Another FL Finalist Staying Home

Fred Gwynne wrote:

This is absurd. The basketball coach should be fired for incompetency alone. Kick your best player off of the team because he's going to California for free to run a race? You kick kids off of teams when they're caught drinking, doing drugs, failing classes, committing crimes, etc. His achievements, and the achievements of any young man or woman, should be lauded by the school and the community.

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You are dead right on this. We need to start a letter writing campaign to the AD at that school to get the basketball coach fired.The ego on these high school coaches are completely out of control.

Sounds like jealousy to me

gato negro wrote:

And what kind of basketball coach would do this? The school was not proud to have a national level runner?

Sort of like the NC State football coach who ran off Russell Wilson because he wanted to play baseball in the spring.

Angie, thanks for the post, which I am sure you know you are going to get some heat for it. I wasn't always comfortable with how Pop handles things, but that aside, FLNC is a thrill of a lifetime and you can't pass it up for BB practice or even a tournament. No matter what an athlete achieves in their running career, elite athletes always recount Footlocker as ranking high amoung their biggest accomplishments.

The South was the strongest region in the meet, 4 in the top 10 runners, 8 in the top 20, 9 in the top 23, plus 39th for Goodwin who just got there in the middle of the night.

Half of the South's runners were juniors.

bguyj20009 wrote:

i didn't know he was african american. its rare seeing a black who is not of East African descent doing well in XC like this.

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Trust me, if as many african americans were interested in cross country as white kids, Foot Locker would be 75% black. Too bad they're preoccupied being good at fun sports like football and basketball.

Jersey wrote:

they're preoccupied being good at stupid sports like football and basketball.

only cause they get paid

Yes everybody knows that every sport besides cross country is stupid.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

This is absurd. The basketball coach should be fired for incompetency alone. Kick your best player off of the team because he's going to California for free to run a race? You kick kids off of teams when they're caught drinking, doing drugs, failing classes, committing crimes, etc. His achievements, and the achievements of any young man or woman, should be lauded by the school and the community.

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You are dead right on this. We need to start a letter writing campaign to the AD at that school to get the basketball coach fired.The ego on these high school coaches are completely out of control.

+1- Granted, we don't have all the info, but it sounds like a classic example of when an AD needs to step in and do the right thing. for all the times AD's get up in the coaches business with stupid petty concerns, this is one major fail.