Big Ten 4x4 ???

Just saw the video.

Wow.

On the last pass the Nebraska 24 year old Latvian Olympian transfer got the stick in first with Illinois on his shoulder and ran straight rather than follow the curve and completely cut the Illinois guy off. The Illinois guy had to put both hands on the ground, while the Nebraska guy stumbled. Two teams passed the Illinois guy while he was getting up to speed and then Ohio State came up on the outside and passed without a lot of room right at the line with 300 to go. It looks like feet may have made contact, but the Illinois guy didn't go down until a couple of steps later. He should have tried to finish, but I understand his frustration. The Wisconsin guy passed him just as he got back up and would have been 15 meters ahead before the Illinois guy got back up to speed.

I'm guessing they don't have a lot of indoor 300M tracks in Latvia.

I'm not saying Nebraska should have been DQ'd, indoor 4x400's are a free-for-all from the get-go. Earlier in the race Penn State got badly cut-off and also badly cut-off another team. But if Nebraska had gotten DQ'd, you couldn't say it was a bad decision.

Illinois' coach would have been justified in filing a protest to get Nebraska DQ'd, but chose not to. The team title was already decided, there are no re-do's. Nebraska not having to run a last chance 4x400 this weekend to try to get to the NCAA's is the only thing where there could have been an effect. Illinois did have to run a last chance 4x400 and is on the bubble.

Wisconsin's 4x400 squad looked like a JV team in a Varsity race and they ran 3:10XX. Tough, tough conference these days.

You can protest anything, just like you can sue anyone for anything. Having grounds for a protest is a different matter.

Even if the Illinois' coach had filed a protest and won, it would have done nothing but move Wisconsin up in the results. I am not intimately familiar with NCAA or Big Ten rules on the matter, but I imagine Illinois would have had to finish for it to do them any good.