Where has the NCAA's most talented signee ever gone?

He was not a mega star. He never did anything of note in the NCAA. In reality, he was simply an enrollee at U of O. If he had won 2 or 3 titles in his first year, maybe we could crown him as a superstar in the making. As it stands, he is just a runner who went home. We have no verification of his abilities other than some times that plenty of other runners have posted, who by the way, have not been granted "NCAA's Most Talented" status.

Perhaps he is simply waiting until outdoor to open his season. Especially if he went back to Kenya, it wouldn't be atypical to not race until outdoor. Then again maybe he is injured.

edit: based on insta https://www.instagram.com/koitatoikidali/ he seems to be back in Kenya, but he seems really proud of running for Oregon.

Seth Clevenger is at Rowland

Again, we are left wondering 1.) why he never ran remotely close to his PB, and 2.) why he's no longer at Oregon. Nobody has any insight on this? Nobody else is curious what happened? A guy with a verified 1:42.66 at altitude in a championship race entered the NCAA, accomplished nothing at the most storied university in the sport, and then disappeared.

Word on the street was that he didn't run much before he arrived at Oregon so he came into the US out of shape.

His NCAA Indoor championship race I believe he made a reckless move that caused him and another run to wipe out so he DNF'ed. For NCAA Outdoors I think he also fell or got tripped up from a similar situation in the final.

I'm assuming the amount of money they paid him was way too much for his inability to handle championship races and the fact that he come back to school out of shape.

1:42 college guys, dime a dozen

Webb went to Michigan, was the best 1,500m runner in the world for a brief spell before injuries derailed his career. He's now a coach.

Great troll attempt, nobody's gonna bite on believing that a 3:53 mile compares to a 1:42 800m at altitude lol.

The most obvious reason is that he was likely doping when he ran that 1:42 in Kenya and got off the sauce when he came to the United States for fear of popping positive. It doesn’t fully explain how bad he was. Sometimes Kenyans don’t adjust well to the American college life style and they go back home after a semester or two. He probably didn’t like Oregon.

The most obvious reason is that he was likely doping when he ran that 1:42 in Kenya and got off the sauce when he came to the United States for fear of popping positive. It doesn’t fully explain how bad he was. Sometimes Kenyans don’t adjust well to the American college life style and they go back home after a semester or two. He probably didn’t like Oregon.

In my experience, replicating that kind of success is really hard considering the move from Kenya to the US.

These Kenyan training camps are nuts. Basically you drop in and train EXTREMELY hard for a year or two to see if anything magic happens. Three runs a day and do nothing else type stuff. Training that isn’t sustainable long term.

So take that guy, move to rainy Eugene with different training, school, life, language.

Would Cooper L from Texas succeed if he went to a foreign country for college next year with maybe 1-2 people total that speak English? He’d probably struggle a bit

In my experience, replicating that kind of success is really hard considering the move from Kenya to the US.

These Kenyan training camps are nuts. Basically you drop in and train EXTREMELY hard for a year or two to see if anything magic happens. Three runs a day and do nothing else type stuff. Training that isn’t sustainable long term.

So take that guy, move to rainy Eugene with different training, school, life, language.

Would Cooper L from Texas succeed if he went to a foreign country for college next year with maybe 1-2 people total that speak English? He’d probably struggle a bit

Lukas Verzvbicas was also a mega talented high school runner who went to Oregon. Was there than less than a semester

Lasse Viren was a Finnish mega star that went to BYU. Also only lasted a semester. What is it with American universities...

Kidali is a 1:45-1:46 guy who for one race somehow mustered a 1:42. Hasn’t made sense before or after. He barely scraped into the final of that race btw relying on a time qualifier: He repped Kenya so he had to take at least 3 OOC tests in the 10 months before. The whole situation is somewhat baffling.

Don’t worry, after he goes home for some “training camps” in Kenya he will be back in full force and dominating.

From what I've heard, he ran into some some issues with his VISA over the summer, keeping him returning to Oregon in the fall.

That or that's Oregon's excuse to save a few hundred thousand in NIL money.

I never knew this, thanks for blowing my mind.