Meet site and info. can be found here...
Meet site and info. can be found here...
Meth is a problem on every street in Eugene. There are dealers everywhere. Most are under 18 and on bicycles, which are far easier to escape law enforcement. The homeless an tree residents are mostly meth users. Eugene is one of the most dangerous small towns that I've been too. It's certainly no Athens, Georgia ;-)
Here is the status of Track and Field at Oregon State University, a D1 Football School and 2-time defending D1 Baseball school and birthplace of the HJ Flop. No track facilities. No Men's Team. A Women's team that only competes at 800 meters and longer distances. Does not seem like they would be likely to travel to Philadelphia when they could go 40 miles down the road to Eugene.
Bill Cosby wrote:
your telling me you don't think that most major D1 programs can afford to send their kids to any meet they choose?
Burrito girl wrote:Key words: ACROSS THE NATION
many schools can't afford to send thier teams 800 miles away just for one race. Remember, the is TRACK, not football. Noone gives us money. If there is a large meet 100 miles away, then heck I'd rather go to that one. Tracks are all 400 meters anyway, you don't need to be having athletes miss class just to travel to another meet on a plane.
As a recent D1 graduate who did travel each year, yes, I can tell you that most major D1 programs cannot afford to send their kids (I'm reading all, or even most here) to any meet they choose. Again, this isn't football.
Corvallis Oregon wrote:
Here is the status of Track and Field at Oregon State University ... birthplace of the HJ Flop.
Significant correction! The flop was born at Medford HS, where Dick began experimenting with the new form. He went on to use it with great success at OSU and the Olympics.
Don't be swayed by sacred cow worshippers. Oregon and any JuCo, D1, D2, etc. school in the nation can host a relays anywhere anytime they want. If people want to run they'll run. We don't need Penn or any dinosaur meet to tell us what track is all about. This is Eugene, Oregon, aka Track Town USA !
does anyone have heat sheets for the college/open races? anyone know who is running? going up against penn and drake is tough.
Folks take look at the meet schedule it is not a collegiate relay meet; I just went on to see. it is for HS events only. since there is no traditional relay meet in the NW for HS teams, they combined the meet with another former HS Invite and added HS only relay events and not many of them, Why they called it the Oregon Relays is the real question, which opened up this can of worms that Oregon was trying to compete with Penn and Drake. they are no. it is a track and field meet with a handful of HS relay events nothing more. same distance carnival that began a few years ago.
Dopey Dog wrote:
Meth is a problem on every street in Eugene. There are dealers everywhere. Most are under 18 and on bicycles, which are far easier to escape law enforcement. The homeless an tree residents are mostly meth users. Eugene is one of the most dangerous small towns that I've been too. It's certainly no Athens, Georgia ;-)
Sorry to burst yet another bubble. Try looking at some statistics instead of repeating crap that you heard from someone else.
from
http://www.drug-statistics.com/meth.htmGeorgia Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 77.4 kgs.
Oregon Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 54.0 kgs.
Texas Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 451.9 kgs.
They called it a "relays" because that is what it will become in '09 or '10. This first year Vin just wanted to transition from the Oregon Invitational and add high school teams. No way could he create a relays carnival in year one. But this meet has potential. VL doesn't do anything without a long term plan for success. In a few years, this will be the west coast alternative to Penn and Drake.
So by your logic; the lower the meth seizure by each state, the higher the meth use? Please mke yourself clear. You are saying there is an inverse relationship between meth seizure and meth use? Is this what you're saying? Really? Maine, North Dakota and Alaska must be Meth-West/Central/East.
Live here in the 97401 zip code and see the tragedy of meth. It's disgusting how badly the state of Oregon has glossed over this epidemic. The dealers are underaged, on bicycles selling meth, crack, weed everywhere. The police can't begin to get a handle on the problem. Yet, Lane College has very nice perfectly paved parking lots and buildings. The Register-Guard has documented the problem, google for it.
I only questioned your logic.
Sorry dude wrote:
Dopey Dog wrote:Meth is a problem on every street in Eugene. There are dealers everywhere. Most are under 18 and on bicycles, which are far easier to escape law enforcement. The homeless an tree residents are mostly meth users. Eugene is one of the most dangerous small towns that I've been too. It's certainly no Athens, Georgia ;-)
Sorry to burst yet another bubble. Try looking at some statistics instead of repeating crap that you heard from someone else.
from
http://www.drug-statistics.com/meth.htmGeorgia Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 77.4 kgs.
Oregon Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 54.0 kgs.
Texas Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 451.9 kgs.
You need to adjust the seizures relative to the size of Oregon to understand what this really means.
Population
Oregon: 3,700,758
Texas: 23,507,783
Georgia: 9,363,941
Oregion is 2.5x smaller than Georgia and 6.3x smaller than Texas. When you adjust the seizures relative to the population of oregon, the results are as follows:
Georgia Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 30.5 kgs (77.4/2.5)
Oregon Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 54.0 kgs.
Texas Federal Methamphetamine
Seizures: Methamphetamine: 71.4 kgs. (451.9 / 6.3)
In conclusion, Texas still has more seizures that Oregon, but it is a lot closer. Additionally, Georgia has very few seizures for its population compared to Oregon.
quote "Eugene is one of the most dangerous small towns that I've been too. It's certainly no Athens, Georgia ;-)"
You are right about that I guess.
Athens Georgia violent crime rate = .62 times the national average.
Eugene violent crime rate = .56 times the national average.
Source:
http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Eugene&state=OR
http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Athens-Clarke+County&state=GA
Hi Bill
I love your comedy skit about anchoring the mile relay... "there's this thing called rick-a-mortis, ricky was very unkind to me...". Thanks for frequently coming to Eugene, I loved seeing you at the Hult Center! I remember when you told the crowd you loved coming to Eugene. "The home of track and field" is what you called it.
Don't be so cranky about Penn, we're not going to rain on your parade. Hey, great photo of you and Bill Bowerman yucking it up at the Penn Relays! Glad to see you're wearing Nike now, instead of thoses adidas you wore for years.
See ya soon, back in Eugene.
There has to be people to notice crime and call the police. Many areas have poor police departments, and crimes go unreported since people know nothing will be done about it. The state of Oregon is one of those areas that time left behind. One of the biggest problems is convincing people that drugs are a crime. There are so many 60's hippies and their children in Oregon and they just don't care. That's why Portland, Eugene, and Oregon in general are often considered backwood hippievilles. Be careful for your family, it's not safe here in Oregon.
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Most college coaches will tell you that the Penn Relays are a complete "circus" and that the risk simply isn't worth the reward anymore. Michigan's DMR team literally flys in the same day as the race, does not stay overnight, and keeps the bus "warmed-up" in the parking lot for a quick getaway back to the Airport as soon as their race is over with. The athletes at Penn are treated like cattle, and their is virtually no place to warm up. The weather can be atrocious as well. Lighting last year, rain, etc.
The weather at Drake usually sucks too.
The weather can be warm and windy one day, and freeze your balls of the very next! A lot of college coaches would not have even been there THIS year, had it not been for the fact that NCAA's are being hosted there. As a result, there have been more and more teams heading West on this particular weekend in the last couple of years. I believe that that TREND will continue.
Case in point: Wichita State took some of their team out to Cal--Berkeley for the Collegiate Challenge last year, and this year Wichita took a large number of sprinters, jumpers, and some distance kids to Oregon.
If you have money to travel, why not come out to Sunny California ( Cal or Stanford ) instead of a "circus" like Penn???