The difference between 1.46 and 1.51 is tremendous.
The difference between 1.41 and 1.46 is much more than tremendous.
What point are you making?
The gist of my initial post: The guys is a sub-4 miler. What time do you gals & guys expect from him in 800m? The first sub-4 mile did not occur until 800m w.r. was 1:46.xx.
Yeah I have no dog in the race. The guy won Nationals and scored 16 points. Job well done. This isn’t the NAIA, where you’d expect someone to triple.
Oh, I don't have any quarrel with you, you weren't the person on here saying he was unbeatable and that MIT was, and I quote, "the best D3 program by far."
If they were, they'd have won Nationals. But they didn't. And there are three possible explanations: they choked, they ran like crap because their seed times were inflated by running on a trampoline, or both.
Yeah I have no dog in the race. The guy won Nationals and scored 16 points. Job well done. This isn’t the NAIA, where you’d expect someone to triple.
Oh, I don't have any quarrel with you, you weren't the person on here saying he was unbeatable and that MIT was, and I quote, "the best D3 program by far."
If they were, they'd have won Nationals. But they didn't. And there are three possible explanations: they choked, they ran like crap because their seed times were inflated by running on a trampoline, or both.
Hey, I'll admit. MIT did not show up well at nationals, besides Wilson and Matthew Kearny(finished 6th and 9th in loaded 3k/5k fields). I'll retract my statement saying they are the best D3 program by far. But I will still argue they are the best D3 program. Look at the event squad rankings, they are 1st in everything 800 and up. Sure every one of those times came from the BU track but it's no faster than a second or two per mile compared to a good flat track conversion.
If not MIT, tell me which D3 school is doing better right now.
Oh, I don't have any quarrel with you, you weren't the person on here saying he was unbeatable and that MIT was, and I quote, "the best D3 program by far."
If they were, they'd have won Nationals. But they didn't. And there are three possible explanations: they choked, they ran like crap because their seed times were inflated by running on a trampoline, or both.
If not MIT, tell me which D3 school is doing better right now.
Easy. The team that beat them.
Also, huge LOL at the qualification you need to make on how much of an advantage running on a trampoline is. Sure, every single one of their marks is inflated and sure, nearly every single one ran like crap and tanked at Nationals but it's not a big deal! I promise!
I believe the next stage in crybaby New England apologist playbook is to whine that it's unfair that MIT (or Williams, Tufts, whatever) has higher admission standards or that the WIAC schools are too big. I'm ready for them, whenever you want to go there.
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If not MIT, tell me which D3 school is doing better right now.
I've heard MIT is a really good school, lots of smart kids. I'm sure they could come up with some kind of points system you could use at a meet where all the best teams compete to see who wins? You could even base it on where people finish when they race in a head to head competition on the same track.
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If not MIT, tell me which D3 school is doing better right now.
I've heard MIT is a really good school, lots of smart kids. I'm sure they could come up with some kind of points system you could use at a meet where all the best teams compete to see who wins? You could even base it on where people finish when they race in a head to head competition on the same track.
Hey, I've got a news flash for you Einstein, if someone chokes once and then doesn't choke the second time, it doesn't mean the first time happen. It just means that it didn't happen the second time.
Congrats to MIT and to Ryan Wilson for doing what they were supposed to do.