Chris Bucknam retires at Arkansas, '25 xc season is his last. Doug Case to take over January 1.
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One year too late.
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What can we expect from Doug Case? Strengths, etc.
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Woo pig wrote:
Thank goodness. Let’s get back to tradition.
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Guess we all know ow who Arkansas is begging to take over-Sean Brosnan
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Arkansas has gone all in on being a track program that piles up points in field events, sprints and relays. Get a few here and there with distance. It's not like the old days where they'd pile up a ton of points in distance events. And maybe that's the way they believe they can win in today's landscape. I don't see the new coach changing that approach.
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yellow14 wrote:
Arkansas has gone all in on being a track program that piles up points in field events, sprints and relays. Get a few here and there with distance. It's not like the old days where they'd pile up a ton of points in distance events. And maybe that's the way they believe they can win in today's landscape. I don't see the new coach changing that approach.
Kind of misnomer when they’ve been on the cross country podium for 4 of the last 5 years though isn’t it?
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yellow14 wrote:
Arkansas has gone all in on being a track program that piles up points in field events, sprints and relays. Get a few here and there with distance. It's not like the old days where they'd pile up a ton of points in distance events. And maybe that's the way they believe they can win in today's landscape. I don't see the new coach changing that approach.
Here is a nice article on today's news where the coaches talk about being competitive in the year 2025.
Case says they recruit the best athletes - period.
Case said:
“Our thing has always been you recruit the best athlete. You don’t recruit the position necessarily, so if we end up with a numerous amount of great decathletes, that’s what we have. We’ve never assigned a number to distance runners, in terms of scholarships, or jumpers or anything like that. Go out and recruit, get the best recruits we can get and we’ll put this team together.
“I think our team has been really well rounded for years from the distance all the way through a couple of years ago we had throwers. It just depended on who we could get at that time.”Former women's coach Lance Harter says it's basically impossible to win the triple crown.
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“To try to stay competitive in all three [seasons], that era is starting to become more and more of a distant dream than it is a reality. Winning triple crowns, especially at the national level, that’s not going to happen again.”30 -
I was surprised at the timing. They host NCAA indoors in March
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Hey guys, Sam here. Go Hogs. Look, I'm the new coach. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, pretty crazy. I get it. But, practice is tomorrow morning at 8am sharp at the intramural fields. yezzzirrrrrrr
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don't forget that even McDonnell knew that sprinters and field eventers could rack up the points that are needed to win championshps. I think Case is initially a better succesor as head coach than Bucknam was to McDonnell in regard to the complete program.
They can now search for a good distance/xc coach in Fayetteville.
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