Ok State watch out. Jeremy Sudbury says Iowa St has 5 guys that could go sub-27:50 right now

LOL!!!

Now ask him if those same 5 athletes can pass a drug test

I doubt that. Here are the 5,000 meter PRs for current roster:

13:38

South African with no PR listed.

13:28

13:04 Samuel

13:34

13:26

13:25

13:37

Cheering for Virigina and Rockey Hansen to come away as champs, ya just never know! I believe one of OSU, ISU, and NM will finish outside of the top 3. Have to cheer for BYU as well, which I never thought I would say

Roster:

4 Kenyans

2 South African

1 French guy

1 Mexican

1 Eritrean

isn't kipyego from rhode island?

He’s referring to New Mexico

Feels like it's gonna have to be an all-or-nothing from Iowa State if they wanna win it all. Only 5 deep is a dangerous game to play at NCAAs, and 3 workouts a week is a risky way to run the season (assuming they are clean, lol!).

I think their only shot is to go fast from the gun. Few possibilities if they do this

1. OSUs milers can handle the pace and they win the race

2. OSUs guys blow up and Iowa state, UNM hang on (UNM is thin though after their 5th)

3. OSU hangs back off the pace and can’t close the gap. I think this is the most likely situation. Play it safe but can’t close on the guys up front. Happened to BYU in 2017 and OSU at home.

I think if it is a super fast race you could see a team sneak onto the podium that we don’t expect. Run for top 5 and fall forward kind of thing

Iowa , OSU and New Mexico are embarrassing

I would think that just shutting up and running vs trying to brag about what times they could run would be the best play at this point in their PR department.

I am curious if all Iowa taxpayers are happy they are subsidizing all these foreigners. Wouldn't they prefer their tax dollars go to support young Iowa runners?

Statements like this sound good, but have you looked at their football roster? I have. 27.3% of the starters are from Iowa (6/22). 3 on offense (Jim Bonifas, Tyler Miller, Gabe Burkle) and 3 on defense (Caleb Bacon, Kooper Ebel, Jamison Patton).

For the roster as a whole, it's not a whole lot better by my count. I had 36.7% (44/120).

If Universities had to recruit from their states only, many of the big ten/Big 12/Mountain West schools would be in trouble.

Iowa has about 3 million total people. Nebraska 2 million, and South Dakota 1 million. Let that sink in.

On the other hand, Rojo's point is a bit extreme. The football team isn't full of Nigerians, just Texas and California kids.

A different way to look at this would be to ask which schools are doing the best recruiting/developing local talent.

Also, the reality of recruiting local talent only pretty much puts a top ten at NCAAs out of the picture.

Iowa State does actually get local talent, and when they do well, the sniff the top 7....then go on to finish 100th at NCAA cross.

Here's something else to chew on. A few years ago the NCAA national championships were held in Tallahassee...so was club cross. The winning time from club cross would've placed in the 90s at the NCAA race.

Nobody cares Nobody knows who these guys are. This sport is screwed if changes are not made. The whole country is cheering for Rocky Hansen.

Why can’t they run an even pace and run some people down? Whether they run with a teammate or not, shouldn’t each runner run the race in a way that works best for them individually? I don’t recall any time where an entire team went out too fast. They aren’t the 2003 Stanford Cardinals.

Those aren't Iowa numbers. They a bunch of Iowa kids.