Good afternoon fellow coaches and spectators.
Within the circles of the collegiate coaching community, other coaches jabber alot about young prospects, both domestic and foreign. Before I engage in these discussions with other coaches, I always make sure that I have taken a necessary duration of time to really sit down and FULLY analyze these young men's background, age, length of time, they have been running, what their strongest event is, and most of all......their form. If they have inadequate form then it's a no-go for me; not just in terms of recruitment, but even to spend any oxygen discussing them. That and I must invest my free time in recruiting athletes who are, actually, recruitable.
They have to be ELIGIBLE for recruitment, and they have to WANT to be recruited. Sometimes we as coaches face certain roadblocks where it's either one of the other, and both don't perfectly line up and the athlete doesn't end up attending our school and running for my team. Nobody said being a coach was easy, just like nobody said being a young kid easy. Being a young kid, in modern society, is something that we as adults cannot relate to because the world they are living in is not the same as the world we grew up in. In fact, the world we grew up in no longer exists.
Now, both of these young whipper snappers we are about to discuss are foreigners. That means they are NOT American citizens and do NOT have American values. They are also both professional caliber runners who, as of today, have already participated in sanctioned events against professionally compensated runners. Seeing this is the case, me recruiting them is inadmissible.
These young men will remain on the global running scene for quite some time, pending they stay healthy; the younger of which, Mr Myers, will hopefully yarn to make additions to his academic transcript, being of such biological and geriatric infancy.
All I hear from other coaches is that Myers is the better runner because he is younger. I'm not sure I agree with that in the least bit. At this point, Laros has better personal records, especially in the middle distance spectrum. Laros seems to have better top end speed, to whereas Myers seems to have more endurance considering his lack of experience and total races performed.
To my, niels laros seems to be a modern day version of a dutch Kenny Cormier (most of you are too young to know who that is). Size, form, hairdo, attitude, everything.
Cameron Myers, to me, strongly and almost identically resembles a modern day version of Lukas Verbicksas. Size, form, person records, everything.
It's still way too early in these young guns careers to analyze who really is superior, but I would like you to provide insight into who reigns Supreme right now as a teenager, and who has more long term potential. I, unfortunately feel, that Cameron Myers is obsolete and that his entire career is going to go the same way lukas Verbiksas career did. It's going to come to a crashing hault. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel it in my intuition, but like I knew kiprop was headed towards a james dean "live fast die hard" conclusion. What say you?
-Coach Dahl
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