Why do Texas teams never get the at large bid for NXN?

Eastwood won the state meet merge over SLC and The Woodlands. Their speed ratings at state were 184,183,175,174,174. They didn’t beat any autoqualifiers head to head. Were there were any temperature differences between the 5A and the 6A race?

I also read in another thread that Eastwood peaked too early, and turns out that the NXR results confirmed that.

They are a lot like Franklin who ran good speed ratings at the state meet but didn’t do as well at NXR. But Franklin’s speed ratings were faster and they actually beat Jesuit OR head-to-head.

The other Jesuit (in CA) actually beat Dana Hills once this season head to head.

I'm sure at least some of it has to do with the brojos. My reasoning:

1) The brojos are from Texas

2) The brojos are anti-Alberto, and by association are anti-Nike

3) Nike does not appreciate the treatment from letsrun, so screws Texas athletes by association.

I'm probably biased by the fact Texas is usually bringing up the rear at NXN (El Paso last in 2018, SLC 3rd to last in 2018) and lately CA has been towards the front.

Here is Eastwood at NXR 2018

28 Sergio Leon Cuartas 10 Eastwood A RC 16:38.81 172.06 172

33 Juan Olmos 11 Eastwood A RC 16:41.88 171.04 171

40 Kayn Quinones 12 Eastwood A RC 16:43.51 170.50 170

54 Elias Perez 11 Eastwood A RC 16:50.46 168.18 168

55 Nathan Hernandez 10 Eastwood A RC 16:50.80 168.07 168

88 Eddie Gallegos 12 Eastwood A RC 17:09.47 161.84 162

90 Aaron Perez 10 Eastwood A RC 17:09.82 161.73 162

Here is Eastwood at NXN 2018

117 PEREZ, Elias JR Eastwood 70 16:21.7 172.77 173

121 CUARTAS, Serge SO Eastwood 74 16:23.6 172.13 172

148 PEREZ, Aaron SO Eastwood 99 16:37.0 167.67 168

162 QUINONES, Kayn SR Eastwood 113 16:50.5 163.17 163

170 OLMOS, Juan JR Eastwood 121 16:57.0 161.00 161

171 GALLEGOS III, Eddie SR Eastwood 122 16:57.4 160.87 161

176 HERNANDEZ, Nathan SO Eastwood 127 17:00.5 159.83 160

If nothing else they stayed really consistent. Sure the 4th and 5th scorers did a little worse at NXN, but that's often the case if you're in the back half of a very fast race.

Here is Eastwood at NXR 2019

12 Juan Olmos 12 El Paso Eastwood 15:42.82 184.73 185

14 Elias Perez 12 El Paso Eastwood 15:43.55 184.48 184

35 Nathan Hernandez 11 El Paso Eastwood 16:11.07 175.31 175

65 Victor Parra 11 El Paso Eastwood 16:31.31 168.56 169

83 Sergio Leon Cuartas 11 El Paso Eastwood 16:39.85 165.72 166

134 Andres Gurrola 10 El Paso Eastwood 17:10.49 155.50 156

170 Victor Anchondo 10 El Paso Eastwood 17:40.84 145.39 145

They sure look a lot better this year than last year don't they? If they can run those speed ratings or close to it at NXN they'll redeem themselves in my eyes because I think that would put them in the 11-15 range which I think is a benchmark to hit in order to show yes you absolutely belonged in the race. Teams at the back of NXN are probably closer to being in the top 50 teams nationally rather than top 22, but some regions are stronger than others, some states don't let their teams compete, etc. They've got 4 guys that have run at NXN before and that has to help too.

I still think Jesuit and Bellarmine are top 15 teams at NXN. Maybe they should have an invite and a rated race at NXN like a lot of the big invitationals do.

wildwoods wrote:

I still think Jesuit and Bellarmine are top 15 teams at NXN. Maybe they should have an invite and a rated race at NXN like a lot of the big invitationals do.

The Woodlands boys team always has their top JV guys and varsity guys that don’t qualify for NXN run the NXN community race.

I wonder why they’re the only team that does it.

El Paso Eastwood has high hopes for NXN 2019

https://www.milesplit.com/videos/313390/el-paso-eastwood-learning-from-1st-nxn-race

Texas thinks it's all that in everything and it just a big waste land.

Bang Bang wrote:

wildwoods wrote:

I still think Jesuit and Bellarmine are top 15 teams at NXN. Maybe they should have an invite and a rated race at NXN like a lot of the big invitationals do.

The Woodlands boys team always has their top JV guys and varsity guys that don’t qualify for NXN run the NXN community race.

I wonder why they’re the only team that does it.

Nike doesn't pay for those not in the race, which means the team has to raise a decent amount of money to make the trip. That's probably at least a turnoff for some teams.

Bang Bang wrote:

wildwoods wrote:

I still think Jesuit and Bellarmine are top 15 teams at NXN. Maybe they should have an invite and a rated race at NXN like a lot of the big invitationals do.

The Woodlands boys team always has their top JV guys and varsity guys that don’t qualify for NXN run the NXN community race.

I wonder why they’re the only team that does it.

A lot more teams used to do it after they started the open race back in ... 2005? or 2006? They even brought in a Kenyan HS team to compete in the open race which was really cool (even if they nearly perfect scored the open race every year).

It kind of went by the wayside though for whatever reason.

As for whether Jesuit or Bellarmine would be Top 15 at NXN... I agree they wouldn't be far off from the Top 15 if not right around #15. The issue is, I don't think El Paso Eastwood or the other potential At-Large teams that just missed the cut would be any further back either.

wildwoods wrote:

Teams at the back of NXN are probably closer to being in the top 50 teams nationally rather than top 22, but some regions are stronger than others, some states don't let their teams compete, etc.

Also,

I agree if you're only talking about the 1-4 worst teams in the field. Not all the AQ teams are among the Top 25 or so.

Taking this year for example, though, I think there are probably 18-19 teams in the field that are in the top 25-30, and I'm not sure any teams that missed out on the At-Large spots would be any better than #15. The only ones that aren't that good this year are the HL boys teams and Burnt Hills - and even then those teams might have a big race at NXN and not finish in the bottom 3 spots. They're behind, but not THAT far out of it.