How Good Are BYU Men XC?

There are plenty of teams that do this. Oregon has done it at Dellinger for years. Colorado had five guys under 15 minutes at CSU Duals. It's nothing special (relatively). BYU is a super strong team and I'm sure they could fight for top 3 this season, but a small random meet with little to no competition is no indicator of what a team is truly capable of.

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IMO they're better than advertised.

In the past Wood has included his teams in his rankings- there is a reason he's not putting "his" team or even individuals into this years report. They are either that good or that bad, and looking at results from last weekend up in Provo, it isn't the later.

How about those Utah St Women up there in Provo? They look like top 20 material also.

Utah State is in Logan. BYU is in Provo.

Side question about BYU, is allowing the runners to go on their two year mission before competing a special exception for BYU by the NCAA, or could technically any runner do this? Curious how the rules work around that if anyone knows.

Seagraves wrote:

Side question about BYU, is allowing the runners to go on their two year mission before competing a special exception for BYU by the NCAA, or could technically any runner do this? Curious how the rules work around that if anyone knows.

Without burdening myself with checking the current NCAA rules, it is my understanding that the D1 rules allow delaying eligibility due to fulfillment of religious or military obligations. It just happens that LDS is about the only major US religion that has many of its young men do religious missions.

heard this question before wrote:

Seagraves wrote:

Side question about BYU, is allowing the runners to go on their two year mission before competing a special exception for BYU by the NCAA, or could technically any runner do this? Curious how the rules work around that if anyone knows.

Without burdening myself with checking the current NCAA rules, it is my understanding that the D1 rules allow delaying eligibility due to fulfillment of religious or military obligations. It just happens that LDS is about the only major US religion that has many of its young men do religious missions.

I wonder how many coaches have considering making up a religion.

Good enough to win it all, which they will do.

Count on it!

The list of asses they kick will be long and distinguished.

Go Cougars wrote:

Good enough to win it all, which they will do.

Count on it!

The list of asses they kick will be long and distinguished.

Sigh.....

They are good, but only the hype train loaded with dreamers showoffs will care enough to start talking this early in the season after a glorified tempo run.

Please children, please.

you are a tool

Hoosier Daddy wrote:

Go Cougars wrote:

Good enough to win it all, which they will do.

Count on it!

The list of asses they kick will be long and distinguished.

Sigh.....

They are good, but only the hype train loaded with dreamers showoffs will care enough to start talking this early in the season after a glorified tempo run.

Please children, please.

Rory Linkletter closed with a 4:32 last mile. The hype train is worth something IMHO.

Yes, it's a glorified tempo in which a whole bus load of their guys kicked as.

I think those freshman are pretty damn good and are just being given a short leash as it's early, we'll have to wait to see.

I've always been a fan of Eyestone, it may finally be his year.

I'd guess 4th come November.

Holy Sheets!!

How about when they do it Dellinger?? That makes them pretty damn legit.

They look strong. Spanking Oregon on their home course and beating Stanford is impressive. It is early though, and a lot can happen between now and late November. CUs women looked unstoppable last year as late as the regional meet and ended up 3rd at nationals, so be cautious about drawing too much from races in late September.

BYU Men will do what the Oregon women will do at NCAA's this year win the National Championship think about this both teams go 1,2,3-4 well the Oregon women only went 1,2,3 without it's number 2 runner Cash Glad the New Mexico Women don't have a 5th runner GO Ducks

they call me flopro wrote:

BYU Men will do what the Oregon women will do at NCAA's this year win the National Championship think about this both teams go 1,2,3-4 well the Oregon women only went 1,2,3 without it's number 2 runner Cash Glad the New Mexico Women don't have a 5th runner GO Ducks

Please use punctuation of some sort.

Word is two of their guys (including Klinger) were not running. Complete Tempo.

True,

BYU just duplicated the feat, 2 points better in fact. Should be an interesting season, Stanford apparently held out a lot of guys and NAU is very strong.

Hoosier Daddy wrote:

Go Cougars wrote:

Good enough to win it all, which they will do.

Count on it!

The list of asses they kick will be long and distinguished.

Sigh.....

They are good, but only the hype train loaded with dreamers . . .

Can I be a dreamer on that hype train? I'm a bit late but now believe they're as good as OP suspected.

All this "X and Y we're holding runners out" BS is just that. Kind of reminds me of a couple years ago when Wisconsin fanboys kept making excuses for poor performances until they ended up sitting at home come November. When you host a meet as a perennial powerhouse and get destroyed there are no excuses.

BYU is just that good. And if, as has been suggested, Clinger is better than he's shown, they are going to win a National Title if healthy.

There's no doubt BYU is benefitting from some very good programs in that State at the HS level.