Can someone please explain the thinking behind the college tie-breaker? The sport is simple. The 6th man seems simple and fair.
Can someone please explain the thinking behind the college tie-breaker? The sport is simple. The 6th man seems simple and fair.
I sort of understand the reasoning. In theory, you only need 5 people to make a scoring team. Some people thought Oregon should have won the team title in 2014 because they went 1-2, but they didn't because XC is about having the best 5 people, not 2 or 3 or 6.
There have definitely been NCAA D1 XC nats teams with only 6 people before -- I can't recall an instance of only 5 people but it's probably happened.
Plus, using the 6th man essentially makes the race all about one person then, while the current system distributes the contribution across the scorers. Both ways make it impossible to tie again which is good.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?