Everyone should care wrote:
focus wrote:
It's not Stanford's job, nor the job of it's coaches to support distance running for the US nor the World. Their job it to take care of THEIR student-athletes. Even if Stanford stopped hosting home meets, distance running will go on.
I'm not saying the meets/DirOps should be the highest priority of JJ/Stanford Athletics. I am saying that the Stanford meets are the most important part of Stanford Track & Field to the sport of Track & Field. I think things have gone astray a bit here because some think that all the posts about the the Stanford meets/Ops are by the same person. They are not.
I understand and respect what you're saying. I'm just saying that I don't believe it's Stanford's job serve the sport, but rather to serve their own constituents.
If Stanford doesn't host meets it could even be a good thing for distance runners if the quality of competition spreads out a bit. No doubt the large majority of NCAA qualifiers come from Stanford meets; so getting into a meet at Stanford is often make or break to getting an NCAA qualifier. Politics (getting into their meets) become more important to qualifying than necessarily being one of the top runners.
At the same time, I don't care because if you can't qualify to the first round by racing at a smaller competition, then you're not a legit player anyway. The point (to me) isn't simply to get to the first round, but advance through rounds and ultimately score.