NO ONE CARES ABOUT OUR SPORT, NOT EVEN YOU!

It's worse than you think. Jason Rexing isn't even a real person.

WOW THAT IS TRUELY DEPRESSING. It is worse than I thought.

no I don't really care

D_Gordon wrote:

It's worse than you think. Jason Rexing isn't even a real person.

Please say it ain't so!

actually rexing is a real person, he ran for notre dame in 97 or 96 or something like that. There is a picture of him somewhere in that thread.

i think what he means is that rexing is more of a demigod than a person.

I think your a littel bitch who is upset that no one has looked at your post.[quote]Runner xyz wrote:

Rexing is absolutely a real person.

Nobody cares about our sport because it sucks to watch and it takes so much effort to be good at it the stars cannot mingle about the public like they can in other sports. Since its an all year deal, our guys can't hook up with the Paris Hilton's of the world and go booze, even if they wanted to.

And Rexing is real, and a pretty good runner, or at least he was at ND.

Jason Rexing ran only 2:56 seconds of a 5K back in 97', at notre dam, but he was doing pretty good. He red shirted a few years, walked on, but after a stint at Holy Cross he was accepted at Notre Dame on a trial basis. On the last race of the season everyone stood up and chanted "rexing, rexing rexing..." and the coach had no choice but to let him run in that race. His coach sent him in w/ 1000m left, and he finished it!!!!!

Now that's funny!

it seems like someone one this thread (*cough*theonethatstartedit*cough*) is suffering from little man syndrome. Did your wittle bitty thwead not get much feedback, awww better post something mean so you can get some responses. nice one jerk.

Sorry if I sounded harsh, but I am very frustrated that no one does anything to make our sport popular, when its so easy to do something.

RUNNING may be about the individual, but the future of the American track and field program lies in how popular running gets. Maybe some of you run for yourselves, but if we want American track and field to be the top in the world, the popularity of it is VERY IMPORTANT.

WHY??? Because lots of kids today don't want to be track stars, they want to be basketball and football players. IF running got a lot more media coverage, and paid much higher saleries, running would become much more attractive to kids. They would start participating in track at earlier ages, instead of participating in track as a last resort when they get cut from other sports, or just to keep in shape. American track and field would rise above the rest of the world if it was popular.

Anyway, sorry again for sounding harsh, but I'm just a very ambitious, motivated person and I just was trying to help out our sport. I realize I didn't go about it in the right way, but please think about the CONTENT of what I said, and hopefully we can continue this discussion and figure out how to get running more popular, which IS important.

I should care, should I go around weeping?

I should care, should I go without sleeping?

Strangely enough, I sleep well

'cept for a dream or two

But then I count my sheep well

Funny how sheep can lull you to sleep

So I should care, I should let it upset me

I should care but it just doesn't get me

Maybe I won't find someone as lovely as you

But I should care and I do

I can tell you I care more about this sport than you do, you obviously have your priorities mixed up, running is about the individual, it's not a f***ing popularity contest, you do it because you love to do it.

Shut up and run wrote:

I can tell you I care more about this sport than you do, you obviously have your priorities mixed up, running is about the individual, it's not a f***ing popularity contest, you do it because you love to do it.

Quite right.

I run because I like to run. It keeps me fit. I have better diabetic control. It's a way of life. Period.

Not getting responses to the same old thread, doesn't mean that no one cares about the sport. Talking about doing something about the sport doesn't get anything done.

Those who are in the sport do care about it; the brutal reality is that it is a 'damned hard sport' (quote from Tom Ostler).

Football, hoops and baseball require less in the way of DAILY effort.

That's just the way it is and has always been.

T & F was always the domain of the skinny.

Its alright to be jealous. I mean not everybody can kill a bear with thier own hands, then carry it back to his house, in trainers