I pretty highly doubt the 800 is a possibility for Silva at nationals. With the possibility of Mauldin, Santorum, and Long all running it he'll have a lot of competition.
OKC's 4x8 is good enough without him to get an All-American based on how big of a gap they made for him in indoor. There's even an outside shot of them winning if Marrouf could step up but I also seriously doubt Dordt has as bad of a day as they did indoor in the 4x8 especially if they're doubling less day 2.
Silva is obviously extremely talented but I think you’re underestimating the other guys in the field if you think he’s has a chance at pulling off the triple.
We also don’t really know what type of fitness he’s in. He has fast PR’s but hasn’t done anything crazy yet this year.
He’d have to beat a 29:03 guy with a 1500 prelim under his legs. Doable for him but won’t be easy. Then he’d cruise through 5k prelims on day 2 but day 3 he’d have to beat a 3:41 guy who’s fresher than he is and then come back and beat a 13:53 guy that plus Davies and likely so more Cumberlands guys.
He’s no Zouhair Talbi and the top guys in every event are way better than they have been in years past. If they’re smart they’ll have him stick to 5k/10k double or 1500/5k/4x8
He might not be as good as Zouhair but he's definitely better than Shimales Abebe was and they still tripled him at indoor that year.
Leggesse is very aggressive with how he uses athletes at nationals. He tripled Jaquavious Harris as well and he was at the time nowhere near where Silva is now.
Even this year at indoor he ran the exact same team for both the 4x8 and DMR for both the prelim and final even though he had alternates that could've got them to the final when the DMR and 4x8 prelim are close together.
All of those relay guys also ran individual events this year at indoor and none of them made a final...The only one who even had a chance was Robeaux too.
Nobody disagrees that the talent is much greater this year than it was when Zouhair was at OCU but I don't think that matters much to Leggesse. He wants to max out on points and if he thinks that tripling three individual events is the way to go he's going to take that risk.
Keep in mind their decisions for outdoor two years ago as well. Shimales Abebe made a very difficult 5k/steeple double and Harris made a 800/5k/4x8 triple. That year weather lead to schedule changes which made the triple more doable but Legesse didn't know that would happen coming in. He would've ended up doing a triple that on day 2 involved an 800 at 1:30, a 4x8 at 5:10 and a 5k at 5:45. That doesn't seem too much less reasonable than a much better athlete (in comparison to where Harris was at the time) running the 1500/5k/10k triple.
Keep in mind Harris was unable to make his 800 final and there was a very legitimate possibility that if the schedule wasn't changed he would've missed the 5k final as well.
Abebe barely made it out with an All-American in the 5k and likely would've had worse results in both the 5k and steeple if there was a 5k prelim like most years.
I'm not arguing it would be smart to over race Silva but I think that Legesse is going to run Silva in as many events as he reasonably can.
Keep in mind that year too that JQ Harris was on a B standard in the 5k (ranked 27th), ranked 16th in the 800, and a part of the 12th ranked 4x8. OCU had no reason to believe Harris would be able to pull off that triple even with the intention of him earning All-Americans in those events, but they ended up doing it anyway and it paid off.
Abebe was also ranked 2nd in steeple and was only 4 seconds ahead of Dozzi in the 5k so even that was a very questionable decision.
I hate some of the Silva meat riding I see as much as anyone else but given that he jogged a 4:01 DMR anchor leg I'm assuming he's in very good shape right now despite not having any great times. He used his conference meet as a workout according to strava which explains the 1:56 800. Just look at some of his times from within the last year he's clearly in good shape. He won't have an easy time with Santorum or Asslouj but he will at the very least contend with those guys even if he's not fresh.
Silva is running the 800 in OCU’s final regular season meet on their schedule. Looks like we’re looking at no 5k unless they find another meet where he run one.
watched the whac meet from the stands. the hell was that. pulled them off the track at 2miles???? let those kids finish the damn race!!!! psh. rochester college and their damn politics. Too bad that was the perfect tune up for athletes in the field. bring on 10am tomorrow morning. Ill be there in the stands with my tim hortons enjoying some rigging.
tf WAS THAT. watching dordt defenders yt channel trying to enjoy some tf coverage in my whip waiting for the whac postponed 10000 tmrw and they PULL mauldin off the track at 125m of the 400 due to a little lightning. This is getting out of hand. Heard they stopped the gliac meet 10k tonight too.
Done as in Neideck isn't going to be the coach at IWU. He was letting people know at their conference meet this past weekend. He still resigned at Huntington so will be interesting to see his replacement.
He resigned at Huntington because the writing on the wall was he could either leave on his own or by force, then the school he is an alumni at didn’t even want him. The man has some serious issues, it will be best for the college youth that he steps away from coaching for a while and Huntington will be better for it
He resigned at Huntington because the writing on the wall was he could either leave on his own or by force, then the school he is an alumni at didn’t even want him. The man has some serious issues, it will be best for the college youth that he steps away from coaching for a while and Huntington will be better for it
Huntington blatantly doesn't care what coaches do or don't do, so I do not see a scenario where he would have been forced out. Unless something happened that hasn't gone public? With the heavy tech influence already there, would kulchki or voyles take the job? If this resignation is true, neidick has a few options- lay low until the taylor job opens or go back to cornerstone as i don't think it was actually ever filled or apply for one of the dozen or more jobs that will open up in the next few weeks.