How Wisconsin Exposed The NCAA Selection Shortcomings
How Wisconsin Exposed The NCAA Selection Shortcomings
Wisconsin coach Mick Byrne speaks with us after his team's performance at Greater Louisville:
While this decision made a lot of “back in my day” types angry (one commenter even called for Byrne’s job), it’s a choice that a coach should be able to make. It’s hard enough to figure out how to peak athletes exactly on the right day in our sport, but that task is compounded in NCAA D1 cross country as teams have to run two 10Ks in the span of eight days with Regionals and Nationals. It’s a brutal ending that borders on comical, especially for those teams that have to run Regionals hard, but the point is that the coaches and athletes have to focus their training and racing throughout the season with that gruesome finish in mind. Anybody that criticized Wisco for going easy this past weekend should have to run two hard 10Ks over that span and then they’ll realize how much of a fool they were.
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