This is not like Felix-Tarmoh. The NCAA TEAM winner is not going anywhere. I'd go for the number of Team event winners, but there's no reason to come up with some kind of fake stat that 99% of coaches and fans would complain about anyway.
They are not going to change it.
They should play a game of horse to see who wins.
Highest average GPA.
Of scorers not every Joe Blow on the team.
lease wrote:
The sixth-runner tiebreaker (common in HS meets) is just idiotic. Those sixth runners *already* had a chance to score for their teams (and didn't), and to add to other teams' scores (and probably did); why should the sixth-best runner on a team get a second bite of the apple?
No you idiot, are you stupid? If there are 5 teams in a league, and only 3 advance to go to a state-qualifier meet, and 2 teams tie for 3rd, how else would you break the tie?
English Prof wrote:
Highest average GPA.
This. Or give it to the team with the highest graduation rate over the last 5 years.
They should just do the whole meet over.
English Prof wrote:
Highest average GPA.
C'Mon.. We all know that gives an unfair advantage to distance oriented programs. Typical LR elitism.
Why? Share the fun - double the fun!
Remove the other teams and score it as as a dual meet. Favors schools with a lot of scorers in lots of events.
Abroham Lincoln wrote:
English Prof wrote:Highest average GPA.
C'Mon.. We all know that gives an unfair advantage to distance oriented programs. Typical LR elitism.
Highest average GPA in mathematics, physics, chemistry and bioengineering. Screw English Lit.
Rap battle
Realism wrote:
It should all come down to a 30x1 relay
30 man relay , each man running a 100 for a total of 3000m
a true test of team depth, it could come down to 2 XC guys or throwers sprinting down the home stretch.
My high school athletic conference had something like this when I ran, a 16x100 at the end of dual/tri regular season meets unscored just for fun
That sounds like fun but if it was for real, how many baton drops would there be in a 30x1 if people were really running full out - some of whom never run relays? 10?
You'd have to let people pick up the baton or everyone would run it so safe that it would be boring.
Both head coaches face off in an American Gladiators style joust.
8 lap relay, 6 persons per team. Teams set the distances per leg any way they choose, but all 6 have to run.
good wiggins wrote:
lease wrote:The sixth-runner tiebreaker (common in HS meets) is just idiotic. Those sixth runners *already* had a chance to score for their teams (and didn't), and to add to other teams' scores (and probably did); why should the sixth-best runner on a team get a second bite of the apple?
No you idiot, are you stupid? If there are 5 teams in a league, and only 3 advance to go to a state-qualifier meet, and 2 teams tie for 3rd, how else would you break the tie?
Actually, I prefer the NCAA's method for breaking ties (in order to advance teams from a Regional meet to the National meet). I'll let you look it up. At least it doesn't put the decision in the hands of someone who wasn't good enough to be in his/her team's top five.
Billy Madision Rules.. Academic decatholon...
4runner wrote:
They should play a game of horse to see who wins.
Lots of dumb and dumber answers. The real answer is take all the scorers and base their times/distances on the Portugese scoring tables. The team with the most points wins.
Now wasn't that easier than playing horse?
Looks like someone is still bitter about losing that HS state XC meet 10 years ago on a 6th runner. Too bad your sixth man sucked. Get over it.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
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