Maryland HS Star Brody Buffington DQed Again Unacceptable Celebration

This.

Arrogance personified. Doing it to be seen and heard. Clearly loves the attention. DQ the wanna be.

I fear you will grow up to be one of these sad excuses of an official.

Not a fan of such celebrations, but really I expected to see worse. I don’t know the added details, but what I saw was pomp, but not as excessive as I would want to see to DQ a runner or team.

Got busted before for this type of conduct. Guess he did not learn or felt entitled. Hope his coaches ripped him a new one. If you cross the finish line, act like you have been there before. This kid is a tool for hosing the three other guys on his team. What an ass hat.

Looks like the oldhead officials brigade is out in force on this thread. All of you should be sent to Gitmo and waterboarded

He stopped racing and became just some dude running on the track about 10 yards before the finish line when he raised his arm and pointed straight up to the sky. He made his intentions clear after crossing the finish line by the switching to running with his arms out like an airplane. Bad sportsmanship. He deserved to be DQ'd. His teammates, teammates' parents, and coaches can take it up with him.

Having watched the video, my take is that I don’t like him, and I wouldn’t want my kids to be friends with him, but I don’t think anything he did merited a DQ, though, unless it was for something else not shown in the video. It was not an uncommon celebration in any way. Thousands of other high school athletes all across the country do the exact same thing and nobody gives it a second thought. The only difference here is that the person doing it appears to be a giant tool.

Grow up, official. Would've been better off if he'd stayed at home.

Yeah...that's kind of a big reason people like to win stuff

That is not celebrating. That is being happy. MPSSAA has been doing this for years, but yet they have no problem with kids who live in DC running for a MD school or turning their head when an athlete that lives in Randallstown running for a team in PG County because that school has OBOE classes.

Little freaking league meets have splits on their races, but the mPSSAA can't do splits at their state meet. They took over the timing themselves this year and they suck. Milesplit videos suck and they never ask hard questions - they just bend over and accept whatever they are told. please bring back runningmaryland.

He certainly has a douche bag name to Go along with his actions. It was his celebration while running. He deserved it - high schools sports aren’t only about highlighting fastest. It’s about sportsmanship, developing people and respect.

he showed none of that. It’s not about buzz kills

Was there for much of meet. When you’re next to the track the celebrating from Brody seems more in your face and arrogant than it comes off in the video. In the 100 qualifier he slowed and turned to the crowd the last 10 meters (no DQ of course). But was not celebrating instead was bragging.

Appropriate to demand respectful behavior in high school athletics. Many of the races end with competitors genuinely congratulating each other — the beauty of striving to be your best, accepting results, and rooting for others.

Completely acceptable DQ IMHO; of course opinions vary.

"Act like you've been there before"
"Isn't the thrill from winning? Why celebrate?"
"Rules are rules"
"He should be congratulating his competitors"
"Where's the humility?"
"He was not a good enough sport"

This is why distance runners have earned the reputation of being boring, pedantic, effeminate dweebs.

Not DQ worthy IMO. But still douchey given he’s way faster than the competition. Save the antics for bigger races kid. Someone should have gotten that through his dopey head after the indoor incident.

Is it too late to DQ Tommie Smith? (excessive celebration)

Is it too late to DQ Edwin Moses? (jewelry rule)

Is it too late to DQ Usain Bolt? (excessive celebration)

I'm with the posters who think that the officials are on a power trip. What the kid did is not DQ worthy. I feel bad for his relay teammates though.

None of them were subject to NHSF rules.

Stupid on two levels…

The 4x2 is a Stupid event

the kid did nothing wrong…stupid DQ

This runners world article is about his DQ at regionals, which I didn't realize his coaches had appealed: “The turning around to his opponents and the hand waving all the way down the straightaway is in disagreement with that rule,” O’Keefe told The Herald-Mail. “The coaches did appeal my ruling and it went before a jury of appeals, and they agreed that he had not run by the rules.”

runnersworld.com

High School Sprinter Disqualified for “Celebrating” Win

The video shows the runner throwing his hands up in victory and cheering on his teammates.

Link:www.runnersworld.com/news/a42802272/hi...

In regionals the "opponents" were his teammates, but the celebration there was much more exuberant. In the race yesterday at States, Brody just raised one arm, although it was quite a ways before the finish line. Does anyone know if the jury of appeals publishes any sort of decision or report that is public?