Also cutting women’s water polo, men’s tennis, and a few non-NCAA sports.
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Also cutting women’s water polo, men’s tennis, and a few non-NCAA sports.
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It is sad that track is considered an useless sport
Colonial at heart wrote:
Also cutting women’s water polo, men’s tennis, and a few non-NCAA sports.
This is sad as they are one of the few colleges not blowing their athletics budget on football.
Kvothe wrote:
Colonial at heart wrote:
Also cutting women’s water polo, men’s tennis, and a few non-NCAA sports.
This is sad as they are one of the few colleges not blowing their athletics budget on football.
The fact is that no one cares about track.
They are lucky to not lose men's outdoor track too. They are run as a distance only program. They were last in their weak conference with 14 points.
Their top MENS performer in the 400 this year ran an outstanding 54.88 and their top 200 was 25.44. They have one returning field event athlete.
NJ fan wrote:
They are lucky to not lose men's outdoor track too. They are run as a distance only program. They were last in their weak conference with 14 points.
Their top MENS performer in the 400 this year ran an outstanding 54.88 and their top 200 was 25.44. They have one returning field event athlete.
54.88 is still out of reach for the average person.
To clarify - Last in their conference indoors this year with 14 points. Last in their conference outdoors in 2019 with just 4 points.
Probably pretty limited scholarship $$$/funding and the instruction to go distance only. They finished 3rd in atlantic 10 cross a few years ago, had a group of 3:4x 1500 guys & some good steeplers.... and their women's program is pretty good. If the athletic dept cared about sprinting or the field events cutting indoor ain't the move.
ALL of the running energy and money are in other pursuits. Why universities continue to spend money and effort on T&F is beyond me. Runners and throwers, get your own coaches, or better yet, just train on your own. Coaches, show initiative and start club programs or build facilities for athletes to train.
CancelLRC wrote:
ALL of the running energy and money are in other pursuits. Why universities continue to spend money and effort on T&F is beyond me. Runners and throwers, get your own coaches, or better yet, just train on your own. Coaches, show initiative and start club programs or build facilities for athletes to train.
That is stupid. Nobody is going to do track then.
virginia is for lovers wrote:
Probably pretty limited scholarship $$$/funding and the instruction to go distance only. They finished 3rd in atlantic 10 cross a few years ago, had a group of 3:4x 1500 guys & some good steeplers.... and their women's program is pretty good. If the athletic dept cared about sprinting or the field events cutting indoor ain't the move.
They didn't even bring 14 men to their conference championships this indoor season. That's not on the athletic department, that's on the coaches.
That's weird. They have track in other countries. They're pretty good at it too in other countries. How do they do it without university teams? T&F should go away at the university level. Would anyone even notice?
david45 wrote:
CancelLRC wrote:
ALL of the running energy and money are in other pursuits. Why universities continue to spend money and effort on T&F is beyond me. Runners and throwers, get your own coaches, or better yet, just train on your own. Coaches, show initiative and start club programs or build facilities for athletes to train.
That is stupid. Nobody is going to do track then.
CancelLRC wrote:
That's weird. They have track in other countries. They're pretty good at it too in other countries. How do they do it without university teams?
T&F should go away at the university level. Would anyone even notice?
david45 wrote:
That is stupid. Nobody is going to do track then.
Why should track teams disappear from universities?
In 2018 they scored 55 points between the 1500-5k at their conference meet while going 1-2-3 in the 1500 and they have sent someone to track regionals two years in row. For a newer track program that’s pretty good
GRC Dude wrote:
In 2018 they scored 55 points between the 1500-5k at their conference meet while going 1-2-3 in the 1500 and they have sent someone to track regionals two years in row. For a newer track program that’s pretty good
Exactly
GRC Dude wrote:
In 2018 they scored 55 points between the 1500-5k at their conference meet while going 1-2-3 in the 1500 and they have sent someone to track regionals two years in row. For a newer track program that’s pretty good
How did they fall so far and so fast?
Getting just indoor track cut seems like a no biggie. Even a lot of track fans care little for indoor track.
Luv2Run wrote:
Getting just indoor track cut seems like a no biggie. Even a lot of track fans care little for indoor track.
True. Indoor track is non-existent in California high schools.
david45 wrote:
NJ fan wrote:
They are lucky to not lose men's outdoor track too. They are run as a distance only program. They were last in their weak conference with 14 points.
Their top MENS performer in the 400 this year ran an outstanding 54.88 and their top 200 was 25.44. They have one returning field event athlete.
54.88 is still out of reach for the average person.
Not for an average track athlete. 54 sec is dogs--t for a high school kid. 54 in college shouldn't be allowed to step foot on a track.
They’ve had six different individuals finishtop two in a distance event in the past three years on the men’s side. Looking at their roster they had mostly freshmen this past year.
Certainly some subpar results in there but I’d hardly say they’re a bad distance program