Here's my marketing idea:Nike should hold a contest where fans tell them why their town should host 2019 Pre Classic

The problem is some of those smallish cities wouldn't have the stadium size for that so it would end up narrowing it down to the same handful of locations.

And it could be expensive/difficult for people to get to the meet. It's already annoying that the meet is held in Eugene of all places, but I get there are a lot of Oregonians who love T&F.

It might be a good shake down for Mt. SAC a year before the Trials. Three things come to mind:

Test the facility at Mt. SAC (surface, parking, stadium, etc.)

Gauge the popularity of world class T&F in the L.A. area for marketing and ticket pricing

Test the local infrastructure for potentially large crowds (roads and accommodations)

2019 Pre Games...

Should be held in...Assawoman, VA.

Marshfield HS

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rojo wrote:

So this morning I read the Ken Goe article where it said the 2019 Pre Classic might not be held in Eugene. .

Why?

go on son wrote:

rojo wrote:

So this morning I read the Ken Goe article where it said the 2019 Pre Classic might not be held in Eugene. .

Why?

Hayward renovations:

Boulder, CO.

Pros:

The area would go nuts.

Cons:

Altitude would ruin fast distance races, keeping athletes from attaining Q marks.

Q marks won't matter unless the USATF nationals are held in mid to late August (remember world champs in 2019 are in late September/early October unless the IAAF pulls it out of Doha).

Then again, Tom Jordan/Nike wouldn't invite anyone to Pre that's not in the top 50 in the world to run in a Diamond League scoring event (I'm not counting the few domestic events that have been added or the non-Diamond League scoring events).

They should hold it inside the prison where Phil Knight and Vin Lannana will be by then, for bribing the governor to get state funding for worlds. The FBI is on the case.

It will be a minimum security golf prison for sure, and Knight can pay to build a track in there. I don't know if Lannana gets to go to rich prison though. Does he count as upper class?

Bad Wigins wrote:

They should hold it inside the prison where Phil Knight and Vin Lannana will be by then, for bribing the governor to get state funding for worlds. The FBI is on the case.

It will be a minimum security golf prison for sure, and Knight can pay to build a track in there. I don't know if Lannana gets to go to rich prison though. Does he count as upper class?

Get therapy

for what? Giving a shit about corrupt politics?

Look up Knight's contributions to Kitzhaber in 2014. ALWAYS know what the F you're talking about before you cop an attitude.

I don't think anyone wants it given the useless baggage that has to be taken care of. I.E. hundreds of IAAF, USATF, and Nike do-nothings have to be provided free round trip 1st Class airfare, 5 star hotels, 24/7 craft services, rental cars, limos, etc.

Bring it back to Indianapolis. We held some awesome USTAF Championships back in the day. Also a world record was set there.

rojo wrote:

So this morning I read the Ken Goe article where it said the 2019 Pre Classic might not be held in Eugene. Personally, I think this presents a great marketing opportunity for Nike.

They should ask runners to nominate their hometown to host the event. I imagine a ton on smallish cities would love to have it. The local runners come up with ideas on how to promote it and Nike awards it to a small city like Boise, Madison, Sioux Falls, etc.

I've always though Middle America should get to host some cool events every now and then.

Yawn

I haven't read the article, but given Stanford's hosting of major meets and its Nike affiliation (and closer proximity to NIKE headquarters) - maybe them. But they don't have a ton of seating options. And I don't think they'll easily be able to build temporary seating either because of how tight the area is.

Otherwise:

Icahn in NYC

Penn

******If LA could get its act together - have it hosted at the Coliseum?

where the Olympics are expected to be held? The facility is going to be renovated, so there may not be enough time to get that complete, though.

rojo wrote:

I've always though Middle America should get to host some cool events every now and then.

I always though letsrun.com would get a boost from spending $10K a year to pay a few college kids (or hell... middle school kids) to spell/grammar/typo check rojo's message board posts.

just my two cents wrote:

I haven't read the article, but given Stanford's hosting of major meets and its Nike affiliation (and closer proximity to NIKE headquarters) - maybe them. But they don't have a ton of seating options. And I don't think they'll easily be able to build temporary seating either because of how tight the area is.

Otherwise:

Icahn in NYC

Penn

******If LA could get its act together - have it hosted at the Coliseum?

where the Olympics are expected to be held? The facility is going to be renovated, so there may not be enough time to get that complete, though.

Back in the day L.A. was won the bid to host the IAAF World Cup or some name like that, at the Home Depot stadium in Compton. They obtained many sponsors for the T&F meet portion but could not secure funding for an pre-meet international convention hall and extravagant luxuries for bot the convention and athletics meeting on behalf of several thousands of IAAF bigwigs. The meet was cancelled officially for "tax reasons" and held instead somewhere in Europe.

St. Patrick's High School in Iten, Kenya.