Worst football team in the state? Do you have a rival? Is there a team that really gets under this AD's skin for some reason? Get shirts for that team pass them out at practice.
Worst football team in the state? Do you have a rival? Is there a team that really gets under this AD's skin for some reason? Get shirts for that team pass them out at practice.
Nobody cares wrote:
Run2live58 wrote:
My thoughts on your "question"
- stop posting this on social media, if you are now.
- this is a great opportunity to learn how to engage with folks in charge, who are doing things that you don't like. Workbis full of apparently arbitrary rules like this.
- I'd recommend that you pick your battles. If this is really important to you, then make a case. Other posters said stuff like compare to other athletic events - eg swimming, or cheer. Maybe you could find out why the AD changed the rule.
- but beware : there's an Asian adage, paraphrased: "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down". Be sure that you want to put your college running career - assuming that you want one - at risk for wearing a shirt. The college coaches talk to the HS coaches. The college coaches don't want anyone whining on their team.
College coaches won’t give a f about this if you’re fast enough. No college distance coach is going to keep you off the team because you’re complaining about wearing a shirt.
My point was, be careful how you post about this. NOT about the shirt issue - which doesn't make any sense. The kid is complaining about the AD, and this issue could have started in other places (principal, school board, etc).
The op has already called his AD an idiot - granted anonymously. If y'all think that college coaches care if a student on their team, calls their boss an idiot - in this case, the AD - then y'all are naive.
So you say wrote:
Worst football team in the state? Do you have a rival? Is there a team that really gets under this AD's skin for some reason? Get shirts for that team pass them out at practice.
Or you could print up some T-Shirts that say, "My AD Makes Me Wear This Shirt" and wear it to practice.
Rip my nipples wrote:
My school’s new a**hole athletic director/fball coach (of the worst team in the entire state) recently imposed that no runner can run shirtless. I’m really pissed off cause I live in one of the hottest/most humid hellholes in America and have practice in the middle of the day. Today it was ~95 with a 108 heat index. If this gets enough interest I’ll send his contact information so you guys can give him an earful. In addition, can you guys think of any clever ways I can protest this a**hole by wearing funny shirts?
Just send him the video of the recent BYU workout. If a conservative, religious school with an extremely strict honor / dress code that the students actually more-or-less support, from a religion that actively preaches modesty (and people follow it)—if such a school has a team of 30 guys doing a workout without shirts, then your High School can too. I wouldn't have ever even thought about it until I saw this thread, that's how completely normal it is to run without shirts.
My school doesn't let us take our shirts off either, but to be fair it's a religious school which may contribute to the rule
same here wrote:
My school doesn't let us take our shirts off either, but to be fair it's a religious school which may contribute to the rule
Have they never seen a picture of Jesus on the cross?
Bro scientist wrote:
same here wrote:
My school doesn't let us take our shirts off either, but to be fair it's a religious school which may contribute to the rule
Have they never seen a picture of Jesus on the cross?
I doubt if they have seen a legit one since that era was a bit before the camera.
Nailed It! wrote:
Bro scientist wrote:
Have they never seen a picture of Jesus on the cross?
I doubt if they have seen a legit one since that era was a bit before the camera.
Nor do we know if any of that even happened, but I get the point.......no shirts!
highschool wrote:
Just take your shirts off when you are out of sight of him, and put them back on when you get back to school. I mean it's not like he is driving his car next to you guys while you are running right?
Yea, my school had a similar no shirts off when on campus. So we’d just put the shirts back on when we get back to campus. Pretty easy solution.
That said, what can the athletic director do if you take your shirt off? On campus, sure he can disciplone you since all schools have a dress code that’s includes wearing shirts but off campus he can’t do anything.
Running without a shirt is a god given right if you run cross country. BTW, I live in Houston as well!!
Wear a shirt with a picture of you running shirtless?
The shirts can read:
"I may have died from the heat, but at least I am wearing a shirt."
Bro scientist wrote:
same here wrote:
My school doesn't let us take our shirts off either, but to be fair it's a religious school which may contribute to the rule
Have they never seen a picture of Jesus on the cross?
I have long hair (which I've been forced to cut multiple times if it passes the collar) and I could use the Jesus-argument there, as well.
same here wrote:
Bro scientist wrote:
Have they never seen a picture of Jesus on the cross?
I have long hair (which I've been forced to cut multiple times if it passes the collar) and I could use the Jesus-argument there, as well.
Your school sucks, also reminds me of why I don't go to church anymore. A bunch of stuck up assholes.
All else fails , send him a severed dolls head
sbeefyk2 wrote:That said, what can the athletic director do if you take your shirt off? On campus, sure he can disciplone you since all schools have a dress code that’s includes wearing shirts but off campus he can’t do anything.
Ah........yes he can. The AD will state that you are participating in a school sanctioned activity and as such will be subject to the rules and regulations of the school.
Of course I don't agree with any of this but I do know very well how bureaucracies work.
I admit what I used to do was attention-whoring, but...
I used to run shirtless on my college campus. In the back of my mind, I wanted to walk on and run the 800. So I trained for it, and did the workouts, and earned the bravado to run shirtless. That meant I had no arms, and thin and defined abs. I never did upper body. I barely saw people run shirtless. And when I did? It was when I saw a group of young guys running shirtless around the college town, which lead me to believe that was XC team.
So if you don't mind the weird stares, you should run shirtless because you're free. But if you're on a team, you have to follow the code.
I wasn't on the team, and I got a lot of insults coming my way. But I knew that I would dominate our 800 events because if it's a ~1:50 800 that gets you on the team, then I would already be the top runner if I tried out.
I don't run shirtless because I'm fat now and job searching.
But sometimes you gotta run shirtless because it inspires other people to be crazy, spontaneous, and it's attractive in a way.
Sometimes I'd run on the highway, take off my shirt as I'm running, and then whirl it in a circle and run by cars stuck in highway traffic. It's liberating.
Ghost1 wrote:
Kenyans rarely run shirtless, even though Mo Farah often does.
Kenyans usually overdress rather than the other way.
You know, it is all about adaptation, as there is running apparel these days, including singlets, so light, that they are barely noticeable.
The lightest singlets I find are those soccer practice singlets which players wear over their regular shirts. They weigh less than 100 grams, and very breathable.
Seems there is no way around this.
Ghost in China
Note -had the same complaints for running shirtless in China, which was assimilated to nudity!
Um, I'm in china right now for business and run shirtless every day, as do most male runners. I'm pretty sure no one cares if you run shirtless anywhere, even in the middle of a crowded pedestrian street. Here in the Pearl River Delta, a typical 5am morning run is 80-85+F and 90-95% humidity, so i don't understand why anyone would keep their shirt on...
ef the AD
if your team wants to run shirtless so be it.
if you lose your job as a result, who cares.
there are plenty of schools and xc teams and ADs that don't care about something so dumb. strive to be there. get there.
Mo isn't Kenyan...