My uneducated guess would be possibly related to NIL and through the amplify and 12th man plus fund the money has to be allocated evenly so the smaller the team the more money to each individual… Again I have no info into the team and I'm probably wrong but that would be my best guess

Do you think this will help us bring in more quality athletes?(quality as in point scorers)

Yes definitely if the we have to cut the team size then the staff would bring good athletes who are potentially scorers.

Teams are only allowed a certain head count on both boys and girls teams

DETAILS PLEASE! Is this an athletic department decision? New number of team members? ANY INFO GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Florida adds two 400 runners with PR's of 44.8 and 44.7

Is Bamadele going pro then?

Possibly, he competed at a Diamond League event this past weekend! But regardless, Florida will just keep reloading every year

Where is our donor?

Not sure. Cuts happening with little notice.

taylorswift13 said:

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Florida women have added 3 distance stars to go with Parker Valby! Flomena Asekol from Bama and two all Americans from New Mexico

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Florida hires the Alabama coach Will Palmer and now they are a treat nationally to win the title

Longing for the day to see Texas A&M being very competitive at conference level and nationally in Cross country and distance events. Not sure if this will ever happen anytime soon.

Points points points

Yes...the 10.22 he ran at state was wind legal and the fastest of all classifications.

This is another freebie for Henry since he will be on football scholly along with Jordan Anthony. Henry needs to take advantage here. No excuse to not have the top sprint squad in the country with 2 all American types (track) not counting against your track scholarships.

You are spot on! Love these footballs athletes not counting towards our scholarships! With Anthony and Campbell around for 2 years not counting towards the scholarship distribution we can build a STRONG sprint relay!

What about the sprinter phenom from Florida?

If he comes to A&M and doesn't turn pro, he'll most likely only be here for one year and won't get to run with Ernest Campbell! But we should have a strong relay next year and hopefully it sets up a good stretch of sprint relays for the years to follow

Arkansas is going after High Jump this year.
Former NCAA high Jump Champion Rachel Glenn transfers from South Carolina to Arkansas. She also has a 56.63 PB in the 400m hurdles
NCAA high jump champion Romaine Beckford transfers from USF to Arkansas

triniaggie said:

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Is Ashton Schwartzman in the transfer portal?

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Here is your answer
Everyone going Florida

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— Gators Track and Field & Cross Country (@GatorsTF) July 18, 2023

He will; he is just as fast if not faster than their incoming transfers. I am only speculating(purely). Surely prior to Florida's rise A&M was arguably the premier 4x400. If we didn't win it we were fighting for some other height on the podium. It would behoove Florida to eliminate their competition by weakening A&M. Surely there has been other top talent they could have taken or gone after BUT they have CONSISTENTLY targeted probably >20-30% of our sprinters both genders. However -

I don't think it was just as simple as offering a little money or alot of money ONLY. I would suspect(me just guessing) that perhaps our athletes got wind of a particular NIL deal within our squad. Some may have become(not jealous) but slightly bewildered like "but what about me; i deserve something too". I don't think they let that bother them BUT I do think that Florida NIL machine used their awareness of Florida's attempt to get one of our stud(s) though they couldn't get such athlete(s) and thus exploited that in the ears of our sprinters saying, " you know I don't think someone of your ability deserves ONLY this when your teammate(s) is/are getting this. What if you come run for us. We will give you this because you are worthy of at least this and you are not getting this at A&M".

A&M track is not A&M football and until track takes on the mentality of rising up to an A&M football mentality, we will be poached and fall from within losing our own core of athletes. It's a testament that other schools don't want a strong A&M track program but it is just as much that A&M track is well behind the curve of being sensitive to the value of good track athletes and retaining them at fair/competitive market value. We are losing.

Hopefully that NIL deal you're referencing is for Assinga.

I feel like most athletes know they are not in the class of Assinga; maybe only 10 athletes capable of running with him in his class but most not even close to his class. So most athletes, I feel would not consider being slighted by whatever Assinga is worth because they know they aren't in his class and couldn't command his level of NIL. So no - I am not referring to Assinga.

I am ONLY speculating and am not giving insider info but if we had a 400m runner who had a personal best within .5 sec of some coveted stud then I would consider that being in his class and worthy of an NIL comparable to theirs. But what if our 400m transfer had a PB better than what's on paper of another coveted athlete who had a great NIL package. I think the Florida machine would definitely exploit that fact; knowing they tried to get that stud but couldn't. Their awareness of what they offered could then be used to lure our tranfered-out athletes to consider being slighted knowing 'your NIL is nowhere near what we offered your teammate and yet you are being outclass in NIL revenue that we are going to offer to you. Come run for us."

I think this is probably more understandable than - (all of a sudden A&M's entire 4x4 studs all leave elsewhere and mostly goto Florida). Nope I know for a fact that Ark and Tex have come after sprinters on our team this year; so it is not that people arent trying but Florida is the main benefactor and not because they offer the most and not because others are not trying but rather Florida ( I suspect speculatively) is putting salt in the game to make our athletes feel slighted due to an awareness of a particular NIL deal(s) of an/some A&M athlete(s).

Yep you are correct but as Trini already said we progressed him to 45.1 year 1. His natural progression and strength would have led most people to agree that 44.7 was not out of his capability THIS year. For whatever reason he didn't progress this year but he didn't lose that potential as it was in him to hit those marks this year in a natural progression. By your thinking, no one would have suspected Bamdele would do what he did this year. He had an off year last year at A&M but 44 mid or better was in him last year at A&M. Florida just rectified his situation as I am certain will happen with A Schwartz next year. I won't be surprised to see him run 44 mid next year or even low. I won't be surprised.

I think a better angle would be this question: Is our 400 training stifling these athletes. As great as Henry is I think that is a fair question.