this message is for the current men and women XC runners at michigan. I am disappointed; that not one of you qualified for NCAA's. Take a walk down the hallway outside the training room and you will see that nearly every year there has been an all american from michigan. There are no excuses.
The women's entire team qualified....it was just the men that sucked.... and the women did it mainly with freshman due to injury
disppointed in sean mac included
Those kids need to take a look at the names on that wall. Maybe read a few media guides and figure out the history of Michigan XC and realize that 3rd place at regionals is unacceptalbe, let alone 10th. There is enought talent on the team that they should be at NCAA's every year. Warhurst knows how to train the boys, it's about time they started honoring the block "M" on their chest and started racing with some pride.
Disappointed Alum wrote:
this message is for the current men and women XC runners at michigan. I am disappointed; that not one of you qualified for NCAA's. Take a walk down the hallway outside the training room and you will see that nearly every year there has been an all american from michigan. There are no excuses.
my apologies to the women's program.
As a Wisconsin fan and without too much info on Michigan it is my impression that when their top guy got injured it made what was already in 'in between' year even weaker and they allocated resources so that they will do better next year. Also, they did not miss by much several times. I do think that they made a push last year with Big Tens at home (if I remember that correctly). I think the coach made a good career decision to focus on XC and start to leave some of the greater admin detail of head T&F to someone else. However, he is old enough that he may have a little harder time getting guys to come because they are not sure how much longer he is going to be there.