Black guy wrote:
Why is their a problem with korir and utep. But not Kerr and New Mexico?
I believe that the issue is not when a team has a good foreign athlete, but when a team is entirely dependent on foreign athletes. If UTEP only had Manny K, and the rest of the team was mostly guys from the southwest region, I wouldn't have an issue. The problem is UTEP doesn't appear to make an effort to recruit or develop talent from the US. I'm sure high school runners in the southwest region around UTEP would be willing to run for them if the entire team wasn't Kenyan.
I believe that foreign runners bring good competition to the NCAA and I appreciate that. However, that doesn't make it okay to recruit exclusively foreign athletes when the system is intended to benefit our own runners here in the US