The pro baseball field is off limits so it is tresspassing but the XC course is not because every fan was on the course. He spent more time on the course than other but that is irrevelant. If you can be on it for 10 seconds or 60 seconds, you can be on it for 15 minutes.
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!
Where did I say I didn't think it was an issue?! lol
And, for the reasons mentioned by the poster above, it is probably a little less of an issue than the people who run out on the pro fields. Sheesh - calm down!
Bizarre story. If he wants to crush weaker competition, why not run unattached in an open D3 meet? He's a 1:49/3:48/sub-4 guy, it'd be easy wins against all but a handful of teams and he wouldn't get in any trouble.
Echoing everyone else in saying that this makes me suspect some kind of mental health issues, I hope he can get the help he needs. Also kudos to the high school kid who beat him, "beat a 22yo college runner who joined 400m late" is no small feat.
If he has to take down his social media because of the backlash and has a tread about him online in a public space with people suspecting he has a mental health issue going on, it by very definition IS AN ISSUE!
He needs get ahead of this and offer up some kind of explanation and apology.
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I watched it so you don’t have to. They don’t give any new information. In fact it seems they’re not even aware who the runner is or that he is a texas grad. Typical FloTrack garbage. Don’t waste your time.
This is just bizarre. What was he looking to gain from this? Even if you win and destroy the field, you look like an ass being a 23 year old racing HS kids.
Look at the comments on Kevin's insta post. Seems like the highschool boys think what Brendan did was funny and Kevin is just making a big deal out of it. Here are a few examples:
"Bro no one gives a f*ck about cross country ur lucky he even got your sh*t buzzin"
"He a legend…"
"Bro chill, it was pretty funny. Nothing interesting ever happens in cross country and for this happen was just something out of the ordinary 💀🤣"
"you acting like he murdered someone jeez pipe down"
"Y’all in the comments saying Kevin rolled Brendan but don’t know that brendan let him win on purpose cause why would he go and win a hs meet he was literally there pacing Kevin is what I heard"
And there are more. It's pretty clear that what Brendan did was inappropriate and inexcusable, but it seems like some of the highschool boys lack the perspective to understand that.
The pro baseball field is off limits so it is tresspassing but the XC course is not because every fan was on the course. He spent more time on the course than other but that is irrevelant. If you can be on it for 10 seconds or 60 seconds, you can be on it for 15 minutes.
Except that the course has sections that are very much off limits to fans and even protected by barriers (eg, the lead up to the finish line). Fans are not allowed there any more than they are allowed on a baseball field.
The pro baseball field is off limits so it is tresspassing but the XC course is not because every fan was on the course. He spent more time on the course than other but that is irrevelant. If you can be on it for 10 seconds or 60 seconds, you can be on it for 15 minutes.
Except that the course has sections that are very much off limits to fans and even protected by barriers (eg, the lead up to the finish line). Fans are not allowed there any more than they are allowed on a baseball field.
Plus I’m pretty sure they are able stop the game when someone runs onto the baseball field.
This is extremely alarming. I hope he is arrested for something, not because I wish him any ill will, but he needs to be evaluated ASAP. This took planning and preparation.
Haha no the US Criminal Justice System is not a good thing to wish on a person having mental health issues.
This story is wild. It reminds me of James Hogue - aka Alexi Santana who was a legend at Princeton a year or two before I got there. In 1985, dude enrolled in Palo Alto HS at age 25 after being an NCAA Di athlete as an 'orphan' - won the Stanford invite but got exposed. While in prison ain 1987, he then applied to Princeton from PRISON, got in and was so beloved he had professors saying we should forgive him when the con was exposed.
MY RA at Princeton told me they walked around worshipping the guy. Got arrested later at Harvard for stealing gems.
Anyway, I've merged several threads into 1 and changed the thread title. The threads were initially titled. "College Athlete Bandits Texas State Meet" and "SUB 4 MILER BRENDAN HEBERT GOES HOME DEVASTATED."
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?