Official 2017 NCAA XC Discussion Thread

Vtfvgygyvgygy wrote:

Great race for Knight

Terrible race for Syracuse

Only 1 guy in the top 50

Back to the drawing board for Syracuse.

Will the next team win for Syracuse be in 2079?

They win every 64 years like clockwork

Good run by Ole miss Sean Tobin in 12th

All Divisions wrote:

I pu this in the other thread. As someone who was wary about this whole monopoly, I’m actually pretty impressed so far. The price is only $19.99, so that’s cheaper than the gas I’d use to go to a meet. Plus the weather sucks for D1 and D2. I’m interested in all 3 divisions. There is no overlap in races today so everything is working out in flotracks favor. Plus the d2 and D3 quality has been pretty terrible in the past. Much better today. Using split screens for D1 is solid as well. Sorry, but I just can’t bash them. I’m sitting in my warm home, drinking coffee and watching on my 50 inch screen off of a connected device. How can I ask for more off of $20? What did everyone else think?

who let Ryan Fenton comment on this thread?

Paywall, commercials during the race, lets not kid ourselves into thinking flotrack did us some big favor

#freethefeed

Flocrap wrote:

I thought the age cut off was 26 years old

It should be but people like to find a way to get around it

Everyone is entitle to their own opinion, but you are implying they (UP) left their top runners on the sidelines at conference and rested them. Jeff Theis, 24th today, was there and ran at conference. Not sure what happened at conference but today he would have been BYU's number one runner.

Its a race and nationals is the big dance. Conference meets are sadely irrelevant.

What you should really consider is the irrelevance of so many of the teams that 'qualify' for the national meet out of weak regional's. One could reasonably argue that a compelling NCAA's would be had with the Mountain and West racing each other.

Correction - Theis was of course 14th.

Can't fault Conner for gaming the system any more than for NAU or UNM bringing in all the foreigners. The guy is a genius in any case.

All four individual qualifiers from the men’s Southeast Regional were All-American. This region should have gotten more individual at large bids. The Penn State runners that got at large bids finished in the 200s. When will the NCAA realize that the Southeast is the top region for individual qualifiers?

They should change conference to being around late September or early October, at the time when many teams try to do a midseason "peak" for meets like Griak, Wisconsin, prenats , etc.... That way, teams can truly compete at a "regular" season meet and have it count for something. When you have the three most important meets all at the end, you are forced to choose to focus on one or maybe two... you can't peak for all three.

Having conference midseason would spice up the whole season for fans and athletes.

jkjkljlkjlk wrote:

Biggest surprises:

Tyler Day/Matt Baxter duo!

Peter Lomong - NAU

Dillon Maggard - Utah St

Portland

Iowa St

Alabama

Other big individual performances (too many to list)

Biggest letdowns:

BYU!! How does that happen??

Syracuse

Furman

Rory Link

Grant Fisher

Fisher ran great. Give it a break.

The Kenyan runners have names and you know them. Stop spreading your xenophobia on your website. It is disgusting.

Is there any rule about running on the white lines or cutting the course by running off course on inside turns? Why no flags?

Seems as if the leaders often din't know where they were running, or just not smart racers?

IMHO, best efforts of the day go to:

Men: Lomong - just wow! Saw his big bro Lopez waving one of those huge NAU flags around. Def a lot of good DNA in that family, but to see a mid-D guy like Lomong suck it up for 8th place today was incredible. (Close behind on this pick is Day in 3rd place for NAU - can't believe he was only a 4:20/9:30 HS runner. Total stud effort today.)

Women: AllieO for 4th. What a tough gritty runner. Allie and that USF runner were the only ones to not let Kurgat go around 3-4K mark. You could tell she was probably paying a heavy price for that in the final 200m, but really put in an astounding effort. I had a feeling she was being under-valued when ranked 8th or 9th pre-race.

Congrats to NAU and UNM.

We could do all the things you just listed when the ncaa streamed all 3 races in years past. Now we have to pay for a worse stream.

30:45XC1978 wrote:

jkjkljlkjlk wrote:

Biggest surprises:

Tyler Day/Matt Baxter duo!

Peter Lomong - NAU

Dillon Maggard - Utah St

Portland

Iowa St

Alabama

Other big individual performances (too many to list)

Biggest letdowns:

BYU!! How does that happen??

Syracuse

Furman

Rory Link

Grant Fisher

Fisher ran great. Give it a break.

Hi Mr. Tuwei:). 40 years ago!!!!! who would have thunk it?

karissa schweizer is forgotten already

All Divisions wrote:

I pu this in the other thread. As someone who was wary about this whole monopoly, I’m actually pretty impressed so far. The price is only $19.99, so that’s cheaper than the gas I’d use to go to a meet. Plus the weather sucks for D1 and D2. I’m interested in all 3 divisions. There is no overlap in races today so everything is working out in flotracks favor. Plus the d2 and D3 quality has been pretty terrible in the past. Much better today. Using split screens for D1 is solid as well. Sorry, but I just can’t bash them. I’m sitting in my warm home, drinking coffee and watching on my 50 inch screen off of a connected device. How can I ask for more off of $20? What did everyone else think?

Sorry Mark, your coverage is simply not worth it, and you know it. Eventually, someone else will take over. Just think if you lowered the price, more subscribers, more money and less whining about the crappy coverage and stupid commercial break because they aren't paying that much. Bye Mr. Fenton.

NCProud wrote:

The Penn State runners that got at large bids finished in the 200s.

Colin Albert finished 159th.

its the same in all sports. march madness proves that all you have to be is ranked high enough to make the tournament then anyone can win it all. 4 big meets. pre nats, some sort of big invitational, then conference and nationals. the rest should be duel or triangulars with little travel.