As all of us know, comparing times is just about impossible in cross country. Courses vary in difficulty, length, surface, etc. The easiest way to know who the best teams in the state are is to watch them race eachother. Over the past couple weeks we have all been treated to some great meets with some of North Carolina's most talented teams competing against one another. I'd say it has opened some people's eyes as to who is who.
With all that said, I'm now going to introduce you all to the NCRunners.com Team Rankings. These team rankings are strictly based off the athletes who have met the NCRunners.com standards and have been entered in the large database. This is why I have increased the NCRunners.com standards to 18:00 for boys and 21:30 for girls. These standards are no longer called "elite". The Milesplit.US Network has elite standards which are universal to the entire network. Check out the NCRunners.com rankings if your aren't sure what I mean.
So, here is the first installment of the NCRunners.com Team Rankings. These rankings will come out every week that there isn't a Coaches Poll released.