June 4, 2004 -- The United States Track Coaches Association announced the
2004 Mondo Men's and Women's Regional Coaches of the Year for NCAA Division
I track & field.
The Regional Coach of the Year awards are sponsored by Mondo, USA, the
world's largest supplier of track & field surfaces. Mondo
Writing as a devil's advocate (though I hope I won't burn in hell) with the
perspective of an official at my share of HS meets in recent years:
- What about personal responsibility? The rule is/has been pretty well
publicized. If the athlete has got to the state meet level, they should
know th
I agree with Steve. I hate the rule, but there needs to be some personal
responsibility someplace. The rule has been in place for more than a year
and we still see athletes try to come to the line with jewelry on. We even
had an official make the statement "This isn't that big of a meet. Go ahe
It's strange that the high school rules are more concerned about silly
things like jewelry than whether everyone in the race runs the same
distance. High school rules, despite years of protestation on my part,
still make no distinction between the staggers for the 200 and the 800,
making no pr
June 4, 2004 -- The United States Track Coaches Association announced the
2004 Mondo Men's and Women's Regional Athletes of the Year for NCAA Division
I track & field.
The Regional Athlete of the Year awards are sponsored by Mondo, USA, the
world's largest supplier of track & field surfaces. Mo
Steve wrote:
>- Don't hear much about this in other sports, though it does apply to >all
sports, doesn't it?
I'm guessing it does ... and if a ref or umpire were to take such a
draconian stance, they would have a full scale riot on their hands.
Imagine the analogue at a basketball game. Partw
Steve is right, "rules is rules." If the organization sponsoring the meet
follows that set of rules, it is up to the coaches and athletes to follow
them. Too many times, people want to be the "victim" and not take
responsibility for their actions. If the official didn't make the call
earlier, th
no you don't---the sign has to properly inform you.Also, they don't nail you
for 26mph. How about the punishment fit the crime? Remember George Brett
and the pine tar incident? The rule was a player who uses an illegal bat is
out and thrown out of the game. Brett used a bat that had pine tar high
Again, I make my point, ignorance is no excuse. If the kid and the coach
didn't know the rules at point in the season, then there isn't any excuse.
I would assume that there was some sort of rules meeting prior to the season
starting. If the coach didn't pass that along to his kids, then he is at
Let me put in my $0.02. Too often I have seen coaches especially at the
high school level try to get an advantage for their team by something
other than having their athletes run faster or jump farther than the
competition. They purposely seek minor violations of rules to get some
other team's kid
To (hopefully) answer several posts at once (mostly Steve's, who I agree
with in principle, but not in practice).
In CT there is a USATF officials body but its members are seldom if ever
contacted to work the state HS meets. Instead, the meet directors of the
various class meets call in "the usual
Greetings, all
Anyone notice that the San Jose Mercury News has become the de facto paper of record
for American track and field? Or at least the only paper digging deep?
Latest example is this (finally following up on my recent posts):
Posted on Fri, Jun. 04, 2004
Joyner coming out of retire
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