Not a tool wrote:
Asterix wrote:Thank you for actually reading and responding to the post instead of the usual routine of some who continue to blow off steam about how everything is wrong and everyone is out to screw athletes while blatantly avoiding answering straightforward questions about their fundamental position. That just shows how much substance they've got to support their blatherings.
how ironic; whats your solution?
and you are always misreading others especially at kingthread. pot kettle.
Funny but the ONLY person who seems to offer a sense of reality is Asterix.
I really have to laugh at people like Wetcoast and Ma Kettle (presumably Herodotus from the past) who seem to have ALL the answers, that the AC/COC committees don't. Perhaps if they were as well-informed as they claim then the committees would be reaching out for their advice. I wonder why that's not the case? It must be a conspiracy to keep athletes off the team, eh?
First of all it's rather naive to think that AC/COC will/should be relieved of their mandate - just who is going to do that, the government? Are their some athletes not going who should be? Perhaps a few, but not as many as seems to be intimated by the posts on this thread. The AC/COC mandate is to produce excellence, and that's not the latter half of the field in the guise of "experience". That's what other meets (Pan Am's and CG) are supposed to accomplish. You may agree or not, and if the latter then get involved with the process (through provincial associations) to change the ideas that you don't like.
Now I think that there are unreasonable things as part of the Olympic qualifying process and that it is far too convoluted. There are things, like the idea behind the "rising star" criteria, that might need to be tweaked, and if so then recommend this to those on the committee (through the athlete reps - Sullivan and Forrester). But to say that the whole system, while not offering any realistic alternative, needs to be replaced, just comes across as plaining whining (or worse bleating).
People like Martin Goulet (and others on the AC Committee) are professionals who have earned the right to be on the these boards - what have you done to deserve to have your opinions matter?
One guy, who as a coach is directly affected by the "system" is DST, but he takes the high road and tries to work with the system, even if it isn't perfect (Name one that is?), it's called dealing with reality. You guys come across as complainers for the sake of complaining. Grow up, you're old enough to know better.