Absolutely it should still stand if the league is still the same basic entity with just a few teams added or removed. Obviously leagues can change their names and take other structural measures that would make it a grey area, but simply removing a team or two shouldn't make the records invalid.
I think if you look at some of the college leagues, you'll find it works this way (although I don't know for sure)- I suspect that Penn State might still have a record or two in the Atlantic 10 and if they had fast school records when they joind the Big East, it's impossible to conceive that hose records would have become the Big East conference records. - Ed Parrot ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: RE: Re: t-and-f: Pre-league records What about if you set a record and then your school changes leagues. Does the mark still stand as a record in the old league?? Dan Doherty Original Message: ----------------- From: Ed and Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 07:48:54 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Pre-league records Jim - > Should a mark set by someone from a league member school prior to the formal organization of the league be >considered the league record? > My gut feeling is no, therefore giving rise to the possibility that a school record could be better than the league mark >(which is not a problem). This is more to determine what the existing league record was (and by extension > whether it was broken in a meet last weekend) Much easier than the four minute mile question (although poring through an old T&F News issue is very enjoyable) - of course not. A league is an entity that din't exist when the mark was set. If an 8th grader in a middle school runs 4:15 for the mile, and didn't get faster when he got to high school, the high school wouldn't consider that the school record. It's the same thing. - Ed Parrot -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
