seriosuly though? wrote:
assuming this kid improves even a little bit, he will be somewhere between 404 and 409 next year for the mile. He would be a fool to throw away that talent by going to any school other than a top rated DISTANCE RUNNING SCHOOL, with a good coach and other top runners to feed off of. Columbia? Nooooo. [/quote.]
Are you kidding? Off the top of my head Columbia's numbers this year looked something like this:
1500: 342,347,350,351,352,353, and a group of guys at ~355
800: 148,149,150,150,151,151, and a group of guys at ~153
Princeton and Cornell had close to the same numbers i think...i dont know how you could think these arent successful program with good coaches and people to train with
No other Ivy league school has times close to those in the 800 and maybe 1 or 2 others have 1500 runners like that. Columbia also has a very impressive recruiting class coming in (as does Princeton, but not in the 800-1500).