My coach is pissed about guys on my team lying about their height!

What is with dudes and lying about how long things are

Why do they even have height listed for cross country or track? I understand some sports, but it just seems weird for runners. Like if you have that, put weight, shoe size, inseam, etc.

Dumb to have height listed on the roster but really dumb to lie about. Just annoying to a coach for something like that to become an issue.

Seems pretty straightforward, doesn't it?

Sure, until you look at where we are with something like gender.

half the elites are 5'7 and under

Hope this is a lovely troll (weird and detailed enough to be true!).

Otherwise you just increased the immaturity of your program x5 and introduced another dumb problem that shouldn't exist by posting about it on Letsrun, which he would absolutely see and know is about him.

So it MUST be a troll.

8/10

Lol a similar thing happened when I ran D3.

It started out with one guy who was around 5’10” saying he was 6’, and everyone else calling him out. When he wouldn’t change his sheet everyone added 2 inches to whatever they wrote down originally. After our coach caught wind of it, he had everyone listed as 6”1’, this just made it more of meme, and for being so insignificant remember it so vividly.

Of course the one 6”3’ guy was peeved he was shortened lol. Good times.

That's totally weird that XC kids want to elevate their height in a sport where being short & small is in.

I played HS football & ran track (sprints) way back in the day (1970s). On the football team, the coach purposely elevated the height by several inches on the roster for the short guys. I was a 5'6" DB & the coach put me at 5'9" for the roster. Lol. Some players who were 5'7" to 5'8" were listed at 5'10" & 5'11."

Some of us shorties asked the coach one day what was going on with this. I remember the coach saying something to the effect that he didn't want a bunch of midgets listed on the team roster. 😆

6’5”. With the Afro, 6’9”.

LolBeenThere wrote:After our coach caught wind of it, he had everyone listed as 6”1’, this just made it more of meme, and for being so insignificant remember it so vividly.

No one would ever believe that I was 6'1" except for when I was in the 6th grade.

6-2, have been since my junior year in high school, and a lot of you can bite me.

I'm pretty sure this is also the case with Hollywood actors.

There's no way Dwayne Johnson is 6ft5.. He is 6ft2.

KIPCHOKE wrote:

I'm pretty sure this is also the case with Hollywood actors.

There's no way Dwayne Johnson is 6ft5.. He is 6ft2.

Seems like pretty much every guy under six feet tall lies about their height.

And yes, Dwayne Johnson is no where near 6'5". Thats just ridiculous.

I'm cool with being 5'6 when I'm running because it puts me around the same size the all time greats Geb, Bekele, Kipchoge

When it comes to dating I choose to identify as 6'3 (it's stated in my profile) and anyone who refuses to acknowledge that is a bigot and not worth my time anyway.

Geb is 5'3".

This stuff goes on in all sports. Basketball players lie about their height. Football players will lie about height and all of them their weight lol.

I love the data app comment tho b

BILL SLOWSKY wrote:

half the elites are 5'7 and under

Given that the average male height in the world is 5’ 7.5”, this would be an unsurprising median for any sample group.

whawha wrote:

This stuff goes on in all sports. Basketball players lie about their height. Football players will lie about height and all of them their weight lol.

I love the data app comment tho b

Pro wrestling is the worst given that it’s a hybrid between sports and stage acting. They DEFINITELY embellish heights and weights.