WTF THIS IS NOT OK - ONLY 5 AMERICANS IN NCAA TOP 30

Isn’t there an age limit in the NCAA and if so, you are says mg Kenyans are exempt? Who are these 27 year old seniors? I’m not challenging this, but curious.

Unfortunately the Americans just aren't that good.

Or 26 years old

28 year old soon to be 29 jr. finished 3rd.

I don’t have n adverse opinion on the foreigners. I ran at Arkansas where we had Irish and English and each of them added a lot of value other than their results.

However, the age thing is insane. How is this guy eligible to run, at 28?

Has anyone tried to rescore the meet with the criteria of only using one/two international athletes per team? I know that would eliminate some teams fully, but there might be some interesting outcomes worth discussing. Especially if you were a usa high school athlete looking to be recruited.

Or rescoring it with an age limit of 24-25?

How much of this could be immediately affected if Trump signed an Exec order stating that pel grants can not be used at schools that offer sports scholarships to foreign athletes. Any foreign scholarships need to be educational only. Of course, he could presumably strike that out too.

In the zero sum theory of his thinking every foreigner that gets a scholarship is one less American that would.

not true. i don't even mind the occasional transfer from africa, just a few years ago there were a lot less. i want to see americans race though. for example, abdi nur was an immigrant who came to the us when he was really young. i'm a lot more ok with that because that's still authentic recruiting of americans, american citizens who happen to be immigrants. osu just poaches random 30-year olds from east africa.

it's not a race thing. saying it's a race thing is a stupid cop out and has no merit. i didn't watch xc ncaas this year because i just wasn't interested. if i want to see a bunch of fast foreigners race, i'll watch a world athletics competition, not an american collegiate race. the ncaa is for americans. end of story.

I agree 100%. There would be so many more interesting storylines at the NCAA championships when teams are all relying on 90% American recruits.

Rivals from high school duking it out on opposing teams contending for the team title. Relying on mile specialists to be the #5 runners to secure a team championship. The kid that you raced against in high school trying to sneak into the top 40 for All-American.

But when 25 of the top 30 are international, most of which are overaged Kenyans, nobody really cares about the race. No storylines, no viewers.

Some EU countries hitherto, had a similar thinking (same as the author of this thread) of preserving their national teams only for their native nationals and excluding foreigners. Soon they found out they had been left behind and other EU countries were outshines them.A good example is Germany in football, UK in athletics and the Eastern EU countries in all their sports.Soon they realised France,Italy and Portugal were outshining them.It became quite obvious very quickly why.Nowadays all the EU countries are competing to add foreigners to their line-ups in pretty much every sport.Look at the star athletes in every EU nation.If NCAA tries it,it will become a joke very quickly. The world has moved on from just focusing on natives.Nowadays ,to be competitive you need foreigners.

Some foreigners is good. Too many makes it just not interesting for US fans, at least at the college level. If we want pro we’ll just watch pro.

What is he referring to?

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No one, including him, ever knows.