NAU men are toast. Give the title to BYU now

Why do you say this?

It's Regionals. All NAU was trying to do was qualify.

Nice try NAU fan. As someone who was at the Mountain Region meet, I would say that NAU, BYU and Colorado were all chilling. All three schools were running easy over the late miles and all three schools were holding people out. It was as if all three teams were trying not to win the region meet. BYU, racing at home, happened to win and didn't give a rat's ass about the victory. Nor did NAU or Colorado care about getting 2nd or 3rd. BYU showed the coaches that do the weekly voting for the USTFCCCA ranking that they were better than previously forecasted, but nobody in the know is saying that NAU is toast or that BYU is suddenly a big favorite. NAU might appear a little more vulnerable than last week, but they are still the favorite and Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Stanford, and BYU are going to need to bring their A game to dethrone the reining champs.

Well cougs all graduated high school in 2012. So there's that.

Anyone know why BYU’s Lucas Bons didn’t race at regionals?

Will he be racing at nationals?

xurnure wrote:

Anyone know why BYU’s Lucas Bons didn’t race at regionals?

Will he be racing at nationals?

It could be the same reason that Kusche didn't run for NAU. Both are primarily milers. I assume that their coaches both know what they're doing.

he is a miler wrote:

xurnure wrote:

Anyone know why BYU’s Lucas Bons didn’t race at regionals?

Will he be racing at nationals?

It could be the same reason that Kusche didn't run for NAU. Both are primarily milers. I assume that their coaches both know what they're doing.

Bons is racing at nationals he just took this week off to be fresh for nationals.

Cougars *older men wrote:

Well cougs all graduated high school in 2012. So there's that.

Here’s the roster so you can look up high school graduation dates bc that stereotype is stupid

xurnure wrote:

Anyone know why BYU’s Lucas Bons didn’t race at regionals?

Will he be racing at nationals?

He didn't want to miss the 4pm dinner seating.

It was only 75˚ and he didn't want to get a chill.

He had to babysit their grandkids.

He didn't want to miss bingo.

Golden Girls was on.

OldMenDontWinRacesMarriedMenDo wrote:

Cougars *older men wrote:

Well cougs all graduated high school in 2012. So there's that.

Here’s the roster so you can look up high school graduation dates bc that stereotype is stupid

https://byucougars.com/roster/m-cross-country

That doesn't show when they were in high school, only the many many years at byu. It also doesn't show their birthdates; embarrassed to much to list?

This is Letsrun...White Americans can't possibly be cheats!

If NAU can get break through performances from hastey Raff and bosley and nico young and Nuir get top 10 they could win

The resurgence of Bosley this year, the strong performance of Kusche, and the emergence of Raff at Regionals suggests that NAU can make it close. They have two guys with top five talent, a third possible top ten guy, and Kusche should be 15-20 at worst. ND was impressive with a four second 1-6 gap. But BYU and NAU both have several top ten candidates and so you might predict BYU-NAU-ND in that order, but any order of those teams wouldn't surprise me.

I couldn’t remember if kushe had competed this year or if they would redshirt him but if he’s at NCAAs an NAU win seems likely.

How the heck is Elijah Armstrong still running in college?

Like most of the top mens and womens teams at regionals teams rested runners to help be ready for nationals next week. I know that NAU rested their number 4 runner all year who has been pretty close to their top 3, usually about 15 seconds behind them at 8k races. Put him back in the line up along with their number five runner who also was rested along with Raff who ran great at regionals and Quax who 26th at regionals who would now been NAU number 7. Throw in a couple of other options and they are pretty deep. But anything can and a lot of bad things will happen. There are several teams that are real title contenders. This is a open race no clear cut favorite. But for those who think NAU has problems with 4-7 I believe you might be mistaken.

Davin Thompson, HS Class of 2021. True freshman. 4:17/9:11. Impressive start (21st at Mtn Regional).

Aidan Troutner, HS class of 2018, 2017 Nike Cross champ. Mission Edmonton 2018-20. Under normal circumstances, he'd be a senior this year, so defer any discussion of his eligibility until next year--plus everyone got an extra year of eligibility because of COVID, so hold off until 2023 xc.

Casey Clinger, HS class of 2017, 2015-16 Nike Cross champ. Mission Sapporo, Japan 2019-20 (don't worry, no one runs there!). Ordinarily would have graduated in the spring 2021. Everyone got an extra year, though, so can't complain about him until next year.

Brandon Garnica, HS class of 2018, 20th at Nike Cross in 2017 (4:16/8:57 in hs), ordinarily would be a senior, so you can't complain, plus he's an electrical engineering major.

Lucas Bons, HS class of 2018, 1:53/4:09/9:08, mission in Cote D'Ivoire 2018-20, ordinarily would be a senior, and is a mechanical engineering major, so you can't complain.

Conner Mantz, HS class of 2015! Mission in Ghana. 4:12/8:55. This guy you can complain about even with the added year from COVID. 2018 should've been his last xc season.

I will take NAU to repeat as NCAA champs this year

I don’t know, ND might surprise. Or not really surprise, but run well enough to win