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makes yuo think…
2011 Hamline 2010 Hamline 2009 Hamline 2008 St. Olaf 2007 Saint John's 2006 Saint John's 2005 Hamline
Based on early 2000's data, applying the Hamline trend from 2011-2022, I anticipate by 2034 Olaf will be fighting with St. Mary's for the 10th place in conference.
Well done Oles. You greatly exceeded my expectations. Hopefully you can represent the MIAC well the rest of the year.
Can we all chip in money to have better results? That was terrible.
Carleton could be the team of the future, returning four of the top 20. Johnnies will undoubtedly be in the mix with better health and a very talented young group. Olaf should be good too.
Can Bati be a national champ? Setting a course record in such a dominant manner over several national qualifiers/all-americans has to put him in the conversation.
Well done Oles. You greatly exceeded my expectations. Hopefully you can represent the MIAC well the rest of the year.
Can we all chip in money to have better results? That was terrible.
Carleton could be the team of the future, returning four of the top 20. Johnnies will undoubtedly be in the mix with better health and a very talented young group. Olaf should be good too.
Can Bati be a national champ? Setting a course record in such a dominant manner over several national qualifiers/all-americans has to put him in the conversation.
Pretty disappointing year in the mullet/stache department. The conference was really feeling the loss of Derk and his civil war era facial hair. Top honors has to go to tanner Olson with a nice fu manchu. Honorable mentions for the scholastica kids who dyed theirs blue. Couple mediocre Gusty mullets. Gone are the days of Carleton shaving their dirty staches at the finish line post race
So, after this performance are the Ole alumni still upset the AD hasn't hired a distance coach? One could argue they would be even better if they didn't have a hurdle coach writing their training.
They haven't really improved this year on the scale that Carleton has. If you compare their performance at Blugold to today, the Carls are on a huge upswing.
Bati already did earlier, Lloyd was half a second off. Lars, Kelly and Boone should as well. Then maybe 3 from Gabe, ole’s not named Will, a Scott (from Mac or I guess some random guy named Scott) or maybe a surprise Johnnie.
Bati already won MIACs earlier too, that doesn't mean he will this time.
My initial thought is maybe just 4 guys: Will Kelly, Lloyd Young...probably Bati and then Dewall, Boone, Skemp or Nichols, maybe one of those guys too.
Hmmm, looks like I nailed it. And Bati did win this time. #psychic?
What a great day in Northfield. Carleton clearly invested more time and resources into setting up the venue compared to the 2019 championship. If only they could hire a better timing company.
Congrats to the Gustie frosh on being top freshman. Great to see last year’s top frosh Schneider on a strong race. It’s good to see him running well again.
How does the Coach of the Year award work? I assume most will pick the Olaf coach simply because they won, but they have a lot of advantages others don’t have and it sounds like he recycles other coaches training.
The Scholastica coach should merit consideration. They finished 6th last year and beat several teams that the message board lurkers thought would be in contention.
I’d also argue for the Augsburg coach. Anyone that prepared a runner to run that fast deserves to win an award.
St Scholastica had an amazing meet, congrats to them. All five scorers ran better than I predicted.
Outstanding performances 1. Ian Curtis. Improved on last year's MIAC by nearly a minute. His only race I was aware of this season was 26:57 at Drews. He ran 87 seconds faster when no one else improved nearly that much from that meet. Delorean Peterson did improve 84 seconds to 27:06. 2. Calvin Boone. Dropped 64 seconds from the Cows meet on same course. 3. Nick Brauer. Improved 45 seconds from Cows meet, top first year.
Underperformed: Nick Ihrke's improvement since Blugold stalled. Tommy Allen ran close to a minute slower than I expected, but they still managed to hold it together enough to beat Mac's challenge.
Matched either time or place from my predictions:
Prediction vs. Result 1 24:34 1 24:23 Mohammed Bati 2 24:45 2 24:41 Will Kelly 6 24:59 6 24:56 Kevin Turlington 15 25:48 19 25:48 Henry Bowman 52 27:40 52 27:25 Jeffrey Kayfes
Times within 3 seconds 6 24:59 6 24:56 Kevin Turlington 5 24:59 7 24:57 Andrew Skemp 30 26:33 37 26:34 Jordan Galloway 44 27:00 40 26:59 Ryan Bernstein
I wouldn’t say Ian Curtis improved as much as he was finally healthy enough to race. He was 50th at Nationals two years ago. If he is truly back, the outdoor 1500 could be zesty. Adding a year of college running for the Carleton sophomores, the return of 3:47 man Cboone, Ian, and our lost, but not forgotten savior Tor Olsson, and a pissed off Lloyd will be fun to watch.
As for COTY, I’d suggest St. Olaf. St. Scholastics had a tremendous race, but the Ole performance was dominating and that should be rewarded. Also, Chris Lundstrom isn't in the voting.
Sure, congrats to the winner goes without saying. But I wouldn't say that St. Olaf performed beyond expectations. For a Gabe Estrada who slightly underperformed (by no means badly), they had Curtis, Cote and Coffey stepping up. They're a deep team, and conf was not a challenge. Let's see how they do when they compete against better teams.
You can’t write off the ole performance because of depth—developing depth is what good coaching is all about. Outside the triumphant return of Ian Curtis, the oles had a mediocre day and still dominated—probably peaking for nats as they should. Most of the other coaches mentioned have great top end talent and proved they can work well with it but the ability to take that many no names and turn them into top-25 runners is something else.
On a grimmer note, BP’s contract negotiations hinge on success at the famed Great Karhu shoe race. A carl boycott may seal another coaching turnover for the oles. Who will be their next miac coty? A rugby guy?
I didn't write off the Oles, I simply said they performed as expected, as a nationally ranked team. If/when they beat higher ranked teams, then they'll deserve many pats on the back.
FNB is right. The Oles have clearly been avoiding better teams all season. We'll see whether that pays off or not.
The Carls are the real story - having been ranked 10th in the region to start the year. Or maybe 9th, I can't remember. Now they are a top 25 team in the country and pushed the Ole men!
Bro give up. Go back to college town and quit whining. It’s pathetic at this point. Olaf put 10 in front of everyone else’s 5. It’s over, you lost. Go home.
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