I Hope St. Joes enjoyed their past week. Vails will be a different story for sure. It will be a two boat race and St. Joes will not be either one of them. Good luck making the finals.
I row as a novice for Brantley, and all througout this year, we've lost people. 6 guys quit varsity, and that brought us down to the dregs. my team has lost 5 people, and we started with 14, so we now have a single eight. Our team and especially our light four has worked as hard as they can over the past few weeks to try to make up for this, and I beleive at states they showed that. They're an inspiration for all of the novices on the team. Mark, Ben, Spiller and Troy, you guys deserve crew of the week.
Lake Brantley a high school, I mean its kool and all that they won after losing a bunch of guys, but none of which were in there top 4, but isn't this a collegiate poll?
if it was a collegiate poll how are them and Ashland RC on here. I am sure a college team will win because most attention is focused on college teams. I just think it is good for the lesser known teams to be recognized every now and then. It kills to go win something you have worked so hard for and not be recognized
Is it really that big of a deal to simply beat a good team, but loose to a different good team (keeping in mind that G'town is arleady a good team)? No, good teams loose every week. Some great and even excellent teams loose every week. However it is not every day you see a little guy nominated for something big. Lake Brantley literally came out of nowhere. If you are on here and have actually heard of Lake Brantley, God bless. Quite honestly I feel they deserve the crew of the week. Most people are going to go on here and vote for the people they know and who they think is the fastest no matter what they say. But who really deserves it? Lake Brantley, overcoming all odds. Is it easy to work hard day in and day out for over a year in Florida where it is very humid and hot year round, where all the attention is given to football, baseball, and lacrosse players? Is it easy to loose most of a team and still prevail? No it is not. Crew of the week is not for the best crews like a few other people have said. It is for the ones who truly deserve it. There are problem 20 or 30 small crews that aren't even on this poll, that didn't even get nominated, that deserve it even more than Lake Brantley. Oh and by the way, they didn't actually lose to any good teams. They beat them.
I like the St. Joe's crew because they seemed to be going nowhere after SIRAs and then seemingly out of nowhere find the speed to beat Temple in an incredibly tight race. I don't know what those guys did to turn it around so quickly, but whatever it was it worked. I'll be looking for them to do something at Vails.
I think whats important to realize here about our sport is that sometimes people over come difficulties that make them special and deserving of crew of the week. If we wanted the fastest crews, the unbeaten crews, it would always be the same people. Thats what the coaches poll is for. This is for a team that would not otherwise get recognition, one that won't be winning any national championships, but has done something amazing in a weekend, or in the past race.
Lets vote for the underdogs, the teams that do something special every Saturday or Sunday but never get the credit for it. As for teams not getting nominated, get out there and do it yourself, no one's stopping you.
Folks- to clarify as we get this new weekly poll going; if you read the Crew of the Week page, the criteria for this feature is a "crew executed an exceptional race or overcame difficult conditions and or opponent" - and selections are based wholly on nominations. i think the crtieria read clearly enough to indicate that the backstory on a particular race can be as important as the time, margin of victory, or other "facts" from race day. The Tufts crew in particular is a good example of this; to bring your squad together really only minutes after a member of your crew had to have a parent who minutes before was tending the refreshment stand brought back to life by paramedics, is pretty exceptional (she is doing very well now, btw, against pretty serious odds).
Columbia last week was another good example; crews win long-standing tri-meets all the time in our sport, but few break losing streaks that started before Pearl Harbor. as we all know, there's always more to a race and a crew than their time and place in a race; we're trying to capture that with this feature.
the only intervention row2k currently makes, and will make going forward, is choosing from among the reader-nominated crews. it's not our intent necessarily to post the "five best crews this week," although we're sure that will be exactly what happens on occasion, which is great - but rather to give the bully pulpit to the readers to tell the story, and then let the readers choose their favorites as well. we think it is a great way to go (btw, thanks and kudos and to erik for forming and executing the idea).
enough from me - i hope that all makes sense; enjoy, and give some consideration to keeping the haters in check! cheers, ed
Didnt Gtown get third at IRAs by about a second last year? Are they not more or less the same boat this year? Shouldnt they be absolutely dominating this year? Thats very weak. gtown isnt having a good week they're having a terrible year
Expecting a crew to "dominate" all year because of what they did last year is hogwash, esp. among the EARC lights. It's a long season, crews prepare differently, and there are a ton of ways to get to speed in late May; look at 2006, when Cornell won exactly ONE dual race (on April 15th), then won Sprints from the #8 seed, and the IRA to boot. If you looked at Cornell's season in 2006 at the same point of the year, you'd also come to the same conclusion, that they were having a "terrible year." However, the crew that laughs last...
It's okay that Georgetown's lightweight boat is on here. They settle for mediocrity and are proud of it. Real rowers would only want to be recognized if they won.
Congratulations to Georgetown LW Varsity Men for picking up speed and being closer to Navy. They do appear to have improved significantly. Good for them. But, when does picking up speed and finishing second equate to being deserving of the crew of the week? There are more deserving crews (most of whom are not nominated). I'm guessing that many of the crews listed here are nominating themselves -- hoping to inflate their importance to the rowing world. My suggestion is for Row2k to do the nominating, explain what each crew accomplished, and not allow comments. Otherwise, this will turn into rowing self-promotion, which we do not need. Have some standards, such as winning, and let the results speak for themselves.
Have you even been to the crew of the week page? That's pretty much exactly what is happening. It's not about who is the fastest crew, that's what the coaches polls are for. You can't expect row2k to know EVERYTHING that goes on each week. Goergetown isn't even winning..
the st joes HM v8 went from losing by 15 or more seconds last week at the SIRA regatta, finding that speed in one week, and demonstrating it by beating temple HM v8 this past weekend, a team they havent beaten in ages.
i dont understand why the washington huskies haven't been nominated yet. they are undefeated so far this season and are destroying their opponents and no one can say they haven't had any real competition because they have beaten pretty much all of the competition except brown.
I love all the G-town comments on here they didn't even win their race haha they are the only team on here that didn't win with the exception of the older male pair
Gtown LM get on here for 2nd place? Are you kidding? Pretty rough week for big performances, what about the U-dub men for housing Cal? Or the 4 Pton varsities on another undefeated weekend? Or the Hoopman/Schnobrich pair?... maybe I should do some nominating next weekend huh?
what are you talking about. Gtown LM improved an enormous amount this week. Three weeks ago they lost to princeton by 12 seconds, 2 weeks ago they lost to yale by 10 seconds and then this weekend they beat Harvard convincingly and almost beat Navy. Navy is the number 2 ranked team in the country and they beat princeton earlier this year. This is a huge improvement for a crew and is definitely deserving of crew of the week.
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I think whats important to realize here about our sport is that sometimes people over come difficulties that make them special and deserving of crew of the week. If we wanted the fastest crews, the unbeaten crews, it would always be the same people. Thats what the coaches poll is for. This is for a team that would not otherwise get recognition, one that won't be winning any national championships, but has done something amazing in a weekend, or in the past race.
Lets vote for the underdogs, the teams that do something special every Saturday or Sunday but never get the credit for it. As for teams not getting nominated, get out there and do it yourself, no one's stopping you.
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Columbia last week was another good example; crews win long-standing tri-meets all the time in our sport, but few break losing streaks that started before Pearl Harbor. as we all know, there's always more to a race and a crew than their time and place in a race; we're trying to capture that with this feature.
the only intervention row2k currently makes, and will make going forward, is choosing from among the reader-nominated crews. it's not our intent necessarily to post the "five best crews this week," although we're sure that will be exactly what happens on occasion, which is great - but rather to give the bully pulpit to the readers to tell the story, and then let the readers choose their favorites as well. we think it is a great way to go (btw, thanks and kudos and to erik for forming and executing the idea).
enough from me - i hope that all makes sense; enjoy, and give some consideration to keeping the haters in check! cheers, ed
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