justthefacts wrote:
"It's just college football," Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez told USA TODAY Sports. "There's so much talk about the playoff, everybody forgets about how important every regular-season game is. It's what makes college football so popular."
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XC where you train, train, get hurt, sit, train, get hurt, "Wait until next year".
GREAT POST. Except you missed the part about not racing for no good reason or splitting up your team into an A and B,e tc.
How come no one is talking about the NAVY men?
A great win for them. I know the men's meet wasn't very strong but if people did care about regular season xc meets in the same way they do college football this would be THE UPSET OF THE WEEK.
navy came in ranked behing lehigh in the regional rankings. Navy won. Lehigh was 9th.
To put that in perspective, consider this. Navy scored 95 points AS A TEAM. Lehigh's 3rd man was 96th. I'm not trying to disrespect Lehigh just point out how big of an upset this was for Navy.
This makes me want to back the clock 20+ years to 1993 or 1994. I remember one year I was at Princeton. THere was a season opener at VCP with Navy and Princeton. Princeton should have won by a guy tied up bad in the last 400 and they lost by a point or two. Navy went on to get 6th in the country. Princeton 6th at Heps.
that was back in the day when teams would regular implode, overrace, etc. Nowadays thanks to the Internet, few do stuff like that but it's much more boring.
It was blowups like that by the Tigers that pushed Chris Lear into being a huge wetmore fan and me being a huge JK fan.
-Rojo
PS. Here are the results:
http://runhigh.com/2014RESULTS/R100414AD.htmlPPS. I added the "Someone break up the Navy Men!!" to the thread title.