RIP DyeStat Founder John Dye - February 13th, 1936 - September 30th, 2022

Lmao Acosta was unhinged on there. This is a sad, but great thread. Like listening to an old almost forgotten, yet favorite album .

Honestly , Dyestat really contributed to the improvement of HS running and attention that the sport. With Ritz , Hall and Webb especially . Def set a new standard with others soon to follow . Crazy , it’s been 22-23 years now . RIP buddy !

Obviously, I can't debate an opinion, but I stick by my opinion. I really don't think there would be an argument if you are from that area. For a period of time, DyeStat in and of itself transcended individual athletes and coaches. There are people who literally became famous in the T&F world for their posts of DyeStat.

I remember when Herr and other posters chipped in to buy wineturtle a laptop when he was in need. I still wonder if wineturtle (Tom Hyland of Jamaica, NY) actually passed from Covid or not.

The thread really taps into a time when I still had some hair on my head.

That was the 1980s when large company IBM/DEC/HP Data Processing programmers created same day FAX T&F result services, Dial Up Modem Banks on hobby Apple 2 with T&F Bulletin Boards. Dye was part of that era.

He's more unhinged than ever. I read an article about him being an all out communist now.

One thing I remember about the dyestatcal board was how Rich Gonzalez would get ripped for his preseason rankings at the end of almost ever summer. My gosh he would be almost spot on at the end of the year.

That was just the greatest. There was no suspense on the girls' side, thanks to Saratoga's transfer-laden superteam, but the debate for the guys was intense. You had the East Coast contingent (King99, etc) proclaiming that F-M's Manhattan performance made them a lock for the win... you had the Midwest crowd (daman, etc) confident that York would stomp them (they were right)... the California and NW (watchout) honks... And the trash-talking afterwards was epic. I still bust on my PA buddies about Clear Creek finishing 21st in a 20-team race. Great times. RIP Mr. Dye.

Back when Pat Tyson was at MEAD.

Simpler times!

Why doesn't someone create a site like dyestat so that we can have that again?

The shakeout has phased out 1,000,000s of sites. Data Science, Big Data, AI, Scrapers, Crawlers automatically assemble statistics and results these days. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter dominate now.

Bump

The dyestat message boards were great and created a much needed community but unfortunately too many jerks entered into it and would post porn and other inappropriate content. In the end those who ran dyestat were spending large amounts of time trying to monitor the boards and they had to be shut down. There is always a few who ruin a good thing for everyone