LoneStarXC wrote:
jjklj wrote:
rojo, maybe he has potential you are not seeing. All I see as a former full scholarship DI runner is a bunch of burnt out super talented runners once they are done with college. College destroys 99% of the runners there, which is why at my age, I'm one of the few left standing and still competing with Abdi and Meb from my "class".
good for this kid. I'm sure the adidas contract covers college tuition of his choice.
What do you mean by college destroys 99% of the runners? Injuries? Bad training? I’m a freshman running D1, so how do I avoid this happening to me?
I wouldn't worry. Unless you know you have a shot at being a professional athlete and making good money from doing so, enough to live on comfortably, then just cash in your talent now rather than holding yourself back.
Former D1 Guy wrote:
LoneStarXC wrote:
jjklj wrote:
rojo, maybe he has potential you are not seeing. All I see as a former full scholarship DI runner is a bunch of burnt out super talented runners once they are done with college. College destroys 99% of the runners there, which is why at my age, I'm one of the few left standing and still competing with Abdi and Meb from my "class".
good for this kid. I'm sure the adidas contract covers college tuition of his choice.
What do you mean by college destroys 99% of the runners? Injuries? Bad training? I’m a freshman running D1, so how do I avoid this happening to me?
You'll be a Former D1 Guy soon enough
SirReggie wrote:
Worked out for Mary Cain.
At a larger D1 school, and even some smaller ones, Football and Men's Basketball pay for all the other sports or "non-revenue" sports. This is why all other non-revenue Men's sports are viewed as sports which can be cut and many are. Keep women's T&F and Soccer because the teams are larger and have more scholarships and you don't have to hire more coaches like you would for smaller sports like Golf & Tennis.
CO Coach wrote:
The elephant in the room with men's college sports is the dropping enrollment of men in college. As of 2015 the percentage of men at US colleges was 44%:
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
In another decade or two we could be looking at enrollment numbers for men as low as 30% if something isn't done to reverse the trend. The combination of football, title IX and dropping male enrollment will result in the slow strangulation of non-revenue men's sports, it's already been happening for years, the writing was on the wall when it became an NCAA rule that men's track was only allowed 12.5 scholarships and women were allowed 18 in D1.
ex-runner wrote:
If you are realistic, when you get a proper job in a few years you'll give up running competitively with or without college.
LoneStarXC wrote:
ex-runner wrote:
If you are realistic, when you get a proper job in a few years you'll give up running competitively with or without college.
Um... ever heard of Yuki Kawauchi?
ex-runner wrote:
LoneStarXC wrote:
ex-runner wrote:
If you are realistic, when you get a proper job in a few years you'll give up running competitively with or without college.
Um... ever heard of Yuki Kawauchi?
How many Yuki's are there?
Exactly
/klj.hkk. wrote:
Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello wrote:
You oversee a message board that is unquestionably a blight on the running community given how you operate it
But you are here.
I agree! It's sad that this has ended up this way.
Star wrote:
Back in the day, before football and basketball generated big revenue, all sports were basically non-revenue.
Sports was all cost center. Funded by tuition, fees and donations.
Now that they have more money, they can’t afford track.
ironside wrote:
A 148.xx outdoor 800m person must have been asked to race a 200m or 400m relay leg every now and then?
chesmont runner wrote:
ironside wrote:
A 148.xx outdoor 800m person must have been asked to race a 200m or 400m relay leg every now and then?
Not quite how any of the Hoeys operated if it could be helped...
ironside wrote:
chesmont runner wrote:
ironside wrote:
A 148.xx outdoor 800m person must have been asked to race a 200m or 400m relay leg every now and then?
Not quite how any of the Hoeys operated if it could be helped...
I am sure, a sub-1:49 outdoor 800m person as is Josh Hoey is capable of sub-51 400m. Are you implying if he were told to race a 400m relay leg, Josh Hoey would refuse? Except for some high schools in southern CA, TX or FL, a high school T&F coach would usually appreciate a sub-51 400m runner.