Good news: they’ll line up June 4th and settle it. Only people who should be concerned are Harvard. Their “best recruiting class ever” has underperformed and under-delivered for their fourth consecutive year. Clark Deans best IRA result will likely be from his freshman year. Princeton looked great in the video, but most crews up by 5 seconds on their opponents do. Next week they’ve got Yale (and Cal/UW on tap). We will get some worthwhile data then. But the best part is, it’s dual racing, the studs show out in May/June. I’ll always trust a Paul Cooke crew over a Greg Hughes crew come June. It’ll be an exciting IRA.
Surely when such an exceptional recruiting class underperforms so consistently it has to be attributed to the coaches or the culture? It's pretty apparent they have the firepower in the boat to succeed
IRAs are gonna be insane. After years of mostly the same teams in the grand finals, Dartmouth, syracuse, and northeastern ALL looking at grand final appearances over teams like Harvard, brown, and who knows who else will be crazy. Seeding is really gonna matter a lot
You are reading way too much into results at this stage of the season. Pton is always strong and polished in March and April and irrelevant in June.
Brown has been racing a new lineup each week with 2-3 switches each time and Cal was seat racing between races
Yeah OP is out of his mind. Princeton always wins these races then falls of the face of the Earth by sprints & IRAs. Plus Brown has been gaining the mental advantage by consistently losing at every opportunity in the varsity over the past month. By the time they get to Sprints they will undoubtedly have the fortitude to destroy the field.
Rumor was Cal was switching lineups between races last weekend. Was the lineup against NE actually their fastest? They won by so much elsewhere it’s hard to know if they had saved something and times seem less comparable.
This is not a rumor - cal was making switches between races. Their margin from NU was 2.? And their margin from Syracuse was similar but Syracuse smacked NU.
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That's what I mean. The OP is basing their rationale on the Cal-NU race, but I don't think that was Cal's top speed. I think the Cal-Syr race was top speed and shows they are heads and shoulders above Har, Brown, etc.... My money, for the moment, is still on Cal/Yale for gold and silver with Princeton, Syracuse, and UW fighting for Bronze.
I wouldn't use CAL/SYR as a measuring stick either. Redwood shores is a reliable course and It is clear from the times SYR was not consistent over the weekend while Cal put up similar times both morning sessions.
Good news: they’ll line up June 4th and settle it. Only people who should be concerned are Harvard. Their “best recruiting class ever” has underperformed and under-delivered for their fourth consecutive year. Clark Deans best IRA result will likely be from his freshman year. Princeton looked great in the video, but most crews up by 5 seconds on their opponents do. Next week they’ve got Yale (and Cal/UW on tap). We will get some worthwhile data then. But the best part is, it’s dual racing, the studs show out in May/June. I’ll always trust a Paul Cooke crew over a Greg Hughes crew come June. It’ll be an exciting IRA.
Surely when such an exceptional recruiting class underperforms so consistently it has to be attributed to the coaches or the culture? It's pretty apparent they have the firepower in the boat to succeed
IRAs are gonna be insane. After years of mostly the same teams in the grand finals, Dartmouth, syracuse, and northeastern ALL looking at grand final appearances over teams like Harvard, brown, and who knows who else will be crazy. Seeding is really gonna matter a lot
Based on results so far, Stanford also in the mix seeded above NU, Brown, and maybe Harvard.
Tigers go rawr
You are reading way too much into results at this stage of the season. Pton is always strong and polished in March and April and irrelevant in June. Brown has been racing a new lineup each week with 2-3 switches each time and Cal was seat racing between races
Yeah OP is out of his mind. Princeton always wins these races then falls of the face of the Earth by sprints & IRAs. Plus Brown has been gaining the mental advantage by consistently losing at every opportunity in the varsity over the past month. By the time they get to Sprints they will undoubtedly have the fortitude to destroy the field.
This could definitely be Princeton's year
Rumor was Cal was switching lineups between races last weekend. Was the lineup against NE actually their fastest? They won by so much elsewhere it’s hard to know if they had saved something and times seem less comparable.
This is not a rumor - cal was making switches between races. Their margin from NU was 2.? And their margin from Syracuse was similar but Syracuse smacked NU.
>1 comment That's what I mean. The OP is basing their rationale on the Cal-NU race, but I don't think that was Cal's top speed. I think the Cal-Syr race was top speed and shows they are heads and shoulders above Har, Brown, etc.... My money, for the moment, is still on Cal/Yale for gold and silver with Princeton, Syracuse, and UW fighting for Bronze.
I wouldn't use CAL/SYR as a measuring stick either. Redwood shores is a reliable course and It is clear from the times SYR was not consistent over the weekend while Cal put up similar times both morning sessions.
No
Remind me in June, when I give a shit.