d1 ncaa cross country play by play and results

NO!!! Don't shift to the women's race! Tell us the men's f***ing results you worthless bags of puke!

Bolden: "now that the men's team and individual champions have been crowned, let's move onto the Women's championship."

wow, BANE of letsrun.

what was the team standing?

who was 2nd? 3rd? they've yet to mention it on the coverage.

the ancestor wrote:

Bolden: "now that the men's team and individual champions have been crowned, let's move onto the Women's championship."

wow, BANE of letsrun.

Lewis Johnson, that ain't Ato.

Any result up yet???

oregon men finished second. F*** all you haters

"Each of these athletes has ran over 1000 miles this year for one goal, to be a champion." I hope that they've all ran at least 1000 miles this year, wtf?

Oh, Metcalf, please tell this woman how stupid she is. Punch her...please!

heard through the grapevine wrote:

"What an upset we just had in the men's team race."

So, the #2 ranked team won, and that's a huge upset?

It's possible that the announcers are referring to Stanford bombing as the big upset (as opposed to OSU's win).

Yeah, I know the coverage sucks but let's give them the benefit of the doubt whenever there is room for doubt.

Someone should just fund letsrun to do the coverage. Brojo's could do much, much better. First year I'm not at the meet and it shows...this coverage is AWFUL!

"What an upset we just saw?"

Seriously, this was not an upset at all. Anyone with a brain knew that OSU and Chelanga were favorites on paper. Expecting Derrick to beat Chelanga was stupid too. Sammy has no team, so he is 100% irrelevant for the team competition. Stanford was hoping to win and CD is only a sophemore. I can almost guarentee Dunn told him to go for second.

You all need to chill out. We are watching the NCAA champs in HD, LIVE! Who gives a crap what Larry and Lewis have to say, just mute it if you don't want to listen. You blow me away, grow up and appreciate the UNPRECEDENTED coverage!

the ancestor wrote:

Bolden: "now that the men's team and individual champions have been crowned, let's move onto the Women's championship."

wow, BANE of letsrun.

PS...it's Lewis Johnson now Bolden, the fact he doesn't sound like he is from Trinidad may give you a clue there.

Guys, the coverage is fine. Of coarse it's not perfect....nobody expected it to be. You all sound like a bunch of immature punks.

That's hilarious.....

WTF VS? wrote:

"Each of these athletes has ran over 1000 miles this year for one goal, to be a champion." I hope that they've all ran at least 1000 miles this year, wtf?

Oh, Metcalf, please tell this woman how stupid she is. Punch her...please!

German finished 33rd out there. He ran well.

-sent from my iphone

sheep farmer wrote:

take the time to tell 'em what they did wrong:

http://www.versus.com/article/view/744/?tf=footerArticles.tpl

i sincerely doubt they're examining the letsrun boards for pros and cons of their coverage, so if you're gonna complain, do it to the people that can change things.

I just sent them one. My main suggestion to them was to contact some former DI CROSS COUNTRY runners that know what they are doing and talk to flotrack.org and fix it next year.

Don't just rip the people, at least they covered it. They just need to improve next year. If you watch versus much you know they can do a better job. Just need to get some input from people that know.

tvisfun wrote:

You all need to chill out. We are watching the NCAA champs in HD, LIVE! Who gives a crap what Larry and Lewis have to say, just mute it if you don't want to listen. You blow me away, grow up and appreciate the UNPRECEDENTED coverage!

the ancestor wrote:

Bolden: "now that the men's team and individual champions have been crowned, let's move onto the Women's championship."

wow, BANE of letsrun.

PS...it's Lewis Johnson now Bolden, the fact he doesn't sound like he is from Trinidad may give you a clue there.

Unprecedented? Yeah not giving us the team scores 20 minutes after the race is over IS pretty unprecedented....

pretb23 wrote:

troll-a-thon wrote:

That chick is an IDIOT.

QFT. Third place for Derrick as a disappointment? McNeill as some "susprise" getting second like he's some kind of scrub? Give me a break.

Definitely disappointing. I don't blame the chick. Whoever briefed her did a poor job.

XC is very different from almost every other sport. You often don't see a team's/individual's best effort until the end. Chelanga and OSU were clearly the favorites, but you wouldn't know that simply by looking at this year's results. People put too much emphasis on Derrick's Pre-Nat victory and Stanford's run this year. The only hope the field had against Chelanga was that he would blow up like he did last year and at Pre-Nat. And OSU clearly had the best talent and would win (regardless of Stanford's performance) if they ran up to their potential. So, the only surprise is that Stanford bombed.

Of course none of the commentators had a clue.

What never ceases to amaze me is that the networks produce a NCAA CC meet as if it will attract a casual sports fan, like the audience for the olympics. So they keep it simple, focusing on just a handful of individuals and try not to confuse us too much with the team business. But who the f*** do they think is watching college cross country at noon on a Monday?

The real shame is that they ALREADY have the technology to make this a compelling broadcast--real time placings via the chips. They could show us lists of the top 50, break them up by team, etc. Could focus on where somebody's #5 was, etc. They have 30 minutes to fill, and there were lots of stories happening. They could have told them (BYU going out in hard and fading, OSU steadily climbing, Fernandez apparently fading but OSU wins anyway, Stanford apparently never in it, etc).

Even if they decided that telling the team story was impractical, they could have maintained the same approach they took (focus on individual race) and improved the coverage automatically just by showing the field every few minutes. They had stationary cameras on towers where they could have taken 30 seconds away from showing Chelanga on his time trial and let the field run by so knowledgeable fans could see. That would have cost nothing in terms of the story they were focused on. How exciting do they think it is to watch one man run alone for a half hour?

Just stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

solitude wrote:

Guys, the coverage is fine. Of coarse it's not perfect....nobody expected it to be. You all sound like a bunch of immature punks.

"of course".....before one of you kids correct it