Before I wax philosophical about Saturday's meet once more, please take about 10 minutes from your busy lives to check out the tremendous videos put together by freshman women's team member Kelley Gould.
"Gouldilocks Productions" did an amazing job. It gave me chills watching these videos. Thanks, Kelley!
Men's video here.
Women's video here.
OK, some final takes on the meet ...
Women: Looking at the "big picture," this was another big step in the right direction for our program. We are on the verge of some big stuff here! It was a six-position jump from last year. However, the ladies are not satisfied, and that is great. It shows they care.
In analyzing the results, there are several areas in which we could have improved and thus could have been several places higher. But we can do that with every meet. We must again look at the "big picture" and realize that the program is headed in the right direction, with so much potential for growth in the coming months and years.
This is in large part due to the great work of Coach Chuck, and of course the hard work, dedication and toughness of the women's Running Red Foxes. It is a pleasure and honor to be closely associated with you all (hopefully, some of you read this fancy blog?).
Men: Hall of Fame football coach Bill Parcells was always fond of saying "you are what your record says you are." We believe as a team and as a program that we are much better than what we showed on Saturday. However, to say that we "should have" been higher up would be to disparage the excellent teams ahead of us that got it done. I won't do that.
A lot conspired to make Saturday's men's race a disaster for us. But we are prideful team and a prideful program. Our job is to get up off the mud, move on and finish with pride and power at IC4As.
Looking ahead: We have a lot to prove and a lot to run for at ECACs (women's university) and IC4As (men's championship). We will talk during the week about goals. There is one more race to run, and we must run it well.
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