James Hogue 2.0: Sub-4 miler and Texas grad Brendan Hebert illegally runs Texas state HS xc meet, finishes 2nd.

I remember this kid because I'm in NJ.

Big difference in these two scenarios. In the NJ scenario, you had a JV runner jumping into a varsity race. Stupid for sure, but at least the kid was a high school xc runner. Attention seeking but fairly harmless as he finished mid-pack.

This situation in TX is 1000x more alarming. I feel terrible for the kid who won. He shouldn't have to deal with all the nonsense and questions that will follow. He should be able to savor his championship without this BS attached to it.

I think this guy should be banned from any type of high school property, high school event, and most importantly, should never be allowed anywhere near a firearm.

Personally, I think this is hilarious. One of my best friends, and teammate, won the state meet in my home state 10 years ago and had this happened to him, we would have been reminiscing and joking about this for years. Should this guy have done what he did? Obviously not. Is it as terrible as many of you are making it out to be? The answer is also no. Truly, who was harmed in this incident?

Far be it from me to tell someone what is right and wrong, as we all have our own differences in opinion. However, let’s not be so quick to judge someone a “mental head case” because they pulled a harmless prank. As I said, I wouldn’t recommend what was done, but I will laugh along with the prankster this time because I can’t think back to the last time somebody has tried to have a little fun in our sport.

The guy who won is Kevin Sanchez who also won last year

Sanchez doesn’t really need to put any of this behind him. It’s mainly an awesome story. He put the hurt on a crazed Sub 4 miler / low 24:00 8k guy and beat his sorry a**. The fact that this guy couldn’t even win is definitely the funniest part of this story.

Like he could’ve won (expected) or come in anywhere from 3-10 etc. but the guy literally was the first loser to a (good) highschool kid. True LRC basement glory-days beta.

Here's a good video that shows

1) he's not in the start or the 2nd filmed frame

2) he's in the top 3 up on the ridge

30 he's getting his butt kicked, for real - no doubt, hurting by the 3rd frame

2022 Texas UIL State XC Meet - Boys 6A

Banned by whom? If he shows up to watch a high school race in California, who is banning him? Who is banning him in Texas for that matter? I coach in the midwest and was at the state meet last Saturday. Out course has no fencing. Thousands of fans ran around the course and crossed it dozens of times. This kid technically did nothing different. I guess we need to prohibit every fan who stepped onto the course.

I can't find him in milesplit or TFRRS.

Not a harmless prank. This is on par with proposing to your girlfriend during someone else’s wedding ceremony. Extreme attention seeking is probably the most generous label you could put on it.

I do agree that he might not be off the deep end, maybe he just made a catastrophically poor choice. Not all mass shooters are crazy.

rojo wrote:
I see at the bottom of the Mileplit article that the race was broadcast live. What were the commentator saying about the guy mid-race?

I'm not sure if MileSplit had better video coverage around the course or on the cart. The NFHS live coverage only had the start and finish. They provided the 1 and 2 mile splits, but he wasn't included.

Maybe this was his punishment for finishing DFL in his fantasy football league last year.

tx.milesplit.com

Watch 6A Boys 5K

Julio Ramirez

This year is going to be one that goes in the record books for the amount of events that happened for a state championship race.

Open link

Better coverage from MileSplit

Does he identify as an 18 year old? Because if he does, we all need to abide by his psychosis.

Thanks! It was painful to watch how stupid spectators (kids) are crossing the course in front of runners.

If you don’t know the difference between crossing the course while watching a cross country race, while not getting in anyone’s way, which probably everyone here has done, and running in the damn race, you have serious issues, just like the damn fool college graduate who ran in the high school state championships race.

security guards are already being hired from Alaska to Miami and everywhere in between to enforce this ban from all high school property. This man could theoretically show up for a jog at any public high school track. We must be vigilant.

Why do you think so many spectators are clueless, never been to a XC race? The worst spot was the last filming location before the finish. It wasn't one person, it was several not looking direction of runners and seemed to be zoned out looking at phone or off in distance.

Some goofballs think that he can be banned from all high schools. But he technically did nothing different than the other fans. He was at the meet. He was on the course for part of the race. He didn't physically attack anyone or even touch anyone or interfere which is less than what some clueless fans did.

As crazy or tacky as this was, I see it as being about the same as those people who run out on baseball / football fields until they get tackled and removed. This might be slightly less offensive because it happened at an open park. What kind of trouble do those people get in?

If you don’t think that a full grown man, college graduate, sneaking into a race for high school boys is an issue, you have issues yourself!