tough as runners wrote:
My neighbor played basketball at Stanford. He said that he did absolutely nothing and graduated with a 3.5 GPA.
Not with an engineering degree!
NICO MF YOUNG
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Oregony wrote:
He is not American. And it doesn't matter what his times were in high school. It is irrelevant if he ran 3:50 or 4:50. The NCAA doesn't give out medals for improvement from high school.
He is American and has lived here for many years. His times in high school are relevant in several ways, first, in showing that he did not just start running at an elite level from day one but had to work for it, second, that Mike Smith has done a great job with him, and third, that he ran times in high school that are slower than many D3 recruits yet just led the #1 or #2 xc team in the nation in 22:30. He's not going to need any improvement medals from the NCAA the way he's running. He just beat Nico Young, Herrera and Grijalva, and might well be top ten at nationals. -
zxcvzxcv wrote:
Oregony wrote:
He is not American. And it doesn't matter what his times were in high school. It is irrelevant if he ran 3:50 or 4:50. The NCAA doesn't give out medals for improvement from high school.
He is American and has lived here for many years. His times in high school are relevant in several ways, first, in showing that he did not just start running at an elite level from day one but had to work for it, second, that Mike Smith has done a great job with him, and third, that he ran times in high school that are slower than many D3 recruits yet just led the #1 or #2 xc team in the nation in 22:30. He's not going to need any improvement medals from the NCAA the way he's running. He just beat Nico Young, Herrera and Grijalva, and might well be top ten at nationals.
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I did not know that he was American and others probably did not either. But the rest of the stuff is irrelevant. He does the same workouts as his teammates. It is insulting to them to say that he is at their level because he worked harder to get there. He does not work harder. It doesn't matter how fast he was in high school. It doesn't matter if he runs for NAU or a D3 team. His accomplishments are all that matter. I will root more for him now that I realize he is American.
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Dickslapper wrote:
Obviously a short course.
Idk. Maybe a short course, but all the pics I saw show the course being absurdly flat. I think it's just a crazy fast course. I'd argue it might not even qualify as a legit XC race
