With Ryan Vanhoy officially going to Old Miss...word though the grapevine is that if he stayed at Northeastern it would have been without the services of ERIC JENKINS....Since Jenkins just notified the staff that he is transferring to UCONN!
His former coach at Northeastern (the one who actually recruited him) was just hired at UCONN a few weeks ago. Renny Waldron got Jenkins to sub-4 last year, how much faster can he get now with the resources available to the duo at UCONN?!?!?!?
Awesome.
UConn, huh? Could be worse I suppose.
Surprised he didn't get cherry picked by Oklahoma or OSU first....just sayin.
Hahaha. Talk about "buying low and selling high!" Vanhoy knew what he was doing! Hope the move to ole miss was a big pay upgrade! No doubt if he waited another year (post Jenkins) he wouldn't have scored nearly as sweet of a deal.
He is talking to Syracuse too.
Not a done deal.
Havent heard anything about him heading to Ole Miss though!
musical charsi wrote:
He is talking to Syracuse too.
Not a done deal.
Havent heard anything about him heading to Ole Miss though!
Wait...who? Jenkins or Vanhoy?
I have an inside source saying that Jenkins is more than interested in Syracuse... Still hasn't made his final decision between UCONN and Cuse though.
I have an inside source saying Jenkins is more than interested in UCONN... Still hasn't made his final decision between OSU and UCONN though.
UCONN would be a great choice for him. He could run at New Englands, IC4A's and all the other meaningless races Roy fancies. And since Roy doesnt believe in rabbited races or people running fast he can probably become a 14:18 guy. Go to "Cuse please because UCONN is a joke.
Yeah, cuz Syracuse has such a great record of guys running well in track.
Any program in the country would take him, seems like weird choices.
I have it on good authority (Eric Jenkins' friend's cousin) that he will be running professionally for Skechers.
I mean, besides Michael Rutt UCONN hasn't really produced anything of notice since... ever.
**cough** Brian Gagnon **cough**
Cuse puts all scholarship money into distance.
They have been since Fox got there.
If they qualify for nationals, they finish around 20th.
That is not good.
Track is beyond lackluster.
And UConn is undefensable.
This guy could go anywhere.
The kid was outspoken about the firing of Waldron in the middle of last year. He loves the guy. That's why he's going to uconn. No other reason. He's a New England boy and now he has his favorite coach back. It's a no brainer for him.
Wisconsin?
Former clipper wrote:
Renny Waldron got Jenkins to sub-4 last year, how much faster can he get now with the resources available to the duo at UCONN?!?!?!?
The resources of UCONN??
What the hell does that mean? How many resources do 17 year old kids in Kenya need to run 13:05? Not many.
Northeastern got him to plenty of big meets. I'm as big of a Jenkins fan as anyone but Jenkins had a huge year last year so there are decent odds that he actually runs slower this year than last year.
Why? People forget when you have a great year, everything goes perfectly. It's hard to replicate that. He is young though and relatively new to the sport so let's hope he keeps it rolling.
That being said, I'm happy for Renny. I met him and he told me much of his training of Jenkins is inspired by John Kellogg so it was a huge thrill to hear that. We started the website to help spread JK's gospel and now look how much faster Americans are now thanks to the Internet.
Everyone pretty much knows how to train now instead of only seeing run less articles come out every month in Runnersworld in the 1980s-90s.
If you think it doesn't have a lot to do with the INternet you are foolish.
haha wrote:
UCONN would be a great choice for him. He could run at New Englands, IC4A's and all the other meaningless races Roy fancies. And since Roy doesnt believe in rabbited races or people running fast he can probably become a 14:18 guy. Go to "Cuse please because UCONN is a joke.
HAHAHAHA. Can you say "TriplingAtBigEast's, QuadruplingAtNewEngland's and RackingUpSomeSeriousPointsAtTheLSUDuelMeetInTheOutdoor3000"?
rojo wrote:
The resources of UCONN??
What the hell does that mean?
Women.
Who at UCONN has any clue how to coach a guy to run under 13:10? That's the next step for Jenkins. No chance he accomplishes that there.