Liberty and League for all wrote:
Vassar is at least better than Union and Bard, their distance was decent the last couple years. For conferences just looking at 3k results, Liberty League 8th place was 8:40, MIAC was 8:45, UAA was 8:35, NESCAC was 8:43, WIAC was 8:40 so these are all pretty similar to each other in quality just looking at depth of this race. SUNYAC was 8:46 but second place was 8:41 which wouldn't have scored in many of these other conferences so it's debatable
Hard to judge a race by looking only at 8th place time or times in general without knowing how the races unfolded.
Day 1 in the 5k Hannan took it out in 2:54 and only one went with him. Everyone else waited.
The mile went out in 68 before Akerley made a hard move with 1k to go
In the 3k The Mac took it out solo and 10-12 guys sat around and ran tactical for 2k.
I think those times are misleading,