That’s certainly a relative term. Compared to 1987-1997, the performance of any program would seem horrible. Since 2014, 5 schools have won national titles in women’s outdoor track. Of those schools, Oregon hasn’t finished in the Top 10 since 2019, A&M hasn’t won the title since 2014, Florida’s win last year was their first Top 5 finish since 2018 and Arkansas’s title in 2019 was their only Top 5 finish since 2016. The degree of achievement and consistency you seem to expect of the LSU women may be higher than what any program is doing right now with the possible exception of USC. LSU’s women have still finished Top 5 in 2 of the last 3 seasons and Top 6 in 14 of the last 16 years. That’s not “horrible”.

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Posted by tigerbait2010

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Posted on 6/9/23 at 3:57 pm to MikeTheTiger71

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That’s certainly a relative term. Compared to 1987-1997, the performance of any program would seem horrible. Since 2014, 5 schools have won national titles in women’s outdoor track. Of those schools, Oregon hasn’t finished in the Top 10 since 2019, A&M hasn’t won the title since 2014, Florida’s win last year was their first Top 5 finish since 2018 and Arkansas’s title in 2019 was their only Top 5 finish since 2016. The degree of achievement and consistency you seem to expect of the LSU women may be higher than what any program is doing right now with the possible exception of USC. LSU’s women have still finished Top 5 in 2 of the last 3 seasons and Top 6 in 14 of the last 16 years. That’s not “horrible”.

Yeah, the dude needs to get a grip on the hyperbole around Shaver being terrible.

Only thing I agree with him is how big of a blow it was to lose Boo Shexnyder. Our jumps program has returned to mediocrity under Todd Lane, which is the strength program Boo is best known for. The sprints side has still put up nice numbers, but the women have been injury plagued.

without a strong jumps program to go along with sprints, LSU is always going to hover around the 3-8 ranking, which is still pretty fricking good.