Colorado Buffs Time Trial

Here are the results:

http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3955&SPID=260&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=204788256

Nothing too exciting. Small field this year. Only 33 men and 19 women ran. Is that right?

Also notice Allie McLaughlin (frosh at CU). She's not listed on their roster though. What gives? I assume she was accidently left off.

True freshmen are often left off of the initial roster that the SID puts up on the web. It was more like watching a CU team workout without any other teams and essentially no local runners in attendance this year.

Is the Chris Mulavney listed here formerly or ARK?

1. Chris Mulvany

2. No, formerly of Littleton, Santa Clara, and currently a student at CU.

Ed Burns wrote:

Is the Chris Mulavney listed here formerly or ARK?

I think that Chris Mulvaney exhausted his eligibility a long time ago. There was a Chris Mulvaney who ran for Columbine HS back in the day and was pretty talented. I would have thought his eligibility was up too though.

As for the field, as the local division II schools (Mines and Metro) have gotten more talented there were more frequently runners from other teams running in the CU pack during this meet. The buffs usually try to finish in a pack of 7, but it's a little sketchier if there are a few guys from other teams better than CU's 7th man mixing it up. They also have a tradition of letting the youngest guy in that 7 man pack take the win, but that has been foiled by other teams on occasion. I'm guessing Wetmore wanted to have it be more of an intrasquad meet like it used to be. Mines and Metro went to UCCS yesterday instead of the time trial.

Again, Mulvany, not Mulvaney. You don't need any eligibility to run at the CU time trial, it's open to all comers. CU wouldn't have had much trouble from either Mines or Metro with their current bunch, Wetmore is not bothered by whether or not they show up. I'm guessing Mines and Metro probably went to UCCS because it wouldn't be as tough of an opener.

Sorry but you can't open with a race much easier than at the time trial. It's a freakin tempo run. If it's so hard for the d2teams look up the results from last year.

The Rocky Mountain Shootout is going to be more like the Rocky Mountain Washout this year with Adams and Western seeking out better competition at OSU.

Let that be a lesson to Wetmore - if you score your meet separately even though all the teams race together because you don't like having to put up on the Buff site that your team was taken to town by Adams or Western then eventually they will stop coming.

Prediction for this years results...

1. Colorado

2. Wyoming community college

3. Oklahoma Panhandle

4. Fort Hays community college

What a great meet its going to be!

you forgot northern colorado.....

Good point...

Slide them in just after Wyoming Community College

15 years ago that CU alumni meet was very competitive with over 100 mostly good runners from all over jumping into the race. It's almost nothing now.

Maybe the "Busters" team that I can never figure out who the hell they are will get on the podium this year even.

Mulvany's 5 year window expires this academic year, unless he went on a church mission or some other activity that the NCAA excludes from the 5 year window. Mulvany enrolled and competed at Santa Clara in the fall of 2005. So, he has at least one season of competition left if he is eligible.

Daddy wrote:

The Rocky Mountain Shootout is going to be more like the Rocky Mountain Washout this year with Adams and Western seeking out better competition at OSU.

Let that be a lesson to Wetmore - if you score your meet separately even though all the teams race together because you don't like having to put up on the Buff site that your team was taken to town by Adams or Western then eventually they will stop coming.

What a joke, clown. Lesson? Child, please. CU couldn't care less if WSC and ASC show up for the Shootout. They score the divisions separately to satisfy the NCAA-mandated minimum number of competitions for the season without having to travel to another meet. His teams focus on meets after the Shootout, it gives them nothing more than having a scored team result without taking out of the travel budget. Besting or being bested by teams in a different division that feature foreign athletes and far lower academic standards in the middle of heavy training is of no concern. ASC or WSC winning a meet in early October doesn't mean a damn thing to CU, their focus is on beating far better competition in late November.

Quit talking out of your ass, douchebag.

I can assure you Wetmore hates being the second and sometimes third best team in the state. It's not every year, but some years that is true. Give respect where respect is due. If my coach or teammates didn't care about winning, I wouldn't want to run for that team. Even in the early season. Notice I didn't say peak, I said win. Winning is a full time mentality.

Adams and Western don't focus on the Shootout either. It's so funny that everyone thinks that this is true. Everytime ASC or WSC show up to a meet and beat good DI teams, the story is that they focused on that individual meet. Sometimes they've focused on several meets each year, if you listen to everyone who gets beat.

Guess what? Every meet they run they "focus" on. They don't train to peak at the Shootout or any other meet than Nationals just like your precious Buffs.

I will give you that ASC has quite a few more foreign athletes than in the past but to say they've been "featured" is ignorance speaking again.

hmmmm...... wrote:

I can assure you Wetmore hates being the second and sometimes third best team in the state. It's not every year, but some years that is true. Give respect where respect is due. If my coach or teammates didn't care about winning, I wouldn't want to run for that team. Even in the early season. Notice I didn't say peak, I said win. Winning is a full time mentality.

I wouldn't want to run for a coach or team that cared about whether a team from lesser division showed up or not, much less beating them. Invite races are just workouts, and even championship races like Regionals, to quote from memory Goucher from RWTB, "It doesn't matter what happens at regionals, it matters what happens at nationals."

You wish. Having a chip on your shoulder doesn't mean that anyone will give a crap about knocking it off. CU couldn't care less about their ranking among other schools in the state. CU cares about winning, but they're more focused on when the win counts for something. Funny that someone like you who clearly has never won anything thinks that "winning is a full time mentality." If you're going to get bent because you didn't win the first few meets of the season then you've got a problem with yourself. Before ASC went to foreign athletes, they had relied on overaged athletes.

Only an insecure twit thinks that winning every meet Sept-Oct is necessary to win in Nov. Way to have a simpleton's understanding of the sport. This isn't football or basketball, Corky.

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I wouldn't want to run for a coach or team that cared about whether a team from lesser division showed up or not, much less beating them. Invite races are just workouts, and even championship races like Regionals, to quote from memory Goucher from RWTB, "It doesn't matter what happens at regionals, it matters what happens at nationals."[/quote]

Which is why CU won regionals last year then came 12th at nationals with more than 1 team from their own region in front of them.

And to you grand daddy - CU is a spent force, get over it.