Very smart post wrote:
Footlocker is for purists while NXN is for the generation where everyone gets a trophy.
Dumb. The trophies go to very, very few -- and justly deserving -- runners.
Very smart post wrote:
Footlocker is for purists while NXN is for the generation where everyone gets a trophy.
Dumb. The trophies go to very, very few -- and justly deserving -- runners.
Who IS this Daddy Owns You pile of seething anger, arrogance, blind ignorance, and an "us-vs-them" holed-up-in-his-bunker mentality? I'm glad he's "successful", as he measures (claims!! to measure) $ucce$$, but I'm also glad I'm not his effin' neighbor, even if he's really only pulling in a tenth of what he claims!
The dude is lying about his athletic past. The 1987 CA XC State Meet results are found on-line here:
https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/90000/results
. There was ONLY ONE guy who ran 15:48 that year (the time Daddy Owns You claims): Gary Stoltz, a junior from Mira Costa HS. He finished ninth in Division II. But Daddy Owns You can't be Gary Stoltz, because Stoltz went on to run on the same course in the 1988 CA XC State Meet, finishing 4th this time in an even better 15:26! Same high school - Mira Costa. YET DADDY OWNS YOU CLAIMS THAT HIS 15:48 is likely still the school record, and that he made the top 7 (without telling us where he finished!) in '87, and clearly he implied that he only ran the course one year!!
RULE #1 for Message Board Trollers: When you fib, make sure nobody can call your bluff.
DOY couldn't follow RULE #1.
He lives in a fantasy world. See for yourself when you take an aerial tour of the CA State Meet course at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmE6SBZ5F0
. It was put together NOT back in the Gilded Ages when DOY claims it was all grass, but, instead, during recent times - 2017 or from a satellite image dated not long before then. The flyover part of the video is especially telling. Look, Ma, little grass!
From that video and from a review of DOY's own about-to-explode words, it is clear that somebody in need of serious anger management training doesn't know the differences between...grass and dirt...rain and no precip...1 yard and 100 yards...and the meaning of "surrounded by water." CA won't be surrounded by water until the Big One breaks it away from mainland USA.
Travelling Man wrote:
The top teams in the Midwest travel. Teams ran in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and South Dakota.
Yes, they can travel within a couple hundred miles. When was the last time an Illinois team competed in a California invitational? Or the biggest meets every year like Great American, Manhattan and Bob Firman?
Not all of the MW states have those restrictions, but IIRC Illinois and Michigan do. And that's not to say that it's specifically a Midwest problem, but rather the reality of high school sports: not every team can travel across the country to face the teams who eventually turn out to be Auto Qualifiers or At-Large contenders, even if they had the foresight to know ahead of time who those programs would be.
Because those match-ups happen so infrequently and are so unreliable to make happen, it is not necessarily the greatest sign of what teams are better. It's one part of a larger resume that should be considered.