Official Is Your Home XC Course Rupp Certified?

CU Home Course (i.e Rocky Mountain Shootout)

Boulder, CO

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: Mainly dirt, but footing can be inconsistent, especially when affected by Altitude. Jawbone Hill can be slippery and crowded.

The Other CU Home Course (Cornell University's Moakley Course)

Ithaca, NY

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: There is a huge downhill and uphill in the last mile known as the gorge. Going down and up this alone would make it way too dangerous. Throw in rut after rut in the middle of the gorge plus and a billion fallen leaves that make it wetter than a slip n' slide and you have a course that is a trial lawyer's dream.

As I was trying to make the gorge safer today for our home meet tmw, I actually thought to myself, "No way would Salazar let Rupp run this thing."

I probably shouldn't let my guys run it tomorrow but the gorge is a tradition.

ihsa state xc - detweiller park, peoria, il

Rupp Certified

flat, repetitive, circular. sounds like a glorified track to me.

I've been turned off by all of the Rupp-bashing that goes on here, but I will concede, this Rupp Certified thing is quite funny.

Perhaps all Rupp Certified courses should have a gilded litter available with a team of 8 strong Nubian attendants and scores of flaxen-haired maidens adorned in babys breath lining the course, dropping rose petals in his path?

Summary of recent NCAA Championships courses:

Indiana State Home Course

Terre Haute, IN

Rupp Certified*

*Dry conditions only. When wet, there could be mud, which could be squishy and lead to decertification.

Northern Iowa Home Course

Waterloo, IA

Not Rupp Certified

There is no Pilates facility within 100 miles. Where is Rupp supposed to limber up before the race?

Iowa State Home Course

Ames, IA

Not Rupp Certified

They held NCAA's there and the wind chill was below zero. Your Breathe-Right strip could freeze up in those conditions!

Furman U. Home Course

Greenville, SC

Not Rupp Certified

Too many cart path crossings and there is a hill that made Shalane Flanagan walk. Alberto's heart couldn't handle the danger!

Indiana U. Home Course

Bloomington, IN

Rupp Certified

Oh wait, I forgot about the switchbacks at the mile mark that get pretty hairy. Never mind.

DECERTIFIED!

Run the meet on the indoor track.

Kansas U. Home Course: Rim Rock Farm

Lawrence, KS

NOT Rupp Certified

They don't have a silhouette figure of Alberto OR Pre. Blasphemy! Rupp won't run it until they do. Besides, I heard the Billy Mills ascent had too many woodchips on it.

Oklahoma State University Jamboree

Stillwater, OK

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: Wood chip hills and cattle barriors to jump. No way AlSal allows Rupp on this course.

You've heard of banks being "too important to fail." Rupp seems to have attained the rare distiction of being "too important to race."

Mt.Sac would pass now. In 1999 they took the cross country out of it (and lots of it original length).

You guys do realize that Oregon's home course is not Rupp Certified?

Oregon Home Course

Alton Baker Park

Eugene, Oregon

NOT Rupp Certified*

Gopher holes everywhere. It would take multiple violations of US Fish and Wildlife regulations to bring that course up to certification.

Rain: smears his makeup.

[quote]Go Irish! wrote:

Perhaps he should just have a 5 minute head start and be the lone entrant in the "elite race" at NCAAs?

[quote]

Rupp and crew might just go for this.

Lone entrant... Classic!

Love this thread. I think this move was by far the one I least respect Rupp/Salazar for. Or perhaps it just adds on to the ridiculousness that is the Rupp/Salazar combo. I'll admit that I'm a hater of almost all technology ( though the computer is pretty cool, I play Madden, and I have a two and a half year old cell phone), but Salazar/Nike/Rupp have gone way over the top. Sure, people have the right to buy all the stuff they want that they think will make them better, but why not make it simple and JUST DO IT the old fashioned way--the ol' Oregon way (RUN YOUR ASS OFF)!!!

Folks are making too much of Rupp NOT running some meaningless BS meet. I am not a fan of his total lack of racing in all his seasons, but this is not a big deal.

That said, this is one of the funniest threads I have ever read.

North Central College

Location:Naperville IL?(might be right outside town limits)

NOT RUPP CERTIFIED

Justification: It's a cross country course :-P

McAlpine Park (Foot Locker South course)

Charlotte NC

RUPP CERTIFIED

It's been a very long time since I've run this course, but I thought of it as soon as I saw this thread. I think I took 20 seconds off my cross-country PR there, it was so smooth.

Also, if you see the word "rupp" enough times, it starts to look funny.

rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp

rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp

rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp

I'm sorry, I'm extremely immature.

Penn State University

Location: State College, PA

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: First mile is dangerously downhill. Too many tree roots around mile 2.

Lehigh University

Location: Bethlehem, PA

Rupp Certified

Justification: Like running along an airport moving walkway

More to the point, is it pasteurized?

Hey, I'm racing at Penn Sate in November, do you have any more details on the course?

UCSD XC course

La jolla,Ca

Not Rupp Certified

This course is pure hell and a danger to every runner with constant uphill and downhill and rocks on the downhill that would cause Rupp to go crying to daddy salazar. makes me think to myself how stupid USD and Point Loma are to even run their athletes in this race.

trialswatcher wrote:

Folks are making too much of Rupp NOT running some meaningless BS meet. I am not a fan of his total lack of racing in all his seasons, but this is not a big deal.

That said, this is one of the funniest threads I have ever read.

It's not necessarily the fact he's not running the meet but pertains specifically to the reason that Salazar gave. "Too treacherous?" Give me a break. This spits in the spirit of the sport and, to be honest, is a pretty pathetic. If the reason would have been "saving himself/resting for Pac-10s," it would have been understandable.

And just for the record, anyone who has competed on or seen the course knows that it is nowhere near treacherous. It's seriously all short grass with a little bit of cement.