How many colleges will actually try to recruit Jakob Ingebrigsten?

I’d say 7

Not in this case wrote:

Why would Ingebrigsten do that? He has a good coach who knows him well, probably the best training partners he can get and he has a contract. Why would he go to the NCAA? He's already better than all the milers there, no one is going to push him there.

Like 90% of the people responding clearly didn't read the original post or address the question asked.

I was standing next to his brother after Pre Bowerman mile. Someone asked him the question about collegiate running and his brother said " he is already a professional". So there it is. His brother also said " I still have the family mile record, I have a 3:50" .

kartelite wrote:

Not in this case wrote:

Why would Ingebrigsten do that? He has a good coach who knows him well, probably the best training partners he can get and he has a contract. Why would he go to the NCAA? He's already better than all the milers there, no one is going to push him there.

Like 90% of the people responding clearly didn't read the original post or address the question asked.

How does this not address the question that was asked? No one is going to recruit him because he is a professional runner who doesn't want to run in the NCAA. That is the answer to the OP's question.

I think....

...ah, I got nothing- just wanted to post in the same thread as Renato Canova.

::salutes Canova then leaves thread::

Why would he even think to come to the USA for college? That would be a complete mistake and I can' t even believe there is even a thread on here.

SprintTriathlon wrote:

sbeefyk2 wrote:

Because a free degree in Norway is the equivalent to a community college here. That’s why foreigners choose to pay for school here than go somewhere free

Well, foreigners with money choose to educate themself in Norway because of the quality of the education, do you think that just because you have greedy owners of the colleges and universities that they become better, do you for real think that american educators are better than the teachers and professors found in other countries???

The best ranked norwegian college is 142nd in the world. Stanford has a strong running program and is 2nd in the world. If I were him and were eligible I'd probably rather attend Stanford if it were possible.

However, since he's not eligible and any decent college recruiter will know that, 0 colleges will recruit him.

DietBacon wrote:

SprintTriathlon wrote:

Well, foreigners with money choose to educate themself in Norway because of the quality of the education, do you think that just because you have greedy owners of the colleges and universities that they become better, do you for real think that american educators are better than the teachers and professors found in other countries???

The best ranked norwegian college is 142nd in the world. Stanford has a strong running program and is 2nd in the world. If I were him and were eligible I'd probably rather attend Stanford if it were possible.

However, since he's not eligible and any decent college recruiter will know that, 0 colleges will recruit him.

Those rankings really are extremely misleading. For example, the university of Oslo is a great university, and produces brilliant engineers, doctors and computer scientists, but is ranked lower than some of the Big 10 universities.

The rankings are heavily biased, according to who the evaluators are.

However, it is true that many top Norwegian scholars end up going to the U.S. for their master and PhD degrees, because the fundings and research projects are second to none in schools like Stanford, M.I.T., Cal.Tech, Carnegie Mellon, etc.

For undergrad, it matters much less where you go.

Jacob does not need to go to a U.S. College. His training program would be compromised.

Elite Norwegian athletes, like the c.c. skiers have state of the art facilities at their disposal, and very generous funding. Too much to lose for young Jacob.

Having said all the above, this does not denigrate the value of most U.S. college programs. Different case here.

Full mile? WTF does tbat mean?

I think he prefers his current coaching/training setup.

I heard he was more a soccer player and plans to stop running to try out for a spot on a village club in northern Norway.

Was that "trolling"? Trying to understand this word.

Hutrunner wrote:

3:52 full mile during the all-important junior year! That should make a few power 5 schools let him walk on or give him a partial if he’s lucky! Anyway, with all sarcasm aside, it’s pretty clear he’s basically a pro runner at this point and looks to be sponsored by Nike. Will colleges still try to recruit this guy?

That would be a waste of time. That would be like a euro soccer kid coming to a usa college to play soccer, when he can get room and board, a contract, and endorsements at an academy like real madrid, chelsea, etc.

He is already an elite middle distance runner, has a great running family, and they all receive great coaching( from their father) and support from their government.

stop troll! wrote:

gloria wrote:

None.

He'll stay and Norway and get better eduction there.

And better competiton ( no offfense to USA) in

the European competitons.

The US has far and away the best post-secondary education in the world, and it's not even close. From institutional prestige to research output to accomplishments of graduates, there are probably fewer than 5 non-American schools that would rank higher on these dimensions than second-tier US schools like Duke or Cornell, not to mention the top Ivies or Stanford/MIT.

From someone whos studied abroad in the states for a year, while going to a norwegian university, except for one class they were all much easier. It was like a year off.

Ivy league school. All my friends say the same. This is people studying to be engineers though, but the general notion is that the classes in the us is easier compared to norway.

The ranks you are talking about is regarding research etc that doesn't have anything to do with what you learn.

No doubt at the college level things are going to be roughly comparable.

Where the US universities stand out is research. The talent, massive funding, and broad scope of these universities outstrips all but a few international ones.

Very true, but also completely irrelevant for someone like Jakob.

At this point, he's probably just desperate to finish high school so he doesn't have to bring school work to training camps anymore. I'm a big proponent of athletes having something to fall back on and for example, lots of cross-country skiers study (a couple are studying medicine, even) while they train, but seems like he'd want to at least take a few years to just focus on the sport.

Aktion T4 wrote:

Full mile? WTF does tbat mean?

Most Americans run eight meters short of a mile when they race it on a meteoric track.

nordicc wrote:

stop troll! wrote:

The US has far and away the best post-secondary education in the world, and it's not even close. From institutional prestige to research output to accomplishments of graduates, there are probably fewer than 5 non-American schools that would rank higher on these dimensions than second-tier US schools like Duke or Cornell, not to mention the top Ivies or Stanford/MIT.

From someone whos studied abroad in the states for a year, while going to a norwegian university, except for one class they were all much easier. It was like a year off.

Ivy league school. All my friends say the same. This is people studying to be engineers though, but the general notion is that the classes in the us is easier compared to norway.

The ranks you are talking about is regarding research etc that doesn't have anything to do with what you learn.

I don't live in the US and I was just in Scandinavia this past weekend for what it's worth. I did STEM undergrad and grad school in the US, also studied in a European university, and the focus at the undergrad level is much more broad and well-rounded in the states. It is closer to the classical education of continental Europe than Europe is now. Most foreign schools just focus on technical skills with little or no attention on teaching you how to think. It is no surprise that the US develops more than its share of innovative technology, even if many other countries outpace it in number of strong scientists and engineers.

And in "soft" fields like law and business, fresh American graduates (from graduate programs) often earn as much as mid-career practitioners in Europe who have worked their way up. The starting salary for many London lawyers is around 50k GBP, while I've known fresh American law grads to begin there at close to 150k GBP (close to what they would start at in the US).

How would you know, Mr. Run-on Sentence?

The first year in an American undergrad is basically just our last year in HS. You won't get support to study in the us unless its a top school/or masters/phd because they don't recognice the first year in a bachelor as hard enough.

What you're saying still doesn't change anything about what I said. The technial classes were easy, there is no reason for them to be.