Why NCAA champs on a Monday?!

Name me a course that could handle that many people along with having the infastructure to support lodging for all the spectators/coaches/athletes etc. Franklin Park and Van Cortland are about all I can come up with. No one complains about having the Division 1, 2 and 3 basketball tournaments in different places at differnt times, I really don't see the need to do it in cross country.

It used to be on Monday or at least a benefit of having it on Monday was that the DII and DIII champions were invited to run on Mon in the DI championship race. The NCAA stopped allowing this in the early 1990s, so I don't know why it's still on Monday other than tradition.

I'm sure coaches like having the two extra days to recover from regionals the previous week.

Yeah, that 10k is hard to recover from.

Any word on if Teg has eligibility left for the race?

hahahahahaha.

For guys who run fast, the extra two days is beneficial. For joggers like you, probably doesn't matter.

those are all solid reasons, but i think they can be worked out. my biggest concern is that every race is run on a saturday and the athletes will be accustomed to competing every 2 weeks or 2. an extra 2 days can kinda throw it off (so it would seem).

how bout the course where the CA state champs are held? there is a 10k XC course that has not changed there for years. footlocker west used to be held there up until about 1999 or so, and there are abundant hotels and restaurants in the area.

if not that course, how bout Kenneth Hahn park in Los Angeles where the SoCal USATF champs were held last weekend? 4 2k loops can be changed to 5 loops easily. it's in Los Angeles, so hotels, airlines, etc would be easy.

also, there's a former army base in El Toro (right next to Irvine, CA) where the land will be turned into a park. The parks and rec dept (as far as i know) were asking local coaches for advice on how to build an XC course there. (they were actually going to BUILD one--hills, grass, dirt, gravel, whatever). something like that would work. Irvine is close to the john wayne airport in Santa Ana, and has a ton of hotels and restaurants as well. and there's no short order of things to do, places to go, etc in southern CA.

Because the semifinals are held on Saturday and the teams are given a one-day break before the championship game. Hence, the championship is Monday.

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those are all solid reasons, but i think they can be worked out. my biggest concern is that every race is run on a saturday and the athletes will be accustomed to competing every 2 weeks or so. an extra 2 days can kinda throw it off (so it would seem).

sorry, that's how it's supposed to read.

I heard that Teg doesn't run the 10k. He must be a division 3 runner.

I talked to someone who was working with a certain AD in the Midwest who was trying to bring the NCAA's for D1, D2, and D3 all at the same location but on 2 different days at the Footlocker Midwest Regional Course (Parkside in Kenosha Wisconsin) but the D3's balked on it. How sweet would it have been to show up for a Saturday, Sunday all three Divisions championship on a very nice course for racing and viewing? Plenty of lodging, can fly into Milwaukee, Chicago. WOW what a waste. Boy what were the D3's thinking?

nah teg just doesn't run the 10k.

plain and simple.

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I talked to someone who was working with a certain AD in the Midwest who was trying to bring the NCAA's for D1, D2, and D3 all at the same location but on 2 different days at the Footlocker Midwest Regional Course (Parkside in Kenosha Wisconsin) but the D3's balked on it. How sweet would it have been to show up for a Saturday, Sunday all three Divisions championship on a very nice course for racing and viewing? Plenty of lodging, can fly into Milwaukee, Chicago. WOW what a waste. Boy what were the D3's thinking?

man, that would be great! i raced the wisconsin parkside course, and that would be a great venue for the race. with only a 2 hour drive from chicago, people from all over the US would be able to attend.

there are a lot of new d3 coaches that are young, so it could happen soon. however, i hear that the NCAA will add either a 4th division or add a section to d-III.

Any races in NYC sucks. Why put up with the shithole of the planet. We need Bin Ladin to come back and finish off New York. I mean the pace really sucks. Hotels are worst than Eugene. The attitude of the people is the worst. There\'s thousands of other venues in the U.S. Don\'t embarrass the NCAA by having any events in NYC.

I personally think DI XC champs are on Monday because DI athletes are athlete-students while those of lets say DIII student-athletes. Not to say that there aren't very good students on DI teams, it just makes it more difficult. Try to be a science major (physics, chemistry, etc.) at a DI school and still make it to each and every practice, lifting session,etc. nearly is impossible. When you have hours of labs it is tough. XC runners have a better chance of it than most other DI athletes.

Especially for the major sports like football with nearly 5 or 6 hours a day of practice, lifting, game film, etc., you pretty much have to be a genius to really get a great education and excel in school.

d3alum,

That was the worst post I've encountered in at least a week on LetsRun. Congrats.

In the future, think before you type.

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