afdui5 wrote:
slick5800` wrote:M. SAC, Sacremento, and Austin are all easy to fly into and fairly easy to get around. Mt. Sac and Austin are cities with plenty to do after the meet. There ain't a damn thing to do in Eugene unless you make the 2 hour drive to Portland. This sport will never grow if it is anchored in a city that no young people want to go to, hell even the athletes would rather have it somewhere else. My son ran in the NCAA this past June and said it was boring, cold and miserable; as did most of his teammates. I have overheared a few coaches complain about having to trek to Eugene every year for nationals while dining out during the NCAA's. Alan Abrahamson sums up my feeling exactly in the article below:
I can well recall the moniker that PVP affixed to Abrahamson a couple of years ago and I completely concur. His constant homerism for L.A. as his favored site for various major track meets, despite L.A.'s general lack of track interest for the past couple of decades, reminds me of an article I once read in a golf magazine or maybe it was Outside about the well regarded courses at Bandon Dunes, 20 miles south of Coos Bay, Oregon. The writer said that you practically had to have 4-wheel drive to get there to the resort. What a load of B.S. The place is on galldurn U.S. 101 which is, needless to say, a paved highway. And on this forum, endless whining about a 122-mile drive down a major Interstate from PDX to Hayward Field, as if you were leaving your mommy for the first time in your lives.
You people in the East and Midwest who don't want to go anywhere that doesn't have a humongous international airport within 5 miles amuse me. You're so parochial in your own way.
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Not the case at all. IMO, the majority of people would be OK with making a single round trip drive from PDX to Eugene. The concern is making this round trip drive everyday you plan on attending the event because there will not be enough affordable hotel options in the Eugene area. This fact is what we consider to be unreasonable and thus the ask about what is happening on this front. Are new hotels slated to go up in the area in time for 20’ but more more importantly 21’? What about rapid transit? What about restaurants and other services? Just think it will be a miserable experience if the only change is a renovated stadium.