What is happening at U Cumberlands?

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1 week ago 05/08/2024 2:15pm EDT

Just last year this team also seemed like a joke. Now this is how their team looks…

800:

1:50

1:52 (indoor)

1000m:

2:22

2:26

2:29

1500:

3:41

3:43

3:45

Mile (indoor):

4:01

4:11

4:13

4:15

3k (indoor):

8:08

8:12

8:23

8:24

8:26

8:32

5k:

13:53

14:09 (indoor)

14:12

14:29 (indoor)

14:36

14:44

14:47

10k:

29:20

29:57

30:51

4x800:

7:25

DMR:

9:55

Looks like they’re an NAIA team and I don’t know much about them but this is pretty impressive. It looks like they never ran their DMR A team but they probably could’ve ran pretty fast.

1 week ago 05/08/2024 2:16pm EDT

re: What gives?

What gives? wrote:
Just last year this team also seemed like a joke. Now this is how their team looks…
800:
1:50
1:52 (indoor)
1000m:
2:22
2:26
2:29
1500:
3:41
3:43
3:45
Mile (indoor):
4:01
4:11
4:13
4:13
4:15
3k (indoor):
8:08
8:12
8:23
8:24
8:26
8:32
5k:
13:53
14:09 (indoor)
14:12
14:29 (indoor)
14:36
14:44
14:47
10k:
29:20
29:57
30:51
4x800:
7:25
DMR:
9:55
Looks like they’re an NAIA team and I don’t know much about them but this is pretty impressive. It looks like they never ran their DMR A team but they probably could’ve ran pretty fast.

All of those 1ks are also indoor as well

1 week ago 05/08/2024 2:20pm EDT

re: What gives?

I didnt look anything up but my guess is they just imported a bunch of good runners from east africa.

1 week ago 05/08/2024 2:32pm EDT

re: What gives?

Went the Wingate and West Texas A & M route...

Best team money can buy.

1 week ago 05/09/2024 10:59pm EDT

re: What gives?

They’re an NAIA team at a big school with cheap tuition and a ton of funding.

NAIA has very few rules regarding scholarship limits and eligibility.

So when a team has a ton of funding in the NAIA they pretty quickly just become really good and run over all the small schools with bad funding.

that talks a lot about Cumberlands. They explain the situation with them a lot although I’m not sure how reliable everything in there is. The bulk of the talk about Cumberlands starts around page 30 or so in the thread.

LetsRun.com Forum Thread

NAIA 2023

NAIArunner06/30/2023 7:03pm EDT10 months ago

After last year I think having another thread is a good idea, and I’m starting this one a bit earlier. There were a good amount of posts last year and it provided a lot of information about teams that I don't think many...

Thread:www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?th...

1 week ago 05/10/2024 10:39am EDT

re: CoolGuy

Virtually unlimited money and they're using their program as a one year stop over for division one schools. So they're giving them athletes. Two of their XC team already left and it looks like the majority of their big guns in track will follow

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