Please tell me why the NY girls don't get 4 teams into NXN every year? If Holy Names beats East Aurora at the NY regional then EA does not get to go to NXN. Then they finish 4th at Nationals!!!!! 14 points out of second. Holy Names should have gone and they would have finished top 10 for sure. Maybe next year....
Ummm no. Move NXN to California and I'd bet my life savings they'd have four teams in the top 10. New York trains/races in similar (or pretty close) to the conditions NXN is, while states like California, Texas, etc. go from warm, dry conditions to what you saw today. It's an unfair advantage.
jfdsklfjsdkfjd wrote:
Ummm no. Move NXN to California and I'd bet my life savings they'd have four teams in the top 10. New York trains/races in similar (or pretty close) to the conditions NXN is, while states like California, Texas, etc. go from warm, dry conditions to what you saw today. It's an unfair advantage.
Nobody trains in conditions like this, idiot.
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Please tell me why the NY girls don't get 4 teams into NXN every year? If Holy Names beats East Aurora at the NY regional then EA does not get to go to NXN. Then they finish 4th at Nationals!!!!! 14 points out of second. Holy Names should have gone and they would have finished top 10 for sure. Maybe next year....
If Holy Names beat East Aurora at the NY regional, they both likely would have gotten in (as long as East Aurora ran about as well as they did).
But they didn't, they were pretty far behind Saratoga for the second week in a row, and there is still no reason to believe they would have been in the top 10 or maybe even top 15. East Aurora ran very well, but that doesn't mean that other teams would have been guaranteed to run as well even from the same state.
jfdsklfjsdkfjd wrote:states like California, Texas, etc. go from warm, dry conditions to what you saw today. It's an unfair advantage.
If you think it's an unfair advantage that the race is in an area with a climate like Portland, you must think it's a REALLY unfair advantage when the race is in an area like San Diego.
Portland is very near the average at this time of year for temperatures, and most of the nation at some point has a decent amount of rain (and it's only been raining about half of the yeras at NXN so far, which seems pretty fair).
I wonder what you'd be saying if they held the meet in a place where it actually is cold... for example the Midwest, the Northeast, or Alaska.
Nowhere is as hot as southern California and Florida this time of year. Get over it.
if Californians can't handle the conditions why did Arcadia win the boy's race? NY certainly has 4 of the top 12 teams in the nation and probably 5 of the top 20. I suspect the idea is to get as much equal representation as possible from around the country to market Nike. I enjoyed the interviews with kids from all over the country, it's great they were given the opportunity to feel so special. Hopefully they will all continue in our great sport. Frankly though even though XC is a team sport I found the races boring. The only thing exciting was watching Baxter run and Cain try to catch her. This is why I guess i enjoy the Footlocker race more.
Going from good conditions to terrible conditions is hard.
Ex: California, Texas, etc. racing at NXN
Balboa Park has great conditions every year, so I don't see that as a disadvantage at all.
States like NY train in the snow part of the year (I can't find the FM video where they're doing it), so at least they're a little prepared.
And Arcadia shouldn't have won today. It's a shame CBA made the trip, only to go back home with nothing. They were hands down the best in the country this fall!
Demolished Arcadia earlier in the season. Sat out top 5 and still won state. Arcadia winning is just ridiculous.