German Fernandez College Choice?

Wrong....coach Lananna sets the workouts. He is "Coach". Just watch a few of his teams' workouts and you will see who makes the decision and who the athletes look to. The guy is a genius as a coach and as an administrator. Any top runner in America would be honored to have an opportunity to run for the best, and with the best.

I predict he is gonna be like Fernando Cadouchebag

I think his programs have too much attrition for that title. No one say that he doesn't have good teams, but what do you think he'd produce with a team full of 4:30+ milers?

His coach said a requirement is a full scholarship, dunno if Oregon could give him that. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends out at a California school.

Good question. Thank goodness he doesn't recruit 4:30 milers! I suspect Vin would do well with any caliber runner. I base that on what he has done with the Oregon Women's team this year. Each one of them showed huge improvement throughout the year (except for Sammons, who was injured), and finished way above the team projections when the season started. Also, I have seen what he did with a guy like Carlos Trujillo, taking him as a walk-on and turning him into a decent runner. Don't forget that coaching also includes the ability to have teams peak at the right time--something Vin accomplishes with regularity.

He is a great fit for Colorado/Wetmore.

ok somebody has to say it... German Fernandez is definitely 20+ years old

Tracknutz wrote: Don't forget that coaching also includes the ability to have teams peak at the right time--something Vin accomplishes with regularity.

For the person that said something about changing climates and "if it aint broke don't fix it" I don't know where I heard this but the quote is something like.

"If it aint broke don't fix it is the enemy of greatness you should always be looking to improve yourself and change things to improve, because good enough is never good enough"

I think he'll end up at Cal. And whoever mentioned Derrick w/ Oregon, the last I heard about Derrick it was down to Stanford, Illinois and Virginia. I seriously doubt Illinois is still on his list.

mobile9 wrote:

I think his programs have too much attrition for that title. No one say that he doesn't have good teams, but what do you think he'd produce with a team full of 4:30+ milers?

When Vin was at Dartmouth he did not have a stable full of FL Finalists - and his teams were very good.

"NAU, Arizona State, UCLA, Cal, Oregon, Texas, Cal Poly, Chico, Santa Barbara, Stanford, and Portland would all be good closer-to-home choices. I guess a lot of that depends on who's contacted him though."

Uh. The dude just ran 14:24 on a cross country course.

Why the hell would he go to Cal Poly, Chico or Santa Barbara?

Seriously?

Chico?

He's the best runner in the country and he should go to Chico? Seriously?

Tracknutz wrote:

You can bet that Vin Lananna knows about Fernandez and will see if he can lure him to the Track Capital where Herman can train with Acosta, Centrowitz, Daniel and Diego Mercado, Hall, Kiptoo-Biwott and Klotz next year. Why wouldn't Fernandez want to be part of a championship program run by arguably the best distance coach in the country?

4 of the 7 are CA born and bred. it'd be great for CA to stay in their own state! or, if Vin would use Bowerman's system of Oregon runners.

with that said, GF will probably go to OR; why wouldn't he?

Chico has a great coach. He helped to produce Scott Bauhs, a 13:47 5000m runner. Chico is also a perennial xc power house. The results speak for themselves. Maybe you'd think that going to Dartmouth when Lananna was there would be crazy too, because, why Dartmouth?

A great coach is one thing. A great coach and great training partners is another. Let's be real Fernandez can probably run under 14 minutes on a track with competition right now. At Chico I'm not sure If he will be with the type of partners he will have at per say Oregon or Iona or Wisconsin. He needs people to push him

Anonymous wrote:

Let's be real Fernandez can probably run under 14 minutes on a track with competition right now. At Chico I'm not sure If he will be with the type of partners he will have at per say Oregon or Iona or Wisconsin. He needs people to push him

bauhs will run 13:30 this spring... at least.

Gary was Ohio-based because he couldn't get any scholarship money until now (head track coach). The kid wants to be a steeplechaser - Ohio State has been pretty successful.

While I'll give you Bauhs is fast and will be even faster, Chico is not a "perennial xc power house". If you can't beat the top three (WSC,ASC, and ACU) DII teams you are not a power house. Those three teams on some of their best years are maybe a 7-12 team at DI's. Probably the best in recent years would have been the '03 Adams team and on their best day probably would have finished somewhere between 5-7 at DI's that year.

Now, again, if you can't beat those three teams, you are not a powerhouse. You may have a good coach, and some fast runners, but that does not make you a good team nor a powerhouse.

I think you can cross UO off the list if he wants a full scholarship, I don't believe anyone on that team receives more than a half...