t-and-f: X-C Nats Team Scores?

[Ryan Grote]

Do they still keep "team" scores at US Winter Nationals?  If so, I was wondering in particular about the mens 12k...   -Nike goes 1-3-5-7-12 by my count -adidas 2068 goes 2-9-13-30-39 by my count, and what is 2068, by the way? -Hanson's impressively goes 11-16-17-18-21 -Farm Team goes 4-31-32-34-35 -New Balance goes 8-10-14-20-?no 5th man? -Top Unattached guys go 6-22-23-27-29   Thus, by my math, if you count the Nike or adidas gatherings as a team, the standings look like: 1. Nike-- 28 2. Hanson's-- 83 3. adidas 2068-- 93 4. Farm Team-- 136   OR, if Matt Downin, Dan Nelson, Weldon Johnson, Mike Mykytok, and Ian Solof would have called themselves a team (makes as much sense as the Nike and adidas team being called a team) they would have been 4th with 107.  So, I still say it would be a lot more fun if teams were organized and scored as clubs based upon where they live/train instead of who gives them shoes and perhaps some contract money.  Hanson's and The Farm Team do that, as do some other clubs in the meet like Wisconsin Runner, Reebok Boston, BAA, Club Northwest, Hoys, and so on.  If guys are good enough to get shoe contracts, great, let them wear their shoe company garb, but score them with a local club.  What would hurt Nike exposure wise if Meb was counted for SoCal TC or something?  Or Culpepper for Boulder Harriers or something?    No biggy, I suppose, life goes on and the sport wallows in anonymity either way.   Grote adiRP/MMRD