Off topic, but I thought Drew Griffith would be running much better than he has as a freshman. He was destroying everyone last year and this year has been beat by quite a bit of freshman that he dominated in high school.
Off topic, but I thought Drew Griffith would be running much better than he has as a freshman. He was destroying everyone last year and this year has been beat by quite a bit of freshman that he dominated in high school.
I have wondered the same. And Pajak has done less than that, injured?
ND is hit and miss on turning HS stars into college greats, I think. They do run very solid cross.
Off topic, but I thought Drew Griffith would be running much better than he has as a freshman. He was destroying everyone last year and this year has been beat by quite a bit of freshman that he dominated in high school.
I would say Griffith might just be having the usual problems freshmen often have.
Leo ran 3:58-point last weekend @ U-Dub. His outdoor 3:39s/1500 from hs are worth 3:57-point.
Lex is the 5/10 type between the two so hasn't had the opportunity yet to race a mile when in top shape.
Nonetheless, Stanford has Sprout & Boyden in the 3:57s and Bergen & Leo in the 3:58s. Bergen is the only mile specialist. So, a pretty successful indoor season so far for Ricardo's distance crew.
Off topic, but I thought Drew Griffith would be running much better than he has as a freshman. He was destroying everyone last year and this year has been beat by quite a bit of freshman that he dominated in high school.
I would say Griffith might just be having the usual problems freshmen often have.
And I would agree with that, I saw an early couple of XC results,...and thought he was gonna be better in that than he was. Griffith was a complete horror show in HS, 8:31.x for 2 miles 3:59.00 and 3:57.x mile efforts. He did run 4:01.19 , but only 1:51.xx as well. Very few efforts, since it looks like they burned a year here, you wonder if he was dinged up, not a ton of XC races either I think he did run NCAA Xc Nats, yes he did, 90th raw score, not that bad in this field as a true frosh.