It's only THE Thomas Adam of course
It's only THE Thomas Adam of course
lets get this going again... preseason thoughts who is going to win what and what will they run?
800: O'Brien, a big gap, the rest of the conference
1500: 0'Brien,a big gap, the rest of the conference
5k: Adam, Bowsher, Butcher
10k: James Castrillo shows up decked out in racing tights ready to roll. The field goes through 2 miles in 10:30 and he thinks it is too slow, he needs to push the pace. He runs the next 3k about 10 seconds slower than his 10k pr, and then shits the bed over the last 2 miles, wondering why his blue hat, mustache, and mexican pride can't lead him to a top 5 finish in an OAC event.
Does anyone else find it stupid to have Two standards in the 400, 800 and 1500 (mainly the 800 and 1500).. all three of the events have less than .6 seconds difference between the A standard and the B standard.
a) I love running in the blue hat.
b) I probably won't wear half tights.
c) I am Nicaraguan.
Check my Math
10k: Butcher, Bowsher, Wolfe, Adam, Lewis, Gibbons, Castrillo, Buhovecky
4x800: ONU, Mount, BW, Wilmington, Marietta, Berg, OC, Cap
1500: O'Brien, Griffin, Porter, D. Smith, Bowen, Kelly, C. Thomas, Holbrook
Steeple: Eberts, Thatcher, Schneider, Orr, Kuess, Dietrich, McPheron, Hiser
800: O'Brien, Griffin, D. Smith, Kelly, Porter, Miceli, Kleinknecht, M. Woods
5k: Bowsher, Hill, Ford, Butcher, Adam, Mickle, Saling, Lewis, Wolfe
Distance Pt. Total:
ONU: 93
MU: 40
BW: 32
Berg: 26
OC: 12
Mar: 10
Wilm: 9
Cap: 4
Those are probably some of the most unbiased predictions I have ever seen on an OAC forum. Kudos Ez Pix
I agree that H-Berg is on the upswing this outdoor season especially after looking at the Wake Forest results. I actually think that they may be even better than what it appears and unlike a heap of other teams they seemed to not focus hard on indoors. Although no Lasch is a killer, I wont be surprised to see them score more distance points than BW, even though the talented Brian Gibbons is getting back into shape. Especially since you forgot to include Jamie Martin in your predictions. I also agree the OC had a fluke meet indoors and they should come back down in the ranks. Most of the points they got in indoor should disappear. Schneider is a more of a flat 3k runner than a steepler, Simko's boot now seems to be too much weight to carry (2:08 or 09 at Emory), and Kleinknecht seems to be fine with just being a rabbit in most 800 races. Painful to say because I remember predicting that kid was going to be the next Ryan Garro after watching him his freshman and sophomore year. Mount should be even tougher outdoors and although ONU is too deep for them, I applaud the fact that they are doing so well with so few contributers. This should be an interesting outdoor season.
If you look at the results from Emory, predicting Thatcher to place that high in the Steeple seems like a stretch. Schneider beat him by almost 20 seconds, two of his teammates beat him and Dixon from OC also beat him.
Team Predictions:
1)ONU
2)BERG
3)MOUNT
4)BW
10k:
1)Butcher-berg
2)Bowsher-onu
3)Adam-onu
5k:
1)Hill-bw
2)Butcher-berg
3)Bowsher-onu
Steeple:
1)Lemon-berg
2)Schneider-bein
3)eberts-bw or kuess-berg
1500:
1)Obrien-onu
2)Griffin-mount
3)Porter-onu
800:
1)Obrien-onu
2)Childs-berg
3)Griffin-mount
These are my team predictions and the distance predictions. I think Berg will give ONU a run for their money and 3rd and 4th place is a toss up with Mount and BW.
Any thoughts?
Onu distance seemes to be getting worse every week. Look For mount to upset
If ONU's distance is faltering then I would expect the berg distance guys to upset and not mount. Although mount does have some very good runners I just don't know about their depth. I guess we'll find out who shows up tomorrow in the 10K.
Right now i would have to say.
Berg-1st
ONU-2nd
Muc3rd---They bombed what happened to Griffin. Did he break a nail?
Can't argue too much with that prediction. Mount ran like complete shit the first meet. That was either a rust buster or they have a lot of work to do or both.