Lindsay Scherf & Mellisa Grelli transfer to Oregon!!!

More crap to throw at a wall to see what sticks.

It's been a total loss so far. The state of Oregon won 0 out of 29 track and field medals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. All the Nike money and public relations hype have produced zilch, zero, nada.

Keep telling yourself that. Problem is, which men's team won the NCAA Cross Country title last season? Also, which women's cross country team finished second only to Stanford for the women's XC title? Men's Pac 10 Champions? Men's NCAA Decathlon Champion? Women's NCAA Javelin Champion? ETC, ETC.

Only the IAAF WCs and Olympics matter.

oregon is a young team, thats why there are no olympic medalists idiot. Nicole Blood, Andrew Wheating, AJ Acosta, Becca Noble, Alex Kosinski and Galen Rupp should be competing for a medal one day.

Tracktown, USA wrote:

Only the IAAF WCs and Olympics matter.

So we really don't have many successful states at all I guess?

kallyanne drummond wrote:

oregon is a young team, thats why there are no olympic medalists idiot. Nicole Blood, Andrew Wheating, AJ Acosta, Becca Noble, Alex Kosinski and Galen Rupp should be competing for a medal one day.

Right, just like all that name talent at Stanford has gone on to compete for medals. Same old Lananna game of 'buying' up talent and squandering most of it. At least half of those you listed will be out of the sport by 2012.

They aren't that young. Plenty of track medals went to athletes younger than them

The age excuse doesn't really work.

Tracktown, USA wrote:

Only the IAAF WCs and Olympics matter.

So according to your view, high schoolers and college runners who feel they don't have a chance at a WC or Olympic medal shouldn't bother running because nothing else matters. That would do our sport good.

It’s sad people like you can't enjoy the Footlocker races and NCAA/USATF championships.

Also tell me who won the bronze in the women's 10,000 at the last WC? Wasn't that someone named Goucher and isn't she from Oregon and wasn't she running for an organization called Nike? Aren't their other promising young hopefuls now living in Oregon named Fleshman and Rupp who are supported by Nike, and with some more to come (perhaps Scherf, Blood, Grelli)?

Outside of California where nearly all the sprinters train, how many other states did not medal in T&F in the '08 Olympics? I think it was Oregon plus 46 other states. After California, Oregon ranks #2 in running talent.

Finally, if you don’t have West African genetics for sprinting or East African genetics for distance running, it is always going to be extremely difficult to metal in Track at the Olympics or WCs.

why run wrote:

So according to your view, high schoolers and college runners who feel they don't have a chance at a WC or Olympic medal shouldn't bother running because nothing else matters.

No, that would be your idiotic misinterpretation of that view. What's wrong with your reading comprehension?

It’s sad people like you can't enjoy the Footlocker races and NCAA/USATF championships.

No, it isn't. Sad is someone losing a loved one to disease or natural disaster. Sport is just for fun, kid.

Oh, and you suck at writing.

jealous much?

why run wrote:

Wasn't that someone named Goucher and isn't she from Oregon and wasn't she running for an organization called Nike? Aren't their other promising young hopefuls now living in Oregon named Fleshman and Rupp who are supported by Nike, and with some more to come (perhaps Scherf, Blood, Grelli)?

Dude, you "medal" in the Olympics, not "metal".

Kara Goucher was actually Kara Wheeler before she got married and she's actually from Minnesota. She's probably not lived in Oregon for more than a couple of years.

Lauren Fleshman is from southern California, Blood's from New York. If you go up and down the U of O men's and women's rosters, a great majority of the athletes are not native Oregonians.

Sorry for the big words.

It was only a matter of time before the nasty boys chimed in and nit-picked other’s comments. This tread has gotten way off subject.

If you want to talk about which states are strongest in T&F, start a new thread.

Let’s end this.

Hey guys, face it. Zero is as low as you can get. Zero medals from Beijing after all that huge jive talk has got to be pits. It's embarrassing as hell and a testament to the bozos who made such wild claims and didn't deliver but zero medals. I hope people in Oregon have learned a lesson and will tone it down for 2009 Berlin. Man you guys in Oregon really made asses out of your selves this time. No other area of the country lapped it up and made the big dick claim then pulled out out a tootsie roll ;-)

You and every human on the planet have West African genes, because every human on the planet descends from the same two parents in the Rift Valley of Kenya. There is only one race, the human race. https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

Oregon may or may not be my favorite team but you would have to be on crack to think the womens cross country team will not be taking home a NCAA title in xc. Nothing is guaranteed but the odds are definitely in their favor.

I heard Lindsay Scherf tried to transfer to Oregon, but they lost her papers even though she applied 9 weeks before the cut off date, and then someone in the registrar's office promised her she didn't really need papers to apply, because they wouldn't be checking the papers anyway, and even if they did, they had a really good relationship with the sports administration department and they'd work it out...

Don't NCAA rules say you have 5 yrs once starting school to finish 4 seasons? At the most she has one yr of NCAA running left. Someone posted earlier that she had 6 seasons. That's impossible.

Don't NCAA rules say you have 5 yrs once starting school to finish 4 seasons? At the most she has one yr of NCAA running left. Someone posted earlier that she had 6 seasons. That's impossible.