"Sophomoric?" They put in the work and they run fast. Who cares if they enjoy themselves? Distance runners don't have to be on the spectrum.
"Sophomoric?" They put in the work and they run fast. Who cares if they enjoy themselves? Distance runners don't have to be on the spectrum.
Agreed.
I just finished two masters degrees there and I can say that while the academics may be pretty solid, the set up of the school sucks. If you want to get into a high demand major, take CS for example, you have to either be a direct admit or pray you get a 4.0 and hope really damn hard you get in. This is true for basically all the STEM fields.
While academics should absolutely come first, if you can't study what you want, why would you stay there? I like Washington well enough, but it isn't without its faults. The preference for out of state students, the direct admit system, the administration is largely unhelpful. Maybe Cruz just didn't want to deal with that or the extreme prevalence of SJW attitudes
Bye Den wrote:
It is a fact that it is a bad decision to leave a better school. Just because others also make bad decisions doesn't make it an opinion.
It is a fact that Washington is a better school than Ole Miss. It is not a fact that for this single kid, it would have been smarter to stay at Washington. Possibly he didn't get into his desired major, or the academics were too hard for him, or something else. The point is that we don't know what went into his decision to transfer, so we can't just assume it was a mistake because UW has better academics.
Vanhoy is a very underrated coach. What he has done the last five or six years at Ole Miss is very impressive. Suliman and Garcia Romo were outstanding this season. He brought Craig Engles back from the dead a few years ago and developed several other middle distance runners to national caliber athletes. This seems like a great fit for Cruz and I hope that he runs well there.
So Jealous wrote:
Vanhoy is a very underrated coach. What he has done the last five or six years at Ole Miss is very impressive. Suliman and Garcia Romo were outstanding this season. He brought Craig Engles back from the dead a few years ago and developed several other middle distance runners to national caliber athletes. This seems like a great fit for Cruz and I hope that he runs well there.
But are they vaccinated? The vaccination rates down there are dangerously low.
Ole Miss may not require it...does anyone know?
But there may be more tubs and BBWs at Ole Miss so higher risk factors
birdbeard wrote:
SIlver24 wrote:
Thoughts? Big pickup for Ole Miss
lol wut
so confused by that. do they have a well known coach?
Wut??
Confused is right
Never heard of VanHoy??
Maybe Craig Engels??
BTW, Check the results this year
Ole Miss smoked UW in the 1500 finals, scoring 12 points. Washington's best, Sam Tanner finished out of the scoring, almost DFL for reference.
Ole Miss scored points in every d1 final in 2018, 2017 and 2016 with two runner in the finals every year!
Izaac York's was the last UW athlete in the finals until this year with Tanner. ...and he wasn't coached by Powell
No comparison, actually!
This thread has it all.
Someone who claims to follow the sport earnestly asking whether or not Ole Miss has a good mid distance coach.
Someone claiming that Washington is not a better school than Ole Miss.
Someone claiming that where you get your degree from doesn't matter.
All of these side-splitters in just 50 posts. Love it.
Academic rigor matters less when you come from a good family and they already have money. For a lot of people it comes down to priorities and where they will be the most happy, simple as that. Further if becoming a professional athlete is the self selected major it matters even less. Not saying this is the case but just because you wanted to fight to get into the most academically rigorous school you could (with a goal of getting hired at the most prestigious companies or an ability to then pursue super competitive opportunities eg law school/med school upon graduation) doesn’t mean everyone else wants to do the same during their college years.
In the USA (as opposed to other countries) most schlubs attend college for the animal house social life and life skills development (moving away from mom and dad for the first time and learning to do your own laundry) from ages 18-22 (something you may miss out on if you go to a community college at age 30) and not to actually study something in depth, come out, and immediately take a high paying desk job.
This definitely makes sense. Ole miss has done really solid work with guys who weren't necessarily huge stars coming in. Definitely would be near the top of my list if I wanted to be a 1500m runner.
My main curiosity is why did he leave Stanford
Stanford?
Former Michigan coach, who coached Wilis, Sullivan, Webb for a year and now Kessler
Anyone who hasn't noticed the Ole Miss middle distance success with Vanhoy is not paying attention. Although Mississippi is a generally bleak place to live, Oxford is an exception. It's a charming little college town.
Parker Stinson Tweets wrote:
His parents aren't exactly card-carrying MENSA members.
I don't know anything about any of the individuals involved in this thread, but this snark made me laugh.
FWIW I've known several Mensans and some of them were not the sharpest pencils in the box, if you get my drift. I remember the one who didn't want to donate blood because she was afraid of getting AIDS.
It must be hard training in the dark wet winter in Washington. That would get depressing.
The weather though.
lrc vette wrote:
This thread has it all.
Someone who claims to follow the sport earnestly asking whether or not Ole Miss has a good mid distance coach.
Someone claiming that Washington is not a better school than Ole Miss.
Someone claiming that where you get your degree from doesn't matter.
All of these side-splitters in just 50 posts. Love it.
we can't all be as smart as you
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Strava thinks the London Marathon times improved 12 minutes last year thanks to supershoes