2016 NESCAC Cross Country

Armchair Analysis wrote:

Question: Does no one else think Connecticut College will be a top-3 team at NESCAC's? Last week's race at UMASS Dartmouth was very promising. Bosworth and Aschale nearly broke 25:00 in September.

Answer: No.

not over the Camels hump wrote:

Armchair Analysis wrote:

Question: Does no one else think Connecticut College will be a top-3 team at NESCAC's? Last week's race at UMASS Dartmouth was very promising. Bosworth and Aschale nearly broke 25:00 in September.

Answer: No.

Isn't that course ~30sec short?

Answer: Yes

Mo is not what he once was, running much slower than last year and giving up the coveted PVC title. I heard Williams went to Amherst last year and I fear he may have been exposed to their scrubbery. It pains me to see the once great purple valley champion reduced to rubble.

Also heard the Bijan M is still unemployed and living at Williams. Williams should invest in personal tutors to help their athletic recruits prepare more for the real world, this is just sad to see.

Heres what we learned from the past couple weekends:

1. Geneseeo ran train over the Williams corse, so we can go a head and pensil them in for tenth at Nationals in november. All the EPO in the world wont help them if there not packing the clutch gene.

2. RUmor has it that members of the WIlliams team nelt for the national anthem: mabe if they were a little less focuesd on hating american and a little more focus on racing they could of pulled off the win. They ran pretty much the same way they did last year, meaning that Bijan was always just a system-runner, not packing any success himself. I imagine Peter Hail's shoudler injury wont be a problem either.

3. wesleyan sucks

4. THe Bosworth elite-meter in moving tords the elite side: currently at "almost elite." 25 min on what was proobly a little more then 5k is solid, but once he goes sub-tempo we can discuss further

5. Tufts sucks.

6. Amherst is still recuperating after a late-november heimlick. Looks like their trying to eat the chicken more sowly this time, and maybe not catch a bone in the throat. Wheel see

Hand of the King wrote:

Also heard the Bijan M is still unemployed and living at Williams. Williams should invest in personal tutors to help their athletic recruits prepare more for the real world, this is just sad to see.

So sad-he was never academically minded anyways. I heard he barely passed all his classes. Maybe if he's lucky he'll get to do something more than post on here about not making it into track meets. Bijan probably will be announced as an assistant coach in 2 weeks, if he still can't find a job.

Sub 25 or even sub 25:10 at UMass Dartmouth isn't a great indicator of future performances. It only shows that you're in decent shape for September.

DIII guys sub 25 at UMD Invite since 2011

-Lee Cattanach

-Stephen Wahome

-Anthony Salvucci

-Logan Trimble

-Zach Pietras

-Rob Dextraduer

-Dan Harper

-Chris Brown

Salvucci was the only runner on that list who ran well after. Conn Coll invite at Harkness will be a better indicator for the Camels. If they perform well we can start talking about a top 4 finish.

Be a little more subtle with the spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in the future please, that could have made me a lot more upset.

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Without the guidance of Ben "iron sharpens iron" decker the scrubs of Williams are bound to be turned into genne creamed beph. The only thing stronger than Peter "brother of Jeff" hale's tendons is his atrocious hair. Newsflash buddy man buns don't make you fast, ditching your art history major does. Colaizzi is bound to always play second fiddle, even in his own family and chiliams may want to search for rocks inside his own skull, because whoever thought that hair looks good is a mental scrub: Bart Simpson peaked for a road race and is regressing to his mean if scrubiness. After Mo "4-1 against Bijan in xc last year" hussein celebrates his second consecutive little 3 individual title Amherst will reveal what true scrubs Williams are. purple valley was a strategic retreat orchestrated by commander Nelson. Amherst will triumph as neither mo or Steven "2014 ECAC champion" are scrubs

Get off the message boards, Williams, your parody is revolting.

As expected, Connecticut College, Trinity College, and Middlebury will be dookie-ing it out in Paul Short's brown this weekend. Wouldn't want to be him.

It looks like the stars aligned when Williams entered their poopdeck moppers into this weekend's Gold race. I expect no more than a last place finish from the Purple Valley Scrubs in this highly competitive field. Ben Decker, granted, will blow the lid off his D1 caliber competition. The rest, I assure you, will do nothing of note. Maybe they'll time their poops just right. Maybe they'll come back home with the bear they brought. Small goals for small talents.

Tufts will not only wipe themselves with the Willy boys, they will dunk their heads in the porcelain bowl of retribution. Tim Nichols the titular titan and Luke O'Connor the grumpy boy will lead a stampede of Jumbos through the Lehigh thicket, snapping limbs and crushing bone. I mean that metaphorically, but not too metaphorically.

Watch your backs, Williams. Oh wait, you can't, because you're all spineless cretins.

A quick search of the 2011 Umass Dartmouth race shows that Harper, Serene, and Gisore all broke 25:10 and then placed top 15 at regionals that year w/ Harper and Gisore qualifying for nationals. Then Ryan O'Connell ran 25:35 right next to Salvucci's 25:38, while O'Connell qualified for nationals individually, Salvucci bombed at regionals.

Meanwhile, Hoyt broke 25 and Wahome ran 25:20ish at conference on the Umass Dartmouth course and both qualified individually for nationals. Gomes ran 25:03 at the same meet and missed nationals by one spot. Wahome would have run faster that day, but got stuck in a tactical race with Kibler.

So by my count... that's 7 guys in the top 15 that ran pretty well on the Umass Dartmouth course throughout the year and hovered around 25 mins on it. If they admitted teams like they do nowadays, perhaps all 7 guys would have qualified instead of 5.

The course is similar to most any other course, running fast or slow based on weather for the most part. Not to dilute my point that running 25.xx on the course in September or anytime isn't necessary a bad thing, but this year's race had the best weather it's had on race day in at least 6 or 7 years, so putting stock in those results might not do you any good, especially with the 4-5 guys hovering around 26 (tempoing?)

Long post, but I hope it's better reading than what the usual wannabe creative writing majors post on here.

I have a quick question for you.

Why do you care?

What is so appealing about going through the past 6 or 7 years of times run on the Umass Dartmouth course and determing what that might say about, I dunno, Ben Bosworth's current fitness? Who cares what some Bates kid ran in high school. Who cares if some kid took a gap year. None of this matters.

This is DIII NESCAC XC. We all have better things to do. Williams will probably win the title anyway. Amherst has a shot. Go Jumbos. Yay Colby.

Go back and look at the last few years of NESCAC thread predictions. They're almost always wrong. I'd rather see some entertaining goofs and gaffs in this letsrun thread than some XC jerkoff trying to predict whether or not some kid will break 25:00. It just isn't worth the effort.

God bless the trolls. They give me a laugh after practice. We'll find out who wins the title in November.

And if anyone is curious about my predictions: Williams will get last place, since they are all scrubs.

Didn't look up anything, 2011 was the only year I mentioned and referenced and that's the year I have the most offhand knowledge about because I know a few of the guys that qualified that year. I would say it doesn't matter what Bosworth ran on the course, or anyone for that matter, in September, that was the whole point of my post. However, saying that you can't make reasonable conclusions off results from there is a little naive.

Predictions and interest in the sport aren't worth the effort, but going on here to repeat the lame joke that Williams are scrubs is? I like a good Jamie Norton joke from time to time, but that Williams joke is cringe worthy every time I see it.

Jamie Norton, famous 4:06 miler, @ NCC (on a full ride)...the NESCAC is DONE. Will go home DEVASTATED.

Da Bears is obviously a Williams Scrub. Keep up the good work boys

Does anybody else find it odd that Wesleyan was the only team that ran in its eponymous invitational?

makes sense, the teams that usually show up (Post, Mitchell) raced somewhere else probably because the course sucks and they get crushed every year. its also not 8k for some reason?

On a scale of 1-Coby Horowitz, how many stumps (and roots) are on the Westfield course?