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Doug is the O'Sullivan Marcus' kid??

Yes, Chris O'Sullivan is Marcus's son.

Hint to the person who statred the topic: if you want people to pay attention to your posts, you must remember to mention Oregon in the subject line.

Georgetown women dominated with 19 points finishing with 7 runners in the top 9!

Women’s Team Results

1. Georgetown - 19 points

2. Providence - 65

3. Butler - 82

4. Villanova - 95

5. Marquette - 131

6. Xavier - 198

7. Creighton - 203

8. DePaul - 253

9. St. John’s - 271

10. Seton Hall - 277

Men’s Team Results

1. Villanova - 23

2. Georgetown - 51

3. Providence - 64

4. Butler - 108

5. Creighton - 176

6. Marquette - 185

7. Xavier - 198

8. DePaul - 210

9. Seton Hall - 286

http://www.bigeast.com/sports/c-xc/spec-rel/103114aaa.html

If I wanted people to flock to what I wrote I might mnetion Oregon in the title, you are correct.

XC is not an 8K event, but if it was I think Nova might be one of the top 3 8K teams in the country right now.

As it is , if they can translate their 8K running to 10K, a big if, they might be podium bound.

They would have been closer to CU in the Pac12s than Oregon or Standford I think.

Since their top four guys are foreigners no one cares about the program except Nova grads.

Nova can only give scholarships to the people who accept them. If American kids who are better than foreign kids don't accept a Nova scholarship, what is Nova supposed to do, shut down the program?

I don't have a problem with any kids getting a scholarship no matter where they are from.

Scholarships should go to the most deserving people, end of story.

Define "most deserving": economically, athletically, morally?

Just noticing...is the Big East the most lopsided XC conference in the NCAA? It has the aforementioned strength in the top four teams - most of them usually nationally ranked/qualifying for NCAA's - especially on the women's side (hell, providence, Villanova & Georgetown have all won recent national championships). Then what follows are all clearly there for no other reason than to fill out NCAA sport sponsorship requirements (for DI basketball) - fitness clubs likely with part time coaches without even a track program in some cases. When the Creighton men finish 5th, you know your conference only has four programs. Will there be pressure on these other schools to ever step-up and make an actual commitment to the success of their programs?

Big East Follower wrote:

Just noticing...is the Big East the most lopsided XC conference in the NCAA? It has the aforementioned strength in the top four teams - most of them usually nationally ranked/qualifying for NCAA's - especially on the women's side (hell, providence, Villanova & Georgetown have all won recent national championships). Then what follows are all clearly there for no other reason than to fill out NCAA sport sponsorship requirements (for DI basketball) - fitness clubs likely with part time coaches without even a track program in some cases. When the Creighton men finish 5th, you know your conference only has four programs. Will there be pressure on these other schools to ever step-up and make an actual commitment to the success of their programs?

I don't know... A 25:48 team average is starting to look pretty legit. Especially when you look at their results in years past. They should be a fun team to watch in the future, along with the rest of the Big East. Everyone seems to be stepping up.

What's the deal with Tiernan wasting an indoors season, and Jordan Williamsz not running the mile?

Also, what ever happened to Tom Curr?

BE Fan:

My take on your two questions:

(1) No idea why Tiernan raced only once and never really tried to Q for Indoor Nationals. Don't think he was injured early in season. Odd. That being said, Marcus is very sensitive to over-racing his guys and perhaps he wanted Tiernan to have a rest season in preparation for outdoors and XC.

(2) Villanova is putting all chips in for the DMR. Jordy Williamsz sacrificed his individual mile prospects to run DMR only at Indoor Nationals. Could not do both effectively. I'd expect him to anchor, with Dusty Solis running 1200 leg.

Tiernan was dinged up at end of XC and indoors, he is probably on a schedule where this eligibility was going to be used anyway.

he is in pretty good shape right now, but probably was not ready to completely rip it when all those Q;ing meets took place and solo'ing a 7:53 or a 13:40 probably is not happening at the Big East meet, let's face it.

Williamsz is all in for DMR, and folks that like that mile prelim./ DMR/ mile final Triple should look at how most over time have fare doing that, I said most, not the very few that have succeeded.