At this point in NAU is just a running factory. A sub standard school but - great setting with a solid coach.
I’d be pretty embarrassed to have an NAU diploma
Low class post about NAU diploma. A few years out of school where the diploma is from usually doesn't matter. The individual determines their success in life.
Yes. 100%. Best NCAA’s ever. Two great individual races. Two great team races. All coming down to the very end. And amazing TV coverage. Best ever. Loved every minute of that as a fan
Ditto. Props to the ESPN crew. John and Carrie are always good and the addition of Kyle was a solid choice. Team scores throughout made this so exciting and both races totally lived up to the hype for the individual titles. No commercial interruptions was so great and respectful of the nature of our sport.
At this point in NAU is just a running factory. A sub standard school but - great setting with a solid coach.
I’d be pretty embarrassed to have an NAU diploma
This is the cross country championships. You’re in the wrong place if you are worrying about which school is better academically. Go check Forbes, snowflake.
Everyone here who wants to see Hicks race World XC next February in Australia, raise their hands . . .
Everyone here what wants to see Tuohy and Parker run the US xc champs in January to try to qualify for World XC, raise their hands . . .
You do realize that he would be lucky to finish top 40 at world cross right? I think he should still try to make the team and get experience, but that is the hardest race in the world to win.
This posturing about the academic quality of school A, school B, etc. is just ridiculous. Granted, students attending the most elite universities like the Ivies, Stanford, etc. will generally have better job opportunities coming out of college. But many students don't end their educations at the undergraduate level. If they do well at the undergraduate level, regardless of the school, they have a good chance of getting into a top graduate program. Think every student at Harvard Law comes from the Ivies, Stanford, etc? Think again. Students coming from state schools that many here trash can get into Harvard Law. I guarantee that the top students in different majors at NAU do very well for themselves. Snobbery lives on at LR.
I'm a doctor at a "US News top 10 hospital" whatever tf that means, and I have colleagues who went to 2 years community college and then a small branch of a state school, or went to some tiny no-name local college with a scholarship, and it doesn't matter
You do realize no one cares about this sport right? I bet half the students at NAU don't know they have a running program. You are using running factory as if it's even remotely the same level of importance as football or basketball. Running programs lose money for the school. They make zero dollars. NAU running to overall NAU is completely meaningless.
Says the two guys with no more brains than hershal walker
Go to main page on the NAU Athletics website right now. There isn't a single reference to cross country. Not the win (understandable since it just happened) but more importantly, not anything about there even being a race today. On the site it's only football...and NAU isn't even an FBS division program - they are in the FCD. I love cross country, but no one cares about cross country in any meaningful sense, certainly not the school itself where it loses them money to support it.
Someone posted the freshmen finishers at the NCAA live results. Virtually none of the freshmen had high finishes. Sahlman is a middle distance runner, and he has shown versatility up to the 5K. But the 10K is a different beast for most young runners. We'll see how he adjusts going forward.
I'm a doctor at a "US News top 10 hospital" whatever tf that means, and I have colleagues who went to 2 years community college and then a small branch of a state school, or went to some tiny no-name local college with a scholarship, and it doesn't matter
Where did you do your undergrad and med school? Just curious. I did two years at a community college before going to a very good school and it worked out well. No sense paying a lot for general education if when you transfer and graduate your degree will be only from where you graduated.
