First of all, nowhere in that article did Coach Henry mention "destroying" the Penn Relays or Drake Relays. If you have ever been in the Texas A&M track offices and locker rooms you would know that they have a lot of Penn Relays championship wheels on the walls. Coach Henry has been bringing teams to Penn for a long time and has had a great relationship with Dave Johnson. He has said that the atmosphere at Penn is good for the sport. He just also thinks that trying different things is good for the sport. A few SEC schools not going to Penn or Drake is not going to "destroy" either meet. Those meets are bigger than a few teams.
More importantly, why do you single out Coach Henry and Texas A&M? What about the other SEC schools that aren't going? Arkansas, Alabama, LSU, Tennessee...? Why no link to their press releases about going to the SEC Relays? What about Baylor (not an SEC school) skipping the Drake Relays for the first time in forever to go to Texas Tech? Or, Nebraska? Florida is hosting a meet this week? How dare UCLA and USC dual the same weekend as Penn/Drake!!! Don't they realize they are "destroying" the meets and killing the sport?!?!
Where was the outcry when Vin started the Oregon Relays and it was initially on the Penn/Drake weekend?
I always find it amazing that people refer to Coach Henry as a "donosaur" when he is one of only a handful of coaches willing to try different things and to look at ways to make the sport more popular. You might not agree with his ideas, but at least he has some! Everybody likes what they are comfortable with and I guess Coach Henry likes to rock the boat a little bit. And, what does he have to gain personally from that? He has already won 36 national championships! Trying things that MIGHT make the sport a little more exciting or a little more relevant isn't going to make his teams any better or help him win more national titles. But, it might make the sport a little better for those young coaches coming up.
Truly much ado about nothing. The fact that LetsRun wants to make this a big deal and with such a misleading hyperbolic thread title tells me that it is either a slow news day or there is another agenda.