2011 Wisconsin X/C thread

I like how the D1 coaches run down their own teams. Who did the recruiting?

steely3425 wrote:

I like how the D1 coaches run down their own teams. Who did the recruiting?

I agree. If Byrne does the recruiting and coaching then he only has himself to look at for an answer to why some runners didn't run as well as he would of liked.

But then again, Wisconsin's 7th or 8th guy just won the race so they probably aren't too concerned.

They would have won the meet if Hacker ran attached.

New Pole Out. It always amuses how teams can swap positions without legitimate competition. Why even bother until the first of November. I guess it gives nerds like me something to do.

I like that he doesn’t treat his runners like little babies. They ran poorly and he called them on it. It is his team and he should tell it like it is if that is what he wants.

You have no idea if some of those kids had been talking shit for the last month and then didn't live up to their talk. He had a reason to call them out in public. We will likely never know the reason but his record as a coach of winning teams qualifies him to say whatever he wants.

I agree with "Old Badger" on his points above. I'll add that it is refreshing to hear what a top level coach really thinks instead of the "usual" tell the public nicely stated safe comments like 99% of the other coaches out there. It's clear that the coach is ticked, and I'd guess that he said the same exact phrases to his runners, but with a little more emphasis.

Please post his Wisconsin results for clarification

Wisco Fan wrote:

New Poll Out. It always amuses how teams can swap positions without legitimate competition. Why even bother until the first of November. I guess it gives nerds like me something to do.

If you look the vote swing was 2-4 points in some cases, meaning that one or two pollsters switched them in the rankings. That is, they were essentially tied before and are essentially tied now.

Ryan Craven will be providing weekly updates on the program via Flotrack.

http://www.flotrack.org/article/7484-Wisconsin-Badger-XC-2011

Looks like Mick is sitting the top 5 until Oregon.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-xc/spec-rel/091511aac.html

This doesn't make any sense. If you think the only thing that causes a runner's success is his coach, then you need to learn a little more about running. You can't coach mental toughness, especially when things get tough. You can get the runners fit enough to compete at the high level, but they have to take the final steps to succeed.

24:24 is a solid time for Brice.

Mick says everybody will run at Oregon. We'll see.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-xc/recaps/091611aab.html

Def a huge improvement over last week! looks like mick got the response(for the most part) that he was looking for

New post from former Badger on Flotrack plus an interview with Maverick.

http://www.flotrack.org/article/7512-Badgers-grab-victory-gain-experience-in-Champaign

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/239760-Flotracks-2011-Cross-Country-XC-Season/video/507073-Following-Through-with-Maverick-Darling

Looking at the women's roster, it appears Cassie Hintz was granted a medical red shirt year. She's is also on the start list for the Griak. I would love to see her have a big year.

Wisco Fan wrote:

Looking at the women's roster, it appears Cassie Hintz was granted a medical red shirt year. She's is also on the start list for the Griak. I would love to see her have a big year.

I doubt that she will ever be in her old form -- one of those cases where bodies change etc. In her case it might well have been for the better because there were some issues coming out of high school. I knew her adviser and she has been doing very, very well academically.

She is in engineering, mechanical, I think. If I am right, quite a lot of the distance runners are engineers, typically mechanical (one of the bigger departments). Some other guys in T&F are also (Detmer, the PV assistant/grad student).

Completely agree. I think it's cool she is still out there competing. I thought Detmer was in Med School. No matter. Good for them.

It was Detmer's Decathlon teammate that was in med school - he is just finishing up. By the way, when Detmer was First Team All American while being and engineering major and 2nd in NCAAs after being a walk-on in a different discipline, Brown (probably also a walk-on) was the overall top Academic All-American -- while a first-year med student (and he was leading the Big Ten decathlon [including Detmer] when he no-heighted in the vault) and might have scored about 7700+ if my vague memory is correct).

Griak results. I didn't UWASH's 6th place finish coming.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/minn/sports/m-xc/auto_pdf/2011-12/misc_non_event/Griak_WI.pdf