Shocking Expose on Dartmouth XCTF Director And Mcnulty Lies!

A Blast from the McPast (11/27/23):

"This is how we know you're just making stuff up. So the team asked for McNulty to be removed? You have proof? But then you state the team SHOULD demand a new coach. isn't that the point if you already asked him to be removed?

I would have thought an athlete at Dartmouth would be better at internet trolling than this.

Idiot."

For the current students reading this trying to effect change in the coaching ranks: you should look at enlisting alumni support for admin to really care (unfortunately). Look at the top T&F/XC donors and see who might have a sympathetic ear

-Taking your stats at an ugly face value: There are a little over 15 black head coaches in power five conferences which means a little over 23%. Question: So what? If this percentage applied to hockey, equestrian, lacrosse, or swimming (I would even argue XC) then maybe you would have a “clothed” DEI point to make!

-Why not just say the 65 head coaches in power five track & field should be deserving of the position and it should be based on merit! Now common sense 101 and the reality of life 102 should tell you that there isn’t a single occupation with an unblemished record of hiring on merit alone but let’s digress since it’s February. Why are you fixated on the roughly 23%? What are you clothing?

Wasn't planning jump back in this cesspool but it's honestly crazy how much y'all are willing to dig and nitpick to discredit people even as you selectively curate stuff for your own arguments. I wrote my own damn post and I wrote it that way because I ran 9:01 right around the time McNulty started coaching me. Sorry I didn't comb back through my TFRRS/milesplit from 8 years ago to calculate my exact 3000m PR in 2017. Need me to send you the receipts to prove that I wrote it? Please for the love of all things go find something better to do with your life.

Parsons College was the inspiration for Animal House you idiot

No horse in this race, but I noticed in yesterday’s indoor meet in a Boston many, many more that 4 distance men set times for Dartmouth so I think there could be exaggerations going on from all sides of this saga.

(S)he turned me into a newt!

A newt?

I got better...

Only 6 guys ran at XC Regionals in November because everyone else was hurt. New coaching since then has probably helped.

Looking like a complete rebuild in Hanover for the Men's Cross Country Team is the only way out of this mess. I'm interested in seeing what happens to Dobson-Harnden. She's shown she cannot be trusted to hire/retain staff but is that enough to warrant her removal?

I know that Dartmouth still has recruits coming in. What were athletes telling recruits on visits? Everything is good? Would seem really unethical for athletes to cover up all of these problems and issues with coaching and injuries in order to get recruits to commit.

thedartmouth.com

Letter to the Editor: On the State of Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field

Major changes need to be made to the men’s cross country and track and field programs.

Link:www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024/02/l...

You know it's bad when alumni who donate a lot of money start writing open letters calling for people to be fired.

You have assumed an imaginary set of facts with no basis, and then used that to criticize the athletes who suffered under McNulty. McNulty was well aware his athletes were unhappy. He was well aware of the widespread injuries. A better assumption is that he kept recruits away from the unhappy team as much as possible, and that existing athletes were honest in every way that they could be. Looks like they successfully got McNulty removed. They expressed their views. The school fired him.

Very well written:

"But in just three years, the Marjorie and Herbert Chase ’30 track and field and cross country director Porscha Dobson Harnden, aided by our dysfunctional athletic department, has effectively gutted the program. It will take years to recover if ever it does.
Harnden came on board as the program’s new director in 2020. Since then, she vetted, recruited and hired two men’s distance coaches. Neither made it past their first year. The program now stands in shambles."

Time for change, and it's coming...

The entire distance team sent a letter asking McNulty to be removed. McNulty was fired.

Alumni are complaining. Letters to the editor and more.

Parents are complaining.

Administration has been investigating, reviewing, responding.

The distance team is being decimated.

It's time for Porscha Dobson Harnden Stalin to be replaced.

It's time to rebuild the program by clearing out the problems. Why let the suffering continue?

any updates with this situation?

McNulty was fired.

Dobson-Harnden hasn't been with the team at practice or meets, including Heps, in more than a month.

It's time for this coaching staff to be cleared out, top to bottom. And the AD.

Dobson-Harnden must be on the way out. Over a month and radio silence from her. Currently under administrative leave I would guess.

Forino and Wunderlich are alums that have been coaches at Dartmouth for a long time. Safest option would be to promote one of them instead of taking a gamble on a DEI hire.

It's gross and pathetic how obsessed so many on here are obsessed with race and gender. Get a life, loser.

They just put their spring schedule up yesterday!

dartmouthsports.com

2023-24 Men's Track & Field Schedule

The official 2023-24 Men's Track & Field schedule for the Dartmouth College Big Green

Link:dartmouthsports.com/sports/mens-track-...