Chess A Wreck wrote:
On the thought that maybe you haven't been paying attention, the dynamics of Nationals is a lot different than those of a Conference championship meet. Besides, with three of their guys in the top 10 (and Leingang and Pepiot improving quickly), how did you come to the conclusion that Oregon got "crushed at conference"? If Jenkins is ready to go for Nationals, it will be a toss up between Oregon and Colorado.
They went 1-6-10, to Colorado's 3-4-5-7-9. And Fleet (who I will be honest ran a heck of a race for a 1500 guy) was nearly 10 seconds behind Colorado's 5th. Anytime your opponent gets their 5th in before your 3rd it doesn't matter if it's conference or NCAA's, you're getting "crushed".
And I'm so sick of hearing the "if Jenkins is ready to go for Nationals" bs. He. is. not. running.
annnnndddddd Pepiot is not really improving (more just staying consistently 1:10 behind Cheserek) and Leingang is doing the opposite of improving, I think most people refer to it as getting worse. Starting the season off right behind Cheserek. Then getting 34th in a race of 359 people, then 16th in a race of 77 people. Now I know what you are going to say, because this is Letsrun and the internet is predictable, "going from 34th to 16th isn't getting worse, that's getting better you butt munching dingle berry!!!" but to that i say....PHOOEY! there were nearly 5 times as many runners at PreNats, but he didn't do 5 times better at PAC12s.
annnnnnnnnnnddddddddddd even if Leingang and Pepiot were improving, which...they are not, because I just disproved that, but just for fun lets go to a fantasy world where you are right and I am wrong, and they are improving they would need to improve so much so that they made their current 3 runner become their 5 runner. That's a lot of improving, and even if they improved SOOOOOOO much that they froggy hopped Fleet, that would still put them behind Colorado's 5th.
aaaaaannnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddddddd if McGorty had finished the race Stanford could have beaten Oregon, making the #4 team in the country #3 at PAC12s.
In summation, that is how he came to the conclusion that Oregon got "crushed at conference"