Mountaineers wrote:
Caused our nationally ranked men’s cross-country team (and distance centric track team) to be cut. B@stards.
This or similar happens every year now and it's not always because the school is not in compliance with Title IX either. Sometimes they make the cuts so that they can build some kind of training facility or dorm complex to attract recruits for-bring out the drumroll-Football!
Trying not to troll, but you need to buff up your English skills. I can look past your/ you're but your spelling is atrocious.
Georgie B wrote:
midwestern miler wrote:
This. Further, sounds like some people on this thread don't have a backbone.
Agreed with these two.
Your post makes no sense whatsoever.
Jim Norton wrote:
Banana Bread wrote:
Oh it was one of the most bad moments of my life. I remember the day clearly. It was cold, and I don't mean snowy mountain Wyoming cold, it was colder then that. We were going to the State finals(we lost as you can imagine this is going). After the first half our couch was no where in site. We couldn't even get into our locker room, because he had left with out the key. It was miserable. Our caption is a good motivation, so he told us that we can get on with it, and still win. We were an embarrassment. I felt sick. We all got colds because we had to get home in our dirty wet cold gere, to have showers. Horrible organisation. A few days later we were told by the leader that he is sorry for our trouble, but he doesn't know where the couch is, but we will find a replacement next year.
What a valueless, nonsensical, rambling post about nothing.
I admit that I do not know if Banana Bread is talking about football or cross country, however he did tell a story. That's a start.
I was a mediocre runner but also wrestled in high school. Was in gym class with a few football players. Gym class that month was all running around a 400m track- 10 laps to get a 100, 9 to get a 90, etc. sounds weird but we got letter grades for gym in high school. Running 10 laps was no problem for me but the football players would give me a hard time for running, try to trip me, etc. on the last day that month we had to run a mile all out. The football players tried to race me but couldn’t keep up after 1-2 laps. I ran around 5 min or so. Afterwards one pushed me and tried to start a fight, but I grabbed his legs (he did not know how to sprawl) took him down and got him in an armbar. I let him go and luckily the gym teacher didn’t see most of what happened. We both got off with a warning. (This was the 90s and some fighting was still allowed in school) The next day some other football players in my classes actually congratulated me, apparently the JV guy who tried to fight me was not liked by most of the varsity team.
Hail to Miruts Yifter 4127 wrote:
I said to tell a story about the worst thing the football program did to your team. I did not ask
for the good things they did.
We are pointing out that many schools with good cultures support the other teams so that people aren’t mistakenly led to believe all football and cross county teams are at ends.
King of high school wrote:
I was a mediocre runner but also wrestled in high school. Was in gym class with a few football players. Gym class that month was all running around a 400m track- 10 laps to get a 100, 9 to get a 90, etc. sounds weird but we got letter grades for gym in high school. Running 10 laps was no problem for me but the football players would give me a hard time for running, try to trip me, etc. on the last day that month we had to run a mile all out. The football players tried to race me but couldn’t keep up after 1-2 laps. I ran around 5 min or so. Afterwards one pushed me and tried to start a fight, but I grabbed his legs (he did not know how to sprawl) took him down and got him in an armbar. I let him go and luckily the gym teacher didn’t see most of what happened. We both got off with a warning. (This was the 90s and some fighting was still allowed in school) The next day some other football players in my classes actually congratulated me, apparently the JV guy who tried to fight me was not liked by most of the varsity team.
Your story made me think of a story that happened to me.
When I was in high school I used to run laps after school in the hallways. Various athletes from other sports would also run. I ran with kids who were going out for such sports as golf, track & field, motor-cross, baseball, softball, and tennis. Girls sports were in their infancy but there were girls running as well.
The girls hung out in groups and I ran with some of them. It turned out that this one girl that I ran with the most, but actually was not interested in, had a boyfriend on the football and wrestling teams. From the way she talked it sounded like she played the field though!
So after about a week or so of running with this girl and others the football/wrestler comes up to the hallway I was running on. Every else was done working out and had gone home. I was in my 8th mile and was exhausted. He comes up the stairs and pushes me into the lockers. Then he left and went back to wrestling practice. I was not thinking about the girl and had to think a little to realize why he did it.
I had been on the wrestling team the year before and although a little lighter than he was I had handled him pretty well in practice. There was a possibility I could have beaten him in that sport had I stayed out. What really bugged me is I did not care about the girl at all and was not going to pick a fight to get her anyway. Ironically I later went out several times with another girl this guy dated but nothing became of it.