Colin Sahlman conference 1500m champ

so you're saying a conference with a massive TV deal plus endowments and boosters kicking in billions to the athletic program is somehow able to attract a more talented field of athletes over a smaller conference with less financial resources?

wow, what a take! you should get a Nobel Prize in economics.

The guy who came 6th has a 3:53 PB

The guy who came 5th has a 3:49 PB

The guy who came 7th has a 3:49 PB

The guy who came 10th has a 3:55 PB

The guy who came 12th has a 3:54 PB and has never broken 4:20 for the mile. I believe that his 1600m PB last year was 4:32. Who knew that you could walk-on with a 4:32PB

23 guys ran faster than 4:20 at the CIF SS divisional finals last weekend. So the CIF SS HS divisional final was deeper than Big Sky

Don't forget about the altitude

Gee I wonder why you ignore 1,2,3,4,8,9,11…

Big Sky 100m champs 10.08/11.16

Big Sky 200m men's champ 20.21

What a terrible conference.

No, you said it was "D2 quality" which is completely false and insane to say.

Totally unfair to compare Colin to the GOAT US talent.

I have this feeling that Sahlman is going to drop a 3:35 somewhat soon- I feel like he’s due a major breakthrough.

I am talking about their PBs

Id bet money those 5 guys would wash Cal in XC so def better than bottom of the barrel pac12 distance running

1:46 is already pretty solid lol for a 1500/3k guy... but yeah, 3:35 is coming soon

You can’t knock a conference or even a division unless you post your own prs. Most guys that do couldn’t break 14 at their power five bottom feeder.

3:49

I never thought that I could be a conference finalist. Certainly not top 5.

You’re right, I was wrong. The Big Sky conference is not D2 quality at all. It’s much worse! To reduce the effects of outliers let’s compare the top times for the 3rd place men at the Big Sky championships (actual times for 100-400, PR for 800 and higher) with the third best D2 times this year:

100- Big Sky (BS) 10.48, D2 10.09

200- BS 20.94, D2 20.59

400- BS 46.90, D2 46.00

800- BS 1:49.99, D2 1:46.95

1500- BS 3:39.15, D2 3:41.84

5000- BS 13:36.99, D2 13:36.51

Big Sky is significantly worse than D2 from 100-800 and it’s on par with D2 for 1500 and 5000.

Misleading post. The men’s winner for 100 and 200 was one guy named David Dunlap who runs for NAU! Second place was 10.42 and 20.94. Outside of NAU the conference is D2 quality or worse.

You’re comparing a conference of 10 teams, from a single competition on a bad weather day, to an entire division throughout a season of meets, who gets some really talented athletes? You must not have taken debate in high school haha. Yes, the Big Sky might not beat the entire D2 in every event, but they’re too good to be D2.

I know you’re trolling and unabashedly embarrassing yourself to get reactions, but just for fun, I thought I’d add that Duncan Hamilton is leading the nation in the steeple by almost 4 seconds… and recently received Bowerman votes. Big Sky isn’t a Power 5, but it’s a really good XC/track conference. Who from the Big Sky hurt you bro?

For what it’s worth the Big Sky did qualify over 80 athletes to the regional meet. Let’s see how many of those mi e on to nationals.

Point taken regarding the weather. I used personal best times for the distance runners so I should have done the same for the sprinters. If they were running into a strong headwind that would explain their slow times.

I just took another look. Guys, it’s worse than I thought. At the Big Sky championships the sprinters had the benefit of a 3.0 TAILwind!! I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Here are the personal best times for your Big Sky third place sprinters:

100-Jemini Archer 10.75

200-Kyle Smith 21.51

400-Liam Bracken 46.90 (his run at the championships bettered his previous best of 47.40)

I’ve seen better 100 and 200 times at high school meets! You still want to try to argue that the conference overall and beyond NAU is D1 quality?