NCAA Outdoor Track Champioships in Oregon for the next 8 years!

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

good grief. wrote:

Maybe because summers in Eugene are Warm and Dry?

Put down the pipe and stop talking out of your ass.

Didn't it rain everyday of the 2012 Olympic trials and never make it over 70?

Exactly what I was thinking. The weather is not the reason the meet gets held in Eugene for 8 years. How it looks on television is not the reason either since coverage and announcing is absoultely horrible. Track isn't a tv friendly sport. It's all about finding a base that will pay the ridiculous ticket prices they charge to get in which are too high for young families and young adults that can't afford it. Same price for general seating.

The meet should rotate around the country, the NCAA should do a better job of promoting minor sports and the ticket prices should come down to gain more interest. The NCAA just wants an easy answer to making the most money they can. Once the meet is over, nobody gives it much thought except those that participated. They don't care about generating public interest in minor sports.

Like the USATF, lack of vision and leadership. It is what it is.... I swear if I held out $1000 bill for every lap of the men's 5k at the last USATF championships, the race would have been much more interesting. A little creativity could go a long way in the sport.

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

good grief. wrote:

Maybe because summers in Eugene are Warm and Dry?

Put down the pipe and stop talking out of your ass.

Didn't it rain everyday of the 2012 Olympic trials and never make it over 70?

That was very much a rarity my friend, and it ironically helped athletes be prepared for London.

Oh, and the world record in the Decathlon was set in that weather.

Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

No one else wants to host it.

UCLA as a host would be a joke. Where are you going to park? UCLA could not even sell out AAU's back in the day.

THE SPORT IS NOT THAT FRIGGIN POPULAR ANY MORE YOU MORONS.

And building a better TV broadcasts starts with an audience that understands the sport and shows stands filled with people.

Hey, I'd love it if it was at Stanford every year, I could walk to the meet.

That's just never going to happen; and all of you you drag out the same old complains are idiots, all the other options have been tried, and Failed, over the past 25 years.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR SPORT.

Look for more and more USA's and OT to be awarded to Eugene for the sole reason that it presents the sport well with a crowd that understands the sport and shows up.

He, I wish we lived in a country where there were multiple venues that could still pack in 60, 70, 80k of fans who understood the sport and gave a crap.

And Mt. Sac is a joke, as soon as the sprints are over, certain people exit the stands en masse with no respect for the distance events.

You people need to see reality.

Without Nike, or any company willing to foot the bills (cos I'll bet you Nike loses money on track and field now), the sport would be dying fast.

The goal is to shore it up and help rebuild some fan base.

But I guess that is too obvious for the nitwits on this board.

NTL ATL wants you wrote:

Giving credit for 100% of international medals won tp the six major US relay meets we and our grandparents, parents and children have raced at for decades and decades, Canada started the NTL and the US started the ATL for pro elites. The meets are held in May in Canada and the USA. Let's continue our long tradition of athletics.

What's up with the American Track Leauge? Where's the meets and entry requirements?

what the diff anyways. fans only care about worlds every 2 years and the olys every 4. it's boring as hell to sit watch t&f . who the eff wants to stand outside and watch xc or a road. our sport is about running and not watching. we're not NFL fatties waiting for a heart attack. people who rant on about the false notion of the importance of fans in the stands never ran a real race in their life. outside of that it's participants that only matter at the big mutha relays at texas and such, plus the boston, nyc, and chi marathons.

Maybe because summers in Eugene are Warm and Dry?Put down the pipe and stop talking out of your ass.

another view from the top wrote:

But no one ever wants to talk about freezing your rear off, or having to deal with heavy rains.

[/quote]

Didn't it rain everyday of the 2012 Olympic trials and never make it over 70?[/quote]

That was very much a rarity my friend, and it ironically helped athletes be prepared for London.

Oh, and the world record in the Decathlon was set in that weather.[/quote]

Remind me of how many days it rained in London 2012 at the track? I remember one half of one day. As it turned out, there was no argument that an abysmal Trials was good training for the Games.

Secondly, what would that WR Decathlon have been in better conditions? We'll never know.