Horny Ghost wrote:
Good video, can see Coffey's move up the hill as it happens at 4:40. Fast forwarding sucks though.
Will be fun to see how it plays out on the regional stage, can't possibly go so slow again
Such a smart move. Everyone was waiting for a move to be made by someone, but to do it off of the hill is so unexpected. Nice strategy by him and his coaches.
How do you think our individuals (Coffey, Bugler, Newsum, Knobbe, Jones) will do agains the rest of the region?
you mean by him.
OH YEAH GREAT MOVE 3K FROM THE FINISH THEY DIDN'T HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE TO MAKE UP THAT INCREDIBLE SURGE. BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT STRATEGY FROM THE FASTEST RUNNER IN THE RACE TO START RUNNING FAST OH BOY.
Either Coffey or Bugler could definitely win. Isaac Jensen, Iowa champ is probably the biggest competitor and they both beat him at La Crosse this year.
Behind them could be tight, including Tope, Alec Bass, Neb-Wes's top two, Central's top two, GAC's top two, Newsum, Berhe, others. Any major favorites I'm missing?
Wartburg has some decent frontrunners, so expect them to be in contention.
The team race, especially #3-7, will be as exciting as it's ever been. It's basically a toss-up in my opinion.
Wartbarge wrote:
Wartburg has some decent frontrunners, so expect them to be in contention.
The team race, especially #3-7, will be as exciting as it's ever been. It's basically a toss-up in my opinion.
Just get out
Happy Thursty Thirsday. In honor of regions probably sucking for the MIAC, I thought I'd bring up the conference meet again. So I decided to form teams based on primary track distances. To keep everyone in their primary races, I used MIAC results instead of the Honor Roll. This is only inaccurate for Jacob Eggers, who is definitely more of a 1500 guy, but didn't run it at conference.
If they did 2, they are put in the one with the better result. The team is based on the top 5 performers of that event at cross country, not at track. Joe Coffey got third in both, so I'll put him in the 1500 as he made nationals in that event.
800 vs 1500 vs 3000SC vs 5000 vs 10000.
Team 800: 80pts (4th Place)
Jacob Eggers (STO) 8
Allen-Michael Burback (UST) 16
Evan Hatton (BET) 17
Alex Fredrickson (GUS)19
Brandon Krogman (SMU) 20
Team 1500: 69pts (3rd Place)
Joe Coffey (STO) 1
William Anderson (STO) 7
Marcus Speca (GUS) 18
Kyle Mehrhof (HAM) 21
Chris Boranian (MAC) 22
Team Steeple Chase: 43pts (2nd Place)
Ryan Bugler (SJU) 2
Thomas Knobbe (GUS) 4
Carston Dammann (GUS) 9
Parker Rosenau (UST) 13
Matthew Burgstahler (SJU) 15
Team 5000: 41pts (1st Place)
Jovan Newsum (SMU) 3
Alex Berhe (STO) 5
Tris Dodge (CAR) 10
James Logan (HAM) 11
Abdullahi Salan (AUG) 12
Team 10000: 92pts (5th Place)
Maxwell Kuzara (SJU) 6
Adam Brandt (UST) 14
Sam Friesen (SJU) 23
Michael Nelson (SJU) 24
Anthony Paladie (HAM) 25
Jesus, go out and drink or something.
I actually really enjoyed this. Well done.
It is incredibly interesting to see how much better the 1500m runners (and even 800m guys) faired off than the 10k guys. Granted, the 10k was rather weak this past year and graduated everyone. But the point remains. The steeplechasers (arguably the most equivalent track event to xc) did as good as anyone would have expected.
St Olaf is DONE
November surprise wrote:
St Olaf is DONE
ST. OLAF GOES HOME DEVESTATED
St. Olaf gets pooped on.
No Oles going to nats unless the committee thinks they aren't trash
I hear the Oles bathe with their dads. Can anyone confirm this?
Seems like Joe Coffey might of had a few too many msr lites after his conference win--thanks to his surge coming down the hill that points to transcendent intelligence as a runner. He looked ruff coming in.
Doing alcohols will not help the Oles. The only thing that can help the Ole's is eating fruits and veggies.
What teams make it in? Loras, Wartburg, Olaf, Neb Wes? Less? They were all ranked in the top 32. Doubtful they take Luther.
I think just the first 3. The region is trash. Nebraska Wesleyan got beat by the following at Paul Short: NYU (4th in atlantic, but probably in), Haverford (auto), Middlebury (4th in NE, probably in), Oneonta (5th in atlantic, bubble squad), Allegheny (auto), Washington & Lee (auto, south), TCNJ (3rd in atlantic, probably in), Conn College (11th in NE, OUT), Ithaca (9th Atlantic, OUT), Wesleyan (12th in NE, OUT).
I'm reminded of the saying "it's better to keep your mouth closed and appear ignorant than to open your mouth and confirm." Coaches, if you're going to take your team out east, make sure they are good because it's better for other people/the committee to just think that the central region is bad, as opposed to confirming it. Could be the difference between them giving the benefit of the doubt to the 4th team in the region over the 6th or 7th in New England.
Frankly, I'm not sure that Olaf's resume would stand up to strict scrutiny. They haven't really raced or beat anyone besides teams in the Central Region. But I think they have a reputation such that they will get in. Particularly because they didn't go race somewhere and get to beat to confirm these suspicions.
10/15: Lost to UW-Lax, beat Neb Wes & GAC, 10/01: Lost to UW-Lax & UW-EC, beat Saint John's, 09/17: Lost to UW-EC, beat GAC
Granted UWL and UWEC have good squads which will contend for the podium. Looking at Loras' results doesn't tell us much. They've beat up on bad teams from the region all year--not that they aren't a good team. But Wartburg's results would seem to indicate that there are some teams that are on the bubble that should be ahead of Olaf based off of UWO results where Wartburg was beaten by ONU (3rd in atlantic), AUG (9th in Midwest, OUT).
N'oles wrote:
No Oles going to nats unless the committee thinks they aren't trash
It appears the entire team Jake Brown'd themselves...a look at the splits is embarrassing.
They are all getting ready for Nordic and refused to taper?