months to a year while the old coach was fired and the old Director had no focus on distance. Unlikely the kids came in with a proper base to do this much this Fall and you expect freshman to make immediate impact? Are you expecting that from other teams?

The old coaching was to run them into the ground. I don’t believe that has anything to do with the new regimen - not sure why you are applying old methods to the new team.

Ivy League Woke Joke wrote:

zcxcxzvx wrote:

Those times do not compare favorably to this era's D1 recruits and do not indicate great xc potential.

They are reasonably competitive high school PRs, but you are right in that the D1 has better recruits, and these kids as they stand right now are also-rans. The right coach can take kids like these and turn them into stars with the right training program, but Dartmouth blows it every year and unfortunately Ben True is not going to be the answer.

As I indicated in another post, they have a lot of opportunities to build heavy volume on numerous soft grounded mountain trail runs, but instead they have to run loops around the quad at the University or they have to run on a concrete flat trail that goes out to Lyme and is barren, boring, windy, and depressing. This is simply because Dartmouth babies these kids and is afraid of liability if one of them trips and sprains his ankle on a branch on one of those immaculate trails. I mean...imagine if Wetmore didn't let his teams run Magnolia or Flagstaff because of the remote possibility of a small trip on some branches? You see what I mean? It's the woke, cupcake, safe-space generation where everyone has to be afraid of every conceivable dangerous thing and no risks can be taken no matter how beneficial those risks may prove.

If that school was smart enough to give me the coaching reins, I would have the boys team average 23:20 8ks next fall and the girls team would be in contention for top ten at NCAAs. Come track season, I would have a stable of 13:30ish 5k studs that can make it to nationals. My top 1500 girl would be smoking Harvard, Florida, and NC State in the finals.

Ivy League Comedy Club wrote:

Ivy League Woke Joke wrote:

They are reasonably competitive high school PRs, but you are right in that the D1 has better recruits, and these kids as they stand right now are also-rans. The right coach can take kids like these and turn them into stars with the right training program, but Dartmouth blows it every year and unfortunately Ben True is not going to be the answer.

As I indicated in another post, they have a lot of opportunities to build heavy volume on numerous soft grounded mountain trail runs, but instead they have to run loops around the quad at the University or they have to run on a concrete flat trail that goes out to Lyme and is barren, boring, windy, and depressing. This is simply because Dartmouth babies these kids and is afraid of liability if one of them trips and sprains his ankle on a branch on one of those immaculate trails. I mean...imagine if Wetmore didn't let his teams run Magnolia or Flagstaff because of the remote possibility of a small trip on some branches? You see what I mean? It's the woke, cupcake, safe-space generation where everyone has to be afraid of every conceivable dangerous thing and no risks can be taken no matter how beneficial those risks may prove.

If that school was smart enough to give me the coaching reins, I would have the boys team average 23:20 8ks next fall and the girls team would be in contention for top ten at NCAAs. Come track season, I would have a stable of 13:30ish 5k studs that can make it to nationals. My top 1500 girl would be smoking Harvard, Florida, and NC State in the finals.

So you’ve been slandering Ben true and the XC team at large because you’re unhappy Dartmouth didn’t give you the coaching job? Who even are you?

Ivy League Woke Joke wrote:

Ivy League Comedy Club wrote:

So you’ve been slandering Ben true and the XC team at large because you’re unhappy Dartmouth didn’t give you the coaching job? Who even are you?

I'm Dartmouth College's next head cross country coach, is who I am. I know everybody up there. As soon as Ben fails (and I'm not slandering him. I'm just honest. He sucks), I'm going to swoop in like a marvel superhero and save that team and turn the entire program and culture around. The athletes will take to me like a fish takes to water and I'll have them running ridiculous PRs that they never even thought possible. As I walk onto the track with my dark green hat on my head and my clipboard in my hand, you'll hear the sound of Van Halen's Dance the Night Away playing somewhere in the background.

The athletes will be running all of the best trails around and they'll be having so much fun that those frowns I see on their faces all the time are going to flip right upside down and turn to smiles. Slowly but surely, the success of our program will have a positive effect on campus and the students will chase all the miserable wokeness away. The loser commie professors will resign and the best professors will apply. Dartmouth will be a happy place for the first time in its history.

It's time to take back our schools!

Ivy League Woke Joke wrote:

Ivy League Comedy Club wrote:

So you’ve been slandering Ben true and the XC team at large because you’re unhappy Dartmouth didn’t give you the coaching job? Who even are you?

I'm Dartmouth College's next head cross country coach, is who I am. I know everybody up there. As soon as Ben fails (and I'm not slandering him. I'm just honest. He sucks), I'm going to swoop in like a marvel superhero and save that team and turn the entire program and culture around. The athletes will take to me like a fish takes to water and I'll have them running ridiculous PRs that they never even thought possible. As I walk onto the track with my dark green hat on my head and my clipboard in my hand, you'll hear the sound of Van Halen's Dance the Night Away playing somewhere in the background.

The athletes will be running all of the best trails around and they'll be having so much fun that those frowns I see on their faces all the time are going to flip right upside down and turn to smiles. Slowly but surely, the success of our program will have a positive effect on campus and the students will chase all the miserable wokeness away. The loser commie professors will resign and the best professors will apply. Dartmouth will be a happy place for the first time in its history.

It's time to take back our schools!

Ivy League Woke Joke wrote:

Ivy League Comedy Club wrote:

So you’ve been slandering Ben true and the XC team at large because you’re unhappy Dartmouth didn’t give you the coaching job? Who even are you?

I'm Dartmouth College's next head cross country coach, is who I am. I know everybody up there. As soon as Ben fails (and I'm not slandering him. I'm just honest. He sucks), I'm going to swoop in like a marvel superhero and save that team and turn the entire program and culture around. The athletes will take to me like a fish takes to water and I'll have them running ridiculous PRs that they never even thought possible. As I walk onto the track with my dark green hat on my head and my clipboard in my hand, you'll hear the sound of Van Halen's Dance the Night Away playing somewhere in the background.

The athletes will be running all of the best trails around and they'll be having so much fun that those frowns I see on their faces all the time are going to flip right upside down and turn to smiles. Slowly but surely, the success of our program will have a positive effect on campus and the students will chase all the miserable wokeness away. The loser commie professors will resign and the best professors will apply. Dartmouth will be a happy place for the first time in its history.

It's time to take back our schools!