What's Happened to Oregon?

No worries bro, they have Rheinhardt harrison joining the squad next year. The future is bright

I think Oregon athletes are so pampered they actually lose some competitive edge, in the aggregate. They will have their superstars but for a school with as much $ as they do, it’s really insane Notre Dame is putting more guys in the 10k than your entire team is putting in 8-10k. Again, I think being spoiled with facilities and gear makes people soft and no school is more spoiled than UO. I’m speaking about track/XC specifically. I think sports like football actually see an advantage from the facilities given the nature of their sport. End of the day, best distance runners come from Iten, not many fancy things there.

teare, hocker, and charlie hunter had eligibility and didn't come back. that's a lot of points.

They all went pro

Not sure,

I had Izzy Thornton bott winning also

It almost seemed like the coaches knew that they didn't have the horses to do anything nationally but they wanted to ensure that they'd do well at Pac-12s, which they did, easily sweeping both. But then many of the athletes had nothing left for regionals and/or nationals. And that was a sad effort by Williams in the 100 final after having run so well all season.

I also sense that much of the recruiting efforts have shifted abroad, as they're not getting their first choice domestic recruits. To be sure, they did get Harrison and Josh Larry Edwards for next year but increasingly other schools are out recruiting them.

why does rojo gotta put his lame spin on thread titles? when I saw the link on the homepage I knew right away i was a roj-job.

the powells are legit. look what's happening at uw.

Where is Tyrese Cooper? I thought he transferred to Oregon.

Prison unfortunately he had a attachment to a life of crime. He was so talented and just threw it all away

Yes, he decided to steal $19,000 worth of cell phones back in February 2021. Was eventually sentenced to 84 months in prison. It's sad that he made the choices he did in life.

If he doesn't keep getting faster he'll be irrelevant. A 3:59 mile next year in college won't be noteworthy on the national level. Oregon is used to scoring points in all of the distance events and having the occasional contender. He's got to take off several more seconds in the mile/1500 to do that, which is difficult to do. In this post it mentions Reed Brown who also ran 3:59 in high school, and he's not scoring any big points yet.

Just a relative down year for them, they’ll get back in it in the next few years

Yes, a few big name schools did poorly this year. They'll be back.

As a track team they should be doing better but their XC team will probably never be close to a national title ever again. Too much going against them:

1. Other schools are putting 12 scholarships into distance, Oregon maybe 4-5. With college costs rising and the bad economy, it's hard to overcome

2. Bad academic reputation compared to ND or Stanford. Less recruits are willing to sacrifice academics.

3. Everyone wants to go to altitude now.

4. It rains 365 days a year in Oregon, that's torture.

1. Some truth in this.

2. Not every athlete has Stanford, ND or Ivy League level grades. You can get a decent education there and get into good grad & professional programs if you apply yourself.

3. Not true, otherwise every top distance runner would be at Colorado, NAU, NM. Yeah, they get their share but so do a lot of sea level schools.

4. Yeah, it's rainy except for the summer months. But that doesn't help athletes in their competitive seasons. Oddly enough there are people who love the rain. See Portland, Seattle, etc.

It’s the curse of Hayward field. Oregon lost all their super powers when they tore down the old stadium.

This is old NCAA thinking.

With NIL, there are no scholarship limites, really. Uncle Phil could give every freshman on the team 50k to cover college every year if he wanted to.

There's zero reason why Oregon shouldn't be competing for titles in XC or track.

They have one of the few fanbases with rich boosters who can treat track and XC like football or basketball. They should be able to get whatever recruits they want.