WISCO INVITE & PRE-NATS

Bruce was much better than 250 last year and when he was having a bad race and 6 (which he should have been) was having a good race, I think he packed it in. Finnerty has always had injuries issues in previous seasons, so it is not clear how well he can do at XC. Given his rather successful track season last year (3:38 1500) he is probably in much better shape this year. There are some other stealth guys we have not really seen perform because they have not run much at season-ending meets in top shape, so I suspect that they will pull a few cards out of the deck.

Fall from the top wrote:

... The quality of the '11 class is something you'd expect at Purdue or Iowa.

I'm sure it has something to do with $ since they spread the aid around to T&F, but the recruiting misses will end up biting him in the arse. If not this year then definitely next year.

Then again he's a great coach and maybe some guys will make the jump up. Adidas will give us a pretty good idea where the team is at.

Well, guys like Austin Mudd are not exactly chopped liver - making the Trials as a freshman is pretty good, especially given the level of talent that has developed lately at the 800 and 1500.

You did not always hear about the guys he recruited at Iona either and guys like Luke Rucks [only a conf champ and state qualifier, not placer] and he gets to NCAAs and then runs 3:40 or so and gets close to qualifying (OTs). So the coach knows how to bring along the guys that 'fill the roster' as well as the known stars.

Anyone know why Arkansas is sending their "A" team to the Wisconsin Invitational, rather than running at their home meet (Chile Pepper)>

Is there a start list for individuals at Wisconsin yet?

Start list?? wrote:

Is there a start list for individuals at Wisconsin yet?

No. There never will be.

Curious1978 wrote:

Anyone know why Arkansas is sending their "A" team to the Wisconsin Invitational, rather than running at their home meet (Chile Pepper)>

their coach f***ed up

My guess is that Arkansas failed to garner points for the Nationals algorithm last year when they only finished third at Regionals, so they deem it wise to chase some potential points at Wisco meet this year. Probably a smart move.

Mick should offer a Points for Pints deal at a good Madcity Irish bar after meet!

Teams also had to commit to running Wisconsin early in the spring. If they wanted to change to Prenats they would have had to buy out of their contracts.

A link for the entry lists is here:

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-xc/adidas-Invitational-2012.html

Van wrote:

My guess is that Arkansas failed to garner points for the Nationals algorithm last year when they only finished third at Regionals, so they deem it wise to chase some potential points at Wisco meet this year. Probably a smart move.

Mick should offer a Points for Pints deal at a good Madcity Irish bar after meet!

Arkansas will rack up all the Points at "Points for Pint"

The Stanford men and women are not listed in the entry list posted today. What's up. Thought they were both going

Yes they are

Texas top 4 at Wisco

Krause and Leung are running unattached apparently. I'll bet the two of them, Darling, and Connor (if he races) try to run as a pack like the UW guys did last year. If those two fifth years still had cross eligibility there wouldn't be any consideration of redshirting Ahmed and Connor and UW would easily win nationals again.

cweafweaf wrote:

Krause and Leung are running unattached apparently. I'll bet the two of them, Darling, and Connor (if he races) try to run as a pack like the UW guys did last year. If those two fifth years still had cross eligibility there wouldn't be any consideration of redshirting Ahmed and Connor and UW would easily win nationals again.

I'm guessing Krause and Leung will be in the 'B' race.

why would that be? they probably wouldn't count toward the 7 in the A race. Its wisco's meet anyway, they can do what they want.

UAlbany is winning the Pre-Nats race, hands down. alex leuchanka and ethan clary will go #1,2. They've been running monster this year.

925 Atchoo, Michael M JR Stanford926 Graham, Thomas M FR Stanford927 Johnson, Benjamin M SR Stanford928 Olson, Erik M SO Stanford929 Orman, Billy M SO Stanford930 Rosa, Jim M SO Stanford931 Rosa, Joe M SO Stanford932 Stutzman, Tyler M JR Stanford933 Unterreiner, Miles M SR Stanford411 Amaro, Emilie F SR Stanford412 Chapus, Cami F FR Stanford413 Cuffe, Aisling F SO Stanford414 Ferrante, Marissa F JR Stanford415 Foster, Julia F SO Stanford416 Hatton, Cayla F FR Stanford417 Kroeger, Kathy F SR Stanford418 Lacy, Megan F FR Stanford419 Mehra, Rebecca F FR Stanford420 Tonn, Jessica F JR Stanford

Confabulatory wrote:

The Stanford men and women are not listed in the entry list posted today. What's up. Thought they were both going

So how does this work? I see that a lot of the big teams are bringing more than 7 runners. Are some of them just brought as alternates in case someone gets sick or injured, or do they run unattached or get placed in the "B' race?