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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Who said rules were being broken.

Those 3 or 4 private schools are just figuring something out with the tuitions that Miami isn’t.

You guys are just showing your complete and utter ignorance about track and field.

Bottom line.

You need fūcking bodies to score points in NCAA track meets, win or place in the meets and therefore be ranked in the top 25.

It’s like you have never been to a meet or understand how they’re scored.

Miami has about 25 male track athletes. That’s not nearly enough to participate in enough events to be competitive.

FSU, a perennial top 10-25, has almost 50 male track athletes. You need at least 40. You might be able to get by with 35, maybe.

Educate yourselves so you don’t embarrass yourselves any further.

By the way, it’s DOMINANT....not DOMINATE you cotdam illiterate.
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25 is plenty. It's nothing new to see a school win a big meet with just a handful of guys. You see it all the time in HS and college. Having 40 on your squad doesn't mean chit if they all suck or not good enough to make it to the finals and score points.
 
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Tetragrammaton Cane said:
There was not a SINGLE fact in what you posted. But there was plenty of denial and delusion.

You’re only getting more emotional about this. I can’t say I understand because...well, I don’t have that coward’s gene that prevents me from admitting when I’m wrong - even on the internet. Especially on the internet.

The best track conferences (SEC, PAC 12, BIG 12) run this weekend. Go watch more track; educate yourself. You’ll be better for it. Thank me later.

I would give you the links but I do not want to come off as being patronizing.
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All I posted was facts, of which you could not refute a single one.
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
You’re right; Title IX affects all men’s sports except football.

The tuition issue, for a men’s team (fewer scholarships than women) at a private university, is valid; however, Syracuse had 4 sub-14.50 hurdlers in the same race as Lingard and I believe it’s more expensive than Miami. USC, on the other hand … at the 2018 NCAA indoor meet:

- one athlete won the HJ (NFL Randall Cunningham’s son);
- another set the world record at 400m (USC had an additional athlete in the final);
- another athlete won the 200m;
- USC not only won the 4x4 but ran the fastest time ever while 2nd place Tx A&M broke the world record (USC had one Antiguan athlete);
- USC men finished 2nd as a team.

USC Head Coach Caryl Smith, one of the other women directors at a major P5 football school, is a BEAST on the trail; she closes better than Hartley. That’s not hyperbole. She was the one who brought UCF to national prominence. She also coaches Twanisha Terry who graduated from Miami Northwestern high school last May. She ran 10.99 3 weeks ago. (Terry ran faster than Dalvin’s brother, James Cook -same high school- ran at the state meet last weekend)

So it’s not just tuition, but USC is somewhat of an exception in the sprints. TCU also.
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Nothing new. USC has been utilizing this mode for nearly 40 years...sprinters, hurdlers and an occasional jumper. They were already doing it when I was a student in the early '80s and covered the track team for the Daily Trojan. The coaches at that point were holdovers from the pre-Title IX era and bemoaned the new reality, that scholarship reductions forced a partial team so they had to strategically maximize points. Obviously the sprinters can fill out the relays and the hurdlers can also sprint. Prior to Title IX USC had full teams and racked up national championships. Then it reached a point in the '90s they had some track and field teams with fewer than 10 athletes total.

Very, very seldom will USC field anyone competent above 400 meters. The dual meets with UCLA are an imbalanced joke nowadays because UCLA has all the numbers in the distance events while USC owns the sprints. But when USC does have an elite 400 meter guy it can be a gold medalist like Quincy Watts, or Bryshon Nellum who had that type of potential before an unfortunate gunshot wound incident, and now the current star Michael Norman.

Even when USC track was down they still invested in Cromwell Field and now that venue is classy looking and competitive with most of the schools they recruit against, other than Oregon. Volleyball and water polo and swimming and track and field, etc. are not treated as irrelevant jokes in the West, which is the attitude I generally hear in the East. Credit to the SEC for making more of a push recently with track and field. Even schools like Kentucky have very solid coaching staffs, which is how they attracted a Kendra Harrison away from Clemson, and now the teen phenom Sydney McLaughlin, who chose Kentucky over USC.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
It’s cost of attendance.

Look at the top 25. Dominated by big, low cost state programs. You might find 3 or 4 private universities in the top 25 like USC, Baylor and TCU. Do you think those track athletes are paying $50,000 a year tuition?

I’ll wait for your answer, smartass.
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Check out the elite rosters and you know what you'll find. A lot of athletes from around the country who don't get the in-state tuition cost.

As previously stated, a lot of those schools are **** close to our cost when the athlete is from out of state and some are even more.

I'm sure a smart fellow such as yourself knew that already though so I won't do your homework for you. lol, right.

Anyone with a brain knows you got torched in this thread, but you just can't stop opening your mouth. Still a punk.
 
SayWhat said:
Check out the elite rosters and you know what you'll find. A lot of athletes from around the country who don't get the in-state tuition cost.

As previously stated, a lot of those schools are **** close to our cost when the athlete is from out of state and some are even more.

I'm sure a smart fellow such as yourself knew that already though so I won't do your homework for you. lol, right.

Anyone with a brain knows you got torched in this thread, but you just can't stop opening your mouth. Still a punk.
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All I did was spit facts, punk. You got nothing. Those out of state athletes aren’t laying out out-of-state tuition and you're completely retarded if you think someone is going to pay USC or someone like that $60,000 a year to run the 400.

Another stupid post from you.
 
Your facts dont check out when compared to actual numbers and out of state athletes on rosters versus actual max scholarships available. Facts don't equate to whatever verbal diahrhea you spew and have been factually dismissed and proven to be anything but fact.
 
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