COLLEGE IN DESPERATE NEED OF A FACILITY

A better question is: How can you have an entire Division 1 conference that sponsors track with no outdoor facilities?

even better question....how does one school in this league get one of the best tracks in the country...UNF. But if you do your research Campbell is getting a track. USC Upstate is getting a track. ETSU is raising funds for their own track (though they have an indoor facility of their own). Jacksonville has a track, though I hear not the best quality. Belmont and Lipscomb are just landlocked so they have no way to find land in downtown Nashville. Even heard the rumor that Florida Gulf Coast is looking at getting a track....without a team. That's a novel idea! Get a track BEFORE you start a team.....who would have guessed to do that? Everyone in the ASUN has heard about KSU getting a facility and even an indoor track for years....appears that will never happen haha.

Georgetown doesn't have a track. Get over it.

Ian Edwards didn't even post in this thread.

Even w/o a track, we're going for that Triple Crown!! I don't think any team will be able to stop us!

which is the mentality we get from our coaches!!! you can't hold us down no matter what! We're taking the triple crown this year.....men and women.....sorry ETSU and JU!! KSU T&F/XC is here to stay!

ASUN2 wrote:

even better question....how does one school in this league get one of the best tracks in the country...UNF. But if you do your research Campbell is getting a track. USC Upstate is getting a track. ETSU is raising funds for their own track (though they have an indoor facility of their own). Jacksonville has a track, though I hear not the best quality. Belmont and Lipscomb are just landlocked so they have no way to find land in downtown Nashville. Even heard the rumor that Florida Gulf Coast is looking at getting a track....without a team. That's a novel idea! Get a track BEFORE you start a team.....who would have guessed to do that? Everyone in the ASUN has heard about KSU getting a facility and even an indoor track for years....appears that will never happen haha.

Florida Gulf Coast doesnt have plans for a Track team or a Track. Don't know where you got that rumor.

UVA?

Get the entire team to do fund raisers like crazy.

There are many schools that do not have a track! Polk County Florida. Not one all weather track at any level here! All of them are asphalt!!!!

As an alum of Kennesaw I am embarrassed at the lack of tact being shown by the current team. Coach Sims preaches talking with your legs not with your mouth. If you want a track make the national meet.

Winning the A-Sun title is like winning the Mississippi state meet, no one cares because there is no one good in it. Plus on the men's side "we" have never won a cross title in the A-Sun. I hope that changes this year. If you want a track have your coaches call the Alum up and have them help pay. I know I'd throw some money in for it.

Please have a great year finish top 5 in the region, beat the SEC and ACC schools, and then maybe ask for the track after getting a bunch of money from alum.

we aren't talking XC! we are talking track....and....field. I am sure you as an alum have no clue how good this TRACK AND FIELD team is. And you are willing to donate what, 100 bucks? Lack of tact? Oh we are sorry that you were used to a team of 14 people....all distance runners. Now this team is 80+ with every event area covered, and covered very very well. But it figures you have been brain washed by the school too. BTW, we dual Ga Tech this year in TRACK AND FIELD, and we will beat them. And yes, we will make noise this season regardless because now we can go to regional and national meets! We don't use our lack of facility as a crutch, we use it as motivation! You could make our entire team practice on I75, we will STILL become a dominant force outside the A-Sun. But thanks for the "backing" fellow Owl....

Welcome to the world of small mid-major schools. You might want to check with quite a few of the schools in the Northeast Conference, Atlantic 10, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, etc. to see how they are able to compete at a reasonable level with very limited facilities & funding.

Good luck!

P.S. Powerball and Megamillions are a good possibility.

Wow... If you only had a clue. Now you are ripping alums. It has become a sad state of affairs over there.

not ripping, just being honest! I respect everything former athletes have done before us and am grateful!

I don't even get on here often, and yet I somehow find strange rantings by Kennesaw athletes every time I do. Are you guys really that arrogant and stupid or do you just have a major inferiority complex? It wouldn't matter if you won the next five national championships, you still represent your school and your program as a bunch of classless jerks. Grow up and show some dignity and class.

HELP!!!!!! wrote:

My school is in desperate need of its own facility. We are a great team in Division I but we don't have our own place to practice or compete. Are there any donors or any programs out there that help build facilities for track and field?? We are scared if football comes track and field will get cut and we don't want that to happen to another track and field program!!!!! Does anyone know anything that may help us out???

u can use my back yard. It's around 20' x 30'.

By not having your own track means more AWAY meets....more travel.

Why can't KSU types look at the glass being half full.