With 27 outdoor men's titles, the most, including one fresh one but most prior to 1970, USC is definitely a giant in track but not in the distances. Long ago, they fought it out with UCLA for national titles again and again. But Watts rightly focuses on the sprints because that is his area and it works. Distance is a tough sell in the Watts area. Not a lot of green space there.
BREAKING NEWS Brenda Martinez is new Assistant XC Coach at USC
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I doubt if any of the Oly Four schools are limiting ambitions with the failed NCAA. Mark Benioff is a USC Grad and CEO of Salesforce in Frisko which is leading the way towards privatization of college sports. The Oly Four could expand to it's own league, or two leagues, NorCal and SoCal, and each of the four schorl may likely field a dozen separate, discrete full T&F teams with the California preps opting to stay in-state rather than being poached elsewhere.
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So, you dont have a point. Just being a Jacka$$ like a lot of other people here? Got it.
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We will see how that goes wrote:
You obviously have no clue how Quincy Watts runs the USC track and field program. He will NOT be giving Brenda Martinez money for scholarships for distance runners. And without scholarships Brenda Martinez won't be able to recruit 5 - 7 top women distance runners.
I am friends with a girl who just graduated from high school who was top 10 in the country in her distance event. Quincy Watts offered her ZERO money.
She told Watts that she was getting 50% to 100% scholarship offers from other schools, and Watts told her that USC doesn't usually offer any money for distance runners but because she was so good he would make an exception for her and give her 10%. Obviously she choose another school.
Quincy Watts controls the money and he spends it on sprints, not on distance. You are completely wrong if you think Brenda Martinez can convince a bunch of top girls to go to USC for no money. Maybe she can get one or two girls who have rich parents and don't care about scholarship money but one or two isn't nearly enough to turn USC into a decent women's xc team.
USC is a sprint school because of the neighborhood.
It is safer to stay on campus.
I still want to know where the distance runners run.
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We have people who are so dumb on the website it hurts.
USC costs $95,225 to attend.....but RichardRider says if you bring this up you are just negative. No buddy that is prohibitive to getting distance runners at the school with no scholarships.
Quincy Watts the head coach does not care about distance running....but RichardRider says that isn't important, Brenda Martinez will get good distance runners. Sure distance runners want to attend a school where the head coach doesn't like distance.
USC sits in a concrete jungle.....but RichardRider says that isn't important, Brenda Martinez will get good distance runners.
USC has a formula for winning/competing for NCAA titles and that is to fund sprints/relays/jumps....but RichardRider says that isn't important Brenda Martinez will rise about that.
USC hired a distance coach without any coaching experience who is a nice person.....but RichardRider says that isn't important and if you ask a question you are negative.
RichardRider you live in a fantasy world. And I am a collegiate coach who has to deal with reality as my head coach only gives money to distance runners so our track and field team sucks. But our cc team does well. Gee, wonder why.
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my god shoot me please wrote:
USC costs $95,225 to attend.....
USC has a formula for winning/competing for NCAA titles and that is to fund sprints/relays/jumps....
USC hired a distance coach without any coaching experience who is a nice person.....
hahaha agreed! you are right on the money
DickRider is like most of LRC who cannot fathom that USC consistently wins or almost wins the NCAA team championship without distance or cross country
NCAA: USC wins the national championship!
LRC: Yeah but their distance coach sucks
Their distance program is a walk-on women's cross country team to meet Title IX numbers for the football team. Walk-on, walk-on, walk-on.
Anyway, USC--the university--is $200 million in debt now. Martinez is an awesome person, talented, inspiring, with leadership skills. Her husband is a coach. She is a mom. It's great she worked something out with USC. Let's all hope they are good to her and she chooses to stay in the coaching profession on her terms.
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