Iona College is no longer favorites in Northeast Region. They are done unless they bring Mick Byrne back to New Rochelle.
Iona College is no longer favorites in Northeast Region. They are done unless they bring Mick Byrne back to New Rochelle.
just wait until regionals when IONA runs a full squad then you will see who is #1 in the NE.. Sherdian, Soderberg,the 2 brits,and Weller. OH BABY
Idk why ricardo holds out his team til regionals. Last year they seemed rusty from not racing.
Real Me wrote:
Iona College is no longer favorites in Northeast Region. They are done unless they bring Mick Byrne back to New Rochelle.
Might want to take a look at that roster.....none of them have raced yet, and they may not be national championship material, but that's a reeeeeal good team.
then they cant even stay healthy for track, what gives
I always forget about iona. Is that the team that usually has one american and a whole bunch of foreigners? I guess I am just not a fan of cross-country only programs that use scholarship money to get older foreigners in an attempt to buy a national championship
MFA wrote:
I guess I am just not a fan of cross-country only programs that use scholarship money to get older foreigners in an attempt to buy a national championship
Don't hate the playaaas, hate the game
Do you know how hard it is to get good Americans to commit to 4 years in New Ro?
Just ask AJ Nation's old HS coach why mick gave him the boot...
Whats worse is high they get ranked without racing a single race until regionals (their conference meet even is a joke). meanwhile, the rest of the NCAA is actually competing. Not fair.
As for recruiting Americans to such and such, if Ok State can convince kids to spend college years in Stillwater and with as easy as academic standards at there are there, a coach can convince kids to do anything!
they seemed to do pretty good that year when AJ's old coach was there, why did they boot him?
Judging from the past 10 years, opinions on the gaels are best left until the end of the season. Despite allways being written off they perform year on year. They will probably be back on the podium despite what everybody thinks based on races before the big one.
iona babies wrote:
Whats worse is high they get ranked without racing a single race until regionals (their conference meet even is a joke). meanwhile, the rest of the NCAA is actually competing. Not fair.
As for recruiting Americans to such and such, if Ok State can convince kids to spend college years in Stillwater and with as easy as academic standards at there are there, a coach can convince kids to do anything!
no its fair, it's just smart.
drama drama drama
MFA wrote:
I guess I am just not a fan of cross-country only programs that use scholarship money to get older foreigners in an attempt to buy a national championship
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't all major schools recruit and give out scholarships (buy talent)?
There is a difference between schools that spread there scholarship money out to fund a full track and field team by giving mostly partial scholarships to American high schoolers that are 18 years old than schools like Iona who use their scholarship money to give full rides primarily to 20 year old foreign "freshmen."
The issue of foreigners is boring.
What I do think is an even huger inequity is the amount of scholarship a track program (12.6) decides to put into cross country or not. Many, many schools elect to place their whole allotment into cross country and their administration doesn't seem to care if they're dead last at the indoor and outdoor track conference meet.
So in effect, their are some programs that have 12.6 going against usually 3-4 at the max. THAT is the biggest inequity in the sport.
Iona's administration probably doesn't mind because their team is regularly in the top 10 at the national xc meet. Sure their track times don't match up, and they aren't placing very high regionally in track. However that top 10 in xc definitely off-sets their lack of track success.