hermes link ice blue mink wrote:
I heard she is a hard coach to run for and rushes her athletes back to running too soon. Lots of injured runners is why they only raced 4. She isn’t getting the Job done at Oregon at all!
yeah, without her international transfers from USF, and any new quality distance recruits her performance (or lack thereof) as a coach is showing now...
Helen was the right coach for Jessica Hull. Didn't recruit her, yes, but kept her from following the Powells and Jessica had her best year ever.
There were 5 Oregon women warming up for the event, but only 4 finished so maybe, at least they tried.
Off year for sure, and probably reason for concern, but I think it's too early to call out the coach.
Runner10287 wrote:
Either that or they think they are running’s version of Skip Bayless.
God, I wish I had come up with this comp...
Bleh wrote:
Last minute contact tracing is probably the reason why. But that's no excuse. It's part of the athlete's duty to not get caught up in that stuff. They shouldn't be going to parties or hooking up with random people, especially right before their conference meet. That might be a bit extreme to some people, but it would've prevented any quarantining.
Some schools seem to have tons of problems with quarantining, while other schools don't. It's not random, it's because those schools don't take preventative measures. Obviously it's impossible for the entire team to stay in a bubble for 100% of the year, but you can make the probability of exposure small enough to eliminate most of these situations.
To be fair you could get contact traced for not really doing anything wrong. You could have an in person lab/class where someone tests positive. (Unless of course Oregon has no in person classes at all and I’m way off)