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Hoovis 2

RE: Short and Short 10/16/2007 5:16PM - in reply to lab attendent

I'll save most of my thoughts for my own set of predicitons which will come out later this week/early next week. Working on a little "something special" this year.

In general, your observations seem reasonable...however, I have 2 questions:

1.) Are you serious when you state that if they were healthy, Ship could challenge for a top-2 finish? I'm not sure even a healthy Haven team could do that this year, but I'm quite confident a healthy Ship team could not.

2.) Hmmmm....everybody is convinced that Weiss & Reagan are going to finish 1-2. That is...everybody but me. I do believe that Weiss will win...but, I think Reagan will finish 3rd or 4th. More to come on that...

Now, on a completely different note, I have another question. Assuming the Rock guys make it to Nats, which of the following best describes what Pap will be wearing on race day:

A.) That crazy whaling hat that he picked up in Alaska

B.) Not one...not two...but three mega-sized camera lenses around his neck

C.) Jeans that are rolled up...not in a fashionable way, but rather in a way that looks like he is ready for any flash flood that Joplin, MO could throw his way

D.) All of the above

Hoovis

lab attendent wrote:

Another Prediction

1.Edinboro- they have alot of depth and even their coach says they are doing great which he usually doesn't have many comments so if he thinks he has a good team I will beleive him. I beleive this team has a great chance to crack the top 5 if their freshman can deal well with 10k and run as well over that distance as they are over 8k. They could have their top 5 in under 32 minutes at regionals with a 3 guys in the top 7. and their next 2 guys in the top 15 at worst in my opinion.

2. Slippery Rock- I am just not convinced yet that they are better then boro. I beleive they train hard and want it bad but that doesn't always mean you are going to win. They are a solid second place team and they can have a great national impact for the conference and hopefully help bring back more spots for next years teams. Up front they are the strongest team in the conference. Weiss and Reagan seem to be working great together and I beleive they will be 1,2 in the conference. ONLY because Clark is redshirting. After that bluman and Geddis will be top 12 with their 5th guy around 25-30th

3,4,5 are up in the air between Lock Haven, Ship, and Mansfield. All three teams seem to be very similar as a team. Mansfield has the top guy out of the three teams with Cummings and a solid guy right behind him. The next three are pretty volurable to getting sucked up into the pack and losing alot of points between their 1st guy and 5th. Their 5th guy i could see being around 40th in the region

Then you have Lock Haven that seem to be struggling with a good group of guys, things do happen and that is understandable, doesn't mean bad coaching just means things might not be working out 100% the way they hoped. With Moore being hurt, and Spidell out for the season they are hurting up front. I beleive that if this team can come together at the post season they can get 3rd if not they will be 5h. If everybody would be healthy they would be challenging for 2nd with Slippery rock 5th guy ending up around 35th

Ship is a big question mark for me. They have Thompson which is an all regional runner, but Beegle has been their top guy every meet so does this mean Beegle is an all regional runner as well? Brady is right behind them by about 15 seconds so up front they could have 3 guys from 10th-20th in the region, if their 4 and 5 guys move up they will take the 3rd spot. After losing Gracey and Neyhart their team is def hurting, if they would be healthy they also would be challenging slippery rock for a spot to nationals. 5th guy ending up around 35th as well.

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