Imagine calling yourself a 'national champion' with a 9:30 2 mile. Pathetically slow. 2nd was 9:45
Adidas nationals boys 2 mile champion: 9:30
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this is basically a last chance meet called Nationals. if that's what brings in the money, so be it. nobody takes the adidas meet seriously. nobody.
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high school xc coach wrote:
this is basically a last chance meet called Nationals. if that's what brings in the money, so be it. nobody takes the adidas meet seriously. nobody.
At one time people did. Now there is simply oversaturation. There used to be only Footlocker Cross Country, Nike Indoor Nationals, and Adidas Outdoor Nationals. I used to attend AOCs at NC State years ago and ALL of the top high schoolers were there. Now, every shoe brand needs to have their own meet and I think Nike has done everything it can to gain a monopoly. They created their own outdoor meet and then just outspent Adidas until it buried the AOC meet. They are still trying to bury the Footlocker meet, too.
They need to get rid of some of these "national championship" meets and just have one CC, one indoor, and one outdoor. There are people who ran this week in Eugene who just ran in Philadelphia. Seriously? These are high school kids, not professionals. No need for cross country flights to run a couple laps around a track.
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pathetic - wrote:
Imagine calling yourself a 'national champion' with a 9:30 2 mile. Pathetically slow. 2nd was 9:45
I think this meet has sort of become a 'nationals for everyone else'. But, for what it's worth, it was super hot in NC this weekend and that impacted times a lot. The middle school 2 mile was won in 9:38 though, which isn't too shabby.
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I mean if you knew the people at adidas running this meet, you would understand.
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kohlberg wrote:
I think this meet has sort of become a 'nationals for everyone else'. But, for what it's worth, it was super hot in NC this weekend and that impacted times a lot. The middle school 2 mile was won in 9:38 though, which isn't too shabby.
Middle school two mile at NB was 9:11.70. 😳
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pathetic - wrote:
Imagine calling yourself a 'national champion' with a 9:30 2 mile. Pathetically slow. 2nd was 9:45
Imagine calling yourself an 'Olympic Gold Medalist' with a 3:50.00 1500m, beating the best talent the world had to offer?
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oversaturation of meets wrote:
high school xc coach wrote:
this is basically a last chance meet called Nationals. if that's what brings in the money, so be it. nobody takes the adidas meet seriously. nobody.
At one time people did. Now there is simply oversaturation. There used to be only Footlocker Cross Country, Nike Indoor Nationals, and Adidas Outdoor Nationals. I used to attend AOCs at NC State years ago and ALL of the top high schoolers were there. Now, every shoe brand needs to have their own meet and I think Nike has done everything it can to gain a monopoly. They created their own outdoor meet and then just outspent Adidas until it buried the AOC meet. They are still trying to bury the Footlocker meet, too.
They need to get rid of some of these "national championship" meets and just have one CC, one indoor, and one outdoor. There are people who ran this week in Eugene who just ran in Philadelphia. Seriously? These are high school kids, not professionals. No need for cross country flights to run a couple laps around a track.
THAT adidas Outdoor Champs became the original Nike Outdoor Nationals -> New Balance Nationals Outdoor -> Nike Outdoor Nationals because adidas was sponsoring the NSAF meet. Before adidas it had other title sponsors.
The current adidas meet has no connection to the original.New Balance currently owns their branded meet. Its only existed for a few years.
NSAF is the only one that has and kind of historical significance. The title sponsor has changed a few times when contracts ended and brands decided to spend money elsewhere.
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Clearly this isn’t a national meet. I’ve never heard of anyone in that 2-mile
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high school xc coach wrote:
this is basically a last chance meet called Nationals. if that's what brings in the money, so be it. nobody takes the adidas meet seriously. nobody.
All the HS National Track Championships are stupid. No one is a National Champion in Track in HS with multiple meets the same weekend
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adidas nationals is a middle school meet, its the same case indoors- solid times for middle schoolers and jokes for everyone else
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Grassrunner wrote:
pathetic - wrote:
Imagine calling yourself a 'national champion' with a 9:30 2 mile. Pathetically slow. 2nd was 9:45
Imagine calling yourself an 'Olympic Gold Medalist' with a 3:50.00 1500m, beating the best talent the world had to offer?
I can't tell if this is a poke at Centro or not
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