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  • PFC

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 11/13/2002 9:43am EST
    re: Peak Time

    Peak Time,

    By your logic in sending only the third team you are essentially saying the other teams behind the "blocker" ran poorly and that is why that got beat and thus don't deserve to go. How come it can't be the teams below the blocker ran equal to or better than how they had been running all year when they were getting the at-large points and the "blocker" team simply ran outstanding at the region to beat them. You see this all the time in individual competition where an individual who had been running decently all year but nothing great suddenly pulls off a fantastic race and gets all-american and beats a bunch of guys who had been beating him all year. Those other guys didn't run poorly, the individual just had a great race.

  • Billy Bob

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 11/13/2002 9:46am EST
    re: Peak Time

    Who are you going to send if New Mexico gets third in the mountain region and Miami(OH) gets third in the Great Lakes. Does that mean all the teams behind them do not deserve to go?

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    Robert

    Member since 07/17/2002.

    176 posts. Last post 14 years ago.
    21 years ago 11/13/2002 9:51am EST
    re: Peak Time

    coach peak time

    If USU beats MSU, BYU, WEBER, CSU this weekend, as I understand your position, these teams would not deserve to go to nationals.

    Could you please justify why teams from other regions would be more deserving?

  • The Eminem Show

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 11/13/2002 11:11am EST
    re: robert

    I agree with Robert, you couldn't find thirteen better teams to take the at-large bids than BYU, Weber, CSU, and MSU. If they were to get beat, they still deserve to go over all other teams on the bubble. These teams have a shot at the top ten in the nation, if they get beat by USU, then maybe USU does as well, but they'll still work all the other at large teams. I completely agree with the blocker rule.

  • Peak Time

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 11/13/2002 11:38am EST
    re: robert

    PFC,robert,Billy Bob,

    I think that the question that still needs to be answered is do we reward teams who have peaked at the wrong time? If USU/Anywhere U. beats the specified teams, and those teams are clearly talented enough to have beaten USU/Anywhere U. on an earlier date-may have actually beaten USU/Anywhere U. on an earlier date, but due to coaching or whatever excuse is given, they do not, do we still book the tickets based on a race run on Oct. 19th. That is a month before the day that really counts. A team finishing behind USU/Anywhere U. -clearly on the downward slide of their peak

    is currently given the priveledge of going to nationals, which is TEN days further into their downward slide based on stale results, when fresher more relevant results are there to be used. The botton line is that the field would still be filled, but teams that didn't get it done on Nov. 16th wouldn't be there. In all likely hood, a team like USU won't be third, but if they ended up 4th, thats two teams in, now in the other 8 regions they need to find 11 teams-shouldn't be hard.

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    Beat Train

    Member since 10/30/2002.

    81 posts. Last post 18 years ago.
    21 years ago 11/13/2002 12:28pm EST
    re: Peak Time

    I think it's obvious that Peak Time is a coach of some team that places 3rd or 4th in one of the crappy districts. There is no other way he could warrant the most deserving teams not going to the meet.

    Peak - what about teams that have had injury trouble earlier in the year that get healthy?

    And PFC had a great point in that a team could just run exceptionally well, not the other teams running bad.

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