Which teams were snubbed from an at-large this year?

In 2016 Woodlands got third at NXR and they got in the top 10 at NXN if I recall correctly

At-large Smoky Hill girls second in 2004.

Destroying the best NY boys team is no great feat this season, which is the worst in decades in NY.

Palatine IL got an at-large for NXN in 2011, and they placed 5th there

The thing is, DGN has not had a guy run a 180+ speed rating at all this season. Rocky Mountain had 3

It's xc...how are their 4th and 5th...well over 16:00? You also know that the difference between a speed rating of 180 and 178 is like 6 seconds? There's a definite range of error with speed ratings...they're not 100 percent accurate.

Their 4th and 5th touched 176 each at their state meet. 15:26/15:27 season bests….other times between 15:40s and 16 low….they had a good shot at Top 10 at NXN, but it’s all good….transparency is needed in the future so more schools don’t have to endure what happened to Rocky Mt and any other schools that got snubbed.

Do you guys think that Granada was getting worse as the season went on? And their #2 wasn’t even scoring the last 2 meets. This should have been seen as a red flag for the committee. That said, it’s great to see a team with 6 seniors go to NXN for the first time ever

I show their NXR result has 4-5-6-7 in 16:11, 16:31, 16:52, and 17:18. As the criteria emphasizes the regionals more than anything else those times and distances behind their first 3 is likely what cost them. 4-5 that is 26 and 46 seconds back of the #3 in a deep field is a lot of points.

And this is assuming the top 3 all run well. They don't have much room for a bad race by anyone.

I'd like to personally invite you to come race at The NXR NW Course @ Eagle Island. 16:11 and 16:31 are historically very solid for 4/5 type runners on NXN auto qualifying teams. Crater and Jesuit have proven they are Top 5 programs by having 5 man averages of 15:35 and 15:43 on Eagle Island's course. For reference....North Central in 2008 was the NXN Champ and Number 1 team in the Nation all year long, that squad averaged 15:48 at NXR that year. Bozeman in 2016 ended up winning NXN, they averaged 15:53 at NXR that year.

Rocky Mountain finished close enough to Jesuit to be in contention for an at-large spot. All anyone is looking for is a legitimate reason stated publicly as to why the 4 at-large teams are chosen and why other at-large teams are not. Time to re-structure clear criteria with transparency of who this mystery NXN Committee is, because leaving things unknown as they currently are, makes it easy to simply assume Rich Gonzalez is going to show California Bias (even if that may not be the case).

Mountain View - 17th

Granada - 16th

San Clemente - 7th

Downers Grove North - 10th

I've always felt that the NXN committee did a bad job of judging a team's trajectory over the season. I've seen multiple teams that started out rocky but built up over the season get denied at-large bids because they lost to plenty of teams at the start of the season.

Judging a team's ability to win in a week based off of a loss several months ago just doesn't make sense to me. I wish they did some kind of speed rating merge for the regional races for at-large bids.

Uh, excuse me, are you asking us to leave a team that got 17th at NXN out of this? Ok then