NXN Blizzard wrote:
Lananna is a great recruiter, a great leader and an average coach. With how much talent he's recruited to Oregon, they should have two teams in the 4x1mile break 16:00 this year. How many kids have done nothing under Lananna? With such notoriety and the Nike $$$, Oregon deserve the scrutiny they are placed under year after year.
Lananna is a great recruiter, a great leader and an average coach. With how much talent he's recruited to Oregon, they should have two teams in the 4x1mile break 16:00 this year. How many kids have done nothing under Lananna? With such notoriety and the Nike $$$, Oregon deserve the scrutiny they are placed under year after year.[/quote]
This is laughable. He's a tremendous coach and his athletes do very well under his tutelage; Dartmouth, Stanford, and now Oregon. Looking at XC results, top 3 at NCAA's in the 1500 and a 3:30 and 3:35 (?) and Puskedra and Hasay and, on and on as you go back in time.
There is no way you can say that he is an average coach with a straight face. Go ahead and try to say that again, this time looking in the mirror, so that you can see your own reaction. When you say it again, out loud, hopefully you'll see a smirk rather than bitterness.
Oregon definitely deserves the recruits and accolades they reap. As Oregon goes, so goes the distance running prowess in America. We need Oregon to be competitive and successful so that the other programs have to raise the bar, i.e., OSU.
On a side note, recruiting HS kids is always a crap shoot. To mitigate this risk you recruit established talent and then take a few chances on underdeveloped athletes like Wheating and Noelle.
Does anyone other than me see the irony of getting a commitment from Noelle during the holiday season?