Mick Byrne wins every year, everywhere. Why should this year be different? He consistently fielded top ten teams for 22 years at Iona. How the hell do you gets kids to go to Iona?
All he has done at Wisconsin is win five straight Big Ten Titles, the NCAA Championship in 2011 and runner up last year.
His gap is in upper classman. He had a strong recruiting class for XC this year with Kromer, 10th at NXN and Hirsch,1600 and 3200 champ in Wisconsin and Sullivan from TX, 20th at NXN. Those kids will all red shirt but will be factors in the future.
Until somebody beats them, and you know everybody wants to, they are still the team to beat. Michigan and Illinois look like good teams that should contend.