Elijah Greer Rocks The Long Hair To The Win!

Totally Agree wrote:

30th Avenue homey wrote:

Oh, Trollist. I expect much better from you.

You might as well have told him to "duck" himself."

Please tell us you are not tiring of your (t)role here on the forum.

LOL.

Trollist can't handled the truth.

What?

30th Avenue homey wrote:

Trollist wrote:

The point of this thread is for A Duck to masturbate ferociously to his own posts.

Oh, Trollist. I expect much better from you.

You might as well have told him to "duck" himself."

Please tell us you are not tiring of your (t)role here on the forum.

Perhaps.

Please try your post again and contribute positively.

Greer deserves serious props. Real homegrown Oregon talent. Serious, dedicated student and athlete, all around good dude...been after it for years now. 2 x 3rd place outdoors finish. Kudos to the homestate kid.

How many Ducks lately have been homegrown and won NCAA titles?

Eaton

Rupp

Greer

Any others?

Hometown Blood wrote:

Greer deserves serious props. Real homegrown Oregon talent. Serious, dedicated student and athlete, all around good dude...been after it for years now. 2 x 3rd place outdoors finish. Kudos to the homestate kid.

How many Ducks lately have been homegrown and won NCAA titles?

Eaton

Rupp

Greer

Any others?

1980s:

Dub Myers

Dan Nelson

Leanne Warren

Kathy Hayes

Claudette Groenendaal

Dean Crouser

Kory Tarpenning

Brian Crouser

What I appreciated most about Greer's win was that he was willing to make a strong move, taking the lead with a couple hundred meters to go. Winning this way requires not only speed and strength, but a huge heart. Good on the young man, a true champion.

Great, anyone else since 2006?

webfoot wrote:

Hometown Blood wrote:

Greer deserves serious props. Real homegrown Oregon talent. Serious, dedicated student and athlete, all around good dude...been after it for years now. 2 x 3rd place outdoors finish. Kudos to the homestate kid.

How many Ducks lately have been homegrown and won NCAA titles?

Eaton

Rupp

Greer

Any others?

1980s:

Dub Myers

Dan Nelson

Leanne Warren

Kathy Hayes

Claudette Groenendaal

Dean Crouser

Kory Tarpenning

Brian Crouser

Robert Samuelson wrote:

What I appreciated most about Greer's win was that he was willing to make a strong move, taking the lead with a couple hundred meters to go. Winning this way requires not only speed and strength, but a huge heart. Good on the young man, a true champion.

Yeah, that was the thing for me too, the HEART.

If you saw/listened/read his interviews the past few years you know he has the heart to get after it...it has just been a matter of training and time and everything working out health wise.

It REALLY makes one realize Wheating's accomplishments all the greater.

I will say Greer's win was a good one. Props for getting it done! Hopefully he can get it again for outdoor.

A Duck: My comments were not trying to bring down Oregon. I was watching that team when Martin Smith was there. Yet the team didn't do well under him. He did have some good performances but still fired.

Ever since Rupp left the team hasn't done much. I do have a few friends who run at Oregon and have ran well. One is injured almost always but when he's health he's a strong runner.

Maybe you can shed some light on this: Since Centro moved to Salazar he is no longer with Powell. Is there anything else that Powell has to accomplish at Oregon? Maybe it's just me but I would love to see Andy move to a different school.

I think a great man for the job (though some will disagree) would be Jason Vig. Though Jason will never go since he's at Princeton. I think he'd be a solid Oregon guy.

We all remember the Oregon DMR a few years back winning the race. That's what Oregon stands for. Now...nothing.

Greer had a great run today. BUT I think will the talent on that team there should have been a lot more points scored in the distance events.

TT:

I don't have any special insight into Andy's visions or plans. I do know that he is very well liked by his athletes, and is considered a good guy. His athletes believe in him and his training.

He does seem to shy from the limelight, lay low, doesn't do interviews much/at all.

He may really enjoy the small town atmosphere for raising his family, and the support Oregon gets, and the promising future at Oregon.

I hope he does, and continues to coach there.

I'd like to see he and Vin write a book on their training/coaching methods.

PS;

Technically Smith was paid to leave, not fired.

Smith had 2/3rds of the right idea. And the third he had wrong turned off too many people and so he sowed his fate...with a big buyout.

You have to understand that getting a Rupp, an Eaton, a Wheating, and a Centrowitz (and Puskedra, and Acosta...and...) at the same time ALMOST NEVER happens for any school.

Rupp -- total fluke fell into Salazar's hands.

Wheating -- total fluke, fell into J Johnson's hands and then Vins.

Eaton, local talent, who knew he could set a world record when he was a recruit??

Centrowitz, a legacy talent, who never would have gone to Oregon if the Lame Ducks had not gotten antsy to revive the program.

My point, you're never going to have enough luck or scholarships at Oregon for Oregon to win the DMR etc. on a regular basis.

We had 5 runners go under 4 minutes in the mile this indoor season.

So there is talent there...I just don't expect their to be a "golden age" all the time.

These things come in cycles, some of it is planning and recruiting etc., and a huge part of it is luck.