hi how is the world now that you have crawled out from under your rock?
RUN along, now. This is the big kid playground wrote:
WinnytheBish wrote:
By your logic, how on earth does Stanford field a competitive football team?!
One simply has to think college football and track are on par in admissions, to demonstrate that they have no idea what they're talking about.
Exactly.......Football and Track ARE NOT ON PAR IN ADMISSIONS at elite academic institutions. The football and basketball teams at Stanford, Notre Dame, Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice and Northwestern have much lower admissions standards than the track programs do.
Questionable1 wrote:
RUN along, now. This is the big kid playground wrote:
One simply has to think college football and track are on par in admissions, to demonstrate that they have no idea what they're talking about.
Exactly.......Football and Track ARE NOT ON PAR IN ADMISSIONS at elite academic institutions. The football and basketball teams at Stanford, Notre Dame, Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice and Northwestern have much lower admissions standards than the track programs do.
Facts.
So is Chas Davis now the XC coach at Cal? I know Shayla is out but he is still around. He has coaching experience and recruited really well at Cal. Not his fault they floundered under Shayla. I am assuming it is so, since there aren’t any postings.
Cal spent the last 3 years actually improving and doing something positive.
The decisions made recently have set them back several years now. Just a constant cluster F from the top down.
Mariam or Jarius gonna follow Clark to Stanford?
AD sucks wrote:
Cal spent the last 3 years actually improving and doing something positive.
The decisions made recently have set them back several years now. Just a constant cluster F from the top down.
Dear Flotrack,
Please come up with a version of ESPNs first take.
I would absolutely LOVE to hear all these thoughts about ncaa track coaching happenings analyzed by a reporter.
But by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. Stop be soft and nice all the time.
AD sucks wrote:
Cal spent the last 3 years actually improving and doing something positive.
The decisions made recently have set them back several years now. Just a constant cluster F from the top down.
Dear Flotrack,
Please come up with a version of ESPNs first take.
I would absolutely LOVE to hear all these thoughts about ncaa track coaching happenings analyzed by a reporter.
But by someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. Stop be soft and nice all the time.
AD sucks wrote:
Cal spent the last 3 years actually improving and doing something positive.
The decisions made recently have set them back several years now. Just a constant cluster F from the top down.
Not distance. They suck a lot. Can’t believe a team with Bethan Knights and Brie Oakley in it can’t make waves in the NCAA.
Also, their most consistent guy in the last decade transferred to UCLA (Brandt) and has been pretty good.
ChazzyBoi wrote:
AD sucks wrote:
Cal spent the last 3 years actually improving and doing something positive.
The decisions made recently have set them back several years now. Just a constant cluster F from the top down.
Not distance. They suck a lot. Can’t believe a team with Bethan Knights and Brie Oakley in it can’t make waves in the NCAA.
Also, their most consistent guy in the last decade transferred to UCLA (Brandt) and has been pretty good.
Just worrying about the Colorado coach smashing. It is tight tho
ChazzyBoi wrote:
AD sucks wrote:
Cal spent the last 3 years actually improving and doing something positive.
The decisions made recently have set them back several years now. Just a constant cluster F from the top down.
Not distance. They suck a lot. Can’t believe a team with Bethan Knights and Brie Oakley in it can’t make waves in the NCAA.
Also, their most consistent guy in the last decade transferred to UCLA (Brandt) and has been pretty good.
Agreed.
So the answer was Robyne fucking johnson!?
Love the way you predict a programs future before a coach has a chance. Lets see what happens 2 years from now.
Actually, you are mistaken here. The schools you are talking about have high admission standards, but each sport is given a certain number of waivers for athletes who do not meet the standards. Rice, for example, has six waiver slots for women’s track and six for men’s track. The football and basketball teams have more waiver slots than the track program, but there are not different admission standards for a waiver slot in football than for a waiver slot in track and field- they are all discretionary.
I have heard that Stanford has considerably more waiver slots for its track program than Rice (22 for each gender) The waiver numbers are independent from the NCAA scholarship limits (12.5 men, 16.5 women)
utbcw wrote:
The schools you are talking about have high admission standards, but each sport is given a certain number of waivers for athletes who do not meet the standards.
The waiver numbers are independent from the NCAA scholarship limits (12.5 men, 16.5 women)
Aside from being slightly off on the scholarship numbers, you are right.
It's important to note, if you use one of those waivers to get a kid admitted, and then they choose not to attend, you don't get that waiver back.
Since this was brought up in reference to Cal, we don't kow how many waivers they have. Stanfield cares a lot about their sports programs, invests a lot of money in salaries, scholarships, facilities etc and is also willing to admit a bunch of kids that aren't academically on the same level, if they can perform athletically. Cal does not invest in athletics nearly to the same level.
Notre Dame has zero waivers for track and cross country.
AD sucks wrote:
ChazzyBoi wrote:
Not distance. They suck a lot. Can’t believe a team with Bethan Knights and Brie Oakley in it can’t make waves in the NCAA.
Also, their most consistent guy in the last decade transferred to UCLA (Brandt) and has been pretty good.
Agreed.
So the answer was Robyne fucking johnson!?
It blows my mind that AD's always love to hire someone that is an alumni of that school or someone that coached at that school in the past. Do they think that person is going to work any harder because they are "returning home?" Maybe they think it will be better because the coach won't have to "learn the ropes" of that school.
Just hire the most qualified coach. The best coach will figure things out very quickly.
Robin was getting destroyed in the Patriot League despite having by far the most resources in the Patriot League. What makes Cal think she's going to do better at a higher level of competition?
Carlson, no one cares
Maybe knowing the ropers at that school, being loyal to that school, and not seeing that school as a stepping stone is a factor in determining who is "most qualified".