What are you talking about? Like 38 of the top 40 were american?
Oh, I see, you mean in the professional minor league "division 1".
You want to want good old fashioned amateur college racing, hit up D3. Not quite the Geneseo teams of 100% 2nd generation sicilians with mustaches and mullets who've never left NY before winning these days, but still pretty good.
How do the BYU guys age cheat? Do they falsify birth certificates? Seems improbable.
They go on mission trips and come back significantly older. It is not unheard of for BYU to have an older roster due to these mission trips. I think NCAA xc should be age restricted to 18-24years old. Once a person is 25 they should not be eligible for NCAA cross country and track. When I was in college I distinctly remember being 18 years old and racing guys from Providence, American International and Iona that were clearly much older than me. I don’t want to moan and groan, but I remember being young and feeling like there was no chance for me to win and it sucked. That’s just my 2 cents.
What are you talking about? Like 38 of the top 40 were american?
Oh, I see, you mean in the professional minor league "division 1".
You want to want good old fashioned amateur college racing, hit up D3. Not quite the Geneseo teams of 100% 2nd generation sicilians with mustaches and mullets who've never left NY before winning these days, but still pretty good.
NCAA track and XC is lucky to have internationals. We aren’t the best distance running country in the world and that’s totally fine. It’s a reminder that there are some big fish out there who will be difficult to compete with. It makes US runners better.
imagine if NCAA soccer was filled with the brilliant teenage academy players from the European or South American clubs. USA guys would have zero chance.
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NCAA XC 2024 was very fun to watch and wasn't "ruined" in any way by the presence of Kenyan or any other foreign athletes. The poor coverage of the women's race, with the ESPNU broadcast glitching at the finish line, was super disappointing though.
How do the BYU guys age cheat? Do they falsify birth certificates? Seems improbable.
By claiming that God himself wants them to get a extra eligibility. If you want to do a mission to Philadelphia or Dalla or whatever to get your own planet with 7 virgins when you die, whatever, fine. Just don’t ask for a free pass when you get back.
Ah, LRC board racism at its best. So are we walking this one back now that a white nerd from Harvard won and the top 10 was filled with “relatable” athletes?
What are you talking about? Like 38 of the top 40 were american?
Oh, I see, you mean in the professional minor league "division 1".
You want to want good old fashioned amateur college racing, hit up D3. Not quite the Geneseo teams of 100% 2nd generation sicilians with mustaches and mullets who've never left NY before winning these days, but still pretty good.
NCAA track and XC is lucky to have internationals. We aren’t the best distance running country in the world and that’s totally fine. It’s a reminder that there are some big fish out there who will be difficult to compete with. It makes US runners better.
imagine if NCAA soccer was filled with the brilliant teenage academy players from the European or South American clubs. USA guys would have zero chance.
I disagree the Kenyan runners in NCAA run like crap with poor mechanics and lethargic forms. They are nothing like the Geoffrey kamworar of 2015 and 2016 or the Barega of 2019-2021. Most of them carry a cellphone so they are written off instantly because of this feature. The Kenyan runners gave no difficulty to Blanks in this race.
Virtually everyone I saw was enthusiastic and cheering and following people. It was as good a crowd as I have ever seen. Did you go; maybe it would be better you don't.
What are you talking about? Like 38 of the top 40 were american?
Oh, I see, you mean in the professional minor league "division 1".
You want to want good old fashioned amateur college racing, hit up D3. Not quite the Geneseo teams of 100% 2nd generation sicilians with mustaches and mullets who've never left NY before winning these days, but still pretty good.
NCAA track and XC is lucky to have internationals. We aren’t the best distance running country in the world and that’s totally fine. It’s a reminder that there are some big fish out there who will be difficult to compete with. It makes US runners better.
imagine if NCAA soccer was filled with the brilliant teenage academy players from the European or South American clubs. USA guys would have zero chance.
Good perspective. Maybe an answer to the nagging question that keeps popping up here: How come Americans just arent competitive overseas? You need to be in fields of people who are better than you, if youre one who wants to excel. Motivation comes from seeing and being in competition with our betters.
One of the challenges is you have athletes whose primary language is not English trying to answer questions at the press conference which puts them in a difficult position imho.
I don't think the nine people who watched such a press conference have too much impact on the popularity of the sport as a whole.
XC 2024 is not runined. An individual in America can do and be anything they want to. If they want to be a NCAA XC Champion, then GET UP, RISE, GRIND, HUSTLE, & REPEAT. It is called work ethics. OMG! You want to be successful, WORK FOR IT!
Ah, LRC board racism at its best. So are we walking this one back now that a white nerd from Harvard won and the top 10 was filled with “relatable” athletes?
NCAA cross country was ruined for the entire season and up through 7k. Then it became Great Again.
Nobody wants to watch a bunch of age cheating, doping Kenyans take the top 10 spaces. There’s no fun in that.
It’s infinitely worse than the past 2 years where Nico Young, Graham Blanks, Charles Hicks, Ky Robinson, Cole Sprout, Drew Bosley etc were battling it out. That was actually relatable, with people who the average American can relate to and we have seen for a long time.
The average viewer can’t relate in the slightest to the Kenyan cohorts, and if this carries on into the future then even less people will care to watch or keep up with results. I don’t think a single American, Aussie or European runner has any chance in this race, which is just sad. It’s going to destroy a lot of future kids getting into the sport if they have nobody to idolise at the collegiate level, they will just play football or baseball instead.
Lol imagine being mad for being inferior just get better. No other sport in the NCAA would be complaining about foreigners
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