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Message: [QUOTE="hookshot, post: 5282095, member: 4756"] For certain, back in the hay days of mid-fiftys thru mid sixtys, that I experienced, there was no single SEC team that would want any part of Villanova. Imagine trying to prep your team for a dual meet with VU. Well, in the 100 you will be up against the world record holder, in the 220 you will be up against the world record holder, in the 440 you will be up against an Olympic gold medalist, etc., etc. I remember in one particularly competitive 4X440 mile relay where VU was down a man but talked their world record holder in the 220, Drayton, into running the anchor leg of the 440; when he took the baton a couple steps behind it looked like he was shot out of a gun to easily overtake the lead and managed to hold it for the full 440. I recall a dual meet mile where VU had 4 runners all resting at the back of the pack with their best runner actually last and it was getting late. Then the last place guy takes off and slaps the next to last guy in the butt as he blows by, and that signal gets repeated in turn as all 4 VU runners pull out to finish 1.2.3.4 by a wide margin. I never saw them lose a meet when I was there. But that was then, and this is now - congratulations to the new top dog Huskies [/QUOTE]