Nailed it. The point went right over rojo's head. It is not a matter of just the number of races, but how hard the effort was and the hard training that these efforts required. To maintain her peak form would have required Tuohy to stay at that very high level since the beginning of crosscountry. That just isn't realistic. Eventually all those efforts will catch up with you, the results flatten, the legs feel dead, and no matter how hard you train you get diminishing returns until you get a long break. We also forget that Tuohy pulled off her record year at 20, not 22, and with no altitude training. People are just assuming that she is at least a 4:06 1500m runner. She isn't. During her indoor peak she was a 4:00-4:01 runner. There is a reason Wake Forest was being paced for 4 flat. But that is when the fatigue started to hit. That is what that meet indicated, that she had a flat race below her training time levels. And we heard that from Tuohy herself at Soundrunning, which was a flat race despite the record.
Point is, at this moment, she is a 4:08-09 runner where she needed to be at least a 4:06 runner to win at nationals. The "choke" narrative the trolls came up with is based on the idea that she underperformed. I think rather that she performed in accordance with her current form. After some rest she will get back to her indoor form and likely exceed it. But college runners only have so many hard efforts in them in a year.