Dartmouth admin is meeting to assess the future of Coach Dobson/Harnden. If you were on one of her teams and have a view, now is the time to express it. Every voice matters. Sometimes just one additional voice tips the scale. Write to any or all of these:
Sandhya L. Iyer (General Counsel): Sian L. Beilock (President): Elizabeth Lempres (Chairman of the Board):
I ran for Coach McNulty at Duke and want to provide a different perspective on his character and coaching ability.
I was part of the steeple group, which Coach McNulty had full training control over. None of us felt overtrained; on the contrary, we all had great relationships with Coach McNulty and found that he was really receptive to what we had to say about our training. In high school I had two major injuries; in college I didn't miss a single practice for injury. Of the 7 guys I trained with under McNulty, the only one I remember with a notable injury got hurt by hitting his knee on a barrier during a race. We all ran well under him, including Alex Miley getting 3rd at ACCs in his first steeple season and myself, a sophomore walk-on, going from 9:01 3k flat to a 9:09 3k steeple. I can say confidently that Coach McNulty was beloved by the distance team at Duke, steeple athletes and otherwise.
I think the article misrepresents McNulty's qualifications. Before he arrived at Transylvania, their men's team hadn't even fielded a scoring team at Regionals the two years prior. I'd like to see any of you idiots build a team literally from the ground up. Before Transylvania, he spent 4 years at Duke learning how to run a D1 program and having full training autonomy for the men's steeple athletes. Under Coach McNulty's guidance, USTFCCCA ranked Duke men’s steeplechase 7th in the nation. This was the highest overall performance by any Duke event group (men or women) across all events. Before that, he coached elite athletes with NJ/NY, learning under legendary coach Frank Gagliano. To be fair to the Dartmouth athletes, I honestly understand why they preferred Ben True based on their familiarity with him. But this notion that McNulty wasn't qualified to coach just isn't accurate. He has experience coaching elite athletes and experience running a program, the two things you need to be successful.
Regarding the parent digging into the archives at UK trying to discredit coach McNulty based on a minor resume mistake: this is just Dance Moms: Ivy League Edition and it's honestly embarrassing for y'all.
I can't speak to the experience of the Dartmouth athletes because I wasn't part of that team. But I think it's important to provide another perspective on Coach McNulty's abilities and set the record straight on his qualifications. I hope he gets another shot at coaching.
I ran for Coach McNulty at Duke and want to provide a different perspective on his character and coaching ability.
I was part of the steeple group, which Coach McNulty had full training control over. None of us felt overtrained; on the contrary, we all had great relationships with Coach McNulty and found that he was really receptive to what we had to say about our training. In high school I had two major injuries; in college I didn't miss a single practice for injury. Of the 7 guys I trained with under McNulty, the only one I remember with a notable injury got hurt by hitting his knee on a barrier during a race. We all ran well under him, including Alex Miley getting 3rd at ACCs in his first steeple season and myself, a sophomore walk-on, going from 9:01 3k flat to a 9:09 3k steeple. I can say confidently that Coach McNulty was beloved by the distance team at Duke, steeple athletes and otherwise.
I think the article misrepresents McNulty's qualifications. Before he arrived at Transylvania, their men's team hadn't even fielded a scoring team at Regionals the two years prior. I'd like to see any of you idiots build a team literally from the ground up. Before Transylvania, he spent 4 years at Duke learning how to run a D1 program and having full training autonomy for the men's steeple athletes. Under Coach McNulty's guidance, USTFCCCA ranked Duke men’s steeplechase 7th in the nation. This was the highest overall performance by any Duke event group (men or women) across all events. Before that, he coached elite athletes with NJ/NY, learning under legendary coach Frank Gagliano. To be fair to the Dartmouth athletes, I honestly understand why they preferred Ben True based on their familiarity with him. But this notion that McNulty wasn't qualified to coach just isn't accurate. He has experience coaching elite athletes and experience running a program, the two things you need to be successful.
Regarding the parent digging into the archives at UK trying to discredit coach McNulty based on a minor resume mistake: this is just Dance Moms: Ivy League Edition and it's honestly embarrassing for y'all.
I can't speak to the experience of the Dartmouth athletes because I wasn't part of that team. But I think it's important to provide another perspective on Coach McNulty's abilities and set the record straight on his qualifications. I hope he gets another shot at coaching.
Well with all due respect to your perspective, something clearly changed then between his coaching at Duke vs Dartmouth. 10 femoral stress fractures is just ridiculous. 20 of 24 athletes hurt is 100% the fault of the coach.
I will refer to this article herein as “the worst piece of writing for a college level journalist, much less an Ivy”. Holy hell. The fact that these kids think True could just be hired as a HC is preposterous. Assistant perhaps. But he had no experience with the duties that take up most of your time in the NCAA, at a school with a small staff to help hold his hand.
I ran for Coach McNulty at Duke and want to provide a different perspective on his character and coaching ability.
I was part of the steeple group, which Coach McNulty had full training control over. None of us felt overtrained; on the contrary, we all had great relationships with Coach McNulty and found that he was really receptive to what we had to say about our training. In high school I had two major injuries; in college I didn't miss a single practice for injury. Of the 7 guys I trained with under McNulty, the only one I remember with a notable injury got hurt by hitting his knee on a barrier during a race. We all ran well under him, including Alex Miley getting 3rd at ACCs in his first steeple season and myself, a sophomore walk-on, going from 9:01 3k flat to a 9:09 3k steeple. I can say confidently that Coach McNulty was beloved by the distance team at Duke, steeple athletes and otherwise.
I think the article misrepresents McNulty's qualifications. Before he arrived at Transylvania, their men's team hadn't even fielded a scoring team at Regionals the two years prior. I'd like to see any of you idiots build a team literally from the ground up. Before Transylvania, he spent 4 years at Duke learning how to run a D1 program and having full training autonomy for the men's steeple athletes. Under Coach McNulty's guidance, USTFCCCA ranked Duke men’s steeplechase 7th in the nation. This was the highest overall performance by any Duke event group (men or women) across all events. Before that, he coached elite athletes with NJ/NY, learning under legendary coach Frank Gagliano. To be fair to the Dartmouth athletes, I honestly understand why they preferred Ben True based on their familiarity with him. But this notion that McNulty wasn't qualified to coach just isn't accurate. He has experience coaching elite athletes and experience running a program, the two things you need to be successful.
Regarding the parent digging into the archives at UK trying to discredit coach McNulty based on a minor resume mistake: this is just Dance Moms: Ivy League Edition and it's honestly embarrassing for y'all.
I can't speak to the experience of the Dartmouth athletes because I wasn't part of that team. But I think it's important to provide another perspective on Coach McNulty's abilities and set the record straight on his qualifications. I hope he gets another shot at coaching.
This is 100% McNulty posting pretending to be someone else.
This particular individual ran 9:28 in the 3200 in high school, which converts to 8:49 in the 3k. 9:28 actually splits FASTER than 9:01 during the race.
This athlete also ran 9:00 as a season opener for Duke and thus was faster than a "9:01 3k" coming out of high school and even opened up faster than that at Duke. It's already been proven that McNulty loves to exaggerate or flat out lie to make himself look better.
McNulty injured or made quit 21 of 24 athletes. No sane person would hope that he ever coaches again, for the sake of the health of his future athletes.
I would also like to point out another post by McNulty himself in another thread. This post was regarding Dartmouth's top freshman distance runner entering the transfer portal and blamed a "tiger-parent" for that athlete leaving.
Clearly that athlete's teammates weren't going to post that to defend McNulty because they all HATED McNulty.
There's nobody else in the world who would know that athlete or their parent, because the athlete's name was not mentioned and the transfer portal is private. Nobody else would even know if the athlete's parent had anything to do with it.
Clearly McNulty is coming here to defend himself by pretending to be someone else or by insulting the guys he used to coach.
So as someone with zero skin in the game, why *shouldn't* Dartmouth pivot to a sprint-heavy team? Why does tradition matter when a good sprinter can give you points across more events per athlete than a distance runner can, particularly in a conference where every other team is also distance-oriented?
Because they're not good at sprinting
It's an ivy league school and their current top marks are
True would have had no clue how to actually administer a track & frield program. He was qualified for the coaching part, but not the administrative part.
Unfortunately as three sports, and potentially with both sexes six sports, cross country and track has been frequently used as a dumping ground for NCAA DEI mandates, and those of liberal faculty.
True would have had no clue how to actually administer a track & frield program. He was qualified for the coaching part, but not the administrative part.
Ha as if the administrative part is all that complicated. True is an Ivy League grad and a smart guy. You know how many bricks coach in the ncaa? It’s not rocket science.
Dartmouth admin is meeting to assess the future of Coach Dobson/Harnden. If you were on one of her teams and have a view, now is the time to express it. Every voice matters. Sometimes just one additional voice tips the scale. Write to any or all of these:
Sandhya L. Iyer (General Counsel): Sian L. Beilock (President): Elizabeth Lempres (Chairman of the Board):
Unfortunately as three sports, and potentially with both sexes six sports, cross country and track has been frequently used as a dumping ground for NCAA DEI mandates, and those of liberal faculty.
Been seeing this notion pop up a bunch on this thread. Can people start naming actual examples? Like a single one. My 2 college coaches were both white males. Same with every other coach in the conference. I wouldn't want DEI based hiring to take over NCAA XC, but you're complaining about a problem that doesn't exist.
Unfortunately as three sports, and potentially with both sexes six sports, cross country and track has been frequently used as a dumping ground for NCAA DEI mandates, and those of liberal faculty.
Been seeing this notion pop up a bunch on this thread. Can people start naming actual examples? Like a single one. My 2 college coaches were both white males. Same with every other coach in the conference. I wouldn't want DEI based hiring to take over NCAA XC, but you're complaining about a problem that doesn't exist.
Head Coach, for example the director of track and cross country for women and men. I am not talking about the distance coach who is an assistant.
Dartmouth admin is meeting to assess the future of Coach Dobson/Harnden. If you were on one of her teams and have a view, now is the time to express it. Every voice matters. Sometimes just one additional voice tips the scale. Write to any or all of these:
Sandhya L. Iyer (General Counsel): Sian L. Beilock (President): Elizabeth Lempres (Chairman of the Board):
Admin are meeting about a coach - but the Athletic Director isn’t involved? This information seems questionable. What is your source?
There also seems to be a Doubter writing in this same tone, but almost everything on here about the coaching situation since November has turned out to be true. Perhaps the three individuals above are more likely to pull the chute on Harnden, whereas perhaps the AD is not. So best send your views to the people most likely to take action.
Dartmouth admin is meeting to assess the future of Coach Dobson/Harnden. If you were on one of her teams and have a view, now is the time to express it. Every voice matters. Sometimes just one additional voice tips the scale. Write to any or all of these:
Sandhya L. Iyer (General Counsel): Sian L. Beilock (President): Elizabeth Lempres (Chairman of the Board):
Admin are meeting about a coach - but the Athletic Director isn’t involved? This information seems questionable. What is your source?
There always seems to be a Doubter writing in this same tone, but almost everything on here about the coaching situation since November has turned out to be true. Perhaps the three individuals above are more likely to pull the chute on Harnden, whereas perhaps the AD is not. So best send your views to the people most likely to take action.
Unfortunately as three sports, and potentially with both sexes six sports, cross country and track has been frequently used as a dumping ground for NCAA DEI mandates, and those of liberal faculty.
Been seeing this notion pop up a bunch on this thread. Can people start naming actual examples? Like a single one. My 2 college coaches were both white males. Same with every other coach in the conference. I wouldn't want DEI based hiring to take over NCAA XC, but you're complaining about a problem that doesn't exist.
2020: Only one sport has more than 15 Black head coaches in the Power Five: track and field.
Now these individuals may all be deserving of the position, but it should be based on merit, not racism clothed in DEI.
Why does the college keep referring their own students (both athletes and journalists) to a communications strategist? Seems like that's when you know they don't work for you and it is time to jump ship.
It's amazing how many people on this thread think that a report from a student newspaper is the absolute, 100% honest, 100% rigorously and independently fact-checked, hand-on-Bible truth. Maybe instead of scrutinizing McNulty's time at Duke you should review, idk, the Duke lacrosse case, or maybe the Rolling Stone UVA story. And then remember that this is a student newspaper ffs. The people on this forum should be uniquely aware of how easily and quickly allegations based on some well-curated facts can oust a coach and ruin his / her life. Or maybe that's just what you're here for, idk.