Underrated NCAA performances thread

NCAArecappp wrote:

Some underrated NCAA performances from this past week?

- Allie Buchalski (Furman)- women's 5000 meter runner-up

- Charlotte Prouse (New Mexico),Paige Stoner (Syracuse), and Clair Borchers (Michigan)- women's 3000 meter steeple- runner-up, 3rd and 4th place (all sub- 9:50 and PBs)

In our contest, in the 5000 no one picked McGorty to win. Granted he was an "Other" and probably shouldn't have been based on his success 2 years ago, but no one picked him.

In the 10,000, no one picked Sharon Lokedi to win.

In 200, Anglerne Annelus was an "Other" and 1 person picker her. (She and Rai Benjamin were UCLA to USC transfers who won NCAA titles)

in the 10,000 Ben Flanagan was an Other (7 people voted Other) and he won.

Only 4 people picked USC's 4x400 team to win

Purdont choking away an easy national title

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No one at a power 5 school or a school who spends 100% of its scholarships on one event group is underrated.

Why the power 5 comment? They only get the same number of scholarships as the other schools.

On average most non power 5s aren't fully funded, especially men's programs. Due to larger endowments Power 5s are able give out more academic aid than non P5s, therefore they do have more scholarships.

Power 5s have bigger travel budgets, bigger sports medicine facilities, bigger recruiting budgets and better facilities. Over all they have more resources. If their programs have the best/most resources in the country then they can't be underrated.

Vincent Ciattei, feel like he still doesn't get mentioned. Ran the tactics that led to Kerr being beaten and beat Kerr after being pass by him with 200 to go. Obviously I understand Hoare getting a lot of talk though.

Yeah I second that Ciattei is severely underrated super smart kid and really talented hope he gets picked up by someone

The only correct answer here is Jessica Drop of Georgia in the 5k. She placed 7th against a STACKED field to give GA the lead heading into the 4x4. The announcers didn't even know she was in the race. This is how impressive her performance was:

1. She knew she had to be close to Fraser of Stanford to give GA a chance at a team title, and only finished a few spots behind. She gave GA a 1 point lead over Stanford and a 9 point lead over USC heading into the 4x4.

2. GA is by no means a distance school, yet she stepped up and delivered big points against all odds.

3. She beat 3 NCAA champions in Ostrander, Taylor, and Lokedi

4. Almost beat a 4th champion in Kurgat (.08 back)

5. Beat Kelati who was 7th in XC, 5th in 3k + 5k indoors

6. Almost beat Neale from WA who was 2nd in XC

Not even close when it comes to academic aid. Power 5 schools are nearly all public while non power 5 have many private schools that provide much larger academic packages than public schools. But let’s go with your assumptions. That means kids are foolish to run at other than power 5 schools because they have more academic aid and more resources.

My assumption means that power 5 schools have more academic aid than non power 5 schools, because of that they are able to sign more top tier prospects than non power 5 schools. My assumption also means that once a student is at a power 5 school they have more resources tha ensure their success than a student who isn't at a power 5 school to ensure their success.

If out of pocket expresses are equal, then a kid is foolish not to goto a power 5 school.