Anything but a "Hot Take".
One reason some are making a big deal about Blanks's victory is because of his demographic profile (21 year old American guy from an Elite college that had never produced an individual NCAA XC before). My point was that Hicks has the exact same demographic profile (and they have even more in common because both are the product of Southern Prep schools) so Blanks's victory is not that out of the ordinary if the guy that won the year before has the same demographic profile.