Wiess signs with Slippery Rock!!!

Jeff Weiss qualified for nationals in cross country. I don't know anything about the coaches at Mcguffey and i hope i dont offend any of them but im sure a lot of that went into him motivating himself and putting the time in to get to that level. He has become a really good runner over the past couple years and im sure he knows what hes doing with his decision in school

Excellent....most excellent. It's a great place.

Double 83'

You go to college for an education that will support you and a family someday. Running is just a bonus. Who cares where u run whether its Boulder, Edinboro, Stanford, Shippensburg, etc. Its doesn't matter its not going to support most of us. Before u know it, it's over. The memories and experiences you form with your teammates is all that counts. Was Lock Haven great 5 yrs ago? How bout boro before Watts. No but look at the job coach Russell has done over the yrs and the recruits he gets now. Maybe he will turn out to do well and inspire some other locals over the yrs to go to SRU. All it takes is a couple dedicated hardworking runners with good heads on their shoulders that support their teammates thru thick and thin to turn things around. Its not always the coaches that make a difference.

Plus I know Penn State didn't have greatest rep. while I was in high school growing up in PA. most of the PA. State champs. and other good PA. runners never seem to do well there, or would always be injuried.

blah blah jeff weiss made a good decision..blah no he didnt. he sucks and so does sru......who the heck posted sru will challenge weiss...well maybe when hes runnign 18 min 5k...he sucks and so do all of you......you sru guys suck just admit you couldnt beat a middle school girls track team. Jeff Weiss will not break 18 minute 5k next year and his sister is hot.

You sound like the same guys that went on here and posted Josh McDougal sucks and was an idiot for going to Liberty. Looks like he is doing fine now. 13th in CC, 7:55PR all-american in the 3k (4th or 5th can't remember), world xc team. Other than him who else do they have that's any good. I can't name one other person on the team. He'll push himself like McDougal.

Personally I wish him the best at SRU. If he feels comfortable there and wants to go there it is his decision. While I think SRU is not a good choice for most athletes, they at least have an established program and decent facilities. They have an indoor track, which is one of 3 (I believe with KU and ESU) in the PSAC and have hosted XC nats a few years back if I remember correctly.

At the very least he is staying in PA and making this state stronger in XC and track.

are you kidding me?

i have been to slippery rock and that place sucks!

Out in the middle of nowhere and at least an hour from pittsburg, which also sucks.

If you like living in the woods with the amish and no place to drink/party the go to SRU.

If you want to drink/party/get laid go ANYWHERE else.

This is a school for the socially challenged!

alldar,

Calm down, no need to raise your voice at anyone. Your post does not provide any indication of what a college is for except for drinking and partying. What other D2 school has more of an opportnity to drink and party? Maybe IUP? Who knows, but who really cares.

It looks like you are just concerned with this kids social future. How drunk he can get, how many girls he can hook up with, whatever. I hope you didn't pick a college based on these criteria.

Socially challenged? 7,000+ students are socially challenged?

And I don't think I've ever seen an amish person with 50 miles of sru. Isn't that more of a central PA thing?

there are some angry people on this forum, and while I'd rather shove a watermelon in my ear than go to slippery cock, it was his decision. Maybe he has values oustide of running that dictate where he goes. So good luck at SRU dude, and I hope I get the chance to beat you.

~BigBear

Thought this thread was interesting, so I did some researching.

Looks like at the current moment the SRU Mens Track Team is ranked 4th in the Nation among D2 schools, far ahead of any other PSAC team.

http://www.d2rankings.com/2005/Week.aspx?key=9

Now granted, thats track, not cross country.

And also, I looked up the past few years results and found that 6 current SRU runners have 5,000 meter PR´s quicker than 15:45. Thats not Stanford, but thats not a bad group of guys either.

I think he will have no problems, and only help the PSAC get stronger.

Yeah, props to Kelly. She is and always will be a class act. Also, day-in and day-out, she trained as hard as anybody. She was always tough and never backed down.

For what it is worth, training at the Rock is great. Running wolf creek, long runs at Moraine or the Quarry. Lots of great back country roads and tons of tough hills...it really is a pretty good place to build strength and improve, from a training environment perspective.

One other thing...Pap has put together some good teams in the past. Back in the early 90's, with paco, slavinsky, etc., those guys were tough. I've seen him take a ladies team to Nats in XC in S.C. and finish ninth. He's capable of building a quality team...but, in the end, it's up to Wiess to run well...environment is secondary. It will mostly come down to heart, dedication, and desire.

Hoovis

Amen brother. Ultimatley, every runner controls their own fate. Although shocked somewhat at first that a footlocker xc nats qualifier would go SRU, if the kid truly believes that is the place they need to be at to be happy or comfortable, then it is their decision and it is inexplicable to me that anyone else would know what's best for the kid than himself. Things like coaching, the quality of runners in the program, facilities and such help a runner. But there is no reason this kid cant go to SRU and flourish as he has in high school.

What, like the PSU and UT teams have produced anything that remarkable with their distaff crews?

Jeff Weiss made the choice to simply not care about running. If he wanted to go to college and excel he would have gone to a good Division one program. His athletics could have gotten him anywhere, Ivy League, wherever he wanted to. Yet he choose Slippery Rock. Even if i wasn't a runner, i would much rather have a Princeton degree on the wall then a degree from Slippery Rock. Jeff Weiss made a dumb move if he wanted to really excel in both academics and athletics, but if he went to a big school he may have flunked out. He is a "farm boy" so maybe Slippery Rock was the best school he could go to without dropping out

you guys missed the point wrote:

Even if i wasn't a runner, i would much rather have a Princeton degree on the wall then a degree from Slippery Rock. Jeff Weiss made a dumb move if he wanted to really excel in both academics and athletics

In the future, before you share your ignorance with all of us on the board, you may want to go check out SRU (from an academic standpoint) for physical education and/or athletic training...which, as Kelly Wiess noted earlier in this thread...is going to be his major. In that particular academic field, SRU is better than any Ivy-league school (with the exception of Yale).

Not sure why everybody feels compelled to rip this kid apart for his own personal choices/decisions. Unlike most of us, he'll have a PIAA state championship medal hanging on his wall next to his degree...even if it is ONLY a degree from SRU.

Hoovis

Let me start the thread for April 23rd 2010...

What ever happened to that Jeff Weiss kid from Pennsylvania? I think I remember he was a Foot Locker finalist and a state champion. I never saw any serious results from him after that.

In response to I looked up some stuff. Those rankings are kinda screwy. granted i run for ship so i'm biased, but if you run a dual meet between SRU and ship, we win, narrowly, and sru makes up many many points in the field events. they are a quality program and may only be that top tier distance runner away from psac titles in track. wiess can only add to the depth of a resurgent psac (national provisionals in all events 800 and up) so basically, welcome and good luck man.

I'm not sure if some of this hostility here is because people with something against SRU or with non-DI schools in general. I love how people think that DI is the only way to become a better runner. Snobs.

There are a lot of DI coaches/programs that just suck, to be blunt. Just because they're DI doesn't make them inherently better. And hey, there are a lot of bad DII and DIII programs, too. But that's why you do your homework and find the right school for you, athletically, academically and socially. If you choose schools solely on their NCAA classification, you risk making a terrible mistake.

But I guess we have this argument every few months or so.