Top five next year pre-season poll...

OED wrote:

Houle is splitting hairs but is technically right: BYU never has won the Mountain Regionals. BYU has, however, won the Region VII championships, which is what it was known as up until a few years ago.

If something is designed to obfuscate the truth it is dishonest. SUU and Houle are being dishonest.

But next year they will be running for the team title. Co. Wisc., ark., ore lok out it is SUU's turn. Chortle chortle chortle.

i dont think they will be top 5 next year but i think they do have a chance to be a top 10-15 team in the next few years. IF you look at their team they are incredbily young.In 2007 theyll be returning their 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,7,8. In 2008 theyll be returining their 2,3,5,7,8 (from this team). In 2009 theyll be returining their 2, 5, 7, 8 so this is not a bad team, and maybe not next year but in 2 years this team will be a top 5 contender. Plus this guy seems like he is a pretty good recruter from the recruits hes getting now and his team like many of you have pointed out is not big time.

wrong 2 of his top 5 are leaving (his two freshmen).

Houle said they would be a contender next year. The coach said that they would be ranked in the top 5 in the pre-season poll. In fifteen years as the coach of SUU they have qualified one time for nationals. They have had one all-american in distance...including outdoor,indoor and cross.

The coach puts times in his reocrd books that have never been run... but mights been run if they were somewhere else....... This is not living in reality!!

in my opinion for XC you can't convert times.. courses are different etc.. the conversion may show the potential. but its not the same conversion you have on track where every track is the same.

yeah its pretty easy to get good when your freshmen are like 20-21 years old. i know fifth and sixth year college students that are younger then Jess.

SUU wrote:

i dont think they will be top 5 next year but i think they do have a chance to be a top 10-15 team in the next few years. IF you look at their team they are incredbily young.In 2007 theyll be returning their 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,7,8. In 2008 theyll be returining their 2,3,5,7,8 (from this team). In 2009 theyll be returining their 2, 5, 7, 8 so this is not a bad team, and maybe not next year but in 2 years this team will be a top 5 contender. Plus this guy seems like he is a pretty good recruter from the recruits hes getting now and his team like many of you have pointed out is not big time.

Boy will SUU be diapointed when they go for the title next year.

He even stated that they are goig for the title but if they end up 10th that will be o.k. too. Can you name one team othet that SUU that is going for thetitle but will be happy with 10th. The quality of teams from the first 5 or six to the tenth is HUGE. No one truly going for the title would be happy getting 10th or eleventh.

Maybe they should win their region (and qualify for nationals) before they start talking about how they are going to win it all. Just my opinion, but I feel like you have to take things like this one step at a time.

They did win regionals In 1999. So they are realllly close to being National champs.

why did they keep saying he is the top returner. Doesn't Nef have a year left?

Listen to this!!!!

I just listened again and found something else that I thought was funny. Houle tries to justify why SUU is a dI school. What other coach tells how they are running for the championship and justify why they are Di in the same few minutes.

Shouldn't any team that is "running for the national championship take it for granted that they deserve to be DI?

Schumaker, Wetmore, Eyestone. you guys talk about your teams but you have never really addressed why your teams should be DI.