Fout was also injured all last spring and into the summer, so I imagine that factors into his current form
Fout was also injured all last spring and into the summer, so I imagine that factors into his current form
Check out of the high school pedigrees of Sunseri and Gabart before you go bashing FSU. As for Fout, he's doing fine, there's 5 weeks left in the season.
"Check out the..." rather.
Fout was hurt and barely training well into the summer. Derrick and Fernandez may have more talent and may end up with better results (maybe), but don't think he's anywhere near where he can be. Also remember no one talked about Mike well into the season last year, but he did run very well at the end of the year. He may just be an end of the year, big meet runner. Give him a little time. Ryan Hall ended up alright after a rough start to his college career.
If Ok state had run their team, nobody would have scored any points against them because they would have dominated that race. If they had run a partial team a bunch of teams that shouldn't beat them would have and would have scored points and had a huge advantage over teams in the opposite race in terms of going to nationals. When the at larges are handed out in November everybody from that opposite race would be bitching about how unfair it is that team X got in over us only because they beat a half strength OSU squad at pre nats...
It's better they didn't run.
At the same time look at how Texas ran, and just think if they hadn't pussied out and ran some of their top guys there could have potentially been a few teams to get points off of beating them. Really any school 5-10 in the white race could have potentially had a shot to beat Texas and get some points. That just seems like some ass hole somewhere feeling like being the ass hole that he is and then going through with it. F*** that guy.
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True, he won the Footlocker race on his big day, but Fernandez was coming off major races four weekends in a row and Derrick foolishly ran NTN. The bottom line is kids don't flourish in such a multiple championship format. Greedy corporate bastards. Wake up, people.
"Foolishly ran NTN"? Going into the race, he said his main goal was NTN; he wanted to come home with a TEAM Championship. Sure, he "only" got second at Footlocker, but his entire team went home national champions. I would say that he made out just fine.
Who would you rather have on your team, the guy who helped his team win nationals or the guy who won an individual race?
And since when does Corporate greed have anything to do with league, county, sectional, state, federation, etc meets?
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If Ok state had run their team, nobody would have scored any points against them because they would have dominated that race. If they had run a partial team a bunch of teams that shouldn't beat them would have and would have scored points and had a huge advantage over teams in the opposite race in terms of going to nationals. When the at larges are handed out in November everybody from that opposite race would be bitching about how unfair it is that team X got in over us only because they beat a half strength OSU squad at pre nats...
It's better they didn't run.
Doesn't a team have to run 5 of the seven that run at regionals in order for at-larges to be earned? Even with Fernandez and the guys in the open race running, the absence of the OSU upperclassmen would have prevented anyone from scoring at-large points (unless OSU were to then run at least 5 of the same guys at regionals).
No. The A team is the team that runs at regionals. A combination of any four of the regionals team is also the A team for point scoring purposes.
I have also heard the coach say that he is going to rest some of his top runners at the regional meet. So, throwing Lowe Fernandez and Kosgi into the White race with the other guys, probably would have made that an A team.
I think that was Texas' "A" team. I'm not 100% positive but I don't think they are very good this year.
Jake Morse and Kyle Miller haven't raced yet for Texas.
If Fout would just stop breaking bones in his body he might come on. Got to quit with the bone cracks, this could be a reason for his bad times so far.
I don't think anyone will know what the kid can do until he's healthy. Obviously he's not right. The kid has more talent that this, right? Not saying he's a Fernandez type talent (really not many are) but I think he has more than this in him. I spoke to someone at Pre -Nats about Fout. He didn't even begin running until the summer and even then he was only running like 30mpw. Seems like may RSing him would have made the most sense. I don't know Florida State' cross program, but was having perform at a fraction of his ability worth it? Theres still over a month left, but with no base at all it seems stupid to have him waste a year.