My son ran for Cornell amd we paid full price. It seemed like the smart investment but he has no better job than his high school friends who attended our state school and paid 25% as much.
Cornell , the road trip destination where small colleges in the New York State area go to party 🥳
My son ran for Cornell amd we paid full price. It seemed like the smart investment but he has no better job than his high school friends who attended our state school and paid 25% as much.
Many people are under the illusion if you go to school x, you are set for life. It can be an important entry to certain professions and at the top of academia, but for most careers does not matter much.
If you are fortunate enough to go to a top school, it's best to carefully plan out your career options to get the max out of your college investment. Amazingly many smart students do not do this. They randomly pick a major, graduate and just find a job without much thinking. Then they say the school didn't do much for them.
Brosnan would be an amazing choice for Duke. But I’m not bringing this up to come up with an exact person. I know of a few good choices. Duke doesn’t seem to get it right though. The head coach hired Angela Reckart who slowly kills Duke’s distance runners day by day. How on earth was she hired.
Brosnan didn't leave that program in shambles. He had it doing the best in years. Your theory falls flat. No violations ever came from those rumors, not a single one. How sad to blame another coach for Dukes downfall. What happen out west has nothing to do with Duke.
The downfall of Duke started with Norm Ogilvie and Kevin Jermyn. It now only continues to get worse with Angela Reckart. This program has great potential, but like many others it comes from the top. It's time to revamp Duke like UNC finally did when they got rid of Bobby Lockhart , Mark VanAlstyne and those clowns. Coaching makes a difference and Rackert doesn't know what she's doing.
Brosnan didn't leave that program in shambles. He had it doing the best in years. Your theory falls flat. No violations ever came from those rumors, not a single one. How sad to blame another coach for Dukes downfall. What happen out west has nothing to do with Duke.
The downfall of Duke started with Norm Ogilvie and Kevin Jermyn. It now only continues to get worse with Angela Reckart. This program has great potential, but like many others it comes from the top. It's time to revamp Duke like UNC finally did when they got rid of Bobby Lockhart , Mark VanAlstyne and those clowns. Coaching makes a difference and Rackert doesn't know what she's doing.
OK, you're wrong. The roster at UCLA is very much bare bones and in rough shape. The new coaches seem to be doing the best they can and are recruiting better than Brosnan, but Brosnan definitely set them back. He was accused of breaking rules and is no longer there. Call that whatever you want, but it didn't work out and the team is worse off than they were before he got there. Nobody is blaming Brosnan for Duke's downfall. We're just commenting on another poster's claim that Brosnan would be a good fit.
Aren’t they really good on the track? Isn’t that Dutch girl running super fast?
School is so expensive now that you can’t focus on every event group. Some really large state schools are trying (Texas, Florida, Arkansas) but that’s about it.
Especially at an expensive private school the scholarships only go so far and you need to target what you can succeed at.
Not every school can invest a lot into distance, those that do are usually at NCAA nationals for xc. Only about 40 programs nationally are really trying at distance anymore
Brosnan didn't leave that program in shambles. He had it doing the best in years. Your theory falls flat. No violations ever came from those rumors, not a single one. How sad to blame another coach for Dukes downfall. What happen out west has nothing to do with Duke.
The downfall of Duke started with Norm Ogilvie and Kevin Jermyn. It now only continues to get worse with Angela Reckart. This program has great potential, but like many others it comes from the top. It's time to revamp Duke like UNC finally did when they got rid of Bobby Lockhart , Mark VanAlstyne and those clowns. Coaching makes a difference and Rackert doesn't know what she's doing.
OK, you're wrong. The roster at UCLA is very much bare bones and in rough shape. The new coaches seem to be doing the best they can and are recruiting better than Brosnan, but Brosnan definitely set them back. He was accused of breaking rules and is no longer there. Call that whatever you want, but it didn't work out and the team is worse off than they were before he got there. Nobody is blaming Brosnan for Duke's downfall. We're just commenting on another poster's claim that Brosnan would be a good fit.
He is one of the best coaches in the country and the athletes leaving and transfers deciding not to come to UCLA after Brosnan's exit shows his athletes wanted to be coached by him and didn't support the schools decision. Thats huge in my eyes. I had not seen multiple UCLA distance athletes at NCAA's in a long time and Brosnan had that in one year. UCLA seems to have other major athletic department problems right now without track or cross country. I don't want to get into the reasons Chip Kelly left their football program high and dry. That for another day. Brosnan seems more suited to pro level situation anyway and don't see him as a southern living guy.
Now as a Duke fan of all sports I would love them to get a new start. They just need better coaches. It's really that simple.
Brosnan didn't leave that program in shambles. He had it doing the best in years. Your theory falls flat. No violations ever came from those rumors, not a single one. How sad to blame another coach for Dukes downfall. What happen out west has nothing to do with Duke.
The downfall of Duke started with Norm Ogilvie and Kevin Jermyn. It now only continues to get worse with Angela Reckart. This program has great potential, but like many others it comes from the top. It's time to revamp Duke like UNC finally did when they got rid of Bobby Lockhart , Mark VanAlstyne and those clowns. Coaching makes a difference and Rackert doesn't know what she's doing.
Kevin Jermyn is from my town. Was a Millrose mile winner in HS. I've always considered his stay at Duke to be very successful.
Was there something he did that "started the downfall"? Just curious.
It’s sad to see such a good school suck so bad at distance. They waste their talent.
I think it’s time to rebuild the coaching staff. They have excuses for underperforming year after year.
They have a minor success rate in conference champs for T&F but the distance under Reckart is horrendous. Not sure why and how she got brought in.
I don’t think Duke currently cares much about their distance / cross country. I also don’t anticipate any changes to improve the distance end of things anytime soon. Someone gave a great example of how UNC went from mediocrity to having a top national level team winning ACC’s and cross country and distance by firing the old and bringing in a new staff. If Duke alum want to win they need changes done.
It’s sad to see such a good school suck so bad at distance. They waste their talent.
I think it’s time to rebuild the coaching staff. They have excuses for underperforming year after year.
They have a minor success rate in conference champs for T&F but the distance under Reckart is horrendous. Not sure why and how she got brought in.
I don’t think Duke currently cares much about their distance / cross country. I also don’t anticipate any changes to improve the distance end of things anytime soon. Someone gave a great example of how UNC went from mediocrity to having a top national level team winning ACC’s and cross country and distance by firing the old and bringing in a new staff. If Duke alum want to win they need changes done.
It has nothing to do with Reckart. Maatoug is one of the best in the NCAA so it proves Reckart's training is sound.
THE PROBLEM IS WITH WILBOURN. He fired Riley, hired Reckart, and took all their scholarship money away.
Currently Duke has more scholarships into decathlon and heptathlon than all of distance combined.
They have a minor success rate in conference champs for T&F but the distance under Reckart is horrendous. Not sure why and how she got brought in.
I don’t think Duke currently cares much about their distance / cross country. I also don’t anticipate any changes to improve the distance end of things anytime soon. Someone gave a great example of how UNC went from mediocrity to having a top national level team winning ACC’s and cross country and distance by firing the old and bringing in a new staff. If Duke alum want to win they need changes done.
It has nothing to do with Reckart. Maatoug is one of the best in the NCAA so it proves Reckart's training is sound.
THE PROBLEM IS WITH WILBOURN. He fired Riley, hired Reckart, and took all their scholarship money away.
Currently Duke has more scholarships into decathlon and heptathlon than all of distance combined.
Maatoug does her own trying like tons of other foreign athletes. She has no clue what she is doing and it’s obvious. Like I said before by keeping her just shows Duke does not care about winning or being good.