The Offficial 2024 NCAA D1 XC Championship Thread

Hejendo76 wrote:

Oregon’s #1 is Aidan Smith, local guy, sophomore, he was in the same crazy class w BirnBaum, Burns, etc and he was only a 8:14 3k runner so not a blue chip guy. So Jerry has developed someone really well so far

blahblahblah3 wrote:

Jourdon is a talented man.
47th over 10K and last year he always looked a step below Griffith, Koon, and Simmons over the longer races.

Obviosuly did very well in a relatively sit and kick NXN race, but seemed like more of a miler so for him to come out and excel over 10K is amazing.

runnER/DR wrote:

He's good but nothing remarkable for a well-trained high mileage freshman national champ. Ritz was 4th his true freshman year. Nico was 11th. Graham Blanks was 23rd. Even old man Clinger was 24th his true freshman year.

It's hard to predict the trajectory of these young athletes. He could end up being like Ben Saarel(another Utah HS phenom) who was 8th as a frosh and 21st as a senior. Time will tell.

runnER/DR wrote:

blahblahblah3 wrote:

Jourdon is a talented man.
47th over 10K and last year he always looked a step below Griffith, Koon, and Simmons over the longer races.

Obviosuly did very well in a relatively sit and kick NXN race, but seemed like more of a miler so for him to come out and excel over 10K is amazing.

He's good but nothing remarkable for a well-trained high mileage freshman national champ. Ritz was 4th his true freshman year. Nico was 11th. Graham Blanks was 23rd. Even old man Clinger was 24th his true freshman year.

It's hard to predict the trajectory of these young athletes. He could end up being like Ben Saarel(another Utah HS phenom) who was 8th as a frosh and 21st as a senior. Time will tell.

did wrote:

Clueless foreigner wrote:

Can someone pls explain to me how the cross country race scoring system works

Each team has 7 runners. Each team's score is the sum of the places for it's first 5 runners. If the 7 runners on a team get 1st, 5th, 9th, 12th, 50th, 55th, and 63rd, their score is 1+5+9+12+50 = 77. The 6th and the 7th person don't impact the scoring, they are there as backups in case someone in the team's top 5 has a bad day

Lowest score wins.

There are other more detailed rules about tie breakers, and for individuals participating in the race without a complete team. But that's the gist of it.

Running UberNerd wrote:

All the credit in the world to her coaching, but my lord, Taylor looks like she came straight from the club.

MattHatter wrote:

Jakobdabbing wrote:

A mixture of overtraining and bad tactics today. Those back end guys got out way too slow for their comfort.

Kipkemboi fell apart mentally it seems after getting taken out mid race. Messaoudi seems to have had a huge mental wall today.

Also BYU this year was legendary. How many sub 28:30/ sub 13:40 guys weren’t all American today? More than any other year.

Margin of error is much smaller than previous years, a sub 28:10 10k guy didn’t even qualify out of the Mountain region this year individually.

I think when BYU beat OSU at Big 12 it psychologically messed with OSU and they never recovered. up until then they were thought of as a juggernaut and ran loose, and losing shattered their confidence. I don't think Dave Smith was able to get them back on track mentally for today.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

king999 wrote:

Great races for Nova's Liam Murphy 9th and Marco Langon 15th, last 1K fastest of guys 7-14. Langon only turned 20 last week of August. Really gritty effort for Gary Martin at 13 , struggling last 1K in 2:56.7, but by far his best XC race at the right time!

Do you think Murphy might be a 5K guy long-term? I have no idea but he is impressive in XC, though obviously 3:36.38 last year is great in college.

.FastMcCabe. wrote:

XC Coach of the Year -- Sean Cleary

.FastMcCabe. wrote:

.FastMcCabe. wrote:

XC Coach of the Year -- Sean Cleary

Did anyone interview the WVU coach or athletes post-race?

.FastMcCabe. wrote:

MattHatter wrote:

I think when BYU beat OSU at Big 12 it psychologically messed with OSU and they never recovered. up until then they were thought of as a juggernaut and ran loose, and losing shattered their confidence. I don't think Dave Smith was able to get them back on track mentally for today.

Perhaps....

Video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cemZ20Cds