BAN TWEETS by coach/athletes at USATF meets. NO smartphones at venues period.

Good luck with that.

The Pros levy fines on coaches and players who say stupid things. The same should apply to USATF coaches and athletes.

Get this stupid idea out of your head!

USATF should hand out suspensions to athletes who embarrass our sport displaying bad sportsmanship when they are DQed.

OP

And, how do you expect to accomplish this?

Airports, Courtrooms, Police Stations, high schools, and so on, have metal detectors and Geiger Counters.

Randy please get some help for yourself. There are many strong medications that can help you.

No one agrees with this stupid idea or your faux outrage.

Just go away.

Max and Stephanie ought to resign.

Ridiculousness MUST STOP! wrote:

The ridiculous chaos at 2014 USATF Indoors can be blamed on Twitter and technology.

MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, and many NCAA teams have a 100% ban of players and staff from tweeting and commenting on sports.

USATF should place a 100% ban on all coaches and athletes from Twitter usage.

NO cellphones, smartphones or computers should be allowed at USATF meets. Applies to USATF Certified Officials, credentialled voluteers, and USADA volunteers, as well as athletes, coaches, agents, trainers, etc.

Only USATF Management, results/timing, security, medical, facilty, TV, press should be allowed cell phones, smartphones, and computers.

explain to me how twitter and technology is to be blamed for the chaos at USATF indoors?

It seems to me that corruption and undue influence by a prominent sponsor can be blamed for the chaos at 2014 USATF indoors, twitter and technology simply brought it to the publics attention (and that's coming from someone who is usually a big supporter of nikes role in our sport)

Ridiculousness MUST STOP! wrote:

USATF should place a 100% ban on all coaches and athletes from Twitter usage.

NO cellphones, smartphones or computers should be allowed at USATF meets. Applies to USATF Certified Officials, credentialled voluteers, and USADA volunteers, as well as athletes, coaches, agents, trainers, etc.

good luck with that

Mr. Obvious wrote:

Randy please get some help for yourself. There are many strong medications that can help you.

I have not posted and have no opinion on this subject.

To be safe, track and field meets should be done in total secrecy and the results should be provided only to authorized persons on a need-to-know basis.

The secrecy will intrigue the public and they will become even more interested in track than they are already.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Mr. Obvious wrote:

Randy please get some help for yourself. There are many strong medications that can help you.

I have not posted and have no opinion on this subject.

Not you but most of these posts on this thread are by Randy Mizrachi (sp?) who is indeed the SoCal/TrackTown USA/Mongol Hordes/Special Forces/Sailors/Texans/etc. troll. He is mentally ill.

Maxwell Smart wrote:

To be safe, track and field meets should be done in total secrecy and the results should be provided only to authorized persons on a need-to-know basis.

The secrecy will intrigue the public and they will become even more interested in track than they are already.

A bit overthetop you know. I agree that leagues have to control the message. That's why the NFL fines coaches and players for speaking out of line. USATF has to do the same to protect our sport.