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Oregon's reputation is off in the distances.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAY-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Oregon's reputation is off in the distances.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
On your Oregon track and field recruiting scorecard, Mike McGrath is leaving Oregon, Galen Rupp isn't coming, and Stuart Eagon is going to Wisconsin because, he said, the Badgers have a deeper core of quality distance runners with whom he can train.

Amid all the joy and exultation at the OSAA state track and field championships Saturday, amid the orange crush of the Benson sweep and some riveting races, there was reason to be concerned, too, about the team that calls Hayward Field home.

It is, individually and certainly collectively, a big deal that McGrath, a major in-state recruit for the Oregon program, is quitting the Ducks after a frustrating season and because, you must conclude, of differences with his coach about training. And that Rupp, the Central Catholic star who is one of the most talented distance runners ever produced in a...

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