success wrote:
name names wrote:
Who?
The already mentioned Blaise Ferro (and if you cite injuries as a claim to not be successful even with his times, you are clearly wrong), Sean Martinek a 1:51 guy at Rutgers, Brian Dengler Xc success at Bucknell, Tim Gorman at Dartmouth/Oregon and sub 4 post-collegiate, George Kelly at Adams st and post-collegiate, Jack Boyle at Columbia, Noah Yuro solid at Richmond, and a bunch of other guys who have had simple average college careers making it 4 years at a competitive collegiate level.
I would argue that having the sheer number of collegiate athletes that CBA does is successful in and of itself. You are correct that most guys are not studs in college, I just think it is wrong to define success in the way you are. Once again it has always been depth that has made CBA great, not studs.
Blaise would be running much faster now if he wasn't so overtrained in high school. If you look at the high school PRs of the group you mentioned, they all should have been really good in college and only a couple were.
I can't believe you are bragging about a 1:51 as a success story. The other guy, Dengler ran 9:20 indoors on a 200m flat track. Barely broke 15 in college 5k when he ran 15:26 XC in high school. This year he was 52nd at the Patriot League conference championships in cross country. I picked a kid who finished ahead of him at random to compare high school PRs. Neeson from Lafayette finished 32nd, 20 spots ahead of Dengler. Dengler ran 9:20 and 15:26 in high school. Neeson ran 4:41, 10:00, and 16:24 and is a year younger than Dengler.
College coaches in the area know to stay away from CBA guys because they don't develop in college. It's a waste of scholarship money and of a roster spot. They know they are better off with a walk on who ran half the mileage of the CBA guys.