Is it weird that we have 50 year olds on here taking about high school runners?

I don't see anything weird about it.

It's like a basketball, football or baseball fan talking about the top high school prospects and yes, lots of grown adults follow high school prospects in other sports.

How many people knew or talked about Lebron when he was in high school?

Not weird discussing the HS kid's performance, choice of college program, potential

Weird- discussing their personal lives.

Of course. There are forums talking about top high school commits for college football and basketball and forums with discussions about the youth academies of European soccer clubs.

Do you not think there are soccer forums with discussions about u17 world cups?

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Yes, almost every sport I can think of the interest begins early, often before high school and is a much bigger deal than track, for which there is very little money. The big money sports the interest is high and starts young. For example, the interest in kids playing soccer(football) in many places in the world is insane and competitive. Kids are recruited very young and will move away from home to train at very young ages.

Your troll attempt is also pathetic, given what you are aiming at, any you just look like a fool when you consider other sports where girls are sexualized at a very young age - every heard of gymnastics? What about figure skating? Swimming? Tennis? Idiot.

Who coaches them? And have you never heard of reliving your youth?

Yes, even adults much younger than 50. I just don’t get it. I stopped caring about high schoolers back in college and never looked back. I just can’t care enough about Newbury Park, historic as those kids’ accomplishments may be. I’m comfortable waiting to tune into them when they turn pro. Even NCAA is only of passing interest to me and is interesting only when it’s obvious that they are practically pro level in that they equal or better pro runners anyway.

Breaking 4 is great and all in HS but fairly mundane at the level of the world’s best, which is what keeps me interested.

I’m ok with 50 year olds looking at results and making predictions.

What I do find weird is when they make threads about every little detail about individual girls, such as surgery, injury, and sicknesses about girls. Like this one:

And this one:

And this one too:

You must not follow college football or basketball. College football has a huge interest in recruiting.

Also it depends on what the discussion is about. Discussions of performance or where a kid might go seems reasonable. Or maybe where they rank all time. But when it turns to how "hot" they are, then it gets really creepy.

Generational apartheid - just one of the many gifts of cultural marxism.

And we wonder why millenials are such imbeciles. Probably the fact that they were the first generation never allowed to mix with anybody older than themselves is part of the answer.

Wow, what an outlandish statement to put out there. I guarantee you that if I was one of the brothers, you'd be banned for life. Reported

Here's a 1986 movie about a 1954 team with 50 year old men obsessing over high school basketball players. Twas always thus, always thus will be

I think it’s fine if they’re talking abt performances/things related to the sport. Talking abt their appearance/general lives seems really weird to me most of the time tho. I figure there’s high schoolers/college kids (like myself) who post abt performances from kids around our age (like myself), and I imagine a 50 year old could be just as excited abt kids running sub-4 as me, especially when they could’ve seen the days of US distance running where no kid broke 4 for decades.

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This. I don’t care about high school athletes at all. Except it was cool when the kid from PA with glasses broke 4 in a non pro race. Other than that I’m here for the cliff notes and to poke fun at people because this is the internet after all.

This is the right attitude. Choose to look past age as it is truly just a number.

the american obsession with school children in sports is just bizarre. another example of how americans take something relatively normal and have to just take it too far.

I do find it a bit odd. There's always old guys who have season tickets for junior hockey teams around here, I honestly don't get it. What it's even odder though is. Adults in their twenties and thirties still watching tv series and movies about high school. I had an ex who somehow always managed to be watching shows about teenagers, she was in her late twenties.