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Distance_Guru World Class
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Injuries= Improved posting performance... hhhhhhhmmmmmm.
With approaching 3300 posts I'm begining to believe that you might not be joking about having had every running injury possible _________________ Time is the fire in which we burn |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
Joined: 22 Mar 1999 Posts: 9334 Location: Salem, OR
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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What's a guy gotta do to be believed around here?!
I must point out, however, that I was hovering around 900 posts when Conway came along... Sort of like his Sprint Central thread about Chambers being the catalyst for Montgomery's breakthrough season.
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Reviving the Willamette Men's Cross Country aspect of the thread... How's this for amazing factoid of the week? The men have moved up to #1 in the nation in this week's DIII poll, and that despite the top guy running #5 and #4 on the squad the past two meets, respectively!!
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:31 am Post subject: |
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That's pretty darn impressive! _________________ Time is the fire in which we burn |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:03 am Post subject: |
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You'll also appreciate that Nebraska Wesleyan jumped way up in the poll. The past three weeks have seen them go 8 to 20 to 6. They seem to have everyone confused...
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, they tend to do that to people. It stems from how they take races off. Some times they'll sit a runner, and sometimes they have them only really run half the race, just kind of cruiseing along for the other half. So you look at the results and all their horses ran but they'll be a minute and a half or so slower than they should be. And if you don't wittness the race in person you never know if they were cruiseing, sick, injuried, out of shape, ect. Everyone knows they've got some really good runners, but nobody knows how good they really are. I tend to think their pretty darn good, but that won't be much help when it comes to ranking them. _________________ Time is the fire in which we burn |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Fortunatley for them, the rankings don't matter.
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 8:41 am Post subject: |
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And for us. I was just looking over the results of the North Central Conference Championship meet. They're the other conference in the region that has some really good teams. (In an opinion that I share with every coach in the region and most others that know what they're talking about the NCC is the second toughest conference in D2, behind our conference, the RMAC) In the regional polls we're ranked 9th with N. Dakota State 8th, UN-Omaha 7th, U of N. Dakota 6th, S. Dakota 5th and SDSU 4th. I honestly think we are better than NDSU, my 1 and their 1 are a push and they'll have their 2 close behind, but then I think we make up for it in the 3-4-5 spots. UN- Omaha has been beating us since the first race I coached here and they've already done it twice again this year. My 1 is at least as good as their 1 (personally I think she's better, but I'm biased) but then they put 4 or 5 in front of my 2 and thats the end of it. But they're pack time was almost a minute this weekend and our pack has steadily been tightening up all year. I'm not bold enough to say that I think that we will beat them at regionals, but I'm starting to believe it's possible. Of coarse that still leaves us two spots short of quailifying, but UNO, UND, SDU and SDSU are so close that if we sneek by one we might sneek by three.
Of coarse with all those ifs and buts I'm almost hoping for christmas all year long. _________________ Time is the fire in which we burn |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
Joined: 22 Mar 1999 Posts: 9334 Location: Salem, OR
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | my 1 and their 1 are a push and they'll have their 2 close behind, but then I think we make up for it in the 3-4-5 spots. |
That could be very significant in a big race...
Oh, to add to the impressive #1 ranking above, the team's regular #3 man ended up redshirting this season, as did last year's #7 guy.
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, that is one deep team! The only programs that I can think of that could pull something like that off are Western and maybe Stanford. Just out of curiousity, how good is Calvin this year? I thought they were too D3 what Adams or Western was in D2. _________________ Time is the fire in which we burn |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Calvin has been a bit off the past 2 years, which for them means top 6 in the nation!
I forgot to mention, there's also a freshman redshirting (came into the season injured) who would probably be 6th man right now after only a couple weeks of training...
Now you see why I was arguing for smaller schools (that emphasize recruiting and development, of course) having a possible advantage over DI schools when quality of depth is the quality in question.
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