trudat wrote:
Mormons are only 2% of the population. The other top 4 or 5 schools get their pick of the other 98%. And now those schools such as Oregon are buying Kenyans to add to their roster. Picking from just 2% is not an advantage. That is ridiculous.
One would think, but there is currently an anomaly that a shockingly high % of the top high school runners are Mormon, mostly from Southwest.
If this was not the case, then it would be a disadvantage.
I'll follow up on this tomorrow, but I believe 13 of 14 BYU runners in the nat race will be Mormon. They were all also top hs recruits, not average kids who dramatically improved.
