Verbicas will win NCAA XC Frosh Year

Everybody hold on. I hope he does do well in future by do we have to make him a distance running god right away? He beat a weak senior class at foot locker. He has run 1418 in track right let him run another couple years before you guys get on your knees to suck him off. It will take a while for him to get to that level.

"Sorry but Verzbicas is not the shit, as your making him out to be he is only two years younger than Chris Derrick. He is older Than Craig Lutz. He has been training since he was in diapers. His upside is not what we are making it out to be. Derrick is going to be untouchable and Lutz still has years of improvement ahend and would have kicked LZ's ass if he had not raced all out two weeks in a row."

Speaking of people training a lot while in high school, DRitz did high mileage too. Talk about a crappy career he's having. No upside for him either

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retard trap wrote:

Everybody hold on. I hope he does do well in future by do we have to make him a distance running god right away? He beat a weak senior class at foot locker. He has run 1418 in track right let him run another couple years before you guys get on your knees to suck him off. It will take a while for him to get to that level.

This is a pretty bad argument. He just beat that pretty weak senior class that will be the junior class when he is a freshman in college. Then that junior class (that is very talented) just got eaten up by him. They will be the sophomores in college his freshman year. The only argument made against him winning (other than the obvious - what if something detrimental happens to him) is the Wisconsin freshman that is good.

And his 14:18 wasn't just "on the track" - it was indoors all by himself when he was 16. Not saying that is equivalent by any means to Derrick's 13:55 by himself outdoor as a senior, but c'mon - that is a pretty studly performance to say the least and he is deserving of the praise and respect. Yes, he certainly needs to show consistency longer than a few years to even be considered a threat at a significantly higher level, but I think it would be a safe assumption to say that if he keeps on the path he's on then he will develop into a potential NCAA champion as a true freshman (granted a year older true freshman).

Obviously Lukas is a mega-talent.

But if history has shown us anything, its that it is enormously difficult to predict the career arc of 16-19 year olds, particularly 3-4 years down the line.

For example, who would have been able to predict that Fernandez would run 13:25, 3:55, be the NCAA champion at 1500m but NOT be an AA in XC.

pert wrote:

"Sorry but Verzbicas is not the shit, as your making him out to be he is only two years younger than Chris Derrick.

What did Chris Derrick run two years ago? That's what I thought.

Bottom line....Luke is the youngest ever to win footlocker....get over it!....doesn't matter if he is a eight grader!

if he wins the next two you all have arguments, but for how he is the Youngest of all time!

I guess the real question is, do you guys think Dathan could have beaten Lukas his sophomore year?

JohnnyB wrote:

Also he's very team oriented so I can't see him skipping college.

Are you serious? Team-oriented, Lukas? Ask around how team-oriented his xc and track seasons were last year?

He wasn't on the xc or track team last year because he was triathlon training and LV ran non-school events. How team-oriented was that? LV and the Sandberg HS coach are just saying pro-team stuff. LV doesn't need to be team-oriented and the Sandberg HS coach knows it. The Sandberg HS coach knows that he won the lottery with LV and will do anything just to keep LV running in a Sandberg HS jersey.

By the fall 2012, LV will be doing pro triathlons in the Lithuanian jersey, not running NCAA xc meets in an Oregon jersey. Like George Zimmer, I guarantee it.

Really?? wrote:

JohnnyB wrote:

Also he's very team oriented so I can't see him skipping college.

Are you serious? Team-oriented, Lukas? Ask around how team-oriented his xc and track seasons were last year?

He wasn't on the xc or track team last year because he was triathlon training and LV ran non-school events. How team-oriented was that? LV and the Sandberg HS coach are just saying pro-team stuff. LV doesn't need to be team-oriented and the Sandberg HS coach knows it. The Sandberg HS coach knows that he won the lottery with LV and will do anything just to keep LV running in a Sandberg HS jersey.

By the fall 2012, LV will be doing pro triathlons in the Lithuanian jersey, not running NCAA xc meets in an Oregon jersey. Like George Zimmer, I guarantee it.

If he is not good enough to make the US teams he might be better off competing for Lithuania. However, he will probably make more money competing for the US if he is good enough to be the top guy, which people here are saying he will be. Not sure he can be the top runner, but the Tri pool is smaller and easier to be the best.

youve got the wrong guys wrote:

Lukas' primary competition (currently identifiable) will likely come from Joe Rosa and Amar Moussa (3rd and 4th at NXN).

I'm sooo sure Lukas V.'s rivals will come from the 3rd/4th places of a slacker's version of the race that he won. Lutz who won NXN was only 4th at Footlocker, which would put 3rd/4th at about 12th-16th at Footlocker, the only Highschool race that matters, most likely they wouldn't even get that.