'your welcome'
Cornell grad I guess. 'You are' = 'You're'
'your welcome'
Cornell grad I guess. 'You are' = 'You're'
KevinL wrote:
I'm new to understanding the qualifying process ... if I understand correctly it is 4 individuals per region but they must be in the top 25 (I think, may be a different number). I would also maybe add a clause for automatically qualifying the top 10 (or maybe 8).
My point of view is as an Ohio State fan ... our guy Stifel finished 8th. Great Lakes was projected to take as many as 5 teams but the way things worked out, only the top 2 teams advanced. Indiana was actually tied for 2nd and lost the #6 runner ... Indiana then took 2 of the 4 individual spots. Had Indiana qualified, Stifel would be making the short trip to Terre Haute.
Stifel finished 23rd at Pre-Nats, 7th at B1G, and 8th at Regionals (7 seconds out of 1st). Seems like this is a guy who deserved a chance at NCAA. I know he should have made top 4 and made it on his own, but watching the race and seeing him finish 8th and knowing how many teams had a chance, you would think he would be there.
And I understand the top non-qualifier at every region probably can make a similar argument.
Hello KevinL: Thanks for your input.
We share a particularly gloomy coaching experience: Having Russ Rogers as a Head X-C/Track Coach at our respective Universities.
A Bad Common Denominator :)
I don't like the "we told you so" tone. It's obnoxious.
My apologies. Seriously, I don't like it.
Maybe justice was served with "we told you so" being followed by an error- "your welcome"
Didn't Bo from Ohio make an app for that a few years ago?
Letsrun does still use my program, and you can use it too:
https://bitbucket.org/bowaggoner/ncaa-xc-qualifiers/src
But the real tricky part, which LRC does and I only help a little bit with, is writing in all the season results and checking for A and B teams once the regionals are run. Kudos to them for doing all that work so well.
But it's a lot of results and a small oversight or typo can change everything. We're also still finding bugs in my program and some of the tiebreaking rules are still a bit vague. So I never feel sure the first projections are correct.
That's why it's so great to have both Flotrack and Letsrun separately checking, and having lots of readers checking for mistakes. So when everyone double-checks and reaches consensus it is hopefully correct.
Even then I wouldn't treat it as a given until the NCAA posts the official list the next day. (I'm really worried that one of these years the program is going to screw up and a lot of people will be disappointed.)
-Bo
no.
body.
cares.
when does track start?!
this coverage and confusion makes most running fans just shut down and withdraw. Try to keep it simple
(i was a better XC runner than track in college, FYI)
Rick wrote:
'your welcome'
Cornell grad I guess. 'You are' = 'You're'
Do NOT make the mistake of thinking Rojo and Wejo attended Cornell. They got their substandard educations at Princeton and Yale, respectively.
Rojo coached at Cornell for a while. That's the only connection.
Sincerely,
A Cornell grad who knows how to use "its" and "it's," "your" and "you're," and "who" and "whom"
It's = It is.
5th grade grammar.
This is disappointing. I thought inclusion of "your welcome" was a nod to the classic letsrun meme, but use of "it's" in the title was unintentional and deliciously ironic.
Now that I know both are true mistakes I'm just deflated.