2025 D3 XC Nationals Predictions

I am sure they are just crowdsourcing money from the videos to pay for treatment for Derek Stanley's Little Man Syndrome...I heard its terminal!

All you coastal elites just don’t realize greatness. Lax has been and always will be the best. You can hate on our swagger all you want but at the end of the day how many times has one of your schools won natties? Lax breeds a certain form of toughness and arrogance, unlike a lesser institution such as Dickinson

Looks like the other Matthai twin is peaking at the right time. Have to cheer for Mo Bati FTW

"Lax has been and always will be the best" Keep in mind they have won 4 team titles since '96 for the men. Keep in mind Brosiah, that Calvin has done that exact same thing. Calvin has double the amount of team runner-ups in general than UWL. Only thing separating those two stats is La Crosse having an individual champion. Just pick up the camera for footage and paint your chest bro, do some research lmao!!!! Im not west, east, or midwest, I am just RIGHT!

Big flex when a cheap state school in a state with only 1 real d1 (and with over 11000 students, mind you) wins d3 titles. Must be the swagger.

Let he who has not had their alma mater fire their chancellor for making porn with his wife cast the first stone

My grandson Jamie, who traverses 1609 meters in 4 minutes and 6 seconds, will use this speed to run at 4:06 mile pace (because he runs the mile in 4:06) around the course to give his Tufts athletes valuable advice on how they can run their last mile in 4:06. Having a coach like my grandson Jamie, who completes the 1 mile run in 4:06, will lead Tufts to victory. Jamie will celebrate by running a mile at the nearest track in 4:06, because, as a 4:06 miler, this is the time it takes him to run one mile.

What Stanley and Lax has done is impressive, but yah when you're a cheap state school with D1 facilities and no real D1s besides Madison to compete with in recruiting, there's really no excuse for Lax to not win Nationals every year

Classic private school elitists. You all sit there in your spoiled rotten generational wealth and cast aspersions on a blue collar state school. I know it must hurt your egos to be so badly beaten by UW schools every year but the dominance of the UW schools is the result of people who actually have to work for things and not just be handed everything with a silver spoon. We can’t just rely on our trust funds to get by in life.

Don't forget the largest full-time track coaching staff in the state, free campus visits with hosting the state meet (and the illegal recruiting they do on the infield as kids finish), and the most decked out exercise phys dept in the region (which, good for them).

So i agree, they have the perfect setup for ANY coach to be successful, and anything less than a podium finish is an embarrassment.

UWL is a case where you do not need to be a good coach to have a good team. I wish I could release the Derek Stanley Files, but I would jeopardize myself! It should not be a shocker when the best team in the nation gets MOST of the best recruits in WI. Never mind the fact that they would overrecruit athletes to take them away from other WIAC schools. Thank God for UWSP/Platteville for starting to get some of those recruits. Gotta get them before they drink the Kool-Aid!

What makes this even funnier is the Matthais being from one of the richest suburbs in the country

Can we get back to actually talking about the races? If the weather truly is 75 degrees for the start of these races, some regions may struggle. From the North Region, I imagine everyone is pretty used to 45-55 degree weather. 75 might be enough of a shock to do some damage.

Mo Bati, king of the north, loves the heat.

But for real, are there any runners even in contention who aren’t from a northern climate?

Yeah, a suburb rich in hard working salt of the earth folks. The Matthai Twins and the rest of the vloggers that make up the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse cross-country team pull themselves up by their boot straps and put in the work every dang day. The SUNY schools are similar to the UW schools yet they win way less national championships. So what’s the difference? Midwest grit and blue collar mentality vs East coast elitism and entitlement. That’s it, that’s the only advantage they have.

Just pack it up fellas. At this point the race has already been ran. Mo bati will be the National champion. For anyone complain about Lax. Just put the numbers in the spreadsheet little bro. Your rich east coast schools don't impress a true Midwest grinder. When you see the youtube video "How we won nationals back to back years" you'll see why skipping class makes you the best.

I don’t know why everyone is so worked up about these young men vlogging their way to another championship. You guys are all too sensitive to greatness. I enjoy the vlogs, it makes these mountains of men, gods if you will, seem way more human and approachable. Their blue collar journey to the promised land should inspire, yet all you small humans allow yourself to be jealous of what you can’t have.

Only issue with the vlog is one of the twins clearly needs to not make his unibrow shaving so obvious. That is all.