Profile Of Optimal D1 Recruit

I 100% degree!!!

The same goes for athletes that come from a dominate high school program. They expect to win immediately and it almost never works that way.

I think it's absolute BS. A D1 recruit is someone who can compete at whatever school he/she will be enrolling and also maintain himself/herself academically.

Adams looks so angry wrote:

I think it's absolute BS. A D1 recruit is someone who can compete at whatever school he/she will be enrolling and also maintain himself/herself academically.

Hey, what the hell would Peter Tegen know about what it takes to be a successful student-athlete. He has only worked with a couple hundered of them in his 30+ years of coaching...

perfect D1 recruit is someone with serious enthusiasm and motivation for the next 4 years. says me. the perfect d1 recruit when i ran in college.

I agree...Just look at how poorly guys like Ritz, Goucher, Torres, Kennedy, and others are doing. Just pathetic!

someone name someone really sucesfful in college who fits pts standard

Agree and they want instant success and glory. No patience and not prepared to put in the 101% total committment and hard slog to get the good results.

High school coaches should prepare them for this shock reality!

Ever likely we have no real young talent coming out of college recently!

I only listed a few from the top of my head. I'm sure there are plenty of good runners who weren't Foot Locker Champions. I highly doubt they weren't the best on their high school teams, however. I'm simply saying that not choosing the Champ, because he will not perform is retarded.

Well, the optimal DI recruit would be someone who can run the 10k in no time at all, and who is highly motivated to improve.

Since those are tough to come by, I'm sure any coach would take an absolute stud over someone with far less talent. I think the point was that if you're comparing two kids who aren't going to compete for the individual title right away, but who will be in your top seven for a couple years, you'd take the one with a modicum less talent and a better attitude.

So that's why Stanford gives full scholarships to runners who were second best on the HS team.

The optimal D1 recruit is a male athlete who has a PR of 12:18 in the 5k, off of only 15 miles a week, with some supplemental swimming. On the womens side, it is the same idea, with a 14:02 5k PR, but also with the added bonus of a C cup.

brllc wrote:

Paraphrasing, he said it is someone that finishes second or third in state, and ideally, second on their team. They seem to have problems with the "coddled champions" because the adjustment to D1 is harder for them. No long being the top dog is very tough to come to terms with.

The kids with almost as much talent, but was not coddled is more coachable and more times than not, better realize their upside potential.

You agree or disagree?

Just a guess, but I think Tegan was just trying to get a point across to these high school kids. He was probably trying to get into their heads that to be a good recruit you need to be coachable... So these kids leave camp thinking about how they want to be a d1 recruit and how they don't want to be a pain in the ass to their coaches.

Well played Coach Tegan!

(i mean really, 2nd or 3rd in state and the #2 runner on their team?? that's one hell of a team!)

oh yeah wrote:

someone name someone really sucesfful in college who fits pts standard

U of Portland's entire varsity team pretty much fits the standard, except for the part about being 2nd on their high school team.

Fitting the Standard wrote:

oh yeah wrote:

someone name someone really sucesfful in college who fits pts standard

U of Portland's entire varsity team pretty much fits the standard, except for the part about being 2nd on their high school team.

its funny you say that because... well i think you know what team I am on

but isn't the whole point of the quote the fact that your second on your team. (doesnt fit portland)

you would have to be on an amazing team to be number two and still go to stanford