Ranking WI collegiate distance programs

Throwing it away wrote:

People might retract what they're saying about Marquette soon. A majority of their best runners went on spring break and drank all week. Also not very Catholic if you ask me. They just don't take it seriously and it will show in their performances.

I feel like this is very typical among collegiate programs, don't try and make them sound worse than they are. They're college kids, give them a break. Once outdoor starts most serious collegiate runners cool it down with the drinking.

Throwing it away wrote:

People might retract what they're saying about Marquette soon. A majority of their best runners went on spring break and drank all week. Also not very Catholic if you ask me. They just don't take it seriously and it will show in their performances.

Sounds like you are relatively close to the situation. Either a teammate, former teammate, friend, or creepy Snapchat follower. In any case, you are a loser and a snitch. Every team drinks in college. Some guys just don’t post anything, so if you don’t see it, you don’t think it happens. They will be fine.

Crappy friend wrote:

Sounds like you are relatively close to the situation. Either a teammate, former teammate, friend, or creepy Snapchat follower. In any case, you are a loser and a snitch. Every team drinks in college. Some guys just don’t post anything, so if you don’t see it, you don’t think it happens. They will be fine.

Looks the coach needs to be monitoring snapchat. Where has the discipline gone? D1 athletes should not be drinking in season.

Throwing it away wrote:

People might retract what they're saying about Marquette soon. A majority of their best runners went on spring break and drank all week. Also not very Catholic if you ask me. They just don't take it seriously and it will show in their performances.

Most Catholic Universities are not very Catholic. It's a shame but most students go there for the private school experience.

Crappy friend wrote:

Throwing it away wrote:

People might retract what they're saying about Marquette soon. A majority of their best runners went on spring break and drank all week. Also not very Catholic if you ask me. They just don't take it seriously and it will show in their performances.

Sounds like you are relatively close to the situation. Either a teammate, former teammate, friend, or creepy Snapchat follower. In any case, you are a loser and a snitch. Every team drinks in college. Some guys just don’t post anything, so if you don’t see it, you don’t think it happens. They will be fine.

You are the loser. No one, especially athletes should be abusing alcohol. We are in Lent.

You sound like you could use a drink... or 10.

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Wisconsin must be concerned that Finn won't make it 5 years on the academic side. The kid is clearly not ready to compete, but they ran him in San Diego today. 9:24.62 for the steeplechase is really not very special. They must have already given up on him having any ability to run fast because kids don't go to the steeple right away if they have leg speed.

That's called making em "Badger tough". Which is another way of saying run them into the ground when they aren't ready.

How does Mick get away with this stuff? Having most of his runners hurt.

how do you make a kid, who is drastically underachieving, try and feel special like he was in HS? You put him in the steeple (the easiest event to qualify for regionals in D1). Since he isn't fast enough to qualify in the 1500 and doesn't look likely to run 14 flat in the 5k, the steeple is his only chance. Being a regional qualifier would at least put the "bust" label aside for the summer...

I agree with the steeple comments. Many average runners are good steeplers not because they are great at technique but because they can break 9 minutes for 3k while getting over the hurdles. Some of these guys who qualify can only run 8:30 for 3k.

Wisconsin did put up some solid 10k times last week though by second tier guys on the team.

Again, the important question is where are the so called "best runners" on the team?

Big shout-out to Carl Hirsch who was injured for a long time and decided to stick around an do his best for the team. He ran indoors this year. I thought he left. He had a great attitude his first two years. This kid is a winner.

Jerry Shoemaker wrote:

Again, the important question is where are the so called "best runners" on the team?

Big shout-out to Carl Hirsch who was injured for a long time and decided to stick around an do his best for the team. He ran indoors this year. I thought he left. He had a great attitude his first two years. This kid is a winner.

Duh, the best runner just finished 8th in the Commonwealth Games in his home country, haven't you been paying attention. Getting Q times for Oliver is not going to be an issue so he is not racing yet, I presume so he can train. He might be running out west if they are doing the MtSAC Relays (which is on their schedule, I think).

This doesn't mean they'll all race by any means, but many of the aforementioned best runners are listed in the confirmations for Mt SAC. No Hacker or Hoare, but many of the other top guys including Morgan are entered. Morgan hasn't been fully healthy though as was mentioned following his Commonwealth games race. And this would be about two weeks after that so who knows if he'll be able to toe the line or not.

I think those who are ready will need to go and chase some West region qualifying marks as there aren't many opportunities after this and we all know how Morgan got burned last year chasing a mark under miserable conditions at the Big Ten outdoor meet.

http://www.mtsacrelays.com/confirmations.html

That sounds like Hoare must be injured.

It appears that only Wisconsin and Milwaukee are sending guys out to Mt Sac. Cotter and McMillan are entered in the 1500 and Tagliapietra is entered in the 5k and 10k.

Tagliapietra won't be competing

Rankings. wrote:

It appears that only Wisconsin and Milwaukee are sending guys out to Mt Sac. Cotter and McMillan are entered in the 1500 and Tagliapietra is entered in the 5k and 10k.

For those of you who think that going to Milwaukee is a joke, just remind yourself that their kids have been able to race 3 times already this spring while most D3 schools havent been able to race at all due to poor weather. Laugh it up in the snow while these kids are running PR's in Cali.