Armchair quarterback wrote:
come on! wrote:i honestly wonder if anyone really, honestly thinks it's stupid that this guy went for a PR in the prelims... dude's last chance to make nationals - he did what he had to do. i hate to jump on the bandwagon here, but anyone who resents what he did is just jealous of his talent as they have never come close to 3:42. Anyone reading this who has run that quickly knows the tremendous dedication, determination, and talent it takes to do so. all the haters, bag it for another thread - this one is about mcdougal anyway.
You're wrong. His last chance to qualify was Sunday, or at Regionals.
I'm neither jealous(sic) of him, nor a "hater," and have run faster than 3:42. One thing for sure, I've never run like a fool in any prelim in my life. This was a bush league display. If this is what the guy is about, then I hope he makes it to nationals buys a lot of souvenir t-shirts.
I thought that anyone and everyone who qualifies to go to nationals belongs there, all the way from the super-talented ones looking to blow the field away like I'm sure our illustrious "Armchair quarterback" here once did down to the ones who bust ass for four or five years just to sneak in and have no real chance to even get an All-American certificate, which, from the sound of it, "Armchair quarterback" uses to wipe his butt.
Then again, after years of training I've only run times that "Armchair quarterback" probably ran in 7th grade on no training, and I'd be quite happy to make my DIII college's top seven when I'm a senior next year. Obviously, I'm far too starry-eyed at something so trivial as competing in a race for the NCAA D1 National Championship to see that making it to a national championship is meaningless if you don't "belong there" by the "Armchair quarterback" standard, which does not consider qualifying for it to be proof of belonging.
So don't mind me -- I'm just a foolish child. Would you condescend to let me lick the leather of your La-Z-Boy, great and talented Armchair Quarterback?