Oregon has made me interested in Track again

Tell me you are not a Pomona grad embarrassing yourself with this evil empire crap.

I also rushed home to tune into CBS hoping that the Ducks lost. Celebrate good times.

Yes, they have made it entertaining. This is the first time I have ever cared about the battle for the team title. I believe the magic is back in Eugene, like it or not. This crew will probably become legend like those of Oregon from the Bowerman days.

The same person posting the same tripe under different names

Shut the f*** up, no one cares.

chirp chirp chirp wrote:

I hate to admit it but UofO has made me interested in track again. I hate everything that Oregon represents. I view Nike as a corporate giant that acts like they are young and hip. i don't mind the corporate giant and I don't mind young and hip. I hate trying to pull off both.

Oregon has become their vehicle to shove both of these Nike images down our throat. Oregon like any good villian has made me sit down in front of the television to cheer against them. Today was a fun day of track and field as Oregon lost both team titles. One big step at slaying the evil hypocricy that is Oregon (Nike). Thanks Oregon for bringing me back.

Team Title Watch wrote:

Yes, they have made it entertaining. This is the first time I have ever cared about the battle for the team title. I believe the magic is back in Eugene, like it or not. This crew will probably become legend like those of Oregon from the Bowerman days.

How are they going to become legends? They lost and at least 20 of their points are moving on to pro status. The only legend is Coach Henry who further cemented his reputation.

2 Olympians, 4 x mile record, Rupp's amazing season, Centro's breakthrough season, Puskedra's great freshman year. How is that not a memorable crew?

^^^ what about Wheating!!! lol

I wished it was a four way tie. I just dont like the fact that Rupp is so good its frightening. He runs incredibly smart races, and he is also incredibly talented. He waits to make his move and once he does he has pretty much won. He was 2nd to last with 1200m left, also he just sat in the 10k and blasted out 28sec? or whatever to demolish chelanga and the other guy who did very well and didnt breakdown as badly as chelanga did. Also in the XC season he purely sat on Chelanga the whole race and stole it away from him at the end,(as prefontaine would have probably said). Although this is incredibly smart. It kills me to watch this while he is more than capable to take the lead and make it an interesting race.

Another BROJO Oregon Rupp-Crush case. I'm dying....

chirp chirp chirp wrote:

I hate to admit it but UofO has made me interested in track again. I hate everything that Oregon represents. I view Nike as a corporate giant that acts like they are young and hip. i don't mind the corporate giant and I don't mind young and hip. I hate trying to pull off both.

Oregon has become their vehicle to shove both of these Nike images down our throat. Oregon like any good villian has made me sit down in front of the television to cheer against them. Today was a fun day of track and field as Oregon lost both team titles. One big step at slaying the evil hypocricy that is Oregon (Nike). Thanks Oregon for bringing me back.

Let's see how much sense you make with your "back-handed" compliment.

First you state that you: "view Nike as a corporate giant that acts like they are young and hip..."

So you are suggesting that all large corporations try and project an image of "old and uncool?"

You're the last person I would ever want involved with any company I created.

2nd, Nike was started by young people, out of their garages, backs of cars, and cadged together cash from friends. The fact that they got MASSIVE was a function of their originality, uniqueness and tapping into things that were and are attractive to people, and young people. Sports, fitness, high quality, advance leading edge design.

Yeah, it's a pity that in the USA a guy captured by a dream, should actually pursue it, and after a decade of wavering between success and failure, his company makes it, and takes off, and then takes off again, and then takes off again...because he continued to apply the success principles of his coach at each stage, and in each area his company tackled.

Yeah, Nike, who was funding athletes and running events when they were secretly in the red in much of their early days...those big bad phonies from Oregon.

Did it ever occure to you that Nike continues to be appealing and seem young and hip, because they continue to hire young people, they continue to keep an eye on the market.

I'm sorry, I forgot that you are a loser who knows nothing about business or marketing...or real life.

And here is the funniest thing.

So you tell me what quality running shoe is actually "young and hip" ?

The reason Oregon has made Track interesting to you again...is because they continue to stay RELEVANT despite being an established company.

The young person who started that company...still remembers being young.

I have a life suggestion for you; every time you have an opinion, ask yourself what is a layer beneath it, and what is behind that, and what is behind that? --I am willing to bet you apply the same limited imagination, and negative thinking to so much of your life.

The way you do one thing, is often the way you do MOST things...

bump!

Like the Yankees for baseball, half of the people who watch them want to see them win and the other half wants to see them get beat. I am, however, less interested in college track with how Oregon has been operating in their resurgence. So my vote cancels out yours. The Yankees engendered greater apathy in baseball for me, it's been teams like the Marlins and the Angels and the Rays that have me interested again.

Marlins Fan wrote:

Like the Yankees for baseball, half of the people who watch them want to see them win and the other half wants to see them get beat. I am, however, less interested in college track with how Oregon has been operating in their resurgence. So my vote cancels out yours. The Yankees engendered greater apathy in baseball for me, it's been teams like the Marlins and the Angels and the Rays that have me interested again.

Well this is great. If we can lose one more Marlin fan, and still have just about everybody on this board talking about us more than anything else, well then we are doing something right.

And, just to be serious, you are an idiot; how has Oregon been "operating in their resurgence" ?

The only people carping are the juvenile malcontents like your self here on this board.

I talk to people all over this country and all over the world about Eugene, and Oregon track, and how about that, no one says anything negative except here on this board.

Some times real life, and the real world isn't fair.

So, I hope you grow up someday Martin Smith.

DucksRGood,

Interesting that you brought Martin Smith into this conversation. I'd bet you don't even know half the story about what actually happened do you. "no one says anything negative except on this board", yeah not the people you talk to because they are all you're buddies.

No i'm not Martin Smith, but I think before you start running your mouth and dragging other people's names through the dirt you might post your name on here and fulfill us with your knowledge of what actually happened.

This is a message board and people have the right to post whatever they want, even if you don't agree. It is not acceptable in my opinion to talk trash about people especially if you are going to mention them by name without informing us who you are.

info wrote:

DucksRGood,

Interesting that you brought Martin Smith into this conversation. I'd bet you don't even know half the story about what actually happened do you. "no one says anything negative except on this board", yeah not the people you talk to because they are all you're buddies.

No i'm not Martin Smith, but I think before you start running your mouth and dragging other people's names through the dirt you might post your name on here and fulfill us with your knowledge of what actually happened.

This is a message board and people have the right to post whatever they want, even if you don't agree. It is not acceptable in my opinion to talk trash about people especially if you are going to mention them by name without informing us who you are.

Why don't you tell us if you know so much?

I love this board, everybody just posts opinions with no facts. (Unless of course someone else's opinion is a "fact." Wait that is a fact here, isn't it?)

Here it is:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090610/COLUMN0301/906100473/1072/SPORTS

June 10, 2009

Ducks' track success shows Smith purge was right move

James Day

In March 2005, the University of Oregon forced out Martin Smith as its track and field coach. I thought that the firing was handled poorly and said so, in print, on multiple occasions. And in rather harsh terms, saying that Smith was sent packing "at the point of a javelin" and comparing Nike chairman Phil Knight's role in the ouster to Don Corleone from "The Godfather."

It's time to come clean.

Oregon made the right decision in moving out Smith and and an even righter decision in bringing in Vin Lananna three months later to take over the track and field and cross country programs.

The results speak for themselves. Even before Lananna was hired, former Central Catholic star Galen Rupp agreed to join the Ducks. Rupp had been training with former Ducks great Alberto Salazar because of the rift between Smith and program boosters.

That May the Ducks won the Pac-10 title, have tacked on three in a row from 2007-09 and won the 2009 NCAA indoor title as well. The Oregon women's team also won the Pac-10 title this season, their first since 1992.

In cross country the men have won back-to-back NCAA titles and the women have been runners-up twice in a row.

Starting today the Ducks go for team titles at the NCAA outdoor meet in Fayetteville, Ark.

And you get the feeling that this is just the beginning. Oregon has been reeling in so many top recruits that you can hardly keep track. Distance runners such as Matthew Centrowitz and Luke Puskedra. Women's stars Amber Purvis and Jamesha Youngblood.

Coming next season will be 800 runner Elijah Greer of Lake Oswego. His best is 1:47.68. Frame of reference: Nick Symmonds didn't match that time until he was a senior at Willamette.

Also expected to arrive is four-time California state 3,200 champ Jordan Hasay of San Luis Obispo, who was 10th in the women's 1,500 final at the Olympic trials at age 16.

Lananna also must be given credit for his role in convincing USA Track and Field to bombard Eugene with championship events: Olympic trials in 2008 and 2012, outdoor nationals in 2009 and 2011 and the 2010 NCAAs.

Would the Ducks be on the verge of sweeping the men's NCAA titles this season had they kept Martin Smith? No way.

Would Eugene be as big a player nationally or internationally. No way.

The Ducks were right. And I was wrong.

jday@StatesmanJournal.com

or (503) 399-6801

well the story i heard was that

a) smith was a jerk.

b) he was a bad fit from the start

c) it wasn't phil knight alone behind the trigger, but dozens of people.

You're the stoopid Yankees err Oregon myopian, pal. They can do no wrong in your semen-stained eyes. You're completely full of crap, too, you don't have an honest bone in your scrawny body. Read your penultimate line and repeat it over and over until you take it to heart.

It is nice to have a villian, and a talented villian is even better. But I have a question. How many Olympic medals has the U of O track team (men or women) been responsible for since, say, Pre's days? I include him because guts still equalled zero medals. Forget everything else and tell me how many U of O grads (regardless of nationality) in any sport, are sporting an olympic medal? We should appreciate the titles and they are a credit to track and field, but what about the ultimate payoff, paricularly compared to other Pac-10 schools, or SEC schools, etc. I don't know the answer, but from what I perceive it to be the pomp and circumstance seems a bit much.