Ranking WI collegiate distance programs

Wind Chill wrote:

Also, whats the word on Brian Jacques. Very talented runner out of Oconomowoc. Had a very strong fall last year for North Iowa Area CC, not on their roster for this fall.

I would guess he capitalized on his strong fall and moved on to a four year institution.

I grew up in WI a long time ago. Was good enough to be recruited by DIII schools and NAIA (back then) UW-Parkside, but no way would have gotten a DI look. (Ended up walking on at a DI school, as I wanted to see if I could do it. Go big or go home was my philosophy.)

Marquette called in hopes I'd go to school there and walk on. It was flattering, but no way would I ever go there. Ever. I find nothing appealing about the school and downtown Milwaukee. Yuck.

Look at NorthCentral in IL for your son. Great program, good school.

North Central is twice the price of the wiac. You also need to run 9:20 in order to contribute. Marquette makes sense at that point.

JohnNgugi wrote:

I grew up in WI a long time ago. Was good enough to be recruited by DIII schools and NAIA (back then) UW-Parkside, but no way would have gotten a DI look. (Ended up walking on at a DI school, as I wanted to see if I could do it. Go big or go home was my philosophy.)

Marquette called in hopes I'd go to school there and walk on. It was flattering, but no way would I ever go there. Ever. I find nothing appealing about the school and downtown Milwaukee. Yuck.

Look at NorthCentral in IL for your son. Great program, good school.

Thank you for your strange contribution to the thread. Glad you were GOOD ENOUGH to be recruited by DIII......

Wind Chill wrote:

Thank you for your strange contribution to the thread. Glad you were GOOD ENOUGH to be recruited by DIII......

If my contribution is "strange", what's yours?

The SCIAC (DIII) has three and maybe four schools that are top 25 caliber: Cal Tech, Harvey Mudd, and Pomona, and CMC is not really that far behind. Those three schools are about as hard to get in to as any school in the country, save Stanford and Harvard (but Cal Tech and Harvey Mudd would reject probably 65% of those that go to Harvard, and similarly even for Stanford).

JohnNgugi wrote:

Wind Chill wrote:

Thank you for your strange contribution to the thread. Glad you were GOOD ENOUGH to be recruited by DIII......

If my contribution is "strange", what's yours?

Here, let me spell it out to you why it was strange. You replied to a post from July of last year in regards to a fathers inquiry about his senior in hs son’s college search. Maybe things were different back in your day, but college decisions have been made by now.

Also, it’s strange that you’re bragging about being good enough to be recruited by DIII. So what, you broke 4:50 for the mile at one point? Congrats.

Also, it’s pretty easy to page back and read every post on here. Plenty of things to read my man.

Assuming the badgers get a perfect score (which isn’t that wild of an assumption) would anyone take the time to rank out a hypothetical XC race between all the schools that have been mentioned minus the badgers? It would take a lot of work but if we could all agree on a ranking list and then score it, that may help settle the debate on current rosters (the point of the thread)

someonewithlotsoffreetimepls wrote:

Assuming the badgers get a perfect score (which isn’t that wild of an assumption) would anyone take the time to rank out a hypothetical XC race between all the schools that have been mentioned minus the badgers? It would take a lot of work but if we could all agree on a ranking list and then score it, that may help settle the debate on current rosters (the point of the thread)

I could try, but it would be purely based on historical times, which won’t factor incoming freshmen, or the growth/decay of returning runners. Track to XC or vice versa isn’t always a great indicator either, they are actually quite different. I think anything that would be produced would be refuted pretty heavily and we would see mirroring commentary to what is being written right now.

That's all very interesting, but completely irrelevant as you did not answer the question that was posed to you. Let's try again:

If my contribution is "strange", what was yours?

JohnNgugi wrote:

That's all very interesting, but completely irrelevant as you did not answer the question that was posed to you. Let's try again:

If my contribution is "strange", what was yours?

I think you might be too dumb to insult on here. Read my previous posts, plenty of contributions there. Also learn a thing or two from others on here about personal accolade etiquette, nobody cares you ran DIII, anyone can do that.

All you Wisconsin people are morons. What a pointless thread

Respect.

What percentage of the posts in this thread do you estimate were made by Zen Miler?

So Gessner is staying, Jacques disappeared, Shiek is attending an unnamed JUCO, and the Badgers will win Nationals at home. Is Zen Miler really Gessner?

Guess Who wrote:

So Gessner is staying, Jacques disappeared, Shiek is attending an unnamed JUCO, and the Badgers will win Nationals at home. Is Zen Miler really Gessner?

Badgers won't win anything at home,

Aaaand Kato starts off the year with a legit 3rd place finish at the big Augie Twilight Meet. Haters keyboards are now broke.

?? Kusche was 3rd.

Kusche wrote:

?? Kusche was 3rd.

Mankato as a team finished 3rd out of 23.