Chris Miltenberg leaving Stanford to take over as director of T&F/CC at UNC

Brooks coached dozens of his athletes post college and a bunch of Aggies who went to him on their own volition. I'd love to wrestle with you The Rat, Juice, Ray Brown, PattySue,, CeCe Hopp , Dave Frank, Joe Rubio. Those were fun times down at the Track House.

Yes, he'll be able to recruit anyone he wants but he also wont' have the 100% commit rate that Stanford gets. Let's be honest, of the really smart student athletes, which describes many of the top distance runners, a huge percentage ended up committing to Stanford every year. So he now can go after Cheserek but so is everyone else.

So he can now recruit the whole country. But before he was getting near 100% of a key segment of it. Plus Stanford has unreal need based financial aid so if you get a smart kid who is poor, you don't have to give him a full ride.[/quote]

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This is dead-on. Much better to yield a high percentage of a smaller number of prospects than a low percentage of a big pool. In short, no matter who the new Stanford director is, they will still beat out UNC almost every time for the athletes they are both after.

Who is and who isn’t going with him to UNC? What’s the staff rumors?

Chachacha wrote:

Who is and who isn’t going with him to UNC? What’s the staff rumors?

Doesn’t seem like Andrea is staying put per her instagram page

Andrea will get any job open that would like to have a woman. Wouldn’t be surprised if she lands Stanford women’s xc position (DeBole left).

She will be fine wrote:

Andrea will get any job open that would like to have a woman. Wouldn’t be surprised if she lands Stanford women’s xc position (DeBole left).

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The Andrea PR machine on Letsrun is comical. Do these people realize that making false statements over and over just makes her look bad? Nobody on Letsrun has the power to influence any AD.

Not a hype machine. She crushed UCONN and ISU. She got beat out by a superior coach who had head coaching experience at a very high level. I would bet he keeps her, but not sure she would stay?

Anyone know if the new UNC track is usable? They canceled all home outdoor meets last year and I have not heard if any construction problems have been fixed for this season.

Gatref wrote:

Anyone know if the new UNC track is usable? They canceled all home outdoor meets last year and I have not heard if any construction problems have been fixed for this season.

It is not usable. Everyone saying it is someone else’s fault at this point. Probably didn’t help Harliss this project failed.

As for positions, Stanford staff all going to UNC with Milt? What of Andrea and Bobby?

Tour of a go wrote:

Not a hype machine. She crushed UCONN and ISU. She got beat out by a superior coach who had head coaching experience at a very high level. I would bet he keeps her, but not sure she would stay?

What was that? Don’t think that worked out the way you predicted it would, she’s out.

Is it too late to put the track back where it was? I think being on campus, like the new Duke track, was better for the atmosphere anyway.

just like San Diego only more rain wrote:

Touchdown San Diego wrote:

This post clearly coming from someone that doesn't know the difference between Northern California and Southern California weather.

Actually, crap shacks in Redwood City and East Palo Alto (formerly the ghetto) are more like a million five now, and you would be hard pressed to find a crap shack in Palo Alto or Atherton for under two million five.

I was just there for a few days to see the Pre Classic, and looked for some crap shacks. I found some poorly-maintained stucco houses near Fry's just east of El Camino on a not-great street, for example: 2 BR 1 BA 1100 sf, built late 1940s, $2.7M Zestimate. There's your "million dollar crap shack," but it costs $2.7M in beautiful Palo Alto. I lived there for most of a decade. It truly has perfect weather and a very high quality of life, including great schools, stores, bike roads, etc.

righto wrote:

just like San Diego only more rain wrote:

Actually, crap shacks in Redwood City and East Palo Alto (formerly the ghetto) are more like a million five now, and you would be hard pressed to find a crap shack in Palo Alto or Atherton for under two million five.

I was just there for a few days to see the Pre Classic, and looked for some crap shacks. I found some poorly-maintained stucco houses near Fry's just east of El Camino on a not-great street, for example: 2 BR 1 BA 1100 sf, built late 1940s, $2.7M Zestimate. There's your "million dollar crap shack," but it costs $2.7M in beautiful Palo Alto. I lived there for most of a decade. It truly has perfect weather and a very high quality of life, including great schools, stores, bike roads, etc.

This is an old story for current Bay Area residents:

- There is no affordable place to live.

- There are no post-collegiate running scene here.

- It is windy AF

- There is nothing to do on the Peninsula

The Bay Area sucks if you don’t have $300k household income. If Mrs. Milt isn’t pulling her weight than Palo Alto is no place to live. It’s an old money town.

Current Resident wrote:

[quote] It’s an old money town.

Wrong. It’s a new money town. You can be the brightest coach in the country but you are competing with thousands of CS grads for housing. At the end of the day distance running loses. When you say “ hello, I’m Chris Miltenburg” in Silicon Valley no one rolls down the window of their Tesla to greet you,

Larry and Sergey wrote:

Current Resident wrote:

[quote] It’s an old money town.

Wrong. It’s a new money town. You can be the brightest coach in the country but you are competing with thousands of CS grads for housing. At the end of the day distance running loses. When you say “ hello, I’m Chris Miltenburg” in Silicon Valley no one rolls down the window of their Tesla to greet you,

And it appears that 50% of Tesla Motors’ output is on the streets of the mid-peninsula!

Spot on. UNC seems to be trending upwards with another solid recruiting class. Furthermore, the acquisition of Alex Phillips (back to back D3 national XC champ) will provide fantastic depth alongside the rising superstar Parker Wolfe and a young team full of talent. I could definitely see a podium finish in the near future.

Forgot to quote the original post from 3 years ago. So here it is.

Spot on. UNC seems to be trending upwards with another solid recruiting class. Furthermore, the acquisition of Alex Phillips (back to back D3 national XC champ) will provide fantastic depth alongside the rising superstar Parker Wolfe and a young team full of talent. I could definitely see a podium finish in the near future.

Can we still say UNC is trending upwards? Results have not looked great this season, especially on the women's side.

the women's coach left after last year, seems like they're struggling a bit and dealing with injuries as well. Hard to say if thats due to bad luck or adjusting to new coaching since Miltenberg is still the overall director.

I think the UNC men's team would be right in that 5th-10th discussion with a few other teams if they had a full healthy squad. The top people that are healthy are all running well.