richmond fc wrote:
I agree, an obviously great team, but really a regional all-star team. Much more impressed by what York has done. Not to mention the summer altitude camps etc..
School size, middle school track, comparing era, recruiting, transfers (remember when Loudon was upsetting everyone), scheduling(some Texas school had thing set up so the kids could do morning runs at school) and so on make it hard to compare schools because things aren't remotely fair. But ignore that. Today, how many states could put their best 7 runners on a team and have a legit chance of beating them? If NXN happens, what are the odds they beat a region(not sure if the 5th guy will be close enough and anyone having an off week would hurt)?
Now it will be interesting to see where things are in 3 years. I expect they will still be very good but will it regress to the 9:00-9:20 level that other top teams have done? The coach gets a lot of crap for the 420 not being fast but he sort of has a point. If every HS in the country could get their kids to do 50-60mpw with sane quality we would learn a lot of 435-445 guys are really 415/900 runners.
And for good teams, wasn't their a year where the Hauser twins and a teammate all made footlocker? No clue what their 4th/5th guy was but man that's a good top end.