Northeastern Distance Coach

I just checked out Jenkins' bio on the school's site.

http://gonu.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=1748

I knew about some fast times, but this kid is a serious stud. I hope they figure out a good coaching situation over at NU.

They haven't had a decent distance coach in decades. One failure after another.

I was there recently, ran around the track a few times. How quality of an education is available there?

600mrunner wrote:

I was there recently, ran around the track a few times. How quality of an education is available there?

Most students take 5 years to get their Bachelors. Just sayin.

600mrunner wrote:

I was there recently, ran around the track a few times. How quality of an education is available there?

It is a quality school, strong but not amazing. Academically, it is comparable to a school like UM or Syracuse. And I will admit, I went somewhere worse. This is actually a place I regret not applying to.

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

600mrunner wrote:

I was there recently, ran around the track a few times. How quality of an education is available there?

It is a quality school, strong but not amazing. Academically, it is comparable to a school like UM or Syracuse. And I will admit, I went somewhere worse. This is actually a place I regret not applying to.

Sorry, and by UM I mean University of Miami (FL).

So it's good for lazy students? I already have a year or two of credits to transfer. I wonder what percent of northeastern grads get hired within 1 year of graduation.

Their best 800 guy only runs 2:01, is that correct? 14:00 5k seems a lot more difficult.

While I'm asking questions about the school, how is their sprint coach? I'd imagine Florida has much better sprinters, but does that have anything to do with the coaching, or just the warm weather and different demographics.

Job placement is #1 in the country. Schools like Syracuse no longer compare.

They have a couple of absolute studs they recruited when they got some scholarship money (football program was cut) but other than that, the team is so-so.

Academically decent school, but 4th out of 4 in terms of D-1 schools in Boston. (Harvard, BC, BU).

Dude, I gradated NU last years and immediately copped a job at CVS. Turned down two others FWIW. Weed is the werd.

I know the poster who mentioned this is probably trolling, but Northeastern has a co-op program where a student will work a semester long internship (or even a year-long one) instead of attending class. They still live on campus, they just work in positions related to their programs of study for a semester or two. Some students do a year-long one, some do multiple one-semester ones. This is why most students are in school for 5 years.

I didn't attend Northeastern, but some friends of mine did. If I've misrepresented the coop program, it was unintentional and I apologize.

new england enthusiast wrote:

They have a couple of absolute studs

Questionable. 1 absolute stud.

Jon Ulm wrote:

They haven't had a decent distance coach in decades. One failure after another.

Look, they got rid of the major problem. Squirmin Sherman Hart. They HAD a great coach in Mark Lech, now at UMaine

(Riley Masters Mentor), but he butted heads with Hart

Enter Catherine Erickson from Harvard, she and Waldron

didnt connect, soooo I'm guessing perhaps Tim Bayley

former Iona runner, Harvard unpaid asst, might be her choice??

Bailey may be her choice - but given he ha already worked with Erickson - I don't see him jumping at chance to work with her again. NU made a mistake gettin rid of Waldron!

Here's how Boston works:

Kids who think they're smart because they got 1300s and A's in high school go to Tufts

Kids who think they're smart because they got A's in high school and that 1100 they got is because standardized test are a bad metric of intelligence (clearly they're smarter than that, proven by the fact they got A's) go to Northeastern

I go to NU now, whoever mentioned the co-op program was basically right. You can either choose to do four years and one 6 month co-op or 5 years and three co-ops. Most students do the five year program to get a better resume.

Also I'm the first to admit that there are a large amount of better schools in boston (BC, Havard) but I would argue that NU is just as good as BU. In a few years NU will be better then BU in overall rankings.

As someone else stated there are a few good runners but other than that, not too good.

Yutre wrote:

600mrunner wrote:

I was there recently, ran around the track a few times. How quality of an education is available there?

Most students take 5 years to get their Bachelors. Just sayin.

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Yes, this is because NU has an internship program for their students, that requires an additional year.

Looking at recent results it seems like the team has been on the upswing in the last 4ish years, finishing 12th at regionals last year. anyone know how long waldron had been there?