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[QUOTE="runningorange, post: 1196136, member: 2145"]
A lot of times it takes freshmen some time to transition into college XC. Most "elite" high school runners run between 60-70 miles per week, but college is a different ball game. Most competitive runners will run at least 90-100 mpw which represents a pretty big jump. In the past NCAA Champions like Cam Levins and Josh McDougal would go as far as to run 130-160 mpw.

Even blue-chip recruits redshirt their freshmen year so they can adapt to the huge increase in workload. It is pretty rare for a true freshmen to come in right away and make a huge impact (as Knyght is doing this year). Burke will likely be ready to make a big impact next year. He might be the best I have ever seen come from Western NY in the past 10-15 years.

As for Ryan, I was a little surprised he didn't make more of an impact this year, but there is probably more to this than what we see. A lingering injury, something that impeded his training over the summer, etc... He ran 4:05 in HS so obviously the talent is there and he still has the time and the training partners to get it back.
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