Reminiscing: Did I deserve to be kicked off my high school track team during my senior year of HS 7 years ago?

"She". There's the reason right there.

7 years later and you still haven't realized what a bunch of meaningless bullshit the high school social scene is. You should have figured that out right away during college and regretted ever giving a fvck about anything in high school.

Your coach kicked you off because you were a bad influence on your team and were not a serious athlete. It may not have been fair that others weren't kicked off too, but you still deserved it. You turned to depression because to you, track was about socializing and not athletics, so you had no friends without it. That alone is reason enough to be kicked off a team. It's not a club.

I go by the three strikes rule:

Strike 1: You were never going to contribute much to the team athletically, yet you still consume administration and coaching time just being on the team (kids don't realize how much work this is)

Strike 2: Your party is an example of being a distraction to the success of the team

Strike 3: Bad attitude? I'm judging you by your posts on letsrun.

Yes, you deserved to be kicked off the team. Let it go and move on.

Hingle have you ever succeeded at anything in your life?

You got kicked off your track team

Terrible PRs

Picked terrible majors in college

Long-term unemployed

Jesus Christ dude

Exactly. Case in point. I was the #1 guy in XC in HS. I went to a HS baseball game on a Friday night with the #2 guy and a guy who was not even top 15 on the team. We didn't care about baseball but it was a school event and we drank in the parking lot and took a flask with us into the stands, Little did we know but out coach was there too. He saw us drinking in the stands, but didn't say anything at the time. The following Monday he called the slow guy into into his office and kicked him off the team and called his parents to discuss his drinking at the baseball game. Me and the #2 guy skated without even a discussion with the coach. Ever. If you're slow, then don't f up. And that's why you were kicked off the team Hingle - you were too slow.

It's high school man. Let it go.

Hingle, my first post which was the first with anything useful, was ignored by you and you didn't get the message. Since then , incidentally, have been many good ones.

Once more:

Why is Not being on some stupid HS team a problem? Being on one actually is. The coach cured you of the biggest mistake in your running career. Well, maybe not the biggest....

Up late at night wrote:

Hingle have you ever succeeded at anything in your life?

You got kicked off your track team

Terrible PRs

Picked terrible majors in college

Long-term unemployed

Jesus Christ dude

Political Science major, right? You should have studied something that the job market is in demand for.

Edward Teach wrote:

Maybe you should reminisce about how you could have done the right thing instead of how cool you perceive yourself to have been at 18.

The "did I do something wrong?" checklist:

Was anyone hurt directly by your actions?: [-]

Was there a possibility of anyone being directly hurt by your actions?: [-]

Final tally: 0/2. Nothing wrong.

yes, you deserved it. You broke the law and put many lives in danger just "to be cool". Being a representative of the school, your coach expects the very best out of his athletes. Leaving you on the team gives the impression that his team is full of junkies, drunks and out of control kids who "party". What coach wants this type of reputation? You want to party and be cool, that's fine, but you can't be representing my team or our school. You made a mistake, in real life you pay for your mistakes. get over it.

Does it really matter if you should have been kicked off? I mean if you think this one thing in your life influenced the next 7 years then you have some issues. It's not like you lost out on a scholarship to run in college.

Choose to make your life better. If you miss the running, then get in good shape and do some road races. If this one thing causes you to contemplate how your life turned out then please don't have children because you will constantly be questioning yourself.

Move on with your life. You can't change the past and dwelling on it is pointless. Always be moving forward.

Idontevenknow wrote:

Edward Teach wrote:

Maybe you should reminisce about how you could have done the right thing instead of how cool you perceive yourself to have been at 18.

The "did I do something wrong?" checklist:

Was anyone hurt directly by your actions?: [-]

Was there a possibility of anyone being directly hurt by your actions?: [-]

Final tally: 0/2. Nothing wrong.

I would not go so far as to answer the second question with a no. It could have been really bad.

The eff is beirut?

Beirut; you call it beer pong.

Everyone ignore fake Hingle and his stupid flatulence posts.

Yeah, I only ran 18:23, but I was actually the 5-6th man on the team, so it wasn't as if I was some easily disposable scrub. Even so, I don't think I was justified in being kicked off the team.

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

Idontevenknow wrote:

The "did I do something wrong?" checklist:

Was anyone hurt directly by your actions?: [-]

Was there a possibility of anyone being directly hurt by your actions?: [-]

Final tally: 0/2. Nothing wrong.

I would not go so far as to answer the second question with a no. It could have been really bad.

You obviously don't understand the meaning of the word "directly." If you give someone a knife to cut his steak and he immediately slits his wrists without warning then you played a role in his death but not directly, and obviously you did nothing wrong. Giving someone alcohol is not putting him in direct danger. The person has to make bad decisions of his own for any harm to occur.

Never ran in HS, so I was taken aback when my neighbor's kid (a senior) was recently kicked off the XC team because he went on a family vacation and missed 'pre-season' practice, which was the week before school officially started.

I know he trained all summer and was serious about it. Don't know his times, but was only going to run JV.

I think it re-enforces the notion that the faster one get better treatment.

Why did you wait 7 years to ask?

Drugs are bad, mmmk?