OFFICIAL Wisconsin Invite Thread

I guess we can say the Badgers aren't too shabby this year?

hell yeah Lutz kicked ass. 23:46 great performance for him

Stories of the day:

- Wisco

- BYU

- Princeton

- Lawi

- Hill?

- Lutz

- Verz sucking

Florida sucks. So much for their ranking. Bombing hard.

Lutz was out in 9:07, Lukas V was out in 8:54...hmmmmmm

WTF Lukas. Wasn't he supposed to run like a 3 minute world best in his first ever 8K? The kid's almost as disappointing as Ryan Hall!

anyone know why Indiana split up their team? They would have been top 3 if they ran everyone here

HOMEY EXPRESS wrote:

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-xc/stats/2011-2012/111014_wisconsin_adidas_invite_men.html

LUKAS V FINISHED 62ND. 25 SECONDS BEHIND WINNER WHO SMOKED THE ENTIRE FIELD.

LV went through 3k with the top 10 and finished 62nd. Ouch. In fact, theres only two other people who were under 9:00 through 3k that finished worse than he did.

Stories of the day:

-Lukas = too much hype

-Texas is (hands down) the dark horse for nationals

-Wisco proves that they are contenders

-"Bombed" team of the day (aka probably not going to nationals) = Florida

LV will learn. Obviously he is not yet in shape after a Summer of Tri training, which was not very difficult for him. He went out way too fast, and dropped bad in last 4k. Nothing really surprising. I suspect he'll be schooled by Vin on that strategy.

BTW, what was the first actual race that Centro ran as a Duck, and does anyone know the results? I don't, but I'd like to know...[quote]Wisconsin Predicting wrote:

HAHA oh let the Letsrun hate begin on LV. I would have never guessed people on this website to be SOOOOO upset over his performance especially how much hype he has gotten. TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!

Stanford ran without 5th man

Princeton ran without 3rd man

Indiana ran without 4th & 5th man

Texas ran without 4th man

Providence ran without 3rd man

Villanova ran without 5th man

NC State ran without 3rd man

Ohio State ran without 1st man

UNC ran without 1st man

Cal ran without 2nd man

spread

Gotta give mad props to Lutz, looks like he ran a really smart race. And either IU is peaking for nats, or somethings wrong. Last year they had 3 guys under 24, this year 0.

Ryan Hill ran an excellent time. Wisconsin's spread was 2 seconds. Impressive

1. 66 Wisconsin ( 23:47 1:58:53 0:02)

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1 11 Ryan Collins SR 23:46

2 12 Reed Connor JR 23:46

3 13 Elliot Krause SR 23:46

4 14 Mohammed Ahmed JR 23:47

5 16 Maverick Darling JR 23:48

6 ( 42) Andrew Shields SO 24:25

7 (178) Michael Brice SO 25:23

2. 120 BYU ( 24:01 2:00:02 0:58)

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1 7 Miles Batty SR 23:36

2 10 Rex Shields JR 23:45

3 17 Jared Ward SO 23:49

4 30 Alden Bahr SR 24:18

5 56 Curtis Carr SO 24:34

6 (111) Tylor Thatcher SO 24:53

7 (194) Conner Peloquin SO 25:30

3. 125 Stanford ( 24:02 2:00:08 1:01)

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1 6 Chris Derrick SR 23:33

2 8 Jake Riley SR 23:39

3 19 Benjamin Johnson JR 24:02

4 34 Brendan Gregg SR 24:20

5 58 Erik Olson SO 24:34

6 (113) Joe Rosa FR 24:54

7 (192) Jim Rosa FR 25:30

4. 227 Princeton ( 24:20 2:01:38 1:07)

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1 4 Donn Cabral SR 23:31

2 29 Brian Leung SR 24:17

3 60 Peter Maag SR 24:35

4 64 Chris Bendtsen SO 24:37

5 70 Tyler Udland SO 24:38

6 ( 77) Eddie Owens FR 24:42

7 (190) Thomas Dialynas SR 25:29

5. 271 Indiana ( 24:29 2:02:23 0:41)

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1 23 Andrew Poore SR 24:13

2 27 Ben Hubers SR 24:16

3 35 Adrien Dannemiller SR 24:22

4 68 Andrew Weatherford SR 24:38

5 118 Desean Turner SR 24:54

6 (216) Yoshi Shimizu SO 25:44

Whatever about the progression of German Fernandez under Dave Smith at OSU, what the hell is up with Chris Derrick? He's consistent I'll give him that but he is running the exact same times since he was a Freshman! 23:3X 13:29... He should be destroying Cabral, Hill, Estrada...

Also, David McCarthy beat his Friar team mate Dominic Channon by 45 seconds at a dual meet last month and only 1 second today. Did he plan on running with Channon and the Freshman who was 8 secs back in 31st or did he just bomb?

Not sure about McCarthy but it was a great run by Quinn - anyone know the story with Lee Carey?

I wouldn't be surprsied if Vin told LV to "go for it" in this race, knowing damn well that LV is not ready for prime time. This does a couple of good things: 1) brings LV back to earth and shows him how far he needs to go at this time; 2) he will listen to Vin; 3) he will be motivated to be running at or near the front at the end of the race, rather than the first mile.

This results may be the best thing that could happen to him right now -- get it over with and realize that he has a long way to go. I don't doubt that he'll get there.

yea so much for that. Ihmels sucks at coaching men. Stick with women Corey