Get over yourselves wrote:
[Footlocker] is where the nations best runners can compete against each other and i honesty hate the fact that Nike is taking that away. Fine let them have a top team from one part of the country race another, but stop messing with the individuals.
I frankly do not understand this line of reasoning. NCAA cross country runs a race for both the individual title and the team title at the same time and everyone seems content with it. Put differently: imagine that after NCAA regionals, the top individuals had to choose between running with their team at the NCAA team championship or running solo at the NCAA individual championship. Would this make any sense?
Take the infamous 1998 Colorado Buffaloes who finished 3rd as a team and had the individual champion. Would it make any sense to make Goucher choose between the individual title and his teammates?
I have never understood why the "national championship" for high school cross country is only an individual race as cross country is a team sport. Nor do I understand why now that NTN became NXN while people are bitching that individuals have been added.