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Is Track & Field loosing RESPECT


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It seems to me now that Track & Field has no RESPECT. Its like it isn't even a sport anymore. High schools don't take it serious and colleges are not reqruiting like they used to in earlier years. Is their anything that can be done to save this wonderfull sports activity?

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heck yea it is loosing respect. And honestly i believe being a multi-sport athletes having done everything from soccer,basketball,baseball,football,wrestling,cross country,and track in my highschool/middleschool years it is my conclusion that no one sacrifices their body more than the competitive serious track athlete. Which is why it utterly annoys me that track gets probably the second least respect right behind xc. even for example at our school our most succesful programs by far have been track an xc bringing both state titles every year. no other sprot has made it to the state championship but track and cross country in our school history, yet who do you think gets the budget increase each year and all the respect not us thats who.

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heck yea it is loosing respect. And honestly i believe being a multi-sport athletes having done everything from soccer,basketball,baseball,football,wrestling,cross country,and track in my highschool/middleschool years it is my conclusion that no one sacrifices their body more than the competitive serious track athlete. Which is why it utterly annoys me that track gets probably the second least respect right behind xc. even for example at our school our most succesful programs by far have been track an xc bringing both state titles every year. no other sprot has made it to the state championship but track and cross country in our school history, yet who do you think gets the budget increase each year and all the respect not us thats who.

 

 

Such is the life of a runner. It stinks, but everyone else deals with it too. You are not alone.

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This is all true. I would say two of the biggest reasons are that football and basketball draw in a lot more fans and money than XC. Another is that we live in the southeast which isn't really very big on XC, more football. I've heard that in the northwest running is a bigger sport but i wouldn't know b/c iv'e never been there.

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It doesn't have to be that way if you don't want it to be that way, at least not at your school.

 

I've brought teams to the Northwest (Nike Team Nationals), the Midwest (Roosevelt Relays in Dayton, OH), the Northeast (Nike Indoor Nationals), Virginia (Maymont), and all over the Southeast. The key is that each of these events was huge--the best competition, the teams and individuals who cared. That rubs off on kids and on a program--it's hard to accept less than that when you've been there.

 

I'm not sure why anyone cares about respect, though. Do what you do and don't worry about what anyone else thinks.

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its losing. not loosing.

way to lose even more respect. dang.

 

gotta take out that hooked on phonics, bruh!

 

This coming from a man/boy (probably boy) who said bruh.......... /roflolk.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflolk:" border="0" alt="roflolk.gif" />

 

And yes it is something everyone has to deal with. I don't let it bring me down only motivate me to strive harder and try to re-earn every meet the respect i have already earned the previous. But when does enough become enough. For example at our school each year footballs budget gets increased. This in and of its self is no problem and is a benefit for the school. However when the track team containing the only current state champions in the school is forced to run on a cement track that floods out to lane 5 when it rains gets no budget increase this becomes slightly ridiculous. This becomes even more frustrating when the track team is given $0 of budget already, and the only income it has for the very crucial things it is needs is brought in by the athletes, who already sacrifice much of their time and bodies. I mean respect we can do without, in fact in some cases its a bonus. But it would be nice to have decent running facilities to just practice on. Now this is by far not the same for some school maybe even many schools, but it is a good example of just how much track goes unoticed

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