Big 10 Men's 4x400

Big Ten Network will probably replay their coverage of the meet. Check their schedule.

trackneedsbettercoverage wrote:

I am looking for a video, ANY video(unless it's behind a ridiculous paywall), of the first heat of the men's 4x400 at Big 10s.

It baffles me that in 2016 it's this difficult to find video evidence that a race even occurred at something as big as the Big 10 Championships, but track seems content in it's role as the insufferable hipster of major sports.

What have YOU done to help?

What have I done? You mean, besides coaching high school track for several years for well below min. wage/often free in a small town in new england where a vast majority of households make well below the poverty level, and still managed to maintain not only a database of results/stats that all of my athletes could access AND had decent quality video records of EVERY heat of EVERY event at conference and state meets, allowing my athletes to share said videos on social media and spread the gospel of track and field without the audience-strangling limitations of paywalls? I've done more than my fair share to increase tracks popularity in a state that didn't even keep meet results online (besides the state champ meet) until 2006, and it's not as if we have a "media team" associated with us; turns out hi-def cameras are pretty ubiquitous these days and it takes very little effort to make sure races are recorded. I think it's fair to ask that track-related entities with 10,000x the resources of us, such as the Big10 (or any one of their member schools) also do their part to stop our community from being so incredibly niche and exclusive.

but, coaching taught me that track coaches are second only to football coaches in their strange obsession with "but this is how we've always done it!" lines of thinking, which is why my frequent difficulty finding videos of races run by major DI programs is just consistently disappointing, but not surprising.

First heat? Good luck. I was watching the meet live on the "BTN 2 Go" streaming app and they didn't show the first heat of either the men's or women's 4X4. They didn't even show ads during the breaks; the stream just cut to a waiting screen and came back on when the fast heats were up.

Point is, I wouldn't count on being able to find an official video of the slow heats.

That's frustrating, since the "slow" heat still featured two or three teams that scored points and i heard the PSU 4x4 had a frosh anchor their relay in 45.1

MetricMiler wrote:

trackneedsbettercoverage wrote:

That's frustrating, since the "slow" heat still featured two or three teams that scored points and i heard the PSU 4x4 had a frosh anchor their relay in 45.1

Splits don't count for the 400 only open 400s count. The PSU frosh as we know can only go 48 open.

Are you talking about Isaiah Harris? His high school PR was 46.8, so I'm thinking he can probably run faster than 48.

He had a 46.81 FAT split at the Penn Relays. And what do you mean don't count for the 400? it counts as a 400m split. no one was saying to qualify him for the OTs in the 4 or something. But if Donovan Brazier can get praise for his 45.9 4x4 split, surely its okay to note when another freshman who was not nearly as hyped coming into this indoor & outdoor season also has exceptional speed in the quarter. i was hoping to find video of the race to see the split myself, though the 45 split comes from a relatively reliable and experienced source

I recorded it with my iPhone 6+, I was near the finish line 6-8 rows up. How could I send it to you?