squirt mcjones wrote:
4. Oklahoma State - they return everyone and add some serious talent. also, dave smith is the smartest coach out there in terms of peaking and race strategy. but i think what people don't realize is that everything fell into place perfectly for them last year, and it's hard to do that back to back.
Everything fell into place perfectly for them? Wasn't Jankowski their #5 last year at around 80th raw score? He's a freaking 28:50 10k runner! That's by no means a decent race for him.
Also, don't they have everything 'falling in place perfectly' every year? Look at 2005. How did they finish 8th? Or 2006, 10th without three of the previous year's top 5?
Maybe people just don't ever realize how good they actually are. Ok State is consistently underrated as far as I'm concerned.