DII POWERHOUSE GVSU ANNOUNCES NEW DISTANCE COACH

GVSU isn't a very good school

Occam wrote:

GVSU isn't a very good school

You isn’t a very good contributor to this message board

Occam wrote:

GVSU isn't a very good school

Bet you wouldn't even make their team.

Occam wrote:

GVSU isn't a very good school

Is it on par with D3 academic powerhouses like Chicago, Wash U, Johns Hopkins, Williams, Emory, or many others? No. Is it on par with D1 academic heavyweights like any of the Ivies, Notre Dame, Stanford, Cal, or many others? No. Is it academically on par with any of the Big 10 schools in its same general geographic area like Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, or, really just about any other Big 10 school? No. GVSU is, however, a decent school. It is every bit as good as most schools that are in mid-major conferences and better than most other D2 and NAIA schools. D2 and NAIA schools often get a bad rap for having lousy academics but I would say that schools like Cal Poly, Mines, Truman State, GVSU, and some others, have pretty solid academics.

Be informed before making such doltish statements.

I think every time someone states “it’s not a good school” they should have to reveal who they’re.

What school do they attend

What is their GPA

What is their Act scores

What career do they have

I would bet…

The average ACT is 24. That is below nearly every single P5 school. It is not a very good school.

It's on par with a trade school, like ITT Tech. You'd make more money learning to weld than with a GVSU degree.

I attended Minnesota. I had a 33 ACT. I had a 3.7 GPA. I earn $120k per year.

Geebus, the trolls on this site are just never ending. Who gives a sh!$ if the school is a good school or not? This thread is about a new coach for a dynamic D2 power and nobody is willing to discuss the hire.

Only on LRC would the majority of a specifically collegiate running thread immediately devolve into something unrelated and never go back.

99.9% of runners don't go pro. They get real jobs. Of course we always want people to know about the academics of a school.

Replaced an a**hole with a nobody.

Baltes runs that little world, everybody else is just there for the ride.

middlingNAIAcoach wrote:

Geebus, the trolls on this site are just never ending. Who gives a sh!$ if the school is a good school or not? This thread is about a new coach for a dynamic D2 power and nobody is willing to discuss the hire.

Only on LRC would the majority of a specifically collegiate running thread immediately devolve into something unrelated and never go back.

Yep, the usual folks who get off finding fault w/any da*m topic on LR. It's pathetic & why I rarely check the site out any more.

It's a decent school in an undesirable part of the country to live and train. Lowest rating are in Academics, highest in Athletics -

https://www.niche.com/colleges/grand-valley-state-university/

Eli Poth!! A timeless, classy man if I do say so myself. I heard through the grapevine he is currently in law school.

The school is a D2 school. D2 is lower in funding than D1 and is lower in academics than D3. sure there are a few exceptions here and there.... but when we say a school is a D2 power, it's like saying my house is huge! But I actually live in a small apartment in Fallon Nevada.. Yea, for Fallon it's huge, but in reality Reno apartments are nicer, bigger and more impressive. Congrats to the new hire coaching there.

My friend's brother ran fro GVSU, much to his mother's chagrin. She wanted him to go to a more academically rigorous school.

He is now in his late 20s and a waiter, or at least was before Covid. Nothing wrong with being a waiter except you know, you don't need a college degree for that.

But he runs a 2:25 marathon, so that's more important than anything, amirite?

Most colleges are traps and academics really do not matter. Pick up a rifle, learn a trade, or use any personality that you may have to translate into a sales job. I did all 3, have zero student loan debut, have a staff of 8 currently, and as it projects now I'll retire in 10 years at age 48 to my lake house.

DPPH wrote:

The school is a D2 school. D2 is lower in funding than D1 and is lower in academics than D3. sure there are a few exceptions here and there.... but when we say a school is a D2 power, it's like saying my house is huge! But I actually live in a small apartment in Fallon Nevada.. Yea, for Fallon it's huge, but in reality Reno apartments are nicer, bigger and more impressive. Congrats to the new hire coaching there.

Based on average time, mind you on a different course but with the same conditions, GVSU would have placed around 25th in the D1 race. Better than Michigan, Alabama, Oregon, and every school that did not qualify for nationals. Your analogy does not really hold up since Grand Valley is better than a majority of D1 programs.

donniehedgehog wrote:

Based on average time, mind you on a different course but with the same conditions

And different race tactics and more favorable qualification system... it's apples and oranges, ya shmuck.