Official 2021 D3 XC Thread

Does anybody know if the D3 XC Championships will be live-streamed this year. Flotrack lists the D1 race as being livestreamed. The D1, D2 and D3 races have all been live-streamed in the past.

damn is fartburg going to win it all this year? Embarrassing for the rest of d3 to lose to such a gassy team.

Williams gonna choke as usual, guarantee u they don’t get top 5 as a team, wouldn’t be surprised if individually Aidan Ryan doesn’t get top 10

Biggest snubs???

Totally unbiased - Dickinson men

WPI!???? More like WTF!!!!

insideD3XC wrote:

Williams gonna choke as usual, guarantee u they don’t get top 5 as a team, wouldn’t be surprised if individually Aidan Ryan doesn’t get top 10

just saving this post for later...not saying they're gonna win or anything but they have enough firepower up front that they'll do fine at natties

WPI is awful. Should not have been selected over other ranked teams.

Good to see the Williams JV runners are back on LetsRun. What firepower upfront do they have? Ryan who showed in 2019 he couldn't hack at the 8k distance or Lindgren who really hasn't even gotten a single all-american and just ran a couple time trials? Williams choked, that argument is just proven by their historical results at nationals. Have fun driving all the way out just to watch the Sagehens stomp all over the trash that is East Coast teams. Say hi to Aiden for me, if he actually talks to the JV runners.

They got firepower when it comes to unofficial time trials, on the national scene they don't want the smoke

Agreed, running fast in perfectly paced track 5ks doesn’t mean anything if you always choke when it matters in XC

Williams is really trying to convince anyone they didn't try at regionals like MIT or SUNY G but they just aren't good enough to do that. They are acting so cocky and it's gonna come back to bite them on Sat. They have a strong 1-3 but their 4 and 5 are so far back.

Those guys have about as good of a shot at winning as they do punching their V-cards

Only 2 teams from the west is shocking!

All the Williams haters on here do have a point that Williams is coming in a bit overhyped (they’re more like 4th or 5th than the 2nd and 3rd they’ve normally been ranked at) but the bashing is kinda childish. Is their abysmal performance from two years ago really telling for a team which has two returners from that year?

If you want to have an honest assessment of Williams’s “firepower”, we can. They went 1,2,3 at regionals and did it in convincing fashion. They ran away from everyone at mile 3 and never looked back. Thats the same region that had 5 different teams qualify for nats today, and 8 who were ranked at one point in the season. Williams also has beaten 9 of the 32 teams that qualified this year, including MIT twice. I don't care if it's by 1 point, or 100, a win is a win, and I don't think any other team has faced as many top notch opponents as Williams has. At the end of the day, Williams has been solid this year. But in all fairness so has Wartburg, Pomona, MIT, and John Caroll. We can debate about whether Aidan Ryan's performance at Nats is going to be a repeat of NESCACs (DNF) or Conn. College (a pretty dominant victory), but none of us know how he is feeling, or what he was doing on those days. Give the kid his due, a 13:50 is legit wether its paced on a track or not. Most of the haters on here would die for that time!

I have no inside info on Williams, nor am I biased about their chances. Its not hard to verify that their number 4 runner didn't compete yesterday and he wasn't great at Nescac's either. Some other post said he was sick, and if that's the story, then so be it. At the end of the day, their 1-3 is pretty strong, but nats will come down to the 4 and 5 and that’s where we’ll see if they are legit or not.

Interesting analysis, and while I agree Williams will likely have three all Americans, their 4 5 are gonna be waaaaay back and that’s gonna be their downfall

Wartburg = overrated.

Nationals prediction:

1. MIT

2. PP

3. Wartburg

4. Williams

You're a bozo if you think MIT can win. What are they gonna do? engineer some fitness?

Fartberg eats farts. Their #5 lagging far behind the rest of the team.

I predict

1. PP

2. who cares