Major coverup at Oregon

Methamphetmine has ruled the Eugene/Spingfield area for decades. I'm not surprised they discovered the timing crew was on the local 'potent' meth. The USATF certified officials will have to piece together the results from the video tape backup.

that is absolutly ridiculous if true.........can anybody confirm???

You almost had me until the part about the replay official -- I SMELL BULLSHIT!

Rio wrote:

You almost had me until the part about the replay official -- I SMELL BULLSHIT!

Aaaaaagreed.

i was at the meet, it's true. they were scrambling at the finish line

Finish lines don't always go smoothly at any level...particularly if you are dealing with computers...

We neverhads these problems with pop cicle sticks and coaches responsible for turning in their scores-ha.

Agreed. I coach high school. We used to collect the place cards from our athletes, fill in a score sheet. Bring it to the scorer's table where a few XC mothers would verify what we wrote with our cards.

They would then transfer what we turned in onto a HUGE cardboard "scoreboard". Results posted almost as quickly as coaches turned them in.

Now, we wait for results, because computers are slow. They are printed out on regular computer paper so there are crowds around them trying to read them.

It even takes a while for most meet directors to post results.

I was at a meet in Montrose, Pa and results took 8 days to be sent out! This past weekend I was told I have to wait until Monday!

I know the basic results, but I want to get into the details- where our main competitor's runners placed in relation to our's. Anyway, results ahoud be available when you leave and should be emailed by the time you get home.

I put on a 28 school track meet and do just this. If I could do it for track anyone could do it for XC.

oregon talks up a lot of game but im not sure they have the true strength to back it up. this is just another example of how they will do anything to get better except train like an ncaa team.

Vin's ego just gets in the way.

kayyy wrote:

oregon talks up a lot of game but im not sure they have the true strength to back it up. this is just another example of how they will do anything to get better except train like an ncaa team.

and this is just another example of how dumb posters on letsrun.com are.

Seriously, there hasn't been any evidence besides two posters on here. If true, other coaches would be filing complaints and there would be a lot more noise about this.

Just because your scholarship offer only included one pre-sharpened Oregon pencil is no real reason to be so disgruntle.

there will be more complaints, I guarantee it. I spoke with a coach who had a team at the meet.

That's many cross country meets have open races BEFORE the main events to work out the kinks. It gives the various crews a few practice dry runs. The timing crew, course marshalls, certified officials, TV camera guys, finish corral crew, paramedics, etc. benefit. The drawback is the course gets chewed up a bit.

Scout and Out wrote:

Just because your scholarship offer only included one pre-sharpened Oregon pencil is no real reason to be so disgruntle.

Yeah I don't understand past/present tense either. So tricky.