Patriot League Cross Country 2019

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provide source wrote:

McCafe wrote:

Spangler is getting the Director job

Source?

Spangler got FIRED from Florida. To the best of my knowledge he has never coached a cross country All-American (his bio brags about a guy getting 49th at NCAA's when top 40 is All-American. Boston U can easily attract more accomplished coaches than him.

Paul Spangler has never coached an all american in cross country. Neither has Sean Graham. Makes sense why their contracts weren't renewed at their Power 5 jobs.

Que? https://www.secsports.com/article/11128469/florida-cross-country

Obviously you’re an older coach in the patriot league that feels threatened by the new/younger coaches coming into the conference.

Kevin Donner has coached an NCAA All-American in cross country- Brian Sell baby!

Lehigh has the best chance of burning out especially with Patriots being in November, a week later than normal. Kirshenbaum has a good chance at top 7 but they seem like they're turning into a mid-distance school.

No ones gonna touch Army with a Top 3 of Ollar, Petrella and Santoyo except maybe Navy if Brophy and Murray can go 1-2 and they get another breakout runner like they always do.

Boston and Bucknell are gonna dress up like a contender but the race is after Halloween this year so they won't matter

Paul Luevano returns to glory with a dominant win. BU has some good international men coming in, they can contend. One guy from Canada is really good.

Whatever happened to Holy Cross?

Did it give up sports?

Predicting another year of slow times because of hills. But it don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning.

HC mostly defunded TF and XC, diverted the money to women's ice hockey for schollys for the last few years from what I hear. They had a beautiful new indoor turf facility put in with a track around that is a.......... *rectangle*. Useless. Go figure. Meanwhile football gets shelacked by BC and Yale. So for women's XC and Track you get what you get in the admissions rounds basically.

arunnery660 wrote:

HC mostly defunded TF and XC, diverted the money to women's ice hockey for schollys for the last few years from what I hear. They had a beautiful new indoor turf facility put in with a track around that is a.......... *rectangle*. Useless. Go figure. Meanwhile football gets shelacked by BC and Yale. So for women's XC and Track you get what you get in the admissions rounds basically.

I'm a coach in New England and I lost a recruit to Holy Cross this year. She had 1120 on the SAT and received a bigger financial aid package at Holy Cross than the 50% scholarship we offered.

I don't think many other Patriot League schools can grant exceptions like that. Holy Cross has an average SAT of 1330. They should still be doing well in the Patriot League since they apparently can get anyone in.

Holy Cross is a test optional school, so the SAT might not have even mattered if they didn't submit it. Also, they meet 100% of demonstrated need, so depending on their financial situation they might have been able to receive more money than what your school could offered.

Holy Cross is a test optional school, so the SAT might not have even mattered if they didn't submit it. Also, they meet 100% of demonstrated need, so depending on their financial situation they might have been able to receive more money than what your school could offer.

not the best logic wrote:

Holy Cross is a test optional school, so the SAT might not have even mattered if they didn't submit it. Also, they meet 100% of demonstrated need, so depending on their financial situation they might have been able to receive more money than what your school could offered.

Test optional is a bigger advantage than having scholarships. There is so much talent that is a little below regular Patriot League school's admissions standards that Holy Cross can take advantage of.

Milesplit interview of a BU recruit -

https://www.milesplit.com/videos/398556

PRs -

https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/canada/foster-malleck-337068

More internationals as expected.

Watch out for Malleck. This guy's the real deal.

Malleck from BU is an animal but he raced well into the summer. Lehigh somehow landed a stud in Connor Melko (9:04 14:47) and Navy got the sub 4:10 Rizzo from NY. Lots of freshmen who could make an impact.

Men’s Predictions...

1) Army

2) Boston

3) Buck

4) Navy

5) American

Women’s...

1) Buck

2) Boston

3) Navy

4) Lehigh

5) Army

Basically same as last year for men. Lehigh returns 4 all league athletes for women.