It was another crazy week of news, but Ben and Garrett made sure to cover it all. The duo chats about Wisconsin's ground-breaking decision to not let seniors return for the spring track season, the ACC's discussions around potentially limiting scholarships, and Hannah Steelman's monumental transfer to NC State... You can listen to that episode (and others) on our PODCASTS page! You can also find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud. If you like it, be sure to leave us a rating and a review ! Note: If you're having issues loading the episode on the site via mobile, try refreshing the episode page. We will look into this issue for future episodes.

Earlier today, University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez announced via a written statement that the university will not grant additional eligibility to their current seniors. This announcement comes in the wake of the NCAA allowing universities to bring back current seniors in the spring of 2021 without penalty. The Stride Report has also been able to confirm via multiple sources that the ACC could follow suit, enacting similar limitations specifically on scholarships. For track and field, that means maintaining women's scholarships at 18 and men's scholarships at 12.6. No decision regarding the ACC has been finalized. The Stride Report can also confirm that should conference-wide limitations not take place, some universities are still expected to maintain the original scholarship limits mentioned above.

We messed up. Big time. I could beat around the bush, make up a fake argument, and tell you about how hard it is to keep up with everything in the running world when we are full-time employees and students. But here's the thing: none of you care about that. You come to TSR because you enjoy the content, insight, and commentary. Naturally, you should also expect everything to be detailed and accurate - something we have put a huge emphasis towards as our traffic has grown. Our team did extensive research, went through every database, team website, and social media account we could find. Our contributors spent two straight weeks focusing on nothing but data collection. It was an outstanding team effort. Yes, we missed a few recruits here and there, but that’s expected when the data simply isn’t available. However, what isn't acceptable is simply leaving out an entire conference from our research...which is exactly what happened. During our research, we completely omitted the BIG East. It was a total accident and something that we didn’t even realize until we got to the #3 spot in our rankings. But by that point, it was too late to adjust the rankings. The fact of the matter is this: both the Georgetown men and the Villanova women should have made it into our 2019 Top 10 Recruiting Class rankings. As the admin who has run this site since day one, I am embarrassed and take full responsibility for leaving those teams out. It bothers me quite a bit and it should never have happened, especially when looking at how talented these recruits are. Here are the following Georgetown men's distance recruits we could find... - Matthew Payamps (1:50 / 4:10 / 8:52) - Shea Weilbaker (4:13 / 8:57) - Parker Stokes (4:14 / 9:11 / 9:02 [3kSt] ) - Tim McInerney (1:53 / 4:10 / 9:15 / 14:59) - Camden Gilmore (4:14 / 9:07 / 15:28) - Theo Woods (1:50 / 2:25 [1k] / 4:18) Projected Ranking: Top Three Here are the following Villanova women's distance recruits we could find... - Madison Martinez (2:08 / 4:59) - Brynne Sumner (2:07 / 4:49) - Nikki Merrill (2:07 / 2:49 [1k] / 4:29 [1500] / 17:50) Projected Ranking: Top Six We're still a young site and we're new to this whole thing where people actually read our content now. A year ago, that wasn't really the case. We will be better because we must be better. That's just what our readers expect. Our apologies to the Georgetown men and Villanova women...you got robbed.