Penn Relays are essentially four weeks away. O’Sullivan is fond of viewing Villanova as the “home” team even though it is on Penn’s track. Sounds appropriate considering the success over the years. Recently there has been a mixture of exhilarating success – Women’s 4x1500 (2016), Men’s 4xmile (2015) – and disappointment – Men’s DMR (2016 – Williamsz had nothing on anchor), Men’s DMR (2015 – Williamsz kicked too soon), Men’s 4x800 (2015 – Slade totally blew a huge lead by going out way too fast). So if one is a regular attendee (we know Whitecat is), then one lives with these high and lows as well as friendly arguments with other regulars who pooh-pooh Villanova. This year, I believe women will be competitive in DMR, 4x1500 and 4x800. Looking forward to it. Men? I don’t have a clue. Thought they would only be competitive in 4x800. The weekend sort of reinforced the women. Men got a great boost with return of Ben Malone. Maybe they are now competitive in DMR? Next few weekends will reveal more. Major question: What happened to Ishmael Mohammad? He was Joe White’s (G’twn) equal in HS, but now …?
Interesting that SEC and Big 12 schools no longer attend. No Arkansas, no LSU, no Texas, no Florida …. That weekend, there is the Longhorn Invitational and SEC Relays. Rule: when you do not understand something, follow the dollar. Oregon and Stanford will be there. And surprising, Notre Dame is coming.
