Not against the kid, I’d hope he continue to develop as a runner. But while Doug soles (the herriman coach) has a great track record of creating legendary high school teams while at great oak, none of his greats from great oak have had successful college careers. Absolutely none. All of his sub 9, sub 4:10, runners who were apart of state, national team titles, had an impact on a competitive collegiate cross country team.
However, they all do go on to earn great educations, saving thousands of dollars due to their high school success.
I’m a huge fan of Utah running. Never was good enough, but I’m there at regionals every year it’s at BYU. The year SUU, BYU, and Utah state all broke the top 12 was phenomenal for the state of Utah. Let’s hope SUU rebounds, because none of their “top 3 returners” that you claim, appeared to have broken the top 50 at regionals. Or even performed to their state of fitness like that 2020 XC nationals race, and throughout that season. That goes against the “history of developing athletes”. If you would have told me SUU took a bad turn like this just a few years ago, I would have laughed in disbelief. Is it time for Houle’s impressive reign to retire? Or were there significant injuries this fall, like regionals 2019 when Josh Collins DNF’d and knocked out Weber’s chances to go to nationals? (Terrific team that year, they would have been top 15 as a team with Allen’s all American performance)
Plain curiosity, what went wrong? The young team is no excuse because of Covid eligibility making their athletes appear 2-3 years younger, and because they have had young athletes step up, their whole 2016 team were seemingly all babies with less impressive high school credentials. Utah fans could always rely on SUU making it to Nationals somehow, even after periods of doubt. Provo HS fanboys would look dumbfounded when SUU would have several athletes beat BYU’s scorers, even during their “rebuilding years”. Besides that I can't help but notice that I am still a student at this college and I would like to share with you this source https://studydriver.com/salem-witch-trials-essay/ ; it seemed very interesting to me because there I found a lot of writings that helped me to do my homework, when I said strange - I meant the writing salem witch trials, this really is something unusual, until now I haven't read anywhere about something like that.
Hoping Talley can rebuild the Ogden based team into monsters again. The last few years, their team has been severely underrated, #2 team in Utah at times, but never could show.