With all the propaganda and bullsh*t on these boards, it is often hard to tell what is or isn’t legitimate. So here is what we can now clarify after regionals:
- Indiana State, Iowa State and UCSB still don't deserve our respect: These three teams seem to have all of their fans/runners on the boards talking them up all season. Hate to break it to you, but anyone can peak early to run decent at prenats. If you don’t qualify for nationals, then you don't deserve our respect... yet. Maybe now I won't have to read all the time "Watch out for ISU! There is no way they aren't making it to nats this year!!!"
- Michigan is almost always overrated: I was glad to see them not go to nationals for the second year in a row.
- Oregon really is legit this year: Damn, they haven't faltered yet like a lot of people thought they might...
- Oklahoma State really does get better as the season goes on: maybe it's the move to 10k, or maybe Kansas just gets worse and worse as the season goes on...
- When all else fails, you can count on Wetmore: UTEP looked like world beaters at the Chili Pepper, but you can always count on Colorado peaking at just the right time to easily win regionals, and do well at nationals.
And finally just a quick observation: The South regional has a lot of foreigners. I am just going to guess and say that 19 of the top 20 are foreign.