dkap wrote:
The cannon start is cool, but I've always wished they had a more precise means of overseeing things. That said, I couldn't see anything while watching the video that indicated a false start, let alone something as blatant as 15-20m. Washington's runners get out faster than Oregon's every year, and today looked no different.
Dan
The girls start looked like a game of red-light-green-light.
I was standing in front of the Oregon girls' start line. The announcer said "there will be a two-command start - SET and followed by the CANNON.
What triggered the false start was that following SET, the drum corps started in and the girls started to run on the first drum beat. I would have jumped too since the drums sounded close enough to the sound they were waiting for. Many of the Oregon girls took a few steps but then scurried back to the line and waited for the cannon. While they waited they were watching the Washington girls charge halfway down the line or more.
Washington was going to win but Oregon started with a huge deficit this year. They just needed to have the drum corps wait until after the cannon started.