The MileSplit Comic Gold Live Show Does Not Dissapoint! Nor Do Their Flo50 Comic Gold Rankings

I'm not the biggest fan of milesplit but I have really enjoyed these live streams. There are not many places that give so many hot takes on high school cross country. I can tell the commentators running this series are trying to just make a discussion and sitting on the fence and picking favorites is not going to do that. This is incredibly common in others sports (just listen to skip bayless) and I'm glad to see it in cross country.

Skip wrote:

I'm not the biggest fan of milesplit but I have really enjoyed these live streams. There are not many places that give so many hot takes on high school cross country. I can tell the commentators running this series are trying to just make a discussion and sitting on the fence and picking favorites is not going to do that. This is incredibly common in others sports (just listen to skip bayless) and I'm glad to see it in cross country.

I agree with you, but I think that Mull is actually saying his true opinions. And they are pretty bad, as evidenced by the other commentator who looks like he thinks Mull is delusional, which he probably is. There have been better Great Oak teams in the past that have lost at Nationals to a worse FM team, yet he thinks this is a vulnerable FM team based on an off race at an early-season meet. His veiled insult at Bill Aris for 'obviously caring about what we say' was super unprofessional and something I would have expected from the middle-school version of myself. I think a person with ridiculous opinions is also good in this type of setting since it promotes discussion, and I would love to have the opportunity to speak with him.

I am one of the 'numbers' people as he would say (results speak for themselves, right?), so I wouldn't understand his method for picking the 0-time national champs in GO or Naperville North over 10-time nationals champs in FM who just broke their own 5-runner avg at a prestigious invy. (But it's a 4k, so it means nothing....Right???)

On the topic of Naperville North vs Buchannon vs FM, it really just seems like they bumped FM for dramatic purpose. As far as I can tell, FM hasn't lost their Flo50 #1 ranking since the start of the Flo50 rankings. It really just feels inorganic and it seems like they're trying to pitch an underdog story that I just don't see as feasible.

Touhy is a whole other story. Is she possibly the best sophomore we've seen in the last few years, possibley better than Claudia Lane last year? Arguably, yes (and no for some reasons, but for the sake of keeping my head on straight let's just assume yes.) Now, we're in agreement that Touhy is good. Setting records, winning races, all that good stuff. But I think that there are just too many good runners waiting to peak at the right time like Chmiel, Culbreath, Stratton (who had a fantastic race at NXN last year) and that's just including NXN returners. Could she win a national title this year? Maybe. There's a definite possibility but it's not as probable as Claudia Lane repeating as FLCCC Champ. Luckily for Touhy, a lot of the best returners in the country like Claudia Lane and Rebecca Story are most likely going to Foot Locker again. Is Touhy the best runner in the country? No. Could she win a national championship? Yes.

As long as Foot Locker and NXN exist in tandem, a national championship won't equal being the best in the nation.

Is this that F'ed up company that keeps buying races that would be streamed for free and holding them hostage to get people to subscribe to their site?

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Is this that F'ed up company that keeps buying races that would be streamed for free and holding them hostage to get people to subscribe to their site?

Streamed for free? You mean not at all

The way I understood husband position on Tuohy is that he wasn't going to say she would win a national title, not that she wasn't on another level

What is your basis for Tuohy not being the best runner in the country? Have you seen footage of her running?