NCAA programs that buy foreign athletes for easy success.

Arkansas #1

Ah, is big bad Florida going to smoke your little Wolf Cubbies this fall because they picked up a couple transfers? So sad. You'd be singing a completely different tune if they had transferred to NCS.

You "buy" every good athlete through scholarship. What are you on about?

The new Florida Distance coach is possibly the worst coach to ever get on the podium in XC. He stays in the SEC and just buys Kenyan’s with fake papers and thinks he can coach. I’m not sure he could coach a HS girl under 5min. Having Parker V and self training internationals is perfect for him. I guess you have to give the guy credit getting the FL and being a terrible coach. It’s a perfect fit.

That's easy! By far the worst are in the NJCAA.. south plains college and new Mexico JC. Zero coaching involved. They have perfected the profession of Travel Agency.

The Oregon duck womens team and Washington love to give away spots to American runners for foreign born athletes. That’s why there is no buy in from their fans.

well since no one pays attention to juco besides juco coaches, you must be one of the schools that leaves nationals early since you can’t take part in the trophy ceremony, guess you should start coaching better as well!

I assure you that's not the case haha. But using your same logic, if no one cares about juco, except juco coaches; and you cared enough to reply, you clearly must be one of those 'top' coaches, 'coaching' your teams to those trophy ceremonies.

Pretty sure coaches with international athletes are still trying to get them to improve and perform at their best. That’s just coaching.

Not when they arrive at 21 years old already developed and have run international competitions.

No, they would still try to get those athletes to improve. What makes you think otherwise?

He truth is those schools don’t have commitment to American athletes that much anymore. Fans want to see athletes rise up as Americans and later run for America.

Actually most good coaches also develop partial scholarship and non scholarship athletes.
We can’t say that for Mr Palmer at Florida. He’s been Breaking NCAA rules with old Kenyas. That is nothing to be proud of.

What makes you think that Mike Holloway would hire a coach who wouldn't help his team be the best overall team in the country? What are the specific reasons that you KNOW make Will Palmer a bad choice?

If the guy wins a national championship this year then he's the best coach in the country for fall 2023. You may not like him, and he may or may not be good at developing athletes, but "coaching" is athlete development AND recruiting. If he just did so much better at recruiting this summer than everyone else did developing athletes then there's a fair chance he'll be more successful.

There are no extra points for who gets solid kids good, over who recruits great athletes and doesn't ruin them. It doesn't feel as special, but some coaches need to get off their high horse that good recruiting isn't a valid metric to being a good coach.

Some of the coaches are foreign too maybe you should cry about that.

Another dumb thread. The biggest example of BUYING an athlete is a grad school student that has already been in the ncaa regardless of whether they are foreign or domestic. Why are you not complaining about that? You must seriously lack knowledge of coaching to not acknowledge that.

So, did he not recruit you or your kid?