solsburyhill wrote:
remember the ivies do an absolute awful job of talent development for distance runners - so I’ve always recommended as a coach to use it as an ivy hook for pure academic prestige - the running experience will be mid at best.
Graham Blanks is the exception I suppose.
Sub-9:00 guy wrote:
Graham Blanks is the exception I suppose.
sorry, meant to say the do an awful job developing US talent
In all honesty, this is a stupid thread. Most d1 schools suck. The schools with the best recruits are not the ones that will develop you the most as a person. If you are aspiring to go d1 just for the hype, then get your priotities straight.
There is a lot of nonsense on this thread. My son is a rising college freshman who has PB´s of 14:41/9:03/4:17/2:00. He ended up getting recruited by a top tier acc school. Ignore the people who keep saying that 9:XX and 4:1X guys are not fast enough anymore.
Brian Brodrick wrote:
There is a lot of nonsense on this thread. My son is a rising college freshman who has PB´s of 14:41/9:03/4:17/2:00. He ended up getting recruited by a top tier acc school. Ignore the people who keep saying that 9:XX and 4:1X guys are not fast enough anymore.
IMO no one here ever said that. ACC isn´t as quick as the SEC where schools want people under 8:50 and 4:06 as a baseline for recruitment. Your son seems very borderline however.
And his talent seems to only be concentrated in the 32/5k.