You are disrespecting the other teams in the NCAA
There is no two athletes that can compete at such a high level against other athletes near if not as good as them and win leave alone a nation championship with the best athletes in the nation competing.
No More Rupp wrote:
What are they going to do next year without Rupp's 20 points?
Hmm…
Add Centro, Acosta, Wheating all qualifying for the 1500m.
Greer and Fleet both have a chance to qualify in the 800.
Puskedra has potential in the 10k after his 2008 XC season. And the Mercado twins.
The Ducks look to be in great position next year. Current favorites? I wouldn't say so. But they have a year to put the pieces together with plenty of potential.
I think Rupp s/d have done the triple. Rupp is a man amongst boys out there. He is a pro against amateurs, its silly to see this guy lose a shoe, fix it then catch up.
Mr Hand wrote:
Rupp seems unstoppable, but there has to be a limit to his abilities, and the 1500 is the one event of the three that he wouldn't have been favored in running fresh. With 21.5k of racing behind him, I doubt he would have run too great in the 1500 final.
Plus you would have to imagine that Fernandez would have made their task impossible (not to mention Heath and others). It's not like all those 1500 guys are big piles of chopped liver, ready to cooperate good-naturedly with the fulfillment of some Oregon fantasy.
Rupp is probably a sub-13, sub-27 runner right now, and winning the 10k and 5k seemed like workouts for him. Also take into acount that Rupp is probably Oregon's (which is why he was on anchor for 4Xmile record) and the NCAA's top miler. He may have lost to Centro because at conference and regionals, but Centro was fresh and Rupp wasn't, and beating Rupp before nationals is very different thing than at NCAAs. German pulled off the victory over Heath, but Centro and Rupp both spanked him at conference and regionals.
West Regionals:
Centro 3:38.30
Rupp 3:39.14
Heath 3:41.22
I have to give props to German for pulling off the race that Webb failed to do when he tried to win it as a frosh.
toast wrote:
I think Rupp s/d have done the triple. Rupp is a man amongst boys out there. He is a pro against amateurs, its silly to see this guy lose a shoe, fix it then catch up.
rupp mentioned that at regionals he the early signs of a problem in his quad or hammy after the 1500 and attributed it to having to run so hard over the 2nd half. in the longer races rupp can go hard but with a little more control. in the 1500's he has to go all out if he wants to try and win and that has required :52 or :53 last quarter efforts after two or three events in the days preceeding. it's not reasonable to push the injury envelope at ncaa's. he would have had to run that last 1500 after 21500 meters in the previous couple days. some injuries are career ending so a smart runner knows when enough is enough. 20000 meters in 45 hours is certainly enough.
trfhjfd wrote:
I have to give props to German for pulling off the race that Webb failed to do when he tried to win it as a frosh.
As if German and Webb are even comparable.
kinda but really smart wrote:
Hmm…
Add Centro, Acosta, Wheating all qualifying for the 1500m.
Greer and Fleet both have a chance to qualify in the 800.
Puskedra has potential in the 10k after his 2008 XC season. And the Mercado twins.
The Ducks look to be in great position next year. Current favorites? I wouldn't say so. But they have a year to put the pieces together with plenty of potential.
Don't forget they're adding Maag, he's way closer to guaranteed points than Greet or Fleet.