Ohio Collegiate Programs

Ohio state sucks ass period track and xc. It just does because of the athletic department and the coaches. Top MAC schools for the past years would have demolished Ohio state within the same conference meet.

OSU= sucks.....but hei....it has a nice name so many retards will go there because it sounds cool and its a "big school"

Whoever even thinks about using the 2006 MAC meet as a measuring stick should be shot. The conditions were the worse ever. Headman is clearly not the 4th best runner in the conference...proved that at Regionals.

ALso, no one ever gives any love to UC. They have always been decent. OU has a program that is improving as well. The past 3 years at MACs they have gotten 4,3, and 5. Return a few redshirts next season as well. Kent is probably the most capable MAC ohio team right now. Miami is young and solid.

throwout2006MACresults wrote:

Whoever even thinks about using the 2006 MAC meet as a measuring stick should be shot. The conditions were the worse ever. Headman is clearly not the 4th best runner in the conference...proved that at Regionals.

yeah i agree with that. the mac meet was a jumbled mess, not to say some of those guys didn't deserve it. going into the indoor season i think the top distance guys should be nowitzki and perrin (eastern), powers and loiselle (central) and hutchinson (kent). no kipchoge i'm pretty sure as bg has no track program right?

Correct BG guys have no track.

Are they done with that "Run Around Ohio" yet?

Who won ?

Hilarious, sixteen and a half years later and DII Walsh University (formerly college!) seems to be the top program in the state.

Not much has changed though: top Ohio HS runners should be heading out of state for college programs.

Walsh isn’t even close to being the best program in the state and it will stay that way with a ton of their athletes in the transfer portal.

Walsh is not the best team in the state

Malone is #1

Who is in the portal? Do tell...

Also, who beats them right now?

It certainly isn't Malone as the previous clown suggested. Malone once had a solid program but it's been downhill since the Hazen glory years.

Ohio State? No way. The women have a solid team so I am not sure why the men can't have a good team.

Bowling Green? Hell no! Not without a men's track team. No serious distance guy will go there for cross only.

John Carroll? No, especially with Phillip grad transferring to UNC.

Miami? It seems like they're losing talent and not picking much up.

Akron could be the team to do it. They're bringing cross back and Masai is pretty solid with a 4:03 indoor mile, a 13:46 indoor though it was on the fast Boston track it is still a solid performance and he was only a few seconds behind Alex Phillip, a 8:04 indoor and less than 2 seconds behind EMU's Magnusson, and a strong 28:45 at the Raleigh Relays last weekend. How in the hell he ended up at Akron I'll never know. He is listed as a freshman but I am not sure about his age. It's always hard to know about the ages of some of the Kenyan/African athletes and he does not have a World Athletics profile. If he is a true freshman and Akron gets some solid runners around him, they should be good.

Cincinnati also has some potential as does Toledo & Youngstown State.

Although I believe that Walsh can beat all now when at their top, I believe that Kreft and hunter Moore will have used up all of their cross eligibility.

Akron is what you’ve come up with? Akron? At least you’re in the correct conference.

Right now, Miami is the top school, no question. They were the top team from Ohio at regionals last fall. Toledo is right there, they definitely win the combined men/women crown. Cincinnati was up there too, but will they turn into another tOSU once they move to the Big 12? Who knows. Walsh is a solid D2 program, not in the same realm as GVSU.

Here is what I wrote:

"Akron could be the team to do it."

The key word there is "could."

Could you not infer from what I wrote that I was implying that the potential could be there? Of course Akron is not going to be the top program now given that, while cross has been reinstated, a season has not yet been contested. It's going to take them a few years. At one time they were one of the top T&F/XC programs in Ohio. It is not unreasonable to speculate that they could back to that.

A ton? I am wondering who they could be.

Good to see the former Miami man Camerieri uncork a 13:26 at the Stanford Invitational. He has progressed nicely over his collegiate career and the move to Ole Miss seems to have been good for him.