Big 10 Champions? Iowa Hawkeyes

IOWA

MINNESOTA

WISCONSIN

OHIO STATE

INDIANA

PENN STATE

ILLINOIS

MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN STATE

PURDUE

Still no love for Hoosiers? The conference will be sorry. They have complete team!

The dynamics are different when six programs are in the running than when two are. The winning total will be a lot lower. Points with high certainty become really valuable (e.g., HJ/IU). The distances will be fairly competitive and that puts uncertainty into the distance points of IU and Wisconsin, although we have not seen most of the story from Wisconsin yet, as they have milers, 5000/10,000/SC guys yet to show, some pretty good 800 guys, decathletes, finally some throwers and some guys that seem to come out of the woodwork, including some sprint points (although it has not been that long since they had a four-year run winning the 100m with Omole).

I just do not know how deep IU is in their talent and where the Iowa guys stack up. Minnesota is not dominant but they have typically performed well at Big Tens and have Mead back finally (in what shape?). Ohio State draws on a large population which gives them depth in the field and sprint events usually, even if many of us do not know who they are.

Finally, outdoors is a long ways away; let's see what indoors shows us. No Big Ten team will be in the running for the NCAA title, I do not think.

It's so sad that the purdue team has fizzled over the years. They didn't always used to be a sure candidate for dead last in the running sports. What's happened? Coaching changes? Instability in funding? Inner coaching conflicts (ie head coach vs distance coach)... what a waste of a big ten school. I mean they still finish respectfully at ncaa regions in cross so they still get decent runners. They just never show at big tens.

Huge credit to Woody - he's really made a huge difference in that program since coming over from UNI.

Jack Warner is what has happened to Purdue. What a BS'er! They have been bottom is cross country for whole time and had one top 5 finish indoors (men) a couple years ago. The program is in shambles on and off the track.

Sprinters win Championships.

Iowa has them!

26mi235 wrote:The dynamics are different when six programs are in the running than when two are. The winning total will be a lot lower. Points with high certainty become really valuable (e.g., HJ/IU).

This.

You can make a compelling case on paper for six teams winning it (Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin). The jockeying/strategy in the 400/600/800 entries will be fun to see. Indiana and Wisconsin will score points in the Mile/3K/5K, it's just a question for the other teams on whether they cancel each other out. One or both of those teams scoring 13-16 in the 3K or 5K is one thing; one of them scoring 20+ in either or both is another.

Peacock not running at all in Seattle this weekend has to make Badger fans a little nervous regarding his health/fitness.

They don't need Peacock!

warned warner wrote:

Jack Warner is what has happened to Purdue. What a BS'er! They have been bottom is cross country for whole time and had one top 5 finish indoors (men) a couple years ago. The program is in shambles on and off the track.

Warner can't even get a staff hired...how do you expect him to run a program?