COVID created a really unusual situation. Curious as to what I could have done with a couple of extra years of running. I was one of the poor saps that graduated in four years and went to work.
Ugggghhhh...another BYU thread?
This is the actual link to the article:
You would think that rojo would at least post the correct article.
I did find a mistake in the article.
"Reigning NCAA champion Conner Mantz of BYU will turn 25 next month — and still has one year of cross country eligibility remaining"
should read this way:
"Reigning NCAA champion Conner Mantz of BYU will turn 35 next month — and still has one year of cross country eligibility remaining"
At that age I was writing my PhD dissertation and this bloke is still pretending like he's a teenager.
You think he goes to keggers with freshman on the weekends?
When comedy becomes reality:
Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:
Ugggghhhh...another BYU thread?
The ironic thing is that if you read the article, you'll find that only a few of these runners are at BYU (1 out of 14 in the list of men and women). Go Olin Hacker!
A 9th year senior!
Gilbert Boit is 27!?
A bevy of runners doing nationals for the 5th time.
And nobody is outraged because it's not BYU.
Most of these are due to injury and COVID.
The 9yr runner is just a combination of all of
the above. Hurt, morman, pregnancy, etc.
Alan
writer missed a couple individuals. should go back and do more research
College Athletics is a joke. It only exists because college football is the minor league of the NFL and mens basketball is the Mecca of sports gambling. XC and track really are just club sports anyways. So who cares if my 70 year old granny is a 50th year senior.
This reaks of jealousy and overcompensation
pepap wrote:
This reaks of jealousy and overcompensation
Not really.
Don't really give a $hite, actually, but to not at least acknowledge the age discrepancy is ignorant of the concept of fair play
Conner Mantz didn't win championship until he was 24
....That puts him older than Grant Fischer, Donovan Brazier, and Drew Hunter
Imagine who'd be winning College Championships if he had to actually face elite competition in his own age group.
This just doesn't seem right to me.
In my day, you entered college as a 17-18 year old freshman (I was 17), ran 4 years and graduated at 21 or 22 (I was 21). Can't imagine competing against guys 5 years older in college. Just not fair.
A 9th-year competitor is crying about how they'll never have the chance to run in college again? Sure doesn't seem that way!
We need to get this wretched era behind us. And get rid of the BYU loophole.
In certain sports like college wrestling taking red shirt year as a freshman is normal, so you have a lot of 5th year competitors. In running with the prevalence of injuries it is also fairly common. Then you add Covid to the mix and this is going to be an unusual cycle.
Why do Americans get so upset about people’s ages in the NCAA?
It’s a competition for student athletes. If you’re a student you should be eligible
The abuse of the "red-shirt" became standard practice long ago. Which created the need for a "2nd red-shirt year" for athletes who go injured after spending their red-shirt year on planned training, doing steroids, or whatever. The 3rd red-shirt year is coming, if not essentially already here.
hard to say wrote:
Why do Americans get so upset about people’s ages in the NCAA?
It’s a competition for student athletes. If you’re a student you should be eligible
Silly Euro-boi
Before answering your silly question, let's ask:
Why does America have the best college athletics in the world?
....Because the rest of the world has no such programs.
Now, with that out of the way, let's answer your silly question: Why do Americans get so upset about people's ages in the NCAA?
This is easy to answer: The concept of fairness.
There, it's that simple.
To delve further, real academic schools in America don't allow for such nonsense, btw.
The Ivy League and the Service Academies are four year undergraduate programs with no extra years allowed to graduate and no allowance for non traditional age students to attend. They stay true to their academic purpose and they also don't believe in burdening their students, their parents, or the Feds with years of extra tuition costs.
All the arguments for religious exemptions, redshirt years, redshirt/injury years, Covid exemption do nothing but mock the concept of fairness.
One injury season, sure, OK
The rest is dubious.
Not pick on the obvious, but when Conner Mantz was a senior in High School, his current freshman NCAA competition were in 5th grade.
Sounds about right
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