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Poster: C/M Runner
Subject: RE: What are your thoughts on dual meets?
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kibitzer wrote:

I don't have the time or resources to do it myself, but I'd love to see research on whether there's a correlation between the collegiate t&f programs that're dropped and whether they have dual meets. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the programs that get axed are the ones that never have a scoring meet before conference.

One of those special ironies, I guess, but the programs I know that are in *no* realistic danger of being dropped--namely, at the Ivies and USNA/USMA--mostly seem to hold on to their dual/tri meets anyway. HYP? Huge meet. Army/Navy dual meet?--what could be bigger?




Sadly, more of the Ivy tri's are being dropped as the Ivies are sending more athletes out to distance Invites. There is no longer a Princeton-Penn-Yale tri to my knowledge. There used to be a Brown-Cornell-Harvard for indoor up until 2008 I think (now replaced with the Harvard Select meet and/or the Battle of Beantown). There still is HYP for indoor, Columbia-Yale-Dartmouth for indoor, and HY for XC and outdoor. Usually there are more "tri" meet setups whenever UK collegiate teams come over for their US tour once every four years. I wish the dual/tri tradition was stronger because they are indeed more exciting to follow and get the alumni talking about conference matchups.
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