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2 years ago
What a baby. Quit crying and tell your kids to compete in the fairest way. What a ridiculous whiny loser.Wow..... I would give the shirt off my back any day of the week to Coach Henry. This "loser" has done more for track and field than you ever will. It is apparent you have no idea the point he is trying to make in terms of the regional qualifier. If you listen he isn't talking about just his kids, he is talking about every track athlete in the NCAA. |
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2 years ago
It's great to hear what I was thinking while trying to watch the feeds (east feed was very poor). Travel, run a heat, and that's it? I guess it's CBS that dictated the format? They better do a bang up job on coverage in Eugene. I'm glad to hear that Coach Henry et al are putting forward other ideas and I'm hopeful this will be a one time experiment. So many universities would like to host a regional--go back to four, put a minimum gate on attendance and see who supports track. It's a very exciting time for track and field in the USA, the attendance at the two qualifiers (I won't call them meets) was understandably pathetic. |
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2 years ago
What a baby. Quit crying and tell your kids to compete in the fairest way. What a ridiculous whiny loser. |
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2 years ago
Pat is right on with his comments. We have to get to a simpler system (24-8 plan) to get the the NCAAs and stick with it. |
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2 years ago
you guessed wrong....didn't say anything about multi events.....Hmm...You're contradicting yourself then. You have to perform week in and week out, right? What's different about the multis? |
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2 years ago
I like the system. Not really sure what he is complaining about other then having to go to an extra meet. cry me a river. |
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2 years ago
you guessed wrong....didn't say anything about multi events..... |
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2 years ago
yeah let's just give people free passes to finals based on time trials - not head to head competition - that's how real life works right? WRONG - you have to continue to perform week after week in real life - people travel all over the country and compete week in and week out - but at the end all these coaches complain about 2 major competitions in 2 weeks.I don't think doing away with regionals or preliminaries or whatever it's called would give athletes free passes. They still have to perform at nationals. The chance that anyone who didn't have one of the top 24 performances in their event during the regular season will score any points at nationals is very unlikely. I'm guessing you think decathletes/heptathletes should also have to qualify at regionals. In reality, decathletes compete at most in 3 decathlons before nationals. Most compete in 1 or maybe 2 decathlons before nationals. So few of them go head to head before nationals. That's unfair, right? And coach Henry is right about getting fans to come out. I consider myself a pretty die hard track fan, but I don't want to sit in the stands all day to watch the events I want to see. |
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2 years ago
yeah let's just give people free passes to finals based on time trials - not head to head competition - that's how real life works right? WRONG - you have to continue to perform week after week in real life - people travel all over the country and compete week in and week out - but at the end all these coaches complain about 2 major competitions in 2 weeks. |
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2 years ago
NCAA, you need to listen to this guy. He knows what he is talking about! |