The scheduling of NCAA xc champs have never made any sense to me. I have no idea why regionals and nationals are a week apart. The committee whould make it 2 weeks apart and I"d say move everything up a week so it can be over before Thanksgiving.
But i noticed D2 was several weeks later than normal this year. It was on December 1, does anyone know why it was pushed back?
It was a D2 fall sports festival year. Every 4 years it is pushed back 2 weeks.
Wtf is a fall sports festival year?
It's pretty much a "mini olympics"(best way I could put it) where fall sports in division II all have their
championships in one weekend. There is an opening/closing ceremony, as well as athlete lounges. Also explains
why it was held in downtown Pittsburgh. Only way you could accommodate such a mass congregation of athletes
D2 festivals are legit! Everyone is in the biggest downtown hotel and you can get hog wild with lacrosse girls!!
This whole charade is an embarrassing attempt by some irrelevant committee that decided to hold a festival for fall D2 Championships. It puts D2 Cross Country National qualifiers too long in their fall training cycle. The kids miss a week of school at a time nearing fall academic finals and they miss Thanksgiving with family when it should be a time to celebrate family and celebrating a great fall season.
The combined ceremony for all sports at the Festivus is simply sad.
Riot in the Hyatt. Never forget.
holyghost wrote:
D2 festivals are legit! Everyone is in the biggest downtown hotel and you can get hog wild with lacrosse girls!!
Have you seen lax girls? Only thing worse is softballers.
It was in December because it's too hot in July
Obviously this guy hasn't been to a festival because lacrosse is played in the spring, as we all know, and Track and Field isn't part of the spring festival because it involves too many people. The fall festival is for Cross Country, M & F Soccer, Field Hockey, and W Volleyball. Football isn't part of it. It's held after Thanksgiving because to move it to the traditional end weekend would shorten the Soccer and V-ball season too much.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!