Dartmouth Names New Men's Distance Coach: Justin Wood

I want whatever this guy is smoking wrote:

Ricky Re-Write wrote:

Yes it did. Those are great DII times. Of course when you average the expectations of high level DI and DIII/Juco, this is what you get for results. This is Dartmouth for God's sake! 4:02/8:00 and 14:21 just won't do.

Lol, I guess the Ivy League must be a DII conference because those times are generally in contention to win heps and faster than what anyone's run this year besides a couple of guys from Princeton and Penn... not exactly the marks of a "perennial bottom feeder". On top of that, TFRRS lists the Dartmouth guys who ran those times as either freshman or sophomore eligibility.

If you ask me, it seems like the Dartmouth program is heading in a crazy direction. It hasn't seen these kinds of top results combined with really solid depth in DECADES. Having 6 guys 14:30 or below (on top of the 3k's and miles) is a feat that Dartmouth and many other schools in the League have only dreamed of for quite some time. If the team keeps on its current trajectory I wouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of guys sub 14:00 this spring. Whatever Wood is cooking up over there is working.

I want whatever this guy is smoking wrote:

Lol, I guess the Ivy League must be a DII conference because those times are generally in contention to win heps and faster than what anyone's run this year besides a couple of guys from Princeton and Penn... not exactly the marks of a "perennial bottom feeder". On top of that, TFRRS lists the Dartmouth guys who ran those times as either freshman or sophomore eligibility.

If you ask me, it seems like the Dartmouth program is heading in a crazy direction. It hasn't seen these kinds of top results combined with really solid depth in DECADES. Having 6 guys 14:30 or below (on top of the 3k's and miles) is a feat that Dartmouth and many other schools in the League have only dreamed of for quite some time. If the team keeps on its current trajectory I wouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of guys sub 14:00 this spring. Whatever Wood is cooking up over there is working.

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Notactuallyme wrote:

No news from anyone? The coaching position thread said the AD sent out an email saying Wood just resigned. Horrible timing. Not just for actual coaching but also it’s prime recruiting time for Dartmouth. Does Barry still live in Hanover? Maybe he’s be willing to step in on a very temporary basis while they sort this out?

The buzz circling around is that he was forced to resign due to politics and disagreements with Porscha, the Director. An "investigation" was launched about a month ago where no information has been released and this was the result. The word is that Barry was involved in trying to save Justin's job - he's still based in Hanover and I'm sure he will try to do what he can to help out. He was still going to most of the meets last year.

Gotta feel for the guys - they are left without any semblance of a coach because Porsha dissolved the mid-d coaching position when she took the reins (The mid-d coach was the assistant XC coach during the fall). So they are left with one coach (Kendra Foley, in her second year as a head coach) to write all of the training for both the men's and woman's distance and mid-distance teams (~60 athletes) - sigh.