thepredictor wrote:
wild guess 473 wrote:
In a 5k? I invite you to go by year by year and count how many HS runners every year run sub 14 in XC.
Who said XC? Do d1 men race 5k for xc? No. We're comparing track times here, which you would notice had you read the thread. Anyone as far under 9 as a few of NP's runners should realistically be translating that to a sub 14 in the following year.
^^^
Do these numb nuts not realize that there’s a minor difference between racing a 5k and 10k?
Straight as an arrow wrote:
Are you clueless? His PR is 13:24. NAU has sub 14 guys that don't make top 7. NP has nobody who will go sub 14. Michigan didn't even make the meet but they had 7 guys atc14:15 or faster. How many guys on NP will run under 14:15 in HS? Nowhere near 7. Maybe 2?
Gonna bookmark this thread for 3 years from now when half of NAUs squad is Newbury Park grads
They may be 100% of it. That wasn't the question. The question is where a bunch of 16 and 17 year odds would be ranked as a team this fall for 10k XC. The answer is, outside of the top 50. For a few of you who don't believe it, please list the current 1500-3k-5k-10k equivalent track times and compare them to the times of the teams who were close to qualifying for the meet last year. It is clear that NP would get crushed by those teams.
Newbury Park is doing very well, just thought I’d bump this thread as an update since I do still have it bookmarked. I think it’s quite obvious that they’d do very well at the D3 and possibly D2 level. Top 3 in D3 and probably top 10 in D2, but likely would not qualify for nationals in D1.
Thank ya Nuttycombe for giving away the answer. Much needed
Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous to think a HS team, no matter how good, could compete at the NCAA XC championships. If you think that's the case, you've never raced at NCAAs. Those HSers would go out in 4:35 like they do in the typical HS race where 3-4 of them are running together. You'd be lucky to be in top 100 and swallowed up with no teammates around at NCAAs at 4:35. The jump from 5k to 8k can be hard for some HSers (ask Colin Sahlman after Nuttycombe), much less to 10k. It's absurd... like some said, maybe 5-8 in the South Region?? They would be lucky to finish top 10 in the West Region. They cannot beat Gonzaga, Cal Poly, and maybe not even UCLA (who is 9th in the region right now).
WaitAMinute wrote:
Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous to think a HS team, no matter how good, could compete at the NCAA XC championships.
Especially at the D1 level
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