Are the results posted anywhere in non pdf form?
Are the results posted anywhere in non pdf form?
He was with the leading 5 through like 4miles, then when he started to get dropped he just gave up.
Middlebury women won with no All-Americans. how often does that happen?
Well, well, well. Looks like I was right all along. To all those who doubted the MW Region:
#2 NCC, #4 UW-P, #6 UW-SP, #9 WashU, #11 UW-O
When will you chumps learn the MW region deserves at least 6-7 spots, if not more.
Ralphy wrote:
Well, well, well. Looks like I was right all along. To all those who doubted the MW Region:
#2 NCC, #4 UW-P, #6 UW-SP, #9 WashU, #11 UW-O
When will you chumps learn the MW region deserves at least 6-7 spots, if not more.
The MW doesn't deserve sheeit. The goal is to have a championship that is truly representative of the whole country.
I'm not even a member of the MW region, but that is wrong.
The goal is to have a championship that includes all of the best DIII teams in the country, not just the most geographically evenly-spread composite of decent teams. If a team sucks, it doesn't deserve to be in Nationals just because it exists in the South or the West, for instance.
screw that. the point is to have all the best teams in the nation race each other at the same meet.
natsnatsnats wrote:
Middlebury women won with no All-Americans. how often does that happen?
Midd had 3 all americans
oops nevermind
New England women only got 4 teams in yet they all were in the top 10? Why didnt Colby make it
Ralphy wrote:
Well, well, well. Looks like I was right all along. To all those who doubted the MW Region:
#2 NCC, #4 UW-P, #6 UW-SP, #9 WashU, #11 UW-O
When will you chumps learn the MW region deserves at least 6-7 spots, if not more.
Good for you. Now go change your underwear.
The Midwest Region gets totally screwed in this qualifying format. They deserve to have at least 6 teams each year. The old format worked well... The best teams faced each other consistently.
DougC
Try adding up the AAs and NCs from the '86 St Thomas team
natsnatsnats wrote:
Middlebury women won with no All-Americans. how often does that happen?
As far back as the raceberry archives go (1998), for either men or women, this has never happened.
DougC wrote:
The Midwest Region gets totally screwed in this qualifying format. They deserve to have at least 6 teams each year. The old format worked well... The best teams faced each other consistently.
DougC
QFE. Boom. I just feel sorry for all the past teams that finished 6th or 7th in the MW Region but probably would have finished Top 20 at NCAAs had they been given the chance. Meanwhile Southeast Region gets 2 teams that can't even crack Top 15.
Judging from their regional performance I have a hard time seeing the Eau Claire men not improve upon their 16th place team finish from last year had they made it this year(6th in MW)
b1019 wrote:
I'm not even a member of the MW region, but that is wrong.
The goal is to have a championship that includes all of the best DIII teams in the country, not just the most geographically evenly-spread composite of decent teams. If a team sucks, it doesn't deserve to be in Nationals just because it exists in the South or the West, for instance.
That is your goal, not the goal of the NCAA, dummy.
Ralphy wrote:
Well, well, well. Looks like I was right all along. To all those who doubted the MW Region:
#2 NCC, #4 UW-P, #6 UW-SP, #9 WashU, #11 UW-O
When will you chumps learn the MW region deserves at least 6-7 spots, if not more.
I agree that the rule should definitely be changed, but even under the current rule the committee f***ed up bad on the Women's side:
New England had teams place 1st (Midd), 3rd (MIT), 5th (Williams), and 8th (Amherst), but for some reason they were only given 4 bids!! There wasn't enough of a drop off to Colby for them not to have deserved to go.
Right, Smallwood, but I guess if I were the NCAA I assume that my goal would be to stage an honest national championship.
Mideast took 1st, 5th, 14th, 15th,and 20th, so two of the eight regions already have a third of the slots and represent half of the top 20 teams.
Regional competition promotes and strengthens the sport nationwide.
Why do you think they call them "Regionals" anyway? Doy.