Wendell Gee wrote:
You mean other than four consecutive national championships?
Not saying he should be top-7 but I wouldn't call that nothing.
Was the US XC championships different back then? These days I don't think it means much. It doesn't attract all the top talent every year.
It's weird, at the high school level FL attracts all the top high school guys. At the college level NCAA XC is very prestigious. At the international level, World XC is still a very big deal.
But at the national level, the US XC championships - eh. For example, look at the results of this year's senior races. Women's top three - Emily Brown, Julie Culley, Katherine Newberry. That's not exactly Goucher, Flanagan, Yoder-Bagley, Barringer, is it?
The men's side has Meb, but with Tim Nelson second and Bobby Curtis third, that's not an All-Star team either. Missing a lot of Olympians - Ritz, Hall, Teg, Solinsky, Fam, Billy Nelson, Rupp, Abdi, etc.