At the coaches meeting it was mentioned that the NCAA would not change the Monday day for DI XC, County labor work rules mandated Blue Lake Park would be available only on weekends, and that the State of Oregon placed Portland Meadows off limits during an active horse racing series.
I've seen Oregon listed as a tentative host, but the championship webpage only ever said TBD. Whoever bought airline tickets to an unconfirmed location only have themselves to blame (assuming it's really been nixed).
Ironic that you can't hold the meet at Portland Meadows (venue where you can gamble on horse racing) while you can hold a third-tier bowl game and the WCC basketball championships in Las Vegas (city/environment where you can gamble on all sorts of things).
NXN has worked well there and I don't know how that gets around the "active horse racing series" prohibition. I just don't understand that issue - is it because on the Monday before Thanksgiving in November there is active betting on horses taking place at Portland Meadows for action elsewhere?
The NCAA apparently accepted a bid from Oregon to host the XC champs in 2011 and then for several months says nothing before finally coming out and saying "no" because of the gambling aspect. Seems to me this would have been an immediate rejection if the site selection committee were even remotely paying attention.
I'm calling B.S. on those who supposedly already bought airline tickets. They normally can't be purchased more than 330 days in advance...
The explanation we got was that NXN is held on Saturday, and is a community children's non-profit event. It fits under that social category as helping the local kids with childhood obesity, positive role models, etc. Ironic even though Nike exploits prisoners and children in 3rd world countries. NCAA events do not qualify as community events. The NCAA would not move the date given that DIII XC has Saturday reserved.
So Terre Haute on Monday for 2011?
ISU stated that they want it in 2011. ISU has spiced up the treatment of everyone. The meetings and banquets were held this time at the Hulman Student Union on campus which is much nicer a facility that the Holiday Inn they used in previous years. The adjacent twin towers house dorm rooms. Co-eds were walking around in *causual* attire ;-) ISU is definitely campaigning to have DI XC back in 2011.
It should be at Wisconsin. /story
If you bought a ticket a year in advance with no refund, you dont deserve that money anyways.. dumbass
Actually, I don't think a person could be stupid enough to get a no-refund hotel room a year in advance. I doubt such a non-refundable policy exists with any hotel. In addition, Portland was never NEVER listed as the XC site for 2011. Only the most stupid fool would have bought an airplane ticket to a "non-existent" XC site. The poster is too obvious about his anti UO anti NIKE phobia (hatred).
BTW, I wonder if that same fool has now purchased his non-refundable hotel and airline tickets for Terre Haute (LOL).
thank you for confirming my earlier statement...some people should really learn to read the NCAA site to see the official host instead of basing their dumb purchases off rumors/articles
What a major ffuucckkuupp. Parents in Africa, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc. bought non-refundable $3000 per seat tickets to Portland and now they have a wirthless piece of paper and can't afford to go at all. That's a once in a lifetime experience to see you kid run for in the Big Satan. The chimps in Eastern Europe only make 1/10th of what we make in the USA. So just go ahead and keep shitting on the sport of cross country and see how many more fans we lose o.k ?
Still Waters Run Deep wrote:
What a major ffuucckkuupp. Parents in Africa, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc. bought non-refundable $3000 per seat tickets to Portland and now they have a wirthless piece of paper and can't afford to go at all.
Oh baloney. No one believes this...
Have Senator Wyden get an earmark from Congress to compensate the victims of this SNAFU.
Thousands of parents from around the world purchased $10,000 non-refundable first class tickets on chartered jets to come to the championships in Portland. To make matters worse, they also reserved non-refundable Rolls Royce leased cars and $1,000 a night rooms in nearby resort hotels. This is a horrible thing for people of the world to have to deal with. The sport of XC will never again be the same because of the huge disaster. Now these same people are going to have to reserve new non-refundable chartered jets, resort lodging and expensive leased cars in Terre Haute. Let's just hope that the NCAA doesn't decide to hold the event at a different venue because that would just mean having to get non-refundable reservations in a third city. Why don't they just hold this meet in Mombassa or Zurich...if only to keep the costs down.
Singing to the Choir wrote:
Thousands of parents from around the world purchased $10,000 non-refundable first class tickets on chartered jets to come to the championships in Portland. To make matters worse, they also reserved non-refundable Rolls Royce leased cars and $1,000 a night rooms in nearby resort hotels. This is a horrible thing for people of the world to have to deal with. The sport of XC will never again be the same because of the huge disaster. Now these same people are going to have to reserve new non-refundable chartered jets, resort lodging and expensive leased cars in Terre Haute. Let's just hope that the NCAA doesn't decide to hold the event at a different venue because that would just mean having to get non-refundable reservations in a third city. Why don't they just hold this meet in Mombassa or Zurich...if only to keep the costs down.
if i keep saying the same thing over and over again, maybe it will become true!!!
And people rag on Miss Hasay for not opting for Stanford when it was that Stanford grad at UO Athletics who screwed up royal again this time,.
where we at? wrote:
So Terre Haute on Monday for 2011?
IMHO it should always be at Terre Haute. But that's just me.
So, dumb fu@k, explain to us just how someone screwed up. The Oregon bid was always predicated on hope of holding the meet in the Portland area, with the racetrack site named as the probable site from the beginning. Nothing was ever promised by either the University of Oregon or the NCAA. It didn't work (something the NCAA and Oregon knew was possible from the beginning), so now the NCAA will have to actually select an alternative location. But, if high school children on the internet want to make it something it never was....so be it. They have a sand box and they can play in it alone. These Oregon/Nike haters are something special for the rest of us to laugh at.
Hah hah. UO really blew it this time. A total fiasco. They should run Vin & his Pink Mormon Underwear boy outa town now ;-)