Millenial? Yep: Guy wins NCAA title in high jump - Announces he's unhappy and will transfer

milethon wrote:

He would be a Gen-Z, not a Millennial.

Thank you.

Sorry, olds, "millennial" doesn't forever mean "those damn kids today". See also "MTV Generation" as pointed out years ago by XKCD:

Hermes link ice blue mink wrote:

Thanks for the thread Dad

Get off my lawn!

Punk!

Why the hell would any athlete want to train and compete through pain and an injury he doesn't think is being addressed adequately?

Sounds like TERRIBLE management of the athlete by coach, who is clearly putting his own incentives ahead of the athlete's long-term success.

Good for the athlete for moving on. I look forward to following and cheering for him.

where do you come up with this wrote:

Why the hell would any athlete want to train and compete through pain and an injury he doesn't think is being addressed adequately?

Sounds like TERRIBLE management of the athlete by coach, who is clearly putting his own incentives ahead of the athlete's long-term success.

Good for the athlete for moving on. I look forward to following and cheering for him.

This kid could be right, given that athletes in non-revenue producing sports are low priority to trainers and access to medical staff even at, or maybe more so at D1 schools.. Football and basketball rule in Manhattan.

Using the term millenial as a wide sweeping insult is a pretty immature thing to do.

Announcing you're transferring due to bad coaching after finishing dead last in an uncompetitive race would be stupid. This guy did the opposite.

This kid sounds like a complete pain in the ass then. If the coach is cool with letting a national champion kid go, he's probably pumped to see someone cancerous walk out the door.

"Those darn millenials ruin everything!" -old whiner

Coaches are getting free talent at the NCAA level, stop yer complaining.

Entitlement is when you think you deserve something that you haven't earned. This is not entitlement. He has earned whatever deal he gets.

Millennials have been preached to about entitlement so much that a lot of them have come to believe that they are being bad and greedy any time they do what is in their own best interest. This is moronic, and I'm glad this kid doesn't buy into it.

Yeah, you're a tool if you think you deserve a six figure income because you got a degree that you put little effort into. Not so if you become the best at the country at something and decide to step through a door that you have opened for yourself by your own performance.

He's actually smart. Too many college kids stay with the same coach despite no improvement (getting worse). This guy takes his jumping seriously and wants to be successful.

Just going to point out some things to consider:

- Rovelto is a seasoned, successful coach of elites and college athletes

- When a national champion has a problem, he says, "I have a problem that needs attention," not, "I'm outta here" if he wants the problem addressed

- Does Oregon even have a jumps coach? Hint: No. Cook is out.

Don't be naive about how things work behind the scenes at the top. He was pilfered. Guess what? This happens with blue chip HS recruits, too. Dirty pool/NCAA recruiting violations.

No matter how you feel about this situation the athlete airing dirty laundry like that is incredibly immature and foolish.

this thread is absolutely disturbing. the OP is probably someone who is in their mid 30's and never been successful at any athletic endeavor. this is a kid who probably would've won the High Jump regardless of what school he was at. He hasn't gotten better and won an NCAA title while being hurt and doesn't think he was getting the proper treatment/care. If you went to a doctor and didn't receive what you thought was fair treatment, would you go back to that doctor or would you look elsewhere? Don't make this a millennial thing...

Typical Millenial brat. He's probably upset he didn't get a finishers medal. Such entitlement. This is what happens when kids grow up being given participation trophys for striking out at T-ball. His whole life he's been thinking he's a special little snowflake, and now he's about to get burned by the real world.

Or am I projecting?

If he was competing injured this whole time he should leave.

When I was a division 1 runner a couple of my teammates competed injured for sustained periods of times. They competed in the NCAA championships in the 1500 and mile scoring points multiple times. Their careers were cut short due to competing injured. One had an achilles rupture and hasn't run since. This guy could have definitely been a professional runner if not for the achilles rupture. The other guy messed up his achilles and plantar fascia, albeit not as serious as the first one, and hasn't even approached the times he was running in college.

College coaches' job security is based on having athletes perform well at the national level. I feel like a lot of college coaches were willing to sacrifice their star athletes' futures for their own benefit.

"Millenial? Yep..."

NOPE. The word is millennial.

If you're going to start old-fart threads, then you're going to have spell correctly--you know, the way old farts do.

And get the hell off my lawn, you damned whippersnapper.

Refreshing to see someone compliment millennials by characterizing a wise and prudent choice like this as being attributable to that generation.

Screw that coach