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.
Duke doesn't care about cross country because of Wilbourn.
Duke is basically an Ivy League school right now because of so little distance scholarships. Only 1 Ivy League women's team qualified for NCAAs in cross country, that was Harvard in by far the weakest region. Duke women were very close to Harvard at Nuttycombe, right behind Syracuse and they beat Providence - Syracuse and Providence put 100% of their scholarships into distance.
Most top teams now are majority international or transfers. Duke doesn't have enough money to recruit large numbers of internationals, and Duke doesn't offer financial aid for transfer students.
They are redshirting a ton of people indoors.
Why don't you throw temper tantrums about teams with 18 scholarships into distance and still can't make NCAAs? There are tons of them (such as Toledo).
Because schools like Toledo aren’t suppose to make the NCAAs in XC. A mid-major public state school. how many of those make it anyway? When you’re Duke: you’re suppose to make the NCAAs in XC regardless of how many scholarships you allocate.
As a Duke grad and someone who has been to the Netherlands many times, I can assure you that no Dutch person would think that students at Duke have it so much better than students in the Netherlands. Yes, there is great art there but the vast majority of people visiting the Netherlands visit for other more carnal adventures.
Duke doesn't care about cross country because of Wilbourn.
Duke is basically an Ivy League school right now because of so little distance scholarships. Only 1 Ivy League women's team qualified for NCAAs in cross country, that was Harvard in by far the weakest region. Duke women were very close to Harvard at Nuttycombe, right behind Syracuse and they beat Providence - Syracuse and Providence put 100% of their scholarships into distance.
Most top teams now are majority international or transfers. Duke doesn't have enough money to recruit large numbers of internationals, and Duke doesn't offer financial aid for transfer students.
They are redshirting a ton of people indoors.
Why don't you throw temper tantrums about teams with 18 scholarships into distance and still can't make NCAAs? There are tons of them (such as Toledo).
Because schools like Toledo aren’t suppose to make the NCAAs in XC. A mid-major public state school. how many of those make it anyway? When you’re Duke: you’re suppose to make the NCAAs in XC regardless of how many scholarships you allocate.
NAU is a mid-major public state school as well.
Toledo has 18 women's scholarships, all of them in distance. They have a great campus, great location, an amazing XC course and places to train. Half of their team is international.
The Univ of Michigan women didn't qualify either, nor the Villanova women. The Oregon men didn't qualify. There are a ton of schools are are underperforming more than Duke.
You are insane if you think Duke, a 90k per year PARTY SCHOOL that has at most 25% of their scholarship money into distance, is supposed to be top 10 in the NCAA every year. Duke's men likely aren't even fully funded (meaning they have less than the max allowable scholarships).
AH yes, the classic: one person represents the success of the whole team. Amina would be at Nationals and at the highest level regardless of where she went, let us be honest. Go look again at the portal: Dalia --> Gone, top athletes on the team (per Stride Report) --> portal. hm.
This isn't sexist, this is objective. Duke made XC nationals for the first time in many years for both men and women when Rhonda had the job. Sure, COVID this COVID that, but they made it there and ran objectively very well.
What has happened since? Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
This post makes no sense. I have no idea if the coaches are doing a good or bad job but how UNC is doing is completely irrelevant to that issues. Your post is basically "UNC stinks so Duke is doing fine."
Strange that these complaints didn't exist under Rhonda Riley who's also a woman. Or maybe it's because Reckhart's a terrible coach and you're a woke moran?
This post makes no sense. I have no idea if the coaches are doing a good or bad job but how UNC is doing is completely irrelevant to that issues. Your post is basically "UNC stinks so Duke is doing fine."
The question is why do you care so much about Duke underachieving when there are bigger schools with more scholarships that are performing worse?
It's clear that those complaining here have a connection to Duke, maybe they were kicked off the team for partying. Maybe they were kicked off the team for being slow. Maybe they weren't recruited by Duke because they were too slow in high school.
No school has more scholarships amd the size of the school is irrelevant. There are 50 guys on the track team. Whether there are another 50 on campus or another 50,000, it doesn't matter.
Coaching a population of mormon women has to be the easiest job in the world. They are taught to reject individuality and devote themselves to traditional women's roles -- of which submissiveness is pinnacle.
The women who HAVE left have voiced very real concerns... Simone & Anna both said it was a toxic abusive culture.
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.
In the fall of 2021, Duke men beat UNC men at ACC cross country meet with 4 guys who were developed by Norm and 1 freshman. Since then, both Duke and UNC cleaned house coaching wise. Duke got rid of Dan Goetz and Rhonda Riley and UNC was already mid-transition bringing in Miltenberg. Most recently, the UNC men just won the indoor ACC title while Duke men took 9th.
Since 2021 when Wilbourn took over, the Duke mens team has gone down the drain. Since Milt took over, the UNC men have only gotten better all around. It doesnt take a genius to see that the problem with Duke is the coaching staff. Duke needs to ditch Wilbourn (and Reckart) and find coaches who know how to run a successful program
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.
In the fall of 2021, Duke men beat UNC men at ACC cross country meet with 4 guys who were developed by Norm and 1 freshman. Since then, both Duke and UNC cleaned house coaching wise. Duke got rid of Dan Goetz and Rhonda Riley and UNC was already mid-transition bringing in Miltenberg. Most recently, the UNC men just won the indoor ACC title while Duke men took 9th.
Since 2021 when Wilbourn took over, the Duke mens team has gone down the drain. Since Milt took over, the UNC men have only gotten better all around. It doesnt take a genius to see that the problem with Duke is the coaching staff. Duke needs to ditch Wilbourn (and Reckart) and find coaches who know how to run a successful program
Do women's programs count? Duke won the '22 ACC Indoor, Second '22 ACC Outdoor, 2nd '23 ACC Indoor, won the '23 ACC Outdoor, 4th at this year's ACC indoor.
UNC women in those meets respectively 6th, 9th, 10th, 8th, 11th