Was Loyola's men's cross country team the worst team to ever make it to NCAA's? I compared times...and the Illinois women's team would have definitely beat them.
Was Loyola's men's cross country team the worst team to ever make it to NCAA's? I compared times...and the Illinois women's team would have definitely beat them.
This doesn't really dignify an answer, but to make a point here is what would have happened. Loyola's #5 guy, based off his 10k time, would have gone through the 6k at 19:46 pace; faster than Illinois' #1 girls time. Certainly a weak 5th man, but it was worth noting so that people realized you werent proposing a possible scenario, rather just being an a$$hole.
that's pretty mean
but.....how in the hell did they make it anyway???
cassie hunt would dominate loyola by herself
I think the problem is that a school like Loyola are peaking for conference and districts when a lot of the teams are pretty much training through those. A lot of the teams that made it in could rest guys through out the season and maybe all had to race at districts.
I would bet at the beginning of the year Loyola wasn't thinking of making it to Nationals too seriously so their training was probably not geared for it.
I can name a lot of schools that wished they could of had that same problem.
Lotola would have kicked my teams ass and we could have jogged and beat illinois women. What a retarded thread.
I agree. Loyola did run terribly at Nats but I think they peaked for Regionals if not even Conference. Romanowski is a lot better runner than what he showed...possible all-american. I think they were just burned out
it did not help that they had three guys banged up. the two Irish guys were out with niggles most of the year, both handy runners, thats your 2-3 hurt, and 4 guy had food poisoning the day before. They are a solid team, not a top 15 team but they belong in top 35 at least.
Peaked for regionals?! They were 5th in the Midwest, with 182 points as a team. That's over 100 points behind the 4th place team!!! They sucked from the get-go. There just isn't a lot of depth in team strength in the NCAA right now. There are about 25-30 solid teams and then there's a drop off. Think of one team that really deserved to be at nationals but was left out...
why is romo always so inconsistent?