Third world? I’m no Georgia bulldog but Athens Georgia is a great college town. Please take pity on our great unwashed down here in the south. Rumor has it we will be getting indoor plumbing soon.
Never been there but REM is from Athens, so that’s a plus.
UGA is a tough training environment because you're constantly competing with the "college experience". They regularly pull capable talent from local schools that would be enough to be competitive at a conference level, and they're in a weak region for xc. The problem is they pull 15 guys a year that are 4:20/9:30 and lose half of them to Magnolia's and football games. The number of alcohol related stress fractures leading to early retirement is extremely high. How can you coach when your guys are hungover all the time and don't stay past their sophomore year because they want to join a frat and go party.
UGA is a tough training environment because you're constantly competing with the "college experience". They regularly pull capable talent from local schools that would be enough to be competitive at a conference level, and they're in a weak region for xc. The problem is they pull 15 guys a year that are 4:20/9:30 and lose half of them to Magnolia's and football games. The number of alcohol related stress fractures leading to early retirement is extremely high. How can you coach when your guys are hungover all the time and don't stay past their sophomore year because they want to join a frat and go party.
Build a better culture. Set better expectations. You can’t tell me somehow other coaches at football/party schools get it done and the distance coach at UGA can’t? Bull💩! If the athletes don’t want to do the job, then they can go be a Chad in frat. There are so many who would take their opportunity in a second. They might be terrible for a year or two with that change in culture, but they aren’t great now, so a change needs to happen. You go to UGA and Tech to shuffle off into obscurity as a distance athlete, not win a national title. Not under the current coaches.
UGA is a tough training environment because you're constantly competing with the "college experience". They regularly pull capable talent from local schools that would be enough to be competitive at a conference level, and they're in a weak region for xc. The problem is they pull 15 guys a year that are 4:20/9:30 and lose half of them to Magnolia's and football games. The number of alcohol related stress fractures leading to early retirement is extremely high. How can you coach when your guys are hungover all the time and don't stay past their sophomore year because they want to join a frat and go party.
Henner hooking his wagon to Caryl Smith will give him job stability. Caryl Smith is not going anywhere anytime soon. ASU just doesn't seem that stable.
A smart decision on Henner part. Maybe he thought ASU would evolve. Would be surprised if Henner moves on from Georgia anytime soon, even without many distance scholarships.
UGA is a tough training environment because you're constantly competing with the "college experience". They regularly pull capable talent from local schools that would be enough to be competitive at a conference level, and they're in a weak region for xc. The problem is they pull 15 guys a year that are 4:20/9:30 and lose half of them to Magnolia's and football games. The number of alcohol related stress fractures leading to early retirement is extremely high. How can you coach when your guys are hungover all the time and don't stay past their sophomore year because they want to join a frat and go party.
Henner hooking his wagon to Caryl Smith will give him job stability. Caryl Smith is not going anywhere anytime soon. ASU just doesn't seem that stable.
A smart decision on Henner part. Maybe he thought ASU would evolve. Would be surprised if Henner moves on from Georgia anytime soon, even without many distance scholarships.
Something must of been going on that he didn’t like at USC for him to leave(no one has that answer) but that may be the only way he leaves UGA the same way. Unless it was something unrelated to the program(he didn’t like LA)
It's possible that he just wanted a full, regularly competing xc team or just didn't want to live in LA... those seem to be the most likely options, do they not?
It's possible that he just wanted a full, regularly competing xc team or just didn't want to live in LA... those seem to be the most likely options, do they not?