Big Ten Indoor meet

A couple things I took away from this meet. IU and Wisconsin are both very young teams. Minnesota also has a lot of young talent, but will definitely be hurt by losing their top 2 heps PV Ben Peterson, and Max Hanson (short stint in a gopher uniform) in the 800 and possibly blankenship (depending on if he comes back for his indoor season). Those are HUGE losses for the gophers next year. It also sets up quite the battle outdoors this season, as the distance for MN performed ok, nothing to IU and Wisco, and IU gains Turner in the steeple, and the Mid-D strong Minnesota loses the 600 meter race and will have to choose who runs the 800 outdoors. Obviously the throws will be extremely helpful for Minnesota, and gaining Studt for outdoors only makes their team that much stronger, but should make for another interesting race as i feel outdoors doesn't fit into MN as much as indoor (more sprints, extra distance race, loss of 600 and DMR- Spandl only being a heptahlete and not decathlete)- should make for an exiciting outdoor Big 10's

But IU loses Bayer this outdoor season to redshirt.

Looks like a good meet this year. I hope the BTN has a program on it... The mens mile didn't go out in 2:15 like years prior. IU is a force!

Minnesota always seems to find a way. The program just knows how to win the Big Ten Championship. Congrats Gophers you make an alum proud.

Well guys...looks like Abda is in Loxsom's league. Also looks like the #'s really did show who was going to win...good one guys. Good job predicting this one next year. Fools

Nostradamus Wannabe's wrote:

Well guys...looks like Abda is in Loxsom's league. Also looks like the #'s really did show who was going to win...good one guys. Good job predicting this one next year. Fools

Why would it seem foolish to add up the numbers is an attempt to see who might come out on top? Generally that shows who has performed what and how well this season, which in turn should give a reasonable standard to go by how they will compete at the championships. Without such a measure we are but blind. You are the fool sir.

Wannabe Number One wrote:

Why would it seem foolish to add up the numbers is an attempt to see who might come out on top? Generally that shows who has performed what and how well this season, which in turn should give a reasonable standard to go by how they will compete at the championships. Without such a measure we are but blind. You are the fool sir.

Touche good sir. However, to truly believe such numbers, to me, seems foolish. Yet your point, to speculate upon these numbers, is a good one. You are not the fool, the believers are the fools for can we truly believe in anything but the past?

Nostradamus Wannabe's wrote:

Well guys...looks like Abda is in Loxsom's league. Also looks like the #'s really did show who was going to win...good one guys. Good job predicting this one next year. Fools

Yes, good call to bank on your boi Abda, however this is nulified by your blind faith in your stud Mead. I recall Minnesota fans being quite high on him even though his is still coming off a long injury. 0pts and a DNF. You are not the fool, you just an amatuer

Even though Hassy is a 6X All-American and has run 8:02 (converted) this year, no one expected anything of him. Sure we wanted him to but anything is possible. To say we have blind faith in him is ridiculous.

As a Badger alum, it hurts to see Minnesota win 3 in a row, but congrats to the UofM. Hopefully the Badgers can get back on top soon. They have a lot of young promising talent. The multi guy looks very special and the next in line of great Badger decatathletes.

Losers2011 wrote:

IU finds anything to complain about. Stay on your feet in a race. If anyone has a complaint its Wisco in the 800.

So your point is that Wisconsin can complain better than IU?

Nobody was even complaining, dude. Someone merely pointed out that Hubers fell in the mile, after someone else said they must be disappointed in the mile results. Which obviously they would be, with Hubers a 4:00 guy who recovered well enough to still score again in the 5.

The distance battles are going to IU in track lately. Now Wisco knows how it feels.

IU scored 46 points in the mile, 3k and 5k and left some points on the board in the mile.

Wisco scored 41 points in the mile, 3k and 5k.

Everyone else scored 31 points with the vast majority of those coming in the mile.

I'd say that Wisconsin and Indiana both dominated the distance with IU barely winning but Wisconsin did enough to keep Indiana from winning the team title. Minnesota owes them huge.

Bayer put up 21 points. Thats going to be hard to replace with him redshirting outdoors even with the steeple added.

So what happened to PSU's DMR? If I had to guess Borchers went headcase on the lead off leg because it was his "second race" of the day. Put the team well behind. Foster anchoring and having run a prelim that day with a final the next day and not being a guy to sacrifice himself for more team points and concerned more about the 800 individual win coasting and not putting much energy to get PSU back in it. Atleast Borchers "totally clowned dem Big Ten fools" in the mile. He bleeds blue and white and gets it right. Sad that a 7th place finish is a "good day" for him. BAS can go back to giving him hugs again.

I bleed blue and white yeah I get it right. I bleed blue and white yeah I get it right! Takes shirt off and twirls it around his head before the unseeded section of the 5k. "This is your race you gonna clown dem boyz!". Im gonna clown the big ten. You gotta show me respect even though I have not earned whatsoever.

In the days when the Big 10 1500/mile was slower than a high school invitational, and Borchers was king...

How much longer do Walt Drenth and jack Warner get to keep their jobs. They have each had over 5 years!

Wisconsin women stink. Stinzi seriously has got to go!!! Where was Sisson... and how can Comfort only manage a 17:22 at Big Tens?!?! Ridiculous. So much talent... wasted.

I for one am happy hes not quicker. I was able to dodge his right hook with ease.

Can someone who saw the race answer this...did Mead and Blankenship start the 5K and drop out or did they not even toe the line since the Gophers had the meet wrapped up?