DI is all fine and good, but there are other options out there. Alan Webb was at a D-I for a year and said screw it. Perhaps if he went to a Chico and had a long term approach, he'd do signifcantly better than going to a DI school and being their workhorse for 4 years.
It'd be cool to see Gary work with a great athlete steeplechaser. Olinger is now a stud, but I'd be curious to see some real talent show up and work with a 2-time Olympian for 4-5 years straight.
Ok enough with Chico, good program and all but i think the whole nation knows that he is not going there. At the least he will go D1, why wouldn't he?
Bob Hayes went to Florida A&M (NAIA). Mike Boit went to East New Mexico State (NAIA). Innocent Egbunike went to APU (NAIA), as did Bryan Clay. Steve Scott went to UC Irvine (DII), Emilie Mondor went to SFU (NAIA), and Bruce Jenner went to Graceland College (NAIA).
You should go where you feel you can find the best fit for you, not where everyone thinks you should go.
di di di wrote:
DI is all fine and good, but there are other options out there. Alan Webb was at a D-I for a year and said screw it. Perhaps if he went to a Chico and had a long term approach, he'd do signifcantly better than going to a DI school and being their workhorse for 4 years.
I know you're just trolling, but how does Chico have a long-term approach and DI schools don't?
no child left behind? wrote:
Wrench wrote:I do not understand why more people dont go to this school.
Because Mark Conover is there
your logic is outstanding.
Due to the fact that Mark Conover (winner of the 88 olympic trials @26.2) coaches at a great school, and develops athletes pretty damn well; fewer people go there.
OK I think I understand.
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mobile9 wrote:
Bob Hayes went to Florida A&M (NAIA). Mike Boit went to East New Mexico State (NAIA). Innocent Egbunike went to APU (NAIA), as did Bryan Clay. Steve Scott went to UC Irvine (DII), Emilie Mondor went to SFU (NAIA), and Bruce Jenner went to Graceland College (NAIA)...
You can add Nick Symmonds, Nicodemus Naimadu, & Fernando Cabada to that list(obviously a D1 school didn't work out well for Cabada as he left after his first year at Arkansas).
Let's be real, your comparing apples to oranges. German Fernandez will probably be the greatest high school American talent in cross country to ever live.. Maybe, no joke
But honestly he is the best recruit in the nation and your comparing him to Nick Symmonds and Fernando Cabada?! This can be Americas shot at success in world wide competition so I think he needs to go where he can develop most, that being with guys around him to push him to a much higher level. If you've never met Cabada, please don't be expecting a inspiring story when he tells why and how he got the 25k record.
And Will Leer
If Fernandez has already accepted a full ride to Texas, I can guarantee that he will be going to a JC. If he is that dumb, he will never get into a D-1 school. As another poster said, if his daddy won't consider anything but a "full ride", he won't be getting any offers from any decent schools. With his combination of chronic injuries, "balls out" running style and comic collapse finishes, he won't last long, regardless of where he ends up. Just telling it as I see it.
Yea so um Chico has Scotty Bauhs f***ing amazing runner who could do damage in DI anyday i mean anyday he never has an off day.
So yea why wouldn't German do good in Chico?
DI just has money thats it.
So don't put down others schools like Chico and Santa Barbra and Cal Poly
You don't know if you haven't been through anything
I give credit maybe just maybe WSC,ASC, and ACU tmight be 7-12 DI maybe not the course are different it would be perfect to say that if they ran the same course then you can compare times but each days are different I believe the top DII teams can break in at most the top 5.
maybe he likes the scenery damn
shit maybe he wants to go to Chico his choice.
So maybe he gets hurt freshman year breaks his legs then what ok
Its all IFs here
I wasn't completely trolling, but rather just saying that you don't need to be a D-I runner to do well in running. How many olympic medalists over the last 3-4 olympics were D-I runners? Not a ton. I know that there were a few... but... most of the medalists were people who are international runners who train primarily with a club and don't have the traditional American collegiate system responsibilities. If he went to a smaller school like Chico and wasn't put through the ringer all the time (based on all of your glowing assumptions, this kid is way about all the other D-II runners and won't have to try), perhaps he'd end up better in the long run. He wouldn't be forced to peak for XC, race hard during indoors, and then peak again in track year in and year out. He could have a once a year peak (likely USATF nationals in track) and reach high levels of success.
Bauhs would be a great training partner for him and Towne would be a great mentor. You don't have to have huge groups of training partners to be the best. Often times, those amazing groups just end up killing each other. I know that in Morocco they set up training groups specifically for one athlete. All of the rest of the athletes dedicate their training to improving that one runner. Something like this could happen in Chico.
Will he go to Chico? Probably not. Would Chico be the best choice for him (assuming they could get him a full-ride)? Who knows, maybe.... maybe not.
I don't think though that you can say that any other school would be a definitively better option for him.
And to throw one more option out there, I think that he'd be better served going up to Mammoth and training with a pro group right from the start instead of doing the whole D-I thing.
Tracknutz wrote:
If Fernandez has already accepted a full ride to Texas, I can guarantee that he will be going to a JC. If he is that dumb, he will never get into a D-1 school. As another poster said, if his daddy won't consider anything but a "full ride", he won't be getting any offers from any decent schools. With his combination of chronic injuries, "balls out" running style and comic collapse finishes, he won't last long, regardless of where he ends up. Just telling it as I see it.
Think he might get that full ride now???
No, I agree Lananna is arguably the best distance coach in America. At the same time, he may also be one of the best recruiters in the country...quite a combination!
It was announced a couple of months ago that he was going to Oklahoma State.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/31/SPG6111BT3.DTL
It was announced in the newspapers about 2 months ago that Fernandez was going to Oklahoma State!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/31/SPG6111BT3.DTL
This kid could go to my elementary school and be good.
It doesn't matter where this guy goes. I'm glad Oregon didn't get him, you know that pisses lananna off.
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