Which school? At least divulge that if you can scramble to think of one.
Which school? At least divulge that if you can scramble to think of one.
GVSU
Oh boy. You must know the 5 most successful people to ever graduate from there.
https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Grand-Valley-State-University-admission-requirements
I know the people I was teammates with
You have some cute little article. Bless your heart. Where did you go to school BTW?
And your little article didn't even refute anything I said in my initial post. Did you skip the lesson on logical fallacies at your school?
Notre Dame.
Good for you! I had a high school classmate and a GV teammate that to law school at Notre Dame. Excellent school.
D2 schools suck. Sorry, but they do. As someone said, School of Mines is the only good one in the whole bunch. Fortunately for you D2 people, there are plenty of hiring managers out there who don't know how bad those schools suck. I mean, it is an athletic designation after all.
Also, I have seen people in the past and now another one in this thread about how glad they were to run D1 and train with good runners and be in great races, etc. Do know that many people who barely get on to a D1 program will run in the crappiest of races, and some of them will get cut. Ever wonder why a good D1 program has multiple meets on the schedule for the same day? The studs go to meet A, and the scrubs go to meet B.
If you aren't good enough to run D1 and actually be productive there, D3 should be your top choice if you have the grades to get in. D2 and NAIA schools are bottom of the barrel.
So let me ask you... Is it typical for a Notre Dame student/alum to generalize about the academic ability of students based solely on which institution they attend? I have a difficult time believing the highly intelligent individuals at Notre Dame would operate under such ignorance
I guarantee you that every year there are thousands of students in community colleges that are more intelligent than you will ever be.
Who wants a degree from a crappy school?
maybe maybe wrote:
Big Timer wrote:
But they all go to terrible schools except for Colorado School of Mines.
But we also all know that what college you go to largely irrelevant unless it is a top 50 college (which is a very small subset of schools). Just go to a place you will enjoy and hopefully get money too.
I think that was free of grammatical errors so my opinion hopefully matters.
That isn't true. Admittedly there are D1 schools that do not have great academic reputations. However, employers, graduate schools and professional schools tend to pay attention to the name of the school. And since we are talking about runners unlikely to be professionals, why not choose a school that gives you a career boost post graduation?
forcing it to go D1 is dumb wrote:
So far this season there’s 15 D2 runners under 14 minutes (6 under 13:48!!), 28 under 14:10 and 76 under 14:30. Maybe consider this before you beg a blue chip coach that doesn’t really want you to be on there team just so you can not travel and never qualify for nationals
Ummm....unless you are not a moron and you want to run D1 because they are generally better schools which will bring better job prospects. Enough with the childish dog and pony show attitudes. Any dude that has run 9:30 off of normal 50 mpw hs training can run competitively in D1. Any dude breaking 9 in hs off 100 mpw can easily be a worthless wash up in D1. The reality is there is often little difference btw a 9:30 and 9:00 runner other than their stage of devotion to it all. If I was a D1 coach I'd take a pile of 9:30 dudes all day long.
The issue is a a big d1 that needs to win/score points at conference a 9 min kid will do that and you can find new 9 min kids every year so you don’t need to develop 930 kids. Also some of you 9 min kids will improve and be even better. Not the ideal way to run a program obviously but many are run this way.
golden boy wrote:
Oh boy. You must know the 5 most successful people to ever graduate from there.
https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Grand-Valley-State-University-admission-requirements
You are a moron... I don’t give a crap about gv or have any inclination to help them out I just want to call our your nonsense. They have 21,000 undergrads... you don’t think any of them become doctors, lawyers, engineers and the like, gtfo... also runners (especially distance runners) often have some of the best grades at a college so YES this random 10k bro probably knows people that are lawyers, doctors, engineers and the like... and he probably knows more of them than you know from ND because his graduating class was three times the size of yours... news flash not every success professional goes to a top college for undergrad... also I went to a d1 college so I’m smart you have to trust me.
D1 is totally overrated. Lots of really bad D1 programs out there.
TheStages wrote:
Too Obvious wrote:
You have a couple of grammatical errors that don’t serve your D2 case as well as you’d like:
- Use “there are” rather than “there’s” (there is) when using a plural subject.
- Use “their” rather “there” when referring to a possessive
Nobody cares. It's a forum post. We all know what was meant including you. You're forcing everyone happening on this thread to deal with this distraction.
Most people get “there’s” wrong and it’s as irritating as someone calling the 1600 a mile. It wasn’t a mistake it was ignorance and I’ll set LRC straight one post at a time.
Isn't Adams State in D2?
How many D1 and D3 in the top 100? How many D2?
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
I ran d2 and my school definitley had reputable academics
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