7 Genzebe Dibabas on D1 men's team

A team of Dibaba's is not making NCAAs. Here's why:

- She can run 14:15 in a rabbited race and perfect conditions - there are plenty of 14:25 guys in the NCAA that can do the same thing. Her 14:15 is not equal to other 14:15's

- As others have mentioned, no proof she can run as well over 8K and 10K xc as she can at shorter distances. These are totally different distances.

- No low stick as others have mentioned.

- Sure, Nate Edelman can finish 90th on a good day, but he can run 29:10, which Dibaba certainly cannot. Her median finish is much lower than that, and you have to expect a couple of these Dibaba clones to have off days.

She doesn't make the meet even out of the terrible Southern regions.

Also how is this username not already taken?

Also Ran 25:3x wrote:

Using a track 5k to convert to XC 10k is a little generous, particularly given GD's actual performance in long course XC.

GD ran a 25:36 8k for 9th place at the 2011 World XC champs on a pretty fast course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships

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Maybe GD is a lot better at XC now than she was in 2011 but we don't have any real evidence of that.

dude she had just turned 20 years old for that xc race in 2011. wanna know why kind of runner dibaba was around that time?

2010 track times: (year before)

4:04i 1500m, 8:47i 3k, 15:08 5k

2011 track times: (months after world xc)

4:05 1500m, 14:37 5k

i'd say there's a good chance she's now much better at xc than she was at 20 years old.

AliDibaba wrote:

A team of Dibaba's is not making NCAAs. Here's why:

- She can run 14:15 in a rabbited race and perfect conditions - there are plenty of 14:25 guys in the NCAA that can do the same thing. Her 14:15 is not equal to other 14:15's

- As others have mentioned, no proof she can run as well over 8K and 10K xc as she can at shorter distances. These are totally different distances.

- No low stick as others have mentioned.

- Sure, Nate Edelman can finish 90th on a good day, but he can run 29:10, which Dibaba certainly cannot. Her median finish is much lower than that, and you have to expect a couple of these Dibaba clones to have off days.

She doesn't make the meet even out of the terrible Southern regions.

Rabbits yes, but the rabbits drop out and then you are by yourself. Price hurt her in that 3:50. Let her run in a men's race at Payton Jordan where she can lock into a pace and cruise and she is probably low 14:00s.

Coach would have three Dibabas injured, and so the team wouldn't score without bringing in a ringer.

This is what the majority of Male SEC cross country looks like.

A bunch of in state guys at a sprint oriented schools. By their senior year they they run low 14s with a few cracking the barrier.

Obviously there are exceptions like Arkansas and a few scattered individuals. (Brandon Lord, Mark Parrish, Matt Cleaver, Ty McCormack, Luis Orta, Jimmy Clark).

No knock on them. Those programs are moving in a positive direction.

SEC XC wrote:

This is what the majority of Male SEC cross country looks like.

A bunch of in state guys at a sprint oriented schools. By their senior year they they run low 14s with a few cracking the barrier.

Obviously there are exceptions like Arkansas and a few scattered individuals. (Brandon Lord, Mark Parrish, Matt Cleaver, Ty McCormack, Luis Orta, Jimmy Clark).

No knock on them. Those programs are moving in a positive direction.

So you are a guy from the SEC trying to shift a completely unrelated thread into the state of SEC cross country? Nice try.

It would be interesting to see if the 5 Dibaba sisters could win the womans NCAA, I figure if Ejegayehu got in shape, heard she wants to come back then the Dibaba sisters could go 1,2,3, with Genzebe, Tirunesh, and Ejegayehu, then Anna age 18 and her youngest sister I believe her name is Mehlat both just started training could do decently they could win the womens NCAA.

Now this is all hypothetical, and 3 of the Dibaba sisters are Pro's and would not be eligible, but I think it would be possible for them to win NCAA's if they could. The 2 youngest sisters have just started, but they have the same genes obviously.

douglas burke wrote:

It would be interesting to see if the 5 Dibaba sisters could win the womans NCAA, I figure if Ejegayehu got in shape, heard she wants to come back then the Dibaba sisters could go 1,2,3, with Genzebe, Tirunesh, and Ejegayehu, then Anna age 18 and her youngest sister I believe her name is Mehlat both just started training could do decently they could win the womens NCAA.

Now this is all hypothetical, and 3 of the Dibaba sisters are Pro's and would not be eligible, but I think it would be possible for them to win NCAA's if they could. The 2 youngest sisters have just started, but they have the same genes obviously.

They obviously will all be world record holders. Won't question where you studied genetics.