I feel the the Ducks were always the pinnacle of college running. But now there have been allegations of the team allowing academically ineligible athletes to run coupled with poor results over the past couple years. Is Oregon still the best running college you can go to? (Also I feel like the degree is useless unless you want to be a kindergarten teacher for example, Ashley Stinson)
Discuss please!
I don't know but I sure miss Andrew Wheating, he was so fun to watch.
The academic thing was one athlete that made a weird arrangement with a professor based on a promise to retake the class over the summer, and it wasn't allowed to handle it that way according to the NCAA. It's not a common thing to take place.
Now when you say 'still' the best place to go to college for running, they've won two team titles in cross country for the men in the past 4 decades, they were 10 and 11 years ago.
The women have won 4 titles in the same span, 2 in the past couple decades.
There are other programs that have done better than this. NAU is on a three-pete, Stanford has won way more on both men and women side of things. Colorado has had more success in the 21st century. Arkansas historically has done better. A handful of others on par.
For track, programs like USC, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Florida State, Florida, UCLA, and UTEP have historically had the same success or more.
I don’t know, but they get a crap ton of gear. Also none of their runners can make it big
Daniel88 wrote:
I don’t know, but they get a crap ton of gear. Also none of their runners can make it big
In the last olympic games, the US men took home 5 medals from 800 to the marathon. Two of the five were former ducks. Also Eaton won gold in the decathlon. You are either ignorant or trolling.
Daniel88 wrote:
I don’t know, but they get a crap ton of gear. Also none of their runners can make it big
Ever hear of Galen Rupp?
Who?
They are a top tier program but not the top. They still have some carryover perception.
Oregon men finished 35th in 2018. USC finished 4th and they hold the most team championships.
Total championships.
Southern California 26
Arkansas 10
UCLA 8
Oregon 7
UTEP 6
Illinois 5
Florida 4
LSU 4
Stanford 4
Texas A&M 4
Kansas 3
Tennessee 3
††Florida St. 2
SMU 2
Arizona St. 1
BYU 1
California 1
Georgia 1
Indiana 1
Michigan 1
Minnesota 1
Navy 1
Ohio St. 1
San Jose St. 1
Villanova 1
Yesterday they signed the 2nd best high school cross country runner in the nation as well as the fastest high school 800m runner in the nation.
So what? They signed Hunter then they signed Hastey. Gessner was the 2nd best guy 2 years ago and look how well that has worked for Wisconsin. What about that sub 4 high school guy, Maton? He is helping Oregon also isn't he?
Who did they sign?
Cole Hocker, Footlocker champ
Robert Johnson is in over his head. He was fine when he had the Powells doing the heavy lifting, but their replacements are a big drop off. After another year of mediocrity, Uncle Phil will step in as he did before and get someone better.
Women's xc is in good shape, while the jury is out on men's xc. I seriously doubt that they will have too many problems in track. Robert Johnson's legacy is in fine shape, because under his coaching, track has accomplished big things in the sprints and field, and probably scored a lot more points than the distances, although Cheserek and Rupp scored a lot of points in their time.
35th place with 8 points is not good.
I think it all started with the switch to a different brand of hot dogs.
Daniel88 wrote:
I feel the the Ducks were always the pinnacle of college running. But now there have been allegations of the team allowing academically ineligible athletes to run coupled with poor results over the past couple years. Is Oregon still the best running college you can go to? (Also I feel like the degree is useless unless you want to be a kindergarten teacher for example, Ashley Stinson)
Discuss please!
Comparing XC to track is meaningless. Oregon clearly is trying to be competitive in all 3 seasons, while most other schools only care about XC. Track times get you pro contracts, not cross country success.
You can tell Oregon is recruiting a lot of milers and mid distance runners to score points in the DMR, while NAU men, New Mexico women and many other top distance programs barely even have mid distance runners - it's all 10k runners.
Very different strategies in play, focusing on XC only is a lot easier because you aren't trying to peak 3 times in a year.
The women are still doing very well, the men after losing Cheserek are still rebuilding but still have had success.