University of Texas

[rainbowgirl28]

just a casual observer --- but you guys from Texas must be drinking your own KoolAid...just checked the Nationals and it was Texas Tech that made an appearance????

i don't get it... KoolAid?

He is saying that no pole vaulters from UT or Texas State made it to NCAAs this year, but a vaulter from Texas Tech did.

[VaultNinja]

Hey, hey, hey. You two Texans need to settle the rest of your discussion with PM's I think. Otherwise this topic may get shut down by the boss, and I want to hear what other folks have to say.

Goosfraba.....

YEAH!! i thought this thread was about TEXAS!! not that other school, swt or something?? (jk)

dk is still a good vaulter, for those of you who saw him this year, i think he jumped 5.20 or better in every meet except ncaa's? 5.10? which is an improvement from his frosh and soph years where he was a consistant 4.90-5.0m guy with one big boom at 5.40i... now he's a 5.10-5.20m guy who can hit 5.30 more often... and that's what the dec is all about, getting your consistancy up to higher heights and farther distances. he's becoming a better dec. maybe not a better vaulter, but a more consistant one.

Thanks for the input Trey. I used to watch DK jump when he was in Highschool, and I was very impressed. We knew that kid had serious talent.
Back to the UT vault coach subject.....I remember seeing Brian Hunter fly over 5.70 to win at the 2002 NCAA Champs in Baton Rouge when he was attending UT. Someone must have been telling him something that worked

[VaultNinja]

Somebody needs to clarify that decs arent pole vaulters... Pole vaulting is a certain type of crazy that is only exceeded by those in the decathalon... And as you all know, all sprinters, jumpers, and distance runners think the vaulters are crazy, but all the vaulters think that the decs are crazy... So putting pole vaulters and decatheletes in the same category is like putting oil with water... It doesnt mix, and it often threatens the lives of many birds and aquatic animals...

That is one of the funniest posts I have ever read. Respect.

[TreyDECA]

just a casual observer --- but you guys from Texas must be drinking your own KoolAid...just checked the Nationals and it was Texas Tech that made an appearance????

i don't get it... KoolAid?

He is saying that no pole vaulters from UT or Texas State made it to NCAAs this year, but a vaulter from Texas Tech did.

oh ok... but didnt that same guy go to swt first?

[TreyDECA]

Hey, hey, hey. You two Texans need to settle the rest of your discussion with PM's I think. Otherwise this topic may get shut down by the boss, and I want to hear what other folks have to say.

Goosfraba.....

YEAH!! i thought this thread was about TEXAS!! not that other school, swt or something?? (jk)

dk is still a good vaulter, for those of you who saw him this year, i think he jumped 5.20 or better in every meet except ncaa's? 5.10? which is an improvement from his frosh and soph years where he was a consistant 4.90-5.0m guy with one big boom at 5.40i... now he's a 5.10-5.20m guy who can hit 5.30 more often... and that's what the dec is all about, getting your consistancy up to higher heights and farther distances. he's becoming a better dec. maybe not a better vaulter, but a more consistant one.

Thanks for the input Trey. I used to watch DK jump when he was in Highschool, and I was very impressed. We knew that kid had serious talent.
Back to the UT vault coach subject.....I remember seeing Brian Hunter fly over 5.70 to win at the 2002 NCAA Champs in Baton Rouge when he was attending UT. Someone must have been telling him something that worked

yeah, but that was dan's guy, so was jacob.

[blakedow]

just a casual observer --- but you guys from Texas must be drinking your own KoolAid...just checked the Nationals and it was Texas Tech that made an appearance????

i don't get it... KoolAid?

He is saying that no pole vaulters from UT or Texas State made it to NCAAs this year, but a vaulter from Texas Tech did.

oh ok... but didnt that same guy go to swt first?

Yes he did, and was also in his sixth year of competition...

[kat_vaulter]

Sage made it to nationals. He went to Texas his first year.
Bobby was the one who went to SWT.[/img][/quote]

[TreyDECA]

just a casual observer --- but you guys from Texas must be drinking your own KoolAid...just checked the Nationals and it was Texas Tech that made an appearance????

i don't get it... KoolAid?

He is saying that no pole vaulters from UT or Texas State made it to NCAAs this year, but a vaulter from Texas Tech did.

oh ok... but didnt that same guy go to swt first?

Yes he did, and was also in his sixth year of competition...

i'm about to click off my 5th year of competition, so i'm gonna be "that guy? i thought he graduated... how many years does he have left??" haha

[VTechVaulter]

emmm... just to stick my nose in. Bob Phillips deserves way more credit than Dan for Brian Hunter. Hunter went 15'3 in high school. 17' first year, 18' second year, and then 18'4 summer of 2000 (after season) to go to the olympic trials. So 2 more years down at UT got him 4 more inches. Which is still progress, just trying to let people know. Hunter was not a product of Texas, more of a VT export

[TreyDECA]

emmm... just to stick my nose in. Bob Phillips deserves way more credit than Dan for Brian Hunter. Hunter went 15'3 in high school. 17' first year, 18' second year, and then 18'4 summer of 2000 (after season) to go to the olympic trials. So 2 more years down at UT got him 4 more inches. Which is still progress, just trying to let people know. Hunter was not a product of Texas, more of a VT export

and not to be a complete jack***.... 4" means he jumped higher under dan, right?

[blakedow]

emmm... just to stick my nose in. Bob Phillips deserves way more credit than Dan for Brian Hunter. Hunter went 15'3 in high school. 17' first year, 18' second year, and then 18'4 summer of 2000 (after season) to go to the olympic trials. So 2 more years down at UT got him 4 more inches. Which is still progress, just trying to let people know. Hunter was not a product of Texas, more of a VT export

and not to be a complete jack***.... 4" means he jumped higher under dan, right?

Let's not split hairs over this issue... Both coaches seemed to do an amazing job with him... 4" is a lot after you have surpassed 18'... What I dont understand is why he would transfer if he was doing so well at VT???

[achtungpv]

The best thing Dan did was get Hunter not to make dumb mistakes. Like coming in at 5.80 when your PR is 5.51 (I remember seing him do this once....for some reason I think it was '00 NCAAs). For someone with obvious intellegence (dual engineering degree) he made the absolutely worst decisions I've ever seen.

Also, if you saw Hunter's VT technique compared to it under Pfaff, there was no comparision. He may have been the best collegiate technician I've ever seen while he was at UT. At VT, he relied a lot more on pure athletism. He would have jumped 5.80 in college if he wasn't so interested in posing for the camera while going over PR bars.