The Portland State sh**show continues: 30:12 8K average at season opener

I won't be at up on the coach just yet. He did inherit a bad situation and this might be the best outcome anyone could manage under the circumstances. If they're (the team) just fulfilling compliance rules, what's wrong with some guys not running all out? Same with the jumper running. That's a great teammate to help get the team to a better spot at the end of the season.

*beat, not be at.

Those results also show the Portland State women winning the meet by 1 pt over Univ of Portland (and a few small schools). Does that make Jonathan Marcus a genius head coach? 🤔

How about we give him the better part of a season, or more, to show progress, rather than sniping at him and the PSU team when it’s just 2 meets into his first season as head coach.

Have you ever tried to race an 8k the day after 2 x 1 hour at half marathon pace?

For those he know Jmar, they'd tell you that he is the kind of person who would "snipe" others for doing the same thing.

*who

Harsh, but this is a super-clown of a coach, so i’ll let it slide.

Time to remove all soda machines from campus!

Marcus: "Hey everyone on twitter, Nuguse is doping! I have no evidence or explanation. Also, warm-up and cool-down miles don't count."

This guy deserves all the criticism.

This thread was obviously started by someone who ran for Portland state in the past, probably recent? Is this you Jordan? Somebody who ran on the team with him?

For this post, why do you care so much about this dude. Who cares? Nobody deserves anything, nobody is owed anything, nobody is entitled to anything. Whether it’s respect, disrespect, rights, love, attention.

Don’t like what he said on a podcast? Why were you even listening to it in the first place, that puts you in the same pot of stupidity as him if you listen to what he says and associate it with himself. Attention seekers attract attention seekers, you’re no different.

Go cry about not being an All-American.

Nice novel, keep it up.

It's no one's dream to attend or run at Portland State. He's doing what he can with the hand he's been dealt.

Soad*

He is NOT doing the best he can with what he has. Vast majority of D3 schools would beat Portland States performance.

It’s embarrassing. Don’t make any excuses for him. Portland State seems more focused on their social media than their athletes.

Did you see the part where this was all mentioned on twitter? There’s a bunch of threads with the various tweets embedded.

Remember Letsrun MB's are the home of the jealous coach. People who have nothing better to do with their time like to post negative things about others. They think it makes themselves feel better. When in reality it shows their insecurities.

the poster saying they are struggling to make numbers probably has the right guess. they have 6 preconference meets scheduled and the week before they show a linfield (D3) meet on the men's sched but no men's team runs, only women's. they then show up the next week to another D3 meet and get beat by D3s and finish ahead of a no-name juco on tiebreakers. i assume they slapped together a team so they technically have the 5 meets, similar to princeton except this bunch doesn't look like it could do better -- so far.

i remembered this school from the other day someone posted a meme about their "wildly erratic" football fortunes. they lost to oregon 81-7 then beat a team 91-0. i then looked it up and the team from texas they beat 91-0 was a poor NAIA team that loses to D3s, with a handful of business related majors, whose campus consists of an office building and a parking lot.

they also have multiple D3s on their men's hoops schedule for the upcoming season. the women, less so. the XC women were "ok" at these same meets. general vibe i get is 5 troubled men's programs that should probably just go D3 attached to several women's programs trying seriously at D1, not very good but running an actual D1 schedule and some success.

Portland State used to be a D2 school and their athletic programs were pretty successful at that level. It's a commuter campus and D2 would be an appropriate fit for them. A previous AD thought that their basketball team deserved to be D1 and forced all of the other sports along for the ride. Other than a single March Madness appearance in the past decade, their hoops squad has been pretty lame.

Return to D2, Vikings!

hand he's dealt? hand probably has scholarships. on that alone he should be at least competitive and unembarrassing at a D3 meet.

i don't doubt they "had" hoops aspirations but i think they already gave up when they are coming off a 12-19 season, first round conference tournament exit, and they follow that by scheduling george fox, linfield, and lewis & clark as part of their non-conference schedule. they then amusingly engage in the annoying tic some school sports websites have of posting the dates for each round of the conference tournament like a scheduled game they will play.

but yeah, to me, they should be in GNAC (D2) or NWC (D3), bunch of NW schools, probably less travel except the alaska trip in GNAC (as i understand it a trip "up" to anchorage would only be maybe a couple hundred miles shorter than a trip "across" country to NYC....).