It's at Rice.
I went to the one that was advertised for Austin (actually held at Texas State University in San Marcos). It was an awesome meet! Attendance was depressingly low, but if the crowds grow there could be something good here. Many great athletes (Eaton, Hardy, Reese) with an emphasis on entertainment and competition instead of time and splits and robotic announcing.
Food trucks would be awesome, fireworks, beer. Add those things and I think more "regular" people would go.
Rice is a much better fit. I always loved that track. Heart of Houston. But they NEED to get attendance higher. How can they not get people to come to frickin free meet with olympic athletes. Their promotion must be a joke. All they need to do is contact all the HS and MS coaches within the metropolitan area, or at least some of them. Let them know this is happening.
I have a feeling ATL won't be back for 2015.
Help me please.
No local print advertising ?
No Facebook page , twitter ? ( social media is kind of a big thing these days )
No free seats for high schoolers ? ( lets fill the stadium )
Worlds greatest athlete Eaton could not get a radio or TV pre-meet interview ?
A poor first year , will only mean no second year.
"ATL needs volunteers for public relations, writing, entries, video, photography, track crews, picking up kids at the airport, hurdles crews, doping chaparones, etc. Give Mr Doyle an email, text, or tweet."
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One would think with all the know it alls at LR, that there would be hundreds of fans willing to do these things, and donate money, to have professional track meets not controlled by USATF/Nike. REALITY: None of you fools have a clue as to the expense, time commitment and organizational skills needed to put on a respectable track meet.
American track and field is only a tad step above arm wrestling. If fact when I go to Comcast on demand ESPNU has college Arm wrestling championships up but not any track, indoor or out.
NASCAR, NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA, PGA, F1, MiLB, college baseball, college basketball, college football, and UFC all above track.
The tiny Bahamas of 300k people can sell out the World Relays championship but 300 million Americans and we can't get 300 to show up to see the world's fastest athletes. Pathetic.
I went to the track meet in San Marcos a couple of weeks ago, and it was actually a lot of fun. If they can start pinning down their locations earlier, I believe they will start to have some success.
Kapil wrote:
American track and field is only a tad step above arm wrestling. If fact when I go to Comcast on demand ESPNU has college Arm wrestling championships up but not any track, indoor or out.
NASCAR, NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA, PGA, F1, MiLB, college baseball, college basketball, college football, and UFC all above track.
The tiny Bahamas of 300k people can sell out the World Relays championship but 300 million Americans and we can't get 300 to show up to see the world's fastest athletes. Pathetic.
Actually, armwrestling has their own reality TV show now.
High School Coaches need to setup free streaming video feeds, provide free 25MB still pictures, and tweet activity and happy finish line pictures. So what if the quality sucks and it looks amatuerish like we see from videos/pictures on letsrun.com and flotrack. It's better than nothing and promotes our sport.
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
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