OREGON DMR COLLEGIATE RECORD

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The field was 10 seconds back this was a 1 team race from the start to finish and they did it on their own with Cooper Teare running a solo 3:55 anchor leg. Cooper has now risen to elite status amongst the collegiate distance runners.

This proves Ben Thomas is the best coach in the NCAA right now. He won an NCAA championship in the DMR while at Virginia Tech and in only his 2nd year at Oregon breaks the collegiate record in the DMR.

While teams like NAU can load up all their scholarships on 10k guys for XC, Oregon is trying to field a full track team. Thomas is using less scholarship money and is still producing great results.

Go Ducks!!!! wrote:

The field was 10 seconds back this was a 1 team race from the start to finish and they did it on their own with Cooper Teare running a solo 3:55 anchor leg. Cooper has now risen to elite status amongst the collegiate distance runners.

Do you know the rest of the splits?

2:53.53

47.47

1:48.08

3:55.45

James West-Jacob Miller-Charlie Hunter-Cooper Teare.

DMR was in that order

Thomas is the best coach in the NCAA for 800/1500m, and still pretty good at with 5k/XC for some individuals.

OREGON IS BACK, BABY!!!!

Legendary race.

ThomasDagOat wrote:

Thomas is the best coach in the NCAA for 800/1500m, and still pretty good at with 5k/XC for some individuals.

He is way better than Powell the previous coach in 800/1500 AND 5k/XC.

I thought Iowa State had the DMR in the bag this year but not anymore.

Former Iowa Great wrote:

I thought Iowa State had the DMR in the bag this year but not anymore.

Nope I don't know why Oregon was being counted out. I guess people took Cooper Teare's XC finish and winning his section of the 1000 two weeks ago as a fluke...the writing was on the wall big time.

When the 5th best 800 guy in the NCAA isn't fast enough to make his team's DMR, you normally assume that they will win.

Even with this record, I’m still confident Norte Dame is going to win. Nobody will outsprint Nuguse.

Did Oregon pick up some product when NOP went away?

Naguse will have to run 3:52 to catch Oregon and Iowa State.

Ben is a great coach for sure, but don’t event try to paint a picture of doing more with less. He is at Oregon. Anybody can get in and stay in, it costs hardly anything, and they have more fake money than anyone except for maybe Stanford.

defendingchamps wrote:

Even with this record, I’m still confident Norte Dame is going to win. Nobody will outsprint Nuguse.

With Nationals being at Altitude this year (which sucks for Distance events) anybody that takes the races out will pay drastically so it will just be a sit and kick race. In this case Nuguse definitely can out kick the field. If this race was run at Sea Level and Oregon ran the same lineup they did today with Iowa State in the race to push them there would be no way Nuguse would be able to catch them. Oregon wasn't rabbited in this race. After the first half of the 1200 leg it was all solo for them. If Cooper Teare ran 3:55 with nobody 50 meters around him he most definitely can run 3:53-3:54 if he was pushed. Also Charlie Hunter with someone pushing him would have split better than 1:48 on the 800 leg. It is impossible to run your fastest split out by urself with no one close to you. And its not like these are traditional front runners were talking about.

I don’t think Teare will be on the relay at nationals. Hunter on the 12 and West on 16