Best Colleges for Each Event (Guys)

Id probably have to go with Indiana Univ for Mid Distance. Coach Helmer does a really good job developing that middle distance group and they've had success recently as well. Underrated Mid D program.

Iowa for 400/800.

Indiana?

Definitely Iowa or A&M

for men, Indiana is much better 800-mile than Iowa. Last indoor season they both had 3 1:50 or faster 800 guys, but Indiana gets the edge in the mile with 3- 4:00 guys, while Iowa's top miler is 4:05. Texas A&M has better 800m runners than both of those schools, but their milers are similar to Iowa's- not very good. Someone above mentioned Indiana was underrated, quite frankly I don't agree, they are generally recognized as a top mid-distance school.

With that being said, one mid-distance school that really stands out right now -

Oregon- Last indoor had two 1:48 guys, and Cooper Teare runs 1:49. In the Mile last indoor, they had 5 guys at or under 4:00, not counting Reed Brown or Jackson mestler, who have both run sub 4.

Sprints - Florida

Throws - UCLA

Oregon has Ben Thomas now, who turned VT into a middle distance powerhouse. Best mid distance coach in the NCAA

the statistician wrote:

for men, Indiana is much better 800-mile than Iowa. Last indoor season they both had 3 1:50 or faster 800 guys, but Indiana gets the edge in the mile with 3- 4:00 guys, while Iowa's top miler is 4:05. Texas A&M has better 800m runners than both of those schools, but their milers are similar to Iowa's- not very good. Someone above mentioned Indiana was underrated, quite frankly I don't agree, they are generally recognized as a top mid-distance school.

With that being said, one mid-distance school that really stands out right now -

Oregon- Last indoor had two 1:48 guys, and Cooper Teare runs 1:49. In the Mile last indoor, they had 5 guys at or under 4:00, not counting Reed Brown or Jackson mestler, who have both run sub 4.

It is easy to get results oriented but most of having a lot of fast people is recruiting. Easy to have sub 4 milers when they run 4.00,x in HS:) There are a dozen or so programs that have had success in mid/distances/XC for a while. Most of them have a decent coach and a system that works for them. Places like NAU, Colorado, BYU have some advantages that Oregon, Wisconsin, and Stanford and vice versa (stanford does seem to waste more than their share of talent) but they all do a decent job of cranking out runners. And there are more schools (i.e. is Indiana doing better with their talent than say Georgetown?) that could be mentioned.

USC got solid sprints I'd say

sprints- Florida, LSU, Houston, Texas Tech, NCAT

mid d- Iowa(4/8), Miami Ohio, Texas Tech, Texas, Oregon, VT, Ole miss, Iowa state, Texas A&M, Indiana, GTown

distance- NAU, BYU, Colorado, Tulsa, Iowa state, Oregon, Stanford

sorry wisconsin as well for distance

Hejendo76 wrote:

sprints- Florida, LSU, Houston, Texas Tech, NCAT

mid d- Iowa(4/8), Miami Ohio, Texas Tech, Texas, Oregon, VT, Ole miss, Iowa state, Texas A&M, Indiana, GTown

distance- NAU, BYU, Colorado, Tulsa, Iowa state, Oregon, Stanford

Clearly this dude must go to Miami Ohio. There is absolutely zero reason to have them on this list. They absolutely ruined the Torpy twins, 1:47/4:03 and 1:49/4:05 guys in high school. They don't even have a strong team regardless of talent level, and the fact that they're so bad even with the kind of talent they have is even more telling.

Iowa State has the best 800 squad by far right now. 1:45-1:47-1:47-1:49-1:49. How would you like to run 1:50 and be about 6th or 7th on your team sitting at home on conference weekend?