Florida vs A&M on the 4x400. A&M has beat Floriday by 2 points to win the meet and that is exactly what they did in the 4x400 as the home crowd went nuts with A&M coming from behind on the anchor leg.
Craziest NCAA finish I've ever seen. Let's hear some others.
pfff, Lady ducks in in 2014... came down to 4x400 and they won by .02 of a second to win title.
http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2014/03/the_ducks_sweep_the_ncaa_indoo.html
do you really have such a short memory?
half a point win as well....
How is track a "team" sport (other than relay members) in the first place?
It was an amazing finish and to be able to do it in front of the home crowd is pretty special.
track scrubs wrote:
pfff, Lady ducks in in 2014... came down to 4x400 and they won by .02 of a second to win title.
do you really have such a short memory?
It does seem a little harsh to beat up wejo, particularly since today's meet had a particularly thrilling conclusion, and the home crowd was justifiably radiating celebratory emotions into the Aggiesphere.
But I do wonder whether Wejo just didn't make the trip to New Mexico in 2014. The Lady Ducks were behind virtually the entire relay, and Francis seemed impossibly far behind coming off the final curve, impossibly behind mid-way the final 25m, impossibly behind with 2 steps to go. It's hard to imagine a more exciting,improbable and literal last second come-from-behind win.
Crazy good finish yesterday. And I thought Larry & Dwight did an awesome job setting it up & then with the call. The only thing that could have ruined the conclusion of the Men's team title would have been a botched announcing of the race or if they hadn't set the scene beforehand.
kmaclam wrote:
Crazy good finish yesterday. And I thought Larry & Dwight did an awesome job setting it up & then with the call. The only thing that could have ruined the conclusion of the Men's team title would have been a botched announcing of the race or if they hadn't set the scene beforehand.
By awesome job do you mean they were actually accurate with names, splits and facts this time? The only reason it wasn't the usual disaster is because Dwight played the lead for this meet. I want to give Dwight some credit since he's not annoying and has a good voice for sports commentating. However, Larry continues to be horrendous. He's become even more senile and just doesn't know when to quit with the doltish anecdotes.
Not sure if anyone else caught it, but I did get a good laugh during the men's DMR final. At one point, Dwight said Ole Miss had fallen back to 6th or 7th, only for Larry to immediately negate his comment. Dwight then reconfirms they were back in 6th and Larry got defensive claiming they were wearing tanned or orange shorts. Hey dimwit, since when do we go by what color shorts someone is wearing instead of their jersey? Dwight had to slap him down to reality, but once the coin dropped Larry asked him how many running events he had called, suggesting his experience proved he knew his stuff better. Larry just needs to go away.
Go back & watch the replay. Larry was spot on. A great call of an awesome race!
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kmaclam wrote:
Go back & watch the replay. Larry was spot on. A great call of an awesome race!
That was a good finish but hardly unique. Here are a few off the top of my head...
2013 outdoor -- Texas A&M would win if they did anything but finish dead last in the 4x400 while Florida won the relay, in which case they would tie for the team championship. They were leading, dropped the baton, finished last, and Florida won. Pat Henry looked pissed as hell that he had to share the trophy with Mouse Holloway, who looked like a kid on Christmas morning.
2001 indoor -- LSU's men were 9 points out of first going into the 4x400, so they needed to win the event and hope TCU didn't score. TCU got tangled up in an exchange and finished out of the points, LSU won the race and the championship. Head coach? Pat Henry.
2001 outdoor -- another flub by TCU. They lost the meet by a single point after Kim Collins false-started out of the 200m final.
1979 indoor -- UTEP thought they had it won going into the 4x440y but got DQd from the 4x880y and lost some points. UTEP didn't have a 4x440y qualifier, but Villanova did and was nine points behind. They won the relay and the meet.
By the way, the broadcast of that 2013 championship was the worst I've ever seen. Nobody in the booth knew that Florida could tie for the championship and the broadcast ended without identifying the team champions.
Another fantastic finish was in 1934. The discus was the last event to finish up, hosts USC led it and was going to win the meet but Stanford's Gordon Dunn went from out of the scoring to first on his final throw and won the meet for the Cardinal.