Head Coach Dave Smith graduated from the University of Washington, where he earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology in 2000.
Head Coach Dave Smith graduated from the University of Washington, where he earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology in 2000.
They give all 12.6 track and field scholarships to distance runners. Every other school doesn't give more than 6 with most of the schools giving only 2-3 scholarships to distance runners.
Also, a coach's degree doesn't necessarily have to correlate with coaching or running.
They don't give all of them to distance runners, see Nick Miller highly ranked in the hammer, though majority to go to distance. They had interest from other hammer throwers but would rather invest in mid to long distance. Currently they are trying to get a better middle distance squad 8/1500/mile.
Dirt cheap cost, BCS-level overall budget, half the "staff" are distance coaches, easy academic standards, easy ability to have foreigners on the team. Have at least 12-15 guys who pay nothing to attend.
Its much harder with only 2 or 3 scholarships oif one of them gets injured to doesn't develop; this concern does not exist at Oklahoma State or for Dave Smith.
Though you have to give Dave credit in recruiting to the dump that is Stillwater!
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Dirt cheap cost, BCS-level overall budget, half the "staff" are distance coaches, easy academic standards, easy ability to have foreigners on the team. Have at least 12-15 guys who pay nothing to attend.
Its much harder with only 2 or 3 scholarships oif one of them gets injured to doesn't develop; this concern does not exist at Oklahoma State or for Dave Smith.
Though you have to give Dave credit in recruiting to the dump that is Stillwater!
True. This Chad Noelle transfer this late on what I can only guess is a full really shows the advantage Dave has.
I lknow Iona, Providence, Butler and some other small schools try to go distance-only; are there any other BCS schools? Wisconsin must put the bulk of athletic scholarship into distance, but somehow still have a great conference track team.
They just hired my boy Alejandro Diego Flaquer (formerly of Auburn) to lead the sprint crew... look out! He's a recruiting monster.
Wisconsin must put the bulk of athletic scholarship into distance, but somehow still have a great conference track team.
This was not the case under Nuttycombe. The distance program got a share of scholarships and Smith/Schumacher/Bryne all made it work for them. With Bryne taking over, you can bet more scholarship dough will go into distance events, which could signal the rapid fall of the Badgers high caliber (for the MW) track and field program. It's going to be interesting to follow over the next couple seasons, especially as Mick tries to rescue the distance program from literally falling off EVERY high school standouts radar.