Top 25 at NXN, but have not committed (yet)

Noah Jenkins is committed to Southern Utah university.

According to this article, this was Brown's first year of XC after coming over from soccer. I then looked this up on athletic.net and appears to be true. He won state in XC this year and finished 2nd at the NXR before 8th in a stacked NXN.

Could be a total stud in college. Someone needs to sign him!

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Bozeman's Weston Brown, Gallatin's Claire Rutherford win Class AA cross country titles

Parker Cotton

MISSOULA — Weston Brown and Claire Rutherford held the distinctions of being the fastest runners in the state for most or all of the season. They weren’t about to have

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Elite Boys Runner Up: Weston Brown | Bob Firman Invitational

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Are there any scholarships still available at at top Colleges at this point or is it too late?

Garcia-Silva is LDS and, I hear, is leaning towards BYU.

Doubtful that he gets a large scholarship with a good program

8th at NXN (7th senior and 0.9s away from 4th senior), but that does not earn a large scholarship. Why?

Good programs don't have money left.

There's always money for the right guy.

Teams can't do much right now. But after track season there will be unexpected transfers among other things and spots will open up.

True. But you expect a fast kid to wait until June not kowing where he will go to school?

Surely he has options, including the school in his hometown that qualified for nationals.

There is always money on the table. It all depends on the school, head track coach and how much they value XC. Full-funded D1 programs can give 12.6 scholarships (18 for women) for track and cross country combined. Programs with head track coaches who are involved with distance disciplines tend to allocate more scholarship money toward cross country runners. On the other hand, track programs with sprints/jumps/throws focus usually dedicate scholarship funds accordingly. In either case, coaches withhold a small percentage of total funds for incentives, transfers, and future recruiting. If you’re fast enough the money won’t go away at any program worth running for.

That’s a huge mistake. Southern Utah fell off the face of the world this past year with their performances…numbers of top people transferred the past summer…really doesn’t look great compared to their last decade. Should’ve gone to byu

Just the opposite. Good programs use their money. Bad programs don't mange it well. Stanford has no more money.

He committed before he had the breakout performances that would have put him into BYU territory.

He should study his options well and go where he wants and where he thinks he’ll have a good opportunity to work his way into getting some money in his 2nd year. I’m sure that coaches have been in contact and this has been discussed.

One of my kids plays soccer and had nearly 80% for soccer and another 15ish for academics. Women’s soccer at the D1 level is an equivalency sport and they get 14 scholarships. Those 14 scholarships can be divided up however the coach wants. If he want he can have 14 athletes with full rides or 28 at 50% each. He can give someone 1% if he wants to. After more consideration, she decided the school and program were not for her. The program that recruited her early on, and that she liked more but was initially offering less, had all funds allocated. She went anyway and played herself into about a 60% offer for her 2nd year, most of the remainder was merit aid.

Track & XC are equivalency sports and guys generally don’t get a lot of money regardless of what you hear. Only the cream of the crop are getting full rides and often that money is stacked with merit aid. The finds just aren’t there. That said, this guy should go where he wants and work his butt off to get some money.

My son walked on at a P5. He was number 1 man senior year, still no money. Most track programs don't increase because it just pulls from future recruiting.

Wouldn’t say a huge mistake. They have a history of developing athletes from nothing. They finished 9th in the country just last year (with 3 of their guys falling within the first half mile and only one of them being sub 9 out of high school) in Oklahoma, few points behind BYU. They returned 3 men from that 9th place team, who were significantly ahead of their 4 & 5 in every race this season, which is where they seemed to struggle. Their team seems to be young and with the addition of Jenkins, they should be back in no time.

Not against the kid, I’d hope he continue to develop as a runner. But while Doug soles (the herriman coach) has a great track record of creating legendary high school teams while at great oak, none of his greats from great oak have had successful college careers. Absolutely none. All of his sub 9, sub 4:10, runners who were apart of state, national team titles, had an impact on a competitive collegiate cross country team.

However, they all do go on to earn great educations, saving thousands of dollars due to their high school success.

I’m a huge fan of Utah running. Never was good enough, but I’m there at regionals every year it’s at BYU. The year SUU, BYU, and Utah state all broke the top 12 was phenomenal for the state of Utah. Let’s hope SUU rebounds, because none of their “top 3 returners” that you claim, appeared to have broken the top 50 at regionals. Or even performed to their state of fitness like that 2020 XC nationals race, and throughout that season. That goes against the “history of developing athletes”. If you would have told me SUU took a bad turn like this just a few years ago, I would have laughed in disbelief. Is it time for Houle’s impressive reign to retire? Or were there significant injuries this fall, like regionals 2019 when Josh Collins DNF’d and knocked out Weber’s chances to go to nationals? (Terrific team that year, they would have been top 15 as a team with Allen’s all American performance)

Plain curiosity, what went wrong? The young team is no excuse because of Covid eligibility making their athletes appear 2-3 years younger, and because they have had young athletes step up, their whole 2016 team were seemingly all babies with less impressive high school credentials. Utah fans could always rely on SUU making it to Nationals somehow, even after periods of doubt. Provo HS fanboys would look dumbfounded when SUU would have several athletes beat BYU’s scorers, even during their “rebuilding years”.

Hoping Talley can rebuild the Ogden based team into monsters again. The last few years, their team has been severely underrated, #2 team in Utah at times, but never could show.

Wouldn’t Donis have been a better choice than Ramses Cortes for UCLA? Maybe even a better choice than Caudillo for Cal Poly (we will see in the next 5 months)?