#1 D3 North Central destroys #2 D2 Grand Valley State

I don't care what the rankings are. GV isn't the #2 ranked team in the country. Let me know when NC takes down Adams or Western.

Don't go down this road. NC is a great team that would consistently be top 7/8 at D2 nats. That's it.

You're talking about a school that has never had someone run under 14 flat. It's Adams has about 3 a year and Western generally has at least 1. That's every season. Let NC be the great program they are. Don't be retarded.

Don't forget GVSU trains for racing a 10k at the end if the year. They don't really need to perform at the GLIAC or Regional level because those are both so weak. Also, D2 nationals was 8 weeks away still because it is a festival year for D2. They don't race NCAAs until December.

I don't think NCC would be anywhere near GVSU in 8 weeks over 10k.

What do you mean by "it is a festival year for D2"? I'm unfamiliar with the term.

RMACian wrote:

You're talking about a school that has never had someone run under 14 flat. It's Adams has about 3 a year and Western generally has at least 1. That's every season. Let NC be the great program they are. Don't be retarded.

Adams had 2 under 14 last year. Both teams had 3 under 30 in the 10k, with the edge going to NCC because their top guy went sub-29. By the way, the 5k school record is 13:53 at NCC so your "never had so done under 14 flat" argument is null.

I think it'd be fun to see them race. Adams had a 68 second spread at Paul Short. NCC had a 13 second spread at Oshkosh. They don't have a Batt or Stevens, but they're damn good. I'm not a NCC fan (having coached against them, you hate a team that good) but what they do at that little school is simply impressive. Carius is a genius!

Every four years d2 has all there fall sports, except football, at the time in the same location. This pushes xc nationals back two weeks. GV beat NCC at Notre Dame. GV generally performs better in the championship meets then invitationals during season, that's how the training is set up and that is typically what happens. How many people had them picked to finish 2nd last year? It's not like they ran poorly. NCC is a quality team also.

Out of respect to both programs grand valley is clearly training for a race that is ultimately later in the season and longer in distance, that being said NCC didn't run two of the guys that were in their top five yesterday at notre dame, so plugging them in they probably win that meet also. Also, considering their a strength based program they could certainly handle a 10k. Both are excellent programs in their respective divisions and pretty cool of grand valley to go to a d3 meet to measure themselves.

Professionals a pro or con? wrote:

What do you mean by "it is a festival year for D2"? I'm unfamiliar with the term.

They host all the fall sport championships together in one city (XC, vball, soccer, field hockey maybe?) are all in Louisville. They bump everything back two weeks for XC. NCAAs is Dec 6th.

Pretty sure everyone at Ncc runs 90-100 miles a week... I'm sure that extra 2k would only be to their advantage... And at nd when gvs won, Ncc rested their 2 and 5... Just sayin, Ncc is probably a trophy in d2 this year

Why don't you NCC fan boys calm down a bit. Woe to those who act as if the trophy is in their office a month before NCAAs.

I honestly didn't know they rested 2 runners at ND. Good depth on their part. GV is placed well for a good race at nationals. Hopefully Bryce Bradley can step it up moving forward. He had overtaken Peterson during outdoor season. Having two legit front runners would help considerably come nationals. Also, I thought maybe GV would race unattached FR Zach Panning. Perhaps smart not to but he has ran very well.

You act like the top D2 teams aren't running that much.

Go back to watching cartoons young blood.