Good analysis. I agree that he could be near the front if he is a cross guy more than a track guy but if not, he probably doesn’t qualify. He may qualify on a decent team and finish 100th but he may not be in the top 7 at NAU or BYU.
Good analysis. I agree that he could be near the front if he is a cross guy more than a track guy but if not, he probably doesn’t qualify. He may qualify on a decent team and finish 100th but he may not be in the top 7 at NAU or BYU.
D1 is fast wrote:
If every runner in the country ran a 10k on the track that 29:05 would look slow.
I went to a smaller D1 school, we had maybe 3-4 guys who could run low 29min 10k and had 3:40-3:50 1500m times. None of them qualified for nationals out of regionals. They finished 20th - 60th at regionals and didn't earn the individual qualifier. If they were the 4 to 7 man on a fast team that could qualify, however, (Any MW team for example) I expect they would finish somewhere mid pack at nationals, maybe 100-150th.
Granted NCAA was slower when I was in school, but we had one guy who "could" have run 28 mid, four other guys who did hover around 30 and we finished top freaking 10. Another year we got top 20 with five guys spaced evenly from mid 29 to low 30. I've got to think even the crappiest coach in the faster NCAA of today could get a team of 3-4 low 29 guys to Nationals. A good coach would have made you top 5.