Please ban BYU from NCAA competition

Coward

Nice try loser!! Everybody plays by the same rules. Every teams athletes can go on missions or leave for military service. Look at their dedicated training and clean living instead of being a whiny biatch!!

I don’t know many college athletes that would like to take 2 entire years off. Any other school could suggest their recruits join the military or be s missionary for two years.

BYU runners can buy their own liquor. NAU has to have someone by it for them.

FrenchDawg wrote:

Until they start restricting the amount of time missionaries can spend in competition, any victory they achieve will be hollow and meaningless.

The irony is that the 2 year mission is a disadvantage, not a plus. All those missionaries come back to campus 2 years older, but out of shape and 40 pounds heavier. It can take them 6-8 months to get back to their previous level, some never get back to the same level.

Those guys are super humble and modest. If it were really an advantage, those guys would opt out.

FrenchDawg wrote:

Until they start restricting the amount of time missionaries can spend in competition, any victory they achieve will be hollow and meaningless.

I don't think missionaries would do well at NCAAs. They'd come in dead last muttering "the first shall be last, the last shall be first."

The women don't have any "age advantage" and they seem to be doing pretty well too. Age obviously has nothing to do with it.

runnER/DR wrote:

The women don't have any "age advantage" and they seem to be doing pretty well too. Age obviously has nothing to do with it.

As of 2007, 80% of all Mormon missionaries were young, single men, 13% were young single women and 7% retired couples. Women who would like to serve a mission must meet the same standards of worthiness and be at least 19 years old. Women generally serve as missionaries for 18 months.

Missionary (LDS Church) - Wikipedia

The NAU team is actually older than BYU. So I guess they are out too.

ABDIHAMID

NUR Born in 1997

He is a “freshman” at age 22

Stopme99 wrote:

BYU runners can buy their own liquor. NAU has to have someone by it for them.

I'm pretty sure that BYU runners did not buy any alcohol last night or any night for that matter.

They may celebrated with some caffeinated beverages, but again, most likely not. They live a very clean lifestyle.

FrenchDawg wrote:

Until they start restricting the amount of time missionaries can spend in competition, any victory they achieve will be hollow and meaningless.

Do you think letsrun is responsible for making rules in the NCAA? Who are you addressing this to?

It is just XC. B.Y.U. will never win NCAA D-1 T&F outdoor championship. Most students on campus at B.Y.U. probably do not know the names of top seven XC runners there. Their 23, 24 or 25 year olds who go on missions will not make them sub-20.75 200m sprinters or sub-46 400m men. It's just XC. XC is like outdoor T&F pre-season.

Wiki info wrote:

runnER/DR wrote:

The women don't have any "age advantage" and they seem to be doing pretty well too. Age obviously has nothing to do with it.

As of 2007, 80% of all Mormon missionaries were young, single men, 13% were young single women and 7% retired couples. Women who would like to serve a mission must meet the same standards of worthiness and be at least 19 years old. Women generally serve as missionaries for 18 months.

Missionary (LDS Church) - Wikipedia

Yes but do your research on the current team. I don’t think any of them served a mission except for maybe Erika Jarvis, who also took a year off to have a child, and is likely not benefitting from being older after that.

Calm down. Just relax!!! wrote:

It is just XC. B.Y.U. will never win NCAA D-1 T&F outdoor championship. Most students on campus at B.Y.U. probably do not know the names of top seven XC runners there. Their 23, 24 or 25 year olds who go on missions will not make them sub-20.75 200m sprinters or sub-46 400m men. It's just XC. XC is like outdoor T&F pre-season.

You mean like Clayton Young recently did by winning the NCAA 10,000 meter championship on the track this past season?

Calm down. Just relax!!! wrote:

B.Y.U. will never win NCAA D-1 T&F outdoor championship.

Neither will NAU, Portland, Stanford, etc. No one has ever gone low enough to try and invalidate their accomplishments by pointing out this pointless fact.

The Starved Elephant wrote:

Neither will NAU, Portland, Stanford, etc.

ummmm......

I sure don't hear anyone complaining about BYU's football team being older than everyone else. Perhaps that is because the football team at BYU is pretty crappy. Now if they were winning???

FrenchDawg wrote:

Until they start restricting the amount of time missionaries can spend in competition, any victory they achieve will be hollow and meaningless.

The ruling that gives them an extra two years is extreme religious bias to everyone else, and should not be allowed.

runnER/DR wrote:

The women don't have any "age advantage" and they seem to be doing pretty well too. Age obviously has nothing to do with it.

You mean the guys are women too and don't really go on missions for two years? I don't get your argument.