g”Take your program to the next level!” This is the pitch that is circulating across the top NCAA colleges. This comes from a company that recruits foreign track & cross-country athletes and plugs them straight into the American college system. The selling point is the fact that they are creating an opportunity and want colleges to capitalize on it. But BYU’s head coach Ed Eyestone isn’t buying the hype, and that may have ruffled a few feathers.

“It doesn’t help the U.S. developmental effort. It doesn’t encourage young American talent; it discourages them,” said the BYU Head Coach, Ed Eyestone, while having a conversation with the Deseret . There is some truth to his comments. According to Let’s Run , 112 of the 261 competitors in the men’s NCAA Cross Country field are foreign-born, w

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