"Anybody else notice what was mentioned about the Hellebyucks and Shadrack? Is that true? If so, and somebody could prove it, wouldn't that be bad for Oregon?"
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Yes, I noticed. And did anyone else notice that this is the internet and this is Lets Run. Nuff said.
Also, there are lots of Americans on scholarship all over the world, how narrow-minded of you to think otherwise. (QUOTE)
Name one American on an athletic scholarship anywhere else in the world.
Name one scholarship that allows 32 Brits a year to study in the US
Aren't there some good guys from Mexico that New Mexico could recruit? Seems funny that New Mexico has to go all the way over the Europe when they can just go to the closed country to them to find good runners.
Why only athletic scholarships silly old fossil (how apt your name is...)? Thousands of Americans are in Britain and Europe on academic and arts scholarships.
I noticed it involved the helebyucks, one of our more savory couples in the sport. i'm not surprised and it's probably more true than not. good riddance to them both.
holdshoot wrote:
Nicholas Kipruto ran 23:50 at altitude?!?!? holy crap is this guy on UNM's team? That's ridiculous
Yeah he is really good. He ran at Dine college last year (high elevation too) in New Mexico. He came to our race and won it easily in 33 something. Actually he saw the competition, decided there was no one to challenge him and helped his teammates instead.
He went toe to toe and eventually came ahead of Henry Lelei of Central AZ in a race last year.
http://www.icc.edu/xcnationals/resultsAwards_results_mensIndividual.aspSambu, the top runner is now at Univ. of AZ.
The team I ran for last year has Kipkorir Mutai (won the 1/2 marathon NCJAA championship in 1:07. He works very hard, dropped his 1/2 marathon from 1:14 to 1:07. NAIA, DI and DII cross country will be very exciting this year.
Yo mate, you are wrong. UK colleges do give out athletic s'ships, mostly partial ones. They DO have a collegiate system BUCS and if you compete in this system you should lose eligibility. Brits pretend that this is a "CLUB" system and that's BS. If you run in BUCS sanctioned races, then you should lose eligibility just like us here in the US who compete in the NCAA.You also compete during the academic year for club teams and in road races. US collegians cannot. Most of you take money and stop saying you do NOT. You get your fifth year because you get letters from your Club or School stating that you are ELITE athletes which most of you are NOT.
How many of you actually make the UK teams for any major c'ship? Stop using the BUCS C'ship TRIALS excuse to get another year. Most of you never make the World Uni meet or any other major meet. US coaches need to get on this pitiful reasoning for these guys getting a fifth year. New Mex, Butler, Iona, and all the rest of the Brit schools are getting away with crap. The loop-holes in the NCAA need to be closed. This new 21 year rule does nothing.
10/10. New Mexico and the rest of the importers should be ashamed.