I think you will find that in general the guys say Watson is an improvement over Herbster. Both are good, they just have different philosophies. I would caution you not to fall in love with any one team. Keep your options open. Things have a way of changing very fast over the course of your recruitment, especially fall of your senior year. There are a lot of great schools and great programs out there from which to choose.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
Rice would be a better choice than Baylor. Ditto UNT.
Yeah, but then you'd have to live in the heart of Houston- picture a pizza oven with concrete as far as the eye can see, cars bumper to bumper, and crime out the wahzoo.
can't speak to the quality of the new coaches but i go to UT and in terms of pros:
-they have a solid group of distance guys to train with
-austin is a great city not only to run in but also to live in
-many of the academic programs are ranked very highly, we have a lot of great professors and it certainly helps when trying to get a job later on
just my two cents
Horns Down!
Look up the progression over the years. Their runners DO NOT IMPROVE.
Memorial Hermann wrote:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
Rice would be a better choice than Baylor. Ditto UNT.
Yeah, but then you'd have to live in the heart of Houston- picture a pizza oven with concrete as far as the eye can see, cars bumper to bumper, and crime out the wahzoo.
Actually much more like a sauna than a pizza oven, but the Houston weather is a factor to consider. The Rice campus is kind of an oasis, more separated from the urban environment than UT.
Go to U of Houston so you can be psycho analyzed by Magness daily.
I think Magness and Ondrasek (Oklahoma) are two the the smartest young coaches out there. Magness graduated from Houston so he is likely to stay, but look for Ondrasek to return to Texas A&M at some point. He ran and coached there previously and he is a Texas native.
Texas has a couple issues...having watched the Workout Wednesday video, it looks like they train really hard...maybe a little too hard. They also have consistently performed horribly at the NCAA meet in cross country, which isn't a good thing. I can't say much about knowing them personally, but in their defense I will say that John Rice has performed phenomenally well there (4:13, 8:54 guy in high school who now runs 8:40 in steeple and 13:52 in the 5k) Honestly, I would look more into OSU, Arkansas, or Ole Miss than any Texas school. They all seem to fit the bill of what you're looking for, and they have fantastic programs that are performing well right now, as well as have had historically great runners.
gahagand wrote:
Texas has a couple issues...having watched the Workout Wednesday video, it looks like they train really hard...maybe a little too hard. They also have consistently performed horribly at the NCAA meet in cross country, which isn't a good thing. I can't say much about knowing them personally, but in their defense I will say that John Rice has performed phenomenally well there (4:13, 8:54 guy in high school who now runs 8:40 in steeple and 13:52 in the 5k) Honestly, I would look more into OSU, Arkansas, or Ole Miss than any Texas school. They all seem to fit the bill of what you're looking for, and they have fantastic programs that are performing well right now, as well as have had historically great runners.
What in the world would make you think that they workout too hard from watching that video? My goodness, toughen up, kid, if anything, they looked like a bunch of pu$$ies.
where can we find the workout videos?
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