Lex and Leo Young's commitment announcement coming on Sunday

NAU

UCLA

STANFORD!! SAME SCHOOL FOR BOTH!!

Trump U

I didn't see the announcement announcement there. I did see an image of Lex Young on a snow-capped mountain, which sounds like a hint. There were also several old images of the brothers with Nico at the bottom. At the same time, it does seem as if an August commitment announcement coming right after the coach said he was off to UCLA would be UCLA. However, I'm also sure that the brothers would like to run together again.

I don’t care where HS kids choose to go to college.

OR OREGON CAUSE OF JERRY!!

Or Tennessee because of Sean Carlson, Dylan Jacobs, and Yaseen

I think they just want to stop the speculation ASAP.

Not UCLA. Too soon. They would not have had the time to negotiate anything.

NAU or Stanford

90% chance that it’s NAU.

My bet is UVA or NAU

Reasons:

NAU: Nico

UVA: Good School, building a stronger team, Leo Young only follows NAU and UVA and Lex also follows UVA.

They just announced it early, a few minutes ago! They are going to L'Oréal Paris (L'Oréal) to major in Hair Products! I would know, I'm their Father!!!!

Maybe they are turning pro. Maybe they are quitting the sport. It makes zero difference to the intelligent.

I'm a National Merit Scholar, I'm intelligent. I just know that they are going to run for Team L'Oreal and focus on Hair Products!!!!

Huh, that's the kind of speculation I was looking for on this post. UVA would be a slightly strange pick considering Stanford has a strong team of underclassmen and better academics than UVA (although UVA is no slouch either), but maybe Vin's coaching was a big draw.

Perhaps because of Gary Martin as well, I would lean towards UVA because they have often mentioned academics. However, I see no scenario where they go to UCLA unless they hired Brosnan to recruit the Young’s

Surely someone here knows where they took their 5 visits.

Without Mike Smith, wouldn’t NAU still win with Nico, Lex, Leo and Colin and Drew Bosley as their top 5?

Guessing NAU

1)Nico just ran 13:11 before he turned 20 there

2)NAU is at altitude.

3)Mike Smith is a top 2 coach in the US for men, both pros & college considered

4)Colin Sahlman going there too for the NP -> NAU dynasty pipeline.

Would be pretty surprised if they went elsewhere, but cant guarantee anything particularly in the NIL age. If they go to NAU, NAU could win something ridiculous like 9 XC titles in 10 years.

UVA would be crazy:

Nathan Mountain (3:40/8:39 (st))

Gary Martin

Lex Young

Leo Young

How many top recruits can one school have?

Then you look at the guys who were freshmen this year, but not necessarily top recruits

Wes Porter 3:58/13:36

Yasin Sado 3:58/13:42/8:33 (st)

Conor Murphy 1:48/3:41

Justin Wachtel 14:02

Is that a winning NCAA XC team (for the next X years)?

How crazy fast would you need to be to be on the 2023 XC team?