After every regional, Jonathan Gault will be running Bo Waggoner's program to see who is in and out. He'll post the results on the live blog on the front page: https://www.letsrun.com/events...
Portland 3rd (125), CBU 4th (125), & Washington 5th (127) all very close. Hope that they can get in. I'm afraid Boise State in 6th (142) and Oregon 7th (197) won't make the cut.
University of Portland/Rob Conner > Oregon/Jerry Schumacher and Portland State/Jonathan Marcus
Exactly. Jerry and Oregon are not working with a short term focus to barely make it to nationals this year, they're working long term to be on the podium in another year or two. And they probably will succeed.
Turns out Jerry knows far more about training champions than anyone who posts on these boards, especially the trolls who think he should be fired...
If this was the case, then why didn't they race more during the season to gain experience for the future? If you're going to play the "peaking for regionals card" you risk getting heavily criticized when you perform poorly at regionals.
Great job Jerry. Blow off the Bowerman group to focus on getting the Oregon men prepared to place 7th at Regionals.
I bet if you were the coach, you would have gotten them to score under 30. You’re such a beast and you’re #goodforthesport totally dewd. Like double threshold dewd.
No, but I too could have convinced all the Bowerman athletes to quit and failed to advance the Oregon men, for a fraction of the cost.
Portland 3rd (125), CBU 4th (125), & Washington 5th (127) all very close. Hope that they can get in. I'm afraid Boise State in 6th (142) and Oregon 7th (197) won't make the cut.
University of Portland/Rob Conner > Oregon/Jerry Schumacher and Portland State/Jonathan Marcus
How tf did Jonathan Marcus end up on the boards again.
This isn't the pros. It's college. Less than 5% of all these runners will even try to make money running after graduation. Am I a "get off my lawn" guy by saying Jerry should have run his best kids?? That was NOT Oregon's best team. Let them play.
Are all the men’s individual at larges gonna come from the south central? Because it’s only Texas and Arkansas those fifth and sixth guys at places 11 and 12 should both go? What a joke region
The individual at large bids should both come from the South region. It'll be Yegon in 8th place for Mid Tennessee State and Gomez in 9th for Ole Miss.
2. of the 'third' place teams which one beat the most of those 18 teams [beating a team that was not running a full team does not count - Wisconsin at Nutty does not count because they only ran 3, not 4 or more of those that run Regionals but since two top guys were sick, maybe an added runner made them an 'official' team.
3. The number 4 team in the Region at added the first #3 now is effectively a #3 team. Of all the #3 teams which one has the most points gets in (note that the added team gets counted among those that can add a point). Continue this process until you get the full field EXCEPT for PUSHES
4 A team with a lot of points but not a "#3" team can push another team in but the pushes are not certain until later because it does not count as a push if that pushed team gets in on its own, which is determined by going through the rest of the potential teams to add. This is the tricky part but is also definitive; there is no uncertainty getting in.
Notes, ties are broken by a sequence of, I think, 1) head-to-head result, if none then, 2) common opponents, and 3) something else I do not remember). Some posters must have posted this elsewhere because there a several 'mavens' out there that know all the details and that can parse them correctly to get it determined. The NCAA does not announce until the next day to check. It gets a bit tricky to check all of those teams that are beaten to provide points to determine if they count as a team (see 2 above). Someone stated about beating teams that are not in the already-qualified list and that is probably a typo since that is a senseless criteria [e.g., get in by going to a lot of races with many bad teams to wrack them up...]
Stanford will hopefully execute at nationals. Their #3 today showed up in comparison to his track credentials. Gonzaga will likely bomb to shreds like they normally do, but that will smith guy looks to be an all American.
This was typical west coast track XC. The true strong teams will emerge at that hilly potentially muddy VA course. Portland over CBU, no surprise Portland shows up. Let’s see how well CBU does next week, they showed at wisco they’re capable of performing in “true” cross country conditions/ terrain in comparison to a CA grass track.
Looks like Oregon is sending one individual for the men’s. Without a heavy hitter guy who was seemingly healthy in a recent instagram post as well.
Like they normally do? They've qualified three times in their history? They struggled the first two times, but finished 13th last year. They have nowhere near last year's talent level on their current squad and still booked an Auto Q.
No acknowledging a learning curve? Or how hard it is to become a perennially competitive D1 program as a small school? Just lacking general critical thinking skills?
2/3 they bonked…that’s over 50%. So yes, “always”…sounds like you’re mad bruh. I suppose will see if they’re as good as you’re hyping your bois up to be next week…racing well 1/2 weeks in a row is one thing, doing it both is when you’re mentally and physically sharp and cut for it.
What happened to Stanford? The LRC experts said they were finished a month ago.
The West region is terrible this year and the only reason it's sending 4 instead of 2 teams is because the squad projected to win finished 4th - still good enough to qualify via at large points and pushed another team in. Stanford lucked out, but give 'em credit - a W is a W.
Just a local and not an expert so this could be wrong but I can give you some insight in that the Mark Bostick Golf Course is run annually for the University of Florida Mountain Dew Invitational XC meet
It is very fast but you should also know the men's course is known short and listed as 7800 meters, not a full 8km
So it can be assumed the women's course is at least 200 meters short?
Just a local and not an expert so this could be wrong but I can give you some insight in that the Mark Bostick Golf Course is run annually for the University of Florida Mountain Dew Invitational XC meet
It is very fast but you should also know the men's course is known short and listed as 7800 meters, not a full 8km
So it can be assumed the women's course is at least 200 meters short?