Unfair DQ in NCAA East 5k - Va. Tech 5th year senior gets DQd with zero contact!

MUST WATCH!

My wife and i's reaction to him being reinstated

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg

lolololololol wrote:

To everyone who wasted time arguing and debating on this thread: LEE DEGFAE HAS BEEN REINSTATED!!!

Justice has been served. Boo ya!

Link please. Can't seem to find any thing about this.

Tracky wrote:Link please. Can't seem to find any thing about this.

Thank you NCAA for doing the right thing. Best of luck to all competitors in the 5000.

F*ck yeah!

I am an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier for 2016. Since making the standard, I have quit training and upped my food intake astronomically, and in the process have gone from 135 pounds at 5' 11" to about 190 in less than nine months. My aim is to reach 250 pounds or more by the time the Trials roll around in February 2016, when I will proudly line up in L.A. in only a Speedo banana-hammock and oversized Hokas, with my prodigious hairy gut spilling out all over the place. I defy USATF to disqualify me on the spot on the basis of some rowdy application of the honest-effort rule.

Bleu wrote:

This isn't about interpretation of the honest effort rule. No one said he didn't give an honest effort. What he didn't do is go to the medical tent and get cleared. Has anyone ever been denied who asked? He could have stopped at 3k and still been allowed to advance.

It is about honest effort.

The reason they want them to be medically cleared is to show there was an honest reason for dropping out and not just saving themselves for the next event.

I am mystified about why the VA Tech runner gets special treatment. Totally unfair to all the other competitors.

Star wrote:

The reason they want them to be medically cleared is to show there was an honest reason for dropping out and not just saving themselves for the next event.

This is why all the runners who didn't run the 10k, were disqualified from running the 5k. It wasn't fair of them to be saving themselves.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

I am mystified about why the VA Tech runner gets special treatment. Totally unfair to all the other competitors.

What special treatment? He finished 3rd in the regional 5k. What do you want, for him to carry a piano on his back? Perhaps all of the 5k competitors should have had Degfae’s advantage of racing 8k of a 10k a few days before?

You are one of the "rules" guys, what another poster called the Dwight Schrute's of the world. The NCAA got it right and decided to enforce the spirit of the rule.

Shut Up Hingle.

Farts to be Reckoned With wrote:

I am an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier for 2016. Since making the standard, I have quit training and upped my food intake astronomically, and in the process have gone from 135 pounds at 5' 11" to about 190 in less than nine months. My aim is to reach 250 pounds or more by the time the Trials roll around in February 2016, when I will proudly line up in L.A. in only a Speedo banana-hammock and oversized Hokas, with my prodigious hairy gut spilling out all over the place. I defy USATF to disqualify me on the spot on the basis of some rowdy application of the honest-effort rule.

Since he has been reinstated, they should take the Harvard kid, Purnell, out of the race. Based on rules and requirements, he did not qualify.

Eli Pride wrote:

Since he has been reinstated, they should take the Harvard kid, Purnell, out of the race. Based on rules and requirements, he did not qualify.

Nah, once the NCAA tells a runner they are in it would be wrong to take the kid out. One extra runner in the final, from 24 to 25, won't make a difference.

what a genius idea wrote:

Star wrote:

The reason they want them to be medically cleared is to show there was an honest reason for dropping out and not just saving themselves for the next event.

This is why all the runners who didn't run the 10k, were disqualified from running the 5k. It wasn't fair of them to be saving themselves.

I know this is a joke post but they want to prevent people from entering an event and not giving an honest effort or not showing up at all and then running another event later in the same competition.

It's OK to not run the 10 and then run the 5 if you didn't enter yourself in the 10 in the first place.

They don't want people getting assigned lanes and then not running, or not running hard.

Here is the very similar story on Makhloufi's dropping of an 800m prelim:

Cant wait to watch virginia tech guy vs. harvard guy at ncaa's. PRESSURE IS ON BOYS! LETS SEE WHO REALLY DESERVES TO BE THERE.

Anyone criticizing the Harvard coach is a fool. His obligation is to his athlete. If the NCAA disagreed they could have. Harvard isn't doing their athlete justice if he doesn't file a protest. Just because he files it doesn't mean the NCAA needs to accept it. Blame the va tech coach and the NCAA... Not the Harvard coach.

Regardless, this situation worked out as it should have.

Foolsyouare wrote:

Anyone criticizing the Harvard coach is a fool. His obligation is to his athlete. If the NCAA disagreed they could have.

They did.

Harvard isn't doing their athlete justice if he doesn't file a protest. Just because he files it doesn't mean the NCAA needs to accept it. Blame the va tech coach and the NCAA... Not the Harvard coach.

Wrong. It's the harvard coach who created the mess.

Fire the fool wrote:

Wrong. It's the harvard coach who created the mess.

If someone buried a land mine in your yard, and you stepped on it, I guess you would then only have yourself to blame.

I'll root for Harvard and Virginia Tech athletes in the 5k. They both deserve to be there.

To the Dwight Schrute rule followers: Not every rule is just, not every interpretation of a rule is just, not every penalty for breaking a rule is just. Additionally there is a distinction between a misdemeanor and a capital offense. I don't want every jaywalker executed, but maybe you do.

Fire the fool wrote:

Wrong. It's the harvard coach who created the mess.

stwo wrote:

If someone buried a land mine in your yard, and you stepped on it, I guess you would then only have yourself to blame.

It was the harvard coach who buried it, and in your yard not mine, therefore the blame is entirely yours.