This is what happens when you professionalize collegiate sports. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Or in this case, don't hate the athlete/coach, hate the NCAA professionalizing what's supposed to be an amateur sports league.
What was thought best for football might not have been the best for cross country (or football).
The notion of professionals transferring from school to school to maximize their "potential" might makes sense for Alabama, Oregon, Georgia, and Ohio State football, but it might make a shambles of the notion of a collegiate cross country team that develops together over the course of four years.
Luckily, this kind of stuff doesn't impact the other 99% of the cross country teams out there. But yes, it will change the race results at the very top of the page!
That race has to be short. So many people went sub 23 minutes. Still doesn't make it much better, but it's not like he did that time when all the normal age runners are doing like 23:30 or something
This is what happens when you professionalize collegiate sports. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Or in this case, don't hate the athlete/coach, hate the NCAA professionalizing what's supposed to be an amateur sports league.
exactly, don't hate the athlete, coach, or team. they are playing the game as within the rules the NCCA and legal system sets. I think at the end of the day it will make American runners better. as a fan it certainly isn't boring!
That race has to be short. So many people went sub 23 minutes. Still doesn't make it much better, but it's not like he did that time when all the normal age runners are doing like 23:30 or something
Will be interesting to see him going up against the OSU runners in the Big 12 meet.
I think the course was short this year. On the other hand usually this meet has brutal heat/ humidity combo and it looks like they had some good conditions.
Also I don’t think 14 women are good enough to split sub 16 and get faster
80 guys went sub 24. The course is obviously short lol. A guy with a 15:30 5k PR from last spring ran under 24 here and that was just the only one I bothered to spot check.
That race has to be short. So many people went sub 23 minutes. Still doesn't make it much better, but it's not like he did that time when all the normal age runners are doing like 23:30 or something
Will be interesting to see him going up against the OSU runners in the Big 12 meet.
This is what happens when you professionalize collegiate sports. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Or in this case, don't hate the athlete/coach, hate the NCAA professionalizing what's supposed to be an amateur sports league.
How can you possibly blame the ncaa for professIonalizing college sports? Theyre the ones who fought tooth and nail for amateurism until the courts neutered them (which honestly was the right legal decision, however unpleasant the consequences are for college sports fans)
80 guys went sub 24. The course is obviously short lol. A guy with a 15:30 5k PR from last spring ran under 24 here and that was just the only one I bothered to spot check.
Course may be, but garmen trackers had it pretty close. Course hadn’t changed. Nobody had ever gone sub 23 on this course and then 10 guys do it. Splits were roughly 2:39 at the 1k, 4:19 at the mile, ~13:45 through 5k
I actually think this will hurt American distance at the pro level (in addition to NCAA level).
Other countries are more frequently starting to use the NCAA to train and develop their athletes. You can send any runner over to the US and they will recieve free education, fully supported training environment, heavy media exposure, competitve races, and the US covers the bill. On top of that, the recent scholarship/roster changes give coaches the ability to recruit even more high level foreigners while at the same time eliminating roster slots you would normally give to developmental high schoolers.
We do well at middle distance track simply because all the good east Africans follow the money straight to the roads (where the Americans are absolute garbage). But now we are creating/building upon a system that makes a career on the track viable for these athletes.
Competition is nice but we are helping everyone else far more than we are helping ourselves.
I actually think this will hurt American distance at the pro level (in addition to NCAA level).
Other countries are more frequently starting to use the NCAA to train and develop their athletes. You can send any runner over to the US and they will recieve free education, fully supported training environment, heavy media exposure, competitve races, and the US covers the bill. On top of that, the recent scholarship/roster changes give coaches the ability to recruit even more high level foreigners while at the same time eliminating roster slots you would normally give to developmental high schoolers.
We do well at middle distance track simply because all the good east Africans follow the money straight to the roads (where the Americans are absolute garbage). But now we are creating/building upon a system that makes a career on the track viable for these athletes.
Competition is nice but we are helping everyone else far more than we are helping ourselves.
800/1500m runners don’t typically move up. We might help Kidali/Musau/Kipkoech develop but all those guys would pursue track careers. The big jump is in 5K+ guys who will mostly not be viable for Kenyan 5-10k teams with the rare exceptions like Edwin Kurgat.