rojo wrote:
driving me crazy wrote:
safe to say Ben Thomas is the best middle distance coach in the country and it's not even close.
He makes the Powells look like elementary school gym teachers.
Does anyone remember what I said on the podcast when he got hired at Oregon? I asked an NCAA coach if they were going to apply to Virginia Tech job. They replied, "Are you crazy? Why would I follow up the NCAAs best mid-d coach and be exposed as not being as good?"
That being said, the first thing I thought when I heard about this time was as follows. This has to be one of two things.
1) The Covid-19 effect. In my mind, the Covid-19 impact is two-fold.
i) People are very focused after missing almost a full year of competition.
ii) Plus with Covid-19, they aren't partying and getting hung over at bars
2) Super spikes. Can anyone tell me what spikes these guys are wearing?
I'd bet a lot of money the biggest impact is #2, more so than #1 or coaching.
If anyone has the new spikes at the NCAA level, it has to be Oregon.
Remember, Nick Willis recently said his new New Balance spikes helped him run 2 full seconds faster than he was expecing in a recent 1200 time trial. So if they are worth 1 second every 600 (and if anything I"d assume Nike's shoes are better), then they would be worth 6.666 seconds in a 4000.
Hmmm. Nike and 666.
Anyways, I agree with the poster below until someone tells me they weren't wearing super spikes.
rocknroller wrote:
We are going to pretend like the shoes haven’t starting changing the ncaa? Their run tonight was strong, but was it record worthy? Shoes. And within a year everyone will have them and no one will care about these “great” times anymore. Let’s get back to competition.