They finally were able to race a cross race this year, and they lost to Syracuse who took 6th at their conference meet and beat FSU who took 9th at ACCs last October.
Prior to the Covid wave that hit their campus they were near clear favorites to win Big Tens and that would’ve been a clear auto bid to nationals. Their team is definitely good enough to qualify, but I have a hard time believing the selection committee would select them considering the criteria and circumstances
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
List your top 31.
Well based on conference results: Any D-1 team that that fielded a full team and competed at their conference meet would have to be ahead of Michigan. That list is pretty lengthy. NCAA guidelines--not mine-- for selecting teams.
Your reading comprehension is lacking. The top criteria is how you finish at your conference meet, not if you finish. That means that a bad finish at a conference meet is worse than not having a conference meet. That means if you run 3 meets, the conference finish will mean more than how you finish at the other races. Running in a conference meet is neither good nor bad. How you finished is what is considered. I predict that Michigan is going.
Michigan will not be directly punished for not racing at their conference meet however with their first meet being today they had little margin for error. Tough to see them making the meet although I have not yet gone over all 31 teams.
BOOOOOOOOO. GET EM OUT OF HERE. PUT SOME REAL TEAMS LIKE AIR FORCE AND UTAH STATE IN THE MEET.
My reading comprehension is just fine thank you. The Big Ten did have a conference meet and Michigan didn't run. So having a conference meet and not running is worse than running and finishing poorly. They have no other body of work to speak of that would put them in the top 31--again based on the NCAA weighing conference results the heaviest.
No.
Do you think their AD and coach would take them to Florida during Covid and missing several days of school and spending travel funds all a few days before leaving for indoor nationals if this meet woukd not qualify them for nationals? I guess one anonymous poster here understands the criteria better than the NCAA or the Michigan admistration.
How you finish at your conference meet holds the most weight. The NCAA did this so that teams could send JV squads to some meets but the committee woukd be able to focus more on the conference meet knowing that it was a varsity squad they used there. Using your idiotic logic, NAU is out because they lost to a team who otherwise wouldn't have qualified. If Michigan had won yesterday, they were 100% in. Their women are 100% in and the men are 90%. I will repost this for you after their women are announced so that you can reflect on your poor reading comprehension.
Maybe you can understand this analogy. Let's say I work at Google. Our ratings of 1-3 last year are based on performance for the year but the most emphasis is on how employees performed on the rollout of software xyz which happened over the summer. I didn't do well on my portion so I received a rating of 1 or poor. My cube mate performed average on it and received a 2 or satisfactory. The woman down the hall was out in the summer on maternity leave during the rollout. She worked on a patch in the fall and did a nice job. She received a 3 for the year even though she completely missed working on the software rollout.
You constantly post about AF and Utah State so you obviously are a fanboy. I think both of them are easily in before Michigan. Michigan is definitely on the bubble.
TO THE PREDICTOR OF THIS: The answer to your first paragraph is YES!!!!! That money comes from the university/state. They were budgeted that money to spend at the beginning of the fiscal year! If they don't use it they lose it! Traveling and time off is a non factor when you consider they haven't traveled at all. Get a clue! Your second paragraph is complete bulls---because NAU ran their conference meet and finished second! That obviously carries more weight than a Michigan team that didn't run their conference meet at all!!!!!Thank you for proving my point!!!!! Running your conference meet is the equivalent of your software rollout!!!!!!!! It doesn't matter how u score all effin year if your not there for the rollout (conference meet ) I apologize to the woman on maternity leave for working with such a shortsighted ahole!!!
P.S. I ran at Michigan--I'm a diehard--but fare is fare.
I hope both mens and womens teams get in, but it can't be based on their not running their conference meet (not their fault) and their complete body of work. and it sure as hell has nothing to do with reading comprehension!!! So repost all of your BS as much as u want! If they get in then the NCAA didn't weigh the conference meet as heavily as they said they would.
If you graduated from Michigan, you would know the difference between fair and fare. You also would have some reasoning skills. You are completely incorrect on all counts. Michigan requested that the Big 10 allow them to travel to 1 meet outside of the Big 10 for the sole purpose of qualifying for the NCAA championship. The B10 placed the B10 only restriction on track and cross country in order to manage Covid. They were only allowed to travel to Florida and compete outside of the B10 because the Conference knew that they were likely to qualify at this meet. Had it been Ohio State who missed the B10 meet, the Conference would not have permitted them to compete outside of the conference.
Michigan was granted an opportunity not a guarantee. They blew it big time. Syracuse is not a good team. 6th in the ACC and you can’t beat them. You don’t deserve to go. Syracuse doesn’t either. You’ve heard of the super bowl well that was the toilet bowl. A good ole fashion everglade mud wrestling over who gets to take home their cousin tonight.
Maybe you should read the other thread. Everyone who has posted 31 teams has both Syracuse and Michigan making it. You will see that you run out of teams better than them after about 25. Florida State even has a chance of making it.
That’s just straight up wrong. I saw those rankings and yeah they’re in based on his logic but that doesn’t mean all those teams should. Oregon, Michigan, Syracuse should not go. Villanova, Georgetown, and pick another deserve to go.
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That’s just straight up wrong. I saw those rankings and yeah they’re in based on his logic but that doesn’t mean all those teams should. Oregon, Michigan, Syracuse should not go. Villanova, Georgetown, and pick another deserve to go.
Syracuse improved about 20 seconds per man in time from the FSU invite. Whether that was the course being faster or not, I do not know. But throw those times into the FSU Invite and they were much more competitive.
Oregon won't make it. One of the posters has Villanova, Gtown, Michigan, and Syracuse in. It is easy to say a team shouldn't make it until you try to find 31 teams with a better resume.
If only that’s how cross country worked. If it was a track meet sure. Different conditions. Different teams. More space to run and the fact they were beating bad teams probably helped them push a little harder. I know how soft they run when they go shoulder to shoulder with real runners.
Which one is that can you link it.
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