When Lanana arrives at Oregon

Let's just see how many of these things happen, might want to cut and paste this for future reference:

A)Lanana goes to Oregon as Coach/Assisant AD

B)Tyson stays on as distance coach in a Mike Riely role.

C)They recruit the shit out of the country

D)The meets in Eugene draw train loads

E)Hayward Field Packs out

F)The fastest collegiate times in the country are logged at Hayward Field.

Now, I know this is not all very likely to happen, but just in case......

Would he ever consider returning to Stanford in the Athletic director role?

What really will happen:

Lanana takes job, recruits athletes in all events. Duck geezers don't like sprinters, jumpers, and so forth and start grumbling within months of him taking the job.

Lanana doesn't have dual meets since no one is competing in them anymore. Duck geezers get upset.

Lanana doesn't bow or talk about Pre at every public speaking engagement. Duck geezers get mad.

Like Martin Smith, Lanana doesn't let joggers, profs, fun runners, and post-grads use the track during practice like Dellinger and Heiononen did. Salazar said recently that the track should be open to everyone, even during practice. (Funny this isn't practiced anywhere else.) Duck geezers and Salazar get mad at Lanana, talks of his firing start to arise.

Ducks place in top 5 at NCAA X-C, but he didn't have enough home meets ... Duck geezers pacemakers are going off the charts. Lanana also didn't recruit enough slow high school runners from South and North Eugene ... geezers are furious.

Ducks win Pac-10 thanks to wins by Skipper, Mitchum, 4 x 400 team, Jordan Kent in the LJ and 200 ... but distance guys get just 8 points, all from Rupp in the 10K. Petition to get Lanana fired starts circulating.

June 2006: Lanana fired, Duck boosters plead for someone named "Bill" with UO connections to be coach. Knowing they can't find that person, they hire Salazar as coach.

Alberto recruits 35 distance runners, all are getting partical scholarships except Rupp. Ducks win Pac-10 X-C crown, finish 8th in the Pac-10 track meet, and 49th at NCAAs ... geezers are happy, all is well in Eugene.

If your really from the Northwest, you must hate it! And you must be hated. Though likely, you are just afraid to leave, and keep your tough mouth shut everywhere you go.

I like your geezers references though, kind of cute! From what I've heard of Lanana, he knows how to deal with people, and he'd make it work.

Don't know why they'd need the track open ALL the time, I'm pretty sure the Oregon Dellinger days had hours posted for track practice (a few hours for the team only).

Didn't the farm team workout on the stanford track?

I suppose you're just bitter of the Northwest's best running university, rather than speculating on anything real.

Another Eugenean who can't see the forests from the meth heads in Spewgene. I lived there and every fun runner was allowed on the track. Heinonen spent more time coaching Lynette Peters than his own runners. Dellinger? By then he was completely out to lunch, giving money to 23-foot long jumpers and hoping duals would come back in style.

Just telling the truth. Lanana would be an off-the-charts hire, but if he doesn't know the secret handshake, kiss the Pre rock, and allows fun runners on during practice (that's a lawsuit waiting to happen), he'd be toast in Eugene.

Dellinger had worse teams than Marty Smith but was given a free pass because he was one of "them."

It's a cult down there and you've drank the Kool Aid.

Northwest's best running university? Historically that would be WSU as Lindgren, Rono, etc., have more distance titles than UO.

Maybe I am just being Naïve, but I don’t see why the first scenario isn’t possible, tons of high schoolers love pre and love Oregon and would love to run for Oregon. The meets at Oregon are all ready starting to take off (look at the fields this year) the NOP and Nike will continue to bring in their athletes and Oregon meets will soon be as good if not better then Stanford. People in Oregon want to support track as long as it is good Pre always sells out so they will now sell out more then just Pre. Vin has proven he is outstanding recruiter, this won’t chance at UO. I may be an optimist but I really believe that Oregon will be a force in the years to come. One down side is I don’t know how good their class will be this fall with all the turmoil but if I were high schooler I would be looking there as I think Nike will be throwing boat loads (in a track and field sense) of money behind the team.

The potential is there in Eugene, sure. Great facilities, lots of NIKE money -- well, Phil has currently pulled his money until Moos is gone, but still ... -- and a state that has fine prep track athletes.

If Vin does not follow the exact blueprint by recruiting bad local runners, having dual meets, and kissing old Oregon Track Club members' a$$es, he's sunk.

In Eugene, it's not if you win or lose, it's how you play the game ... it's always that. And playing the game means kissing the right butts.

Oregon actually could be Arkansas in track, but they hate sprints and jumps.

oregon has 4 ncaa cross country team titles to washington state's none.

individually, washington state has 7 titles (lindgren 3, rono 3 and kipkory 1 -1993). oregon has 4 (prefontaine 3 and salazar).

i don't think that makes WSU better "historically".

oh, and i don't drink kool aid.

NorthWestrun,

Do you mean ANNETTE Peters? Not a good start for your credibility. Were Karl Keska and Konrad Knutsen(sp?) local runners. If Britain is local to Eugene, what isn't. I guess Spokane is local too so the Davis brothers were "locals". Was Ray Livingston a distance runner? At any point in your tyrade against Uofo, did you stop to think you had no idea what you're talikng about?

Were Oliver Wirz & Daniel Das Nevas local runners?

How about Robin Hootin or Richard Girven?

They were all Pac-10 Conference runners.

I don't know what the arguement is about. WSU has had more individual NCAA champions than Oregon. But Oregon has won the team championship more than WSU. They are both great history rich programs. End of story.

Hey Rob, how's the running going? shoot me an email at

NikeRunner@gmail.com

sometime.

About the only thing predictable in this thread is the continued whining of Northwestwhiner.

Konrad was from Sacramento you dumbass.

Potential wrote:

NorthWestrun,

Do you mean ANNETTE Peters? Not a good start for your credibility. Were Karl Keska and Konrad Knutsen(sp?) local runners. If Britain is local to Eugene, what isn't. I guess Spokane is local too so the Davis brothers were "locals". Was Ray Livingston a distance runner? At any point in your tyrade against Uofo, did you stop to think you had no idea what you're talikng about?

If that's true, I'm going to shit my pants at work! Wow.

It continues to befuddle me why oregon thinks its the shit in track. there are countless schools out there that UO can't even come close to historically. One can only live off the ghost of pre so many years.

The drugs in the pacific northwest must be great.

All of those great things will happen at the magical stadium in Eugene..it will take a little time but it will happen

He tripper, you're probably the only one outside of Lane County (or perhaps you're in Lane County) who remembers Annette Peters.

You're another Duck apologist who can't wait for the dual meet days, the 45th place finishes at the NCAA, the middle of the Pac-10 finishes in the Pac-10, and one good distance runner a year.

Yep, I lived down there when Keska was there. Fine runner, good guy. Dellinger was a great coach, but in his last few years he had lost it, and the Mead guys were hurt most of the time. Matt Davis could've been a superstar but he had tons of surgeries. Aubrey, Micah Davis, and James were all talented, too, but beaten up with injuries.

I heard Marty Smith did a number on those guys, calling them the 'f' word and so forth ... all for doing nothing but working hard. UO, as usual, ignored it. Smith knew how to build a track team; he didn't know how to treat people, that was his downfall.

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid down in Eugene.

Whoops Tripper, my slame was directed at "potential" who is most likely 500 other names on this site as everyone is afraid to stick with one handle ... that's what happens when you get beat up in high school on a daily basis.

* I do find it amusing that UO for years complained about foreign athletes and took a hired gun in Joaquim Cruz -- all with his own private coach -- at the drop of a hat. Keska, Wirz, Colin Dalton, a number of Swedish throwers and so on, they've done a nice job recruiting internationally, they just don't want to admit it and slam other schools who have fewer foreign athletes than they do.

I lived there for a long long time and spent a lot of time on the track and never once saw someone lolly gagging it around the track. The idea of joggers is a non-starter. It just doesn't happen.

Salazar said there were "profs" jogging all the time during their practices. When I was living there, plenty of joggers in the outside lanes. I found it odd. I wasn't from Eugene so I could actually see them. It's like the freaking matrix down there, people don't see things right in front of them.