iiagdtr wrote:
Hahahahahahha Barb McKeever has no idea what this sport means to us. Zero. Cheatin' Mike Rossi is her cash cow market and $ource for her livelihood.
She has proven to be incompetent by not DQ'ing an obvious cheat. Do not hire her to run your event. Hire your grandmother.
Picture me TROLLIN wrote:Seems like the worst decision may have been for Barb McKeever to take over from Bart Yasso
http://www.msgpromotions.com/new-director-management-for-lvhn-marathon-for-via/Does Barb McKeever seem concerned at all for the integrity of the sport?
Unfortunately Bart Yasso hired her
Also, Barb appears to be a cyclist of some sort on her Twitter @memracing or something? McKeever Event Management, so one would think she would know something about our sport.
Unfortunately, in the year 2015, "hobbyjoggers" are still allowed to cheat time and time again. USATF, the governing body for certified road races distances, does absolutely nothing. And BAA Boston Athletic Association and Boston Marathon do nothing but listen whatever the RD at the Boston Qualifying race tells them as to whether the time is legit or not - even in cases where BAA knows it's highly probable that the qualifying time was achieved through cheating.
So If the RD at the qualifying race at some low key marathon race in bumfvck middle of nowhere USA is a dumb*ss and still lets groups of people cut the course to BQ, the BAA still accepts it because it's not within their power to disallow them entry's into the race if the cheater's qualifying cut-off time is fast enough (this year it was like 3:03 or something?)
This is a problem. I wish there was an easy solution. I think at the very least the BAA should only allow BQs to be achieved at marathons being run with a basic level of competence. I'd like to see Lehigh VIA become ineligible as a Boston Qualifying course for 1 year suspension for the Rossi scandal and lack of timing mats. Barb made the changes by adding timing mats next year but fvcker still got into Boston unfairly. Anyone who ran 3;03-3:05 as a BQ from 2014-2015 and didn't get into Boston should be boiling mad.