No respect for what Adam's State did this weekend.

Maybe this face slap will encourage y’all to pick it up a notch.

Yes d2 distance running will crumble because of this. There’s just so many people that care and so much money involved. It’s on par with March madness and the Super Bowl.

It’s “Adams State,” not “Adam’s State.” More power to them.

I kinda agree with the OP, tho this is nothing new for Adams. They give zero Shiz about conference. It’s too bad since conference rivalries are part of what makes our sport interesting for those outside. But how do you explain to someone that the top team always sends their top athletes to random last chance meets. Not good for the sport, but I’m sure they could care less.

if you think thats bad, the Adams St. football team trashed the Lamda Lamda Lamda fraternity house after losing to them in the greek games

It’s Div 2 conference. For indoor.
Let them chase competition and race the best they can.

4:30 and 3:56, both FTW over solid fields

Somebody is doing something right, unlike the OP

Yeah, I wish conference was taken more seriously. It also leaves a bit of bad taste in my mouth that she’s setting all these d2 records after running d1 for years

Which state belongs to Adam?

I agree with this, I think RMAC should kick them out of the conference as a consequence for this behavior.

At most schools with decent support and budgets, that would get the Head Coach fired. I am surprised the AD cares that little for RMAC competition. Adams State is not some overlooked program. They have facilities, scholarships and a budget that rivals a lot of DI programs.

I'm curious about the history here. Did Adams State hold its top runners out of the conference meet back when they were competing for the team championship every year? Or is it only happening now that they know they don't stand a chance?

Back when they were winning year-in-year out, Adams cared about the conference championship. When New Mexico Highlands beat them on the women's side (2015... Adams had won 14 straight RMAC titles) and the Univ. of Colorado- Colorado Springs and Colorado Mines became legitimate challengers to their dominance, Adams "demphasized" the conference championship. A former Adams AD was heard saying, "We use RMAC trophies for doorstops". It is too bad the conference has allowed Adams to treat the championship with so little respect.

Blame the D2 qualifying system. If a national championship spot is determined by a standard/top time, then I would send my best athletes to an indoor meet at sea level to chase a mark rather than compete for a conference title at moderate altitude. Adams has the depth to still compete at RMAC with several of their top athletes held out or sent elsewhere.

I applaud the coach for making this decision. A great coach is concerned about creating the best opportunities for their top athletes. The mediocre coach shows more concern for keeping their job and their AD happy by chasing meaningless trophies.

I think this thread shows something worth noting:

When Adams shows up, they get talked about.
When Adams doesn’t show up, they get talked about.

That’s a lot of real estate they own in y’all’s minds. And they couldn’t give a sh*t what you’re doing or what you think.

I'm sure whatever athletes won the distance events Adams State left open don't mind not getting destroyed and getting a rare chance to win

i think this is brutal but my sense is it's far worse in XC. regionals and nationals should be a postseason extension of conference domination. i know literally it's qualifying times in any meet but you shouldn't make the postseason sending a handful of kids to conference.

the easy solution is non-conference times don't count on a conference weekend. or you allow conferences to punish deliberate tanking and then make conference participation a check-box for the postseason.

you have multiple meets before conference plus the opportunity for last chance after. no, it's complete crap to supposedly need to chase a time that weekend. that weekend the only place a time should count is conference.

if you tank conference and finish 8th maybe you should be ineligible to chase the nationals team title. cause, be honest, it's not just either resting runners or chasing their times, it's a team points strategy at nationals. a team that finishes miles behind mines and even behind black hills state at conference should be done in terms of chasing a national title.

it would solve your conference-tank problem if we started limiting XC regionals or TF team competition eligibility to teams finishing above, say, the halfway mark in conference. they could still run B teams but they would have to be calibrated to put up enough points.

if they can't be bothered then the qualified athletes advance but the "team" is done. problem solved.