So for those who didn't see yesterday, Sean McGorty of Chantilly HS in VA won the FL South regional to qualify for Nationals.
Down the way in Cary, his team's 2-6 runners ran a helluva race to tie for 2nd at the NXN southeast regional, losing out on the 6th man tiebreaker to another VA school, Blacksburg. they only ran 5 guys.
Chantilly's #2 man, Logan Miller qualified individually for NXN, so Chantilly will be sending one runner to San Diego and another to Portland in the next two weeks.
My question is what would you have done? When I was coming up there was only Footlocker, so I still feel like that attracts the higher caliber of runners, but when I see the promos for NXN and the amount of swag and parties that Nike throws at these kids, I think that the experience would be so awesome that I would want as many of my friends to get to see what that's like.
McGorty will almost certainly be top-3 at Footlocker, but he probably would have won NXN, and his team would have gotten to go and could potentially be top-15 or so.
What would you do?