I'm going to have to say that this year, Adams State would have finished 4th in the NCAA DI Men's XC meet. I think they could have finished as high as 3rd and as low as 6th, but certainly inside of that range.
I'm going to have to say that this year, Adams State would have finished 4th in the NCAA DI Men's XC meet. I think they could have finished as high as 3rd and as low as 6th, but certainly inside of that range.
No. Western State seemingly ran terrible and the rest of D2 was not deep this year. I'm always prepared to give the top d2 school major props but this is not one of those years. Would have had to have ran great to sneak in top 10.
d2machine wrote:
No. Western State seemingly ran terrible and the rest of D2 was not deep this year. I'm always prepared to give the top d2 school major props but this is not one of those years. Would have had to have ran great to sneak in top 10.
Totally agree. This is a down year for Div II and Adams is looking like a 10 - 15th place team in the Div I field. GVSU (2nd place team) would most likely be battling for last in the Div I field.
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Adams is very good as always, but not 1992-good this year. My Adams State to DI calculator puts them in the 5-9 range.
They're not as talented as most of the other top 9 teams, but they almost always run their best at the big dance, while most other teams poop the bed when it counts. This year that was particularly true. I'd estimate 80% of the individuals in the race ran slower than they would have had they raced over 10k on this same course six weeks ago.
Damon Martin wouldn't let this happen. On a side note, most DI XC coaches are really unimpressive in their ability to have their athletes ready for NCAAs. On another side note, my current fantasy (although I believe it is possible) has Nick Saban taking over one of talented but chronically underperforming team with a weak coach like Texas, Washington or Minnesota and leads them to an NCAA podium finish in his first year on the job.
Goucher Needles wrote:
They're not as talented as most of the other top 9 teams, but they almost always run their best at the big dance, while most other teams poop the bed when it counts. This year that was particularly true. I'd estimate 80% of the individuals in the race ran slower than they would have had they raced over 10k on this same course six weeks ago.
Damon Martin wouldn't let this happen. On a side note, most DI XC coaches are really unimpressive in their ability to have their athletes ready for NCAAs.
About 80% of the individuals may well have run faster 6 weeks ago. Why? Because 80% of the individuals run at 100% of their capacity to try for the best result possible every time they race. Of those, their results are spread all over; many in the back, most in the middle, and some up front.
Meanwhile the other 20% have more purpose to their races along the way and are very slightly more in control, say at 98% of their capacity. They typically stay healthier and get stronger. At Nationals they go 100% and get a better result there then they have all year.
Maybe you can blame that on most D1 coaches, but at some point the runners have to take responsibility for actually studying the sport and seeing how races play out; not just within one race, but over the season as a whole. A true student athlete will more often than not perform well at the seasons biggest race, no matter who their coach is because we each have the final say in everything we do and therefore the athlete is the coach, whereas the "coach" is really a consultant.
This years adams team, if they ran pretty great, would contend for 9th to 15th place i think. However adams top 2 guys are better, or similar to every CU guy and would be capable of doing damage up front.
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