NCAA T&F Championships to have men's and women's events on alternating days - what ?

What doubles does this now make impossible?

5k/1500 and 800/1500 doubles will probably be undoable. They are rare but they happen. Sheila Reid and Andrew Wheating come to mind.

It also screws over multi competitors that might also do an individual event or relay.

If they really wanted to make progress, each gender's National Championships would be at a different site location, like most of the other sports. Then maybe it would actually force more administrations to have separate head coaches for men and women like most other sports have. I may be in the minority, but I feel like this is part of the reason our sport doesn't get taken seriously.

Why not just have one head coach (sorry, "Director") for Men and Women's basketball, soccer, baseball/softball, lacrosse, etc? Then they can hire an "Associate Head Coach" to coach the gender they don't really care about. Imagine how that would go over. But for some reason, it happens all the time in XC/Track & Field.

thank the lord wrote:

At least now we won't be forced to watch women's athletics.

Suit yourself.

The don't play men's and women's basketball in the same area on the same day.

Is that a horrible idea too?

It's this kind of thinking that will move the sport forward. Womens sports are cool but no one watches them. No one wants to watch women race. It's slow and uncompetitive. If you want T&F to gain viewership you need to separate the men and women.

Zak wrote:

thank the lord wrote:

At least now we won't be forced to watch women's athletics.

Suit yourself.

http://i.imgur.com/JCAxw.jpg

Fortunately for me, if I want a woman I go get one. I don't have to pretend to be interested in their athletics so I can stare at them like a weirdo.

dial it up wrote:

Zak wrote:

Suit yourself.

http://i.imgur.com/JCAxw.jpg

Fortunately for me, if I want a woman I go get one. I don't have to pretend to be interested in their athletics so I can stare at them like a weirdo.

My favorite weirdo is my spouse. I suppose that's why we enjoy attending events together.

Who's brilliant idea was this ?

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/di-cabinet-approves-outdoor-track-and-field-schedule-change

I am surprised the Title IX people are for this. It will be very interesting how the attendance and tv figures work out. Now, maybe since the Oregon women's team has been better than the men's, the women will do better attendance wise. But track and field is the only sport in the NCAA where the women are treated anywhere near the equal of men. If it's separated out men/women and no one watches the women, it gets interesting.

I disagree with this. Track and field teams are very expensive. If a team has only a few throwers, pole vaulters, do you think the staff should have a throws coach for each gender? That makes no financial sense. For a program to work well given the budget constraints, you need the assistants at least some of them to work both genders.

Why don't you do it in the other sports? Because the competitions can't go on at the same time like they can in track.

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It's unpopular to say it but the Big Ten Indoor Meet was a helluva a lot more entertaining when each gender had their own meet at different locations. That's not sexist at all as I thought the women's only meet was just as exciting as the men's only meet. It just had a better flow with one race right after each other all meaning something to same overall score. Instead of this race is huge for our team score ok break we are out of the team title on the men's side ok back in it wait whats going on here?

Agreed. At boys only duals the put the score up on the score board. The kids are more into it than any other meet.

I like this idea - it will let me focus on the events I care about (generally the men's events).