Big West?

What do you guys want to do about it? lets hear what the big west thinks. (sorry my typing sucks)

I say we run through the flames!!!

I say after each mile everyone has to do ten push-ups and smoke a cigarette. All conference awards will go to those who punch themselves in the face repeatidly down the homestretch ... this will be limited to the first 10 who complete all three tasks.

And the team championship will be decided by a "royal rumble" after the race. The fight will be limited to the competeing athletes (no redshirts or alumni allowed). The last team with 5 guys standing will be declared Big West Conference Champions and the second to last team with 5 guys standing will get second, and so on and so on.

The Big West Conference Coach of the year will default to the coach of the post race brawl victors.

Seriously the best option is to move the meet to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, they are willing to host it and the air quality is fine there at this time. The conference meet was held there in 2001, many of the BW schools run the Cal Poly invite as well each year so many of the athletes have already run the course, and the big hill can be taken out.

The other option that is seriously being considered by the conference office at this time is to cancel/postphone the meet, in ther words hold the conference championship at the Regional Meet. That's right hold the Conference Championship at the Regional Meet!!! This is a really POOR option and presents several problems:

1)Utah State is not in the West Region

2)The individual conference champion will not win the race

3)Other region teams will influence the way the conference teams will run

4)8th and 9th runners on each team will be unable to compete anymore since the conference allows 9 but the region only allows 7

5)no races for 4 weeks

6)unexplainable to fans, media, family and friends

7)cheapens conference championship (will there be a separte awards ceremony for the BW at the regional meet?)

8)A solution created be people who don't understand the sport

I'm sure you can come up with many more reasons why that wouldn't work. If you are an athlete, alumni, or supporter and want the Conference Championship to be moved to Cal Poly and NOT be included in the Regional Championship email the conference rep in charge of the meet with your imput and suggestions:

mdaniels@bigwest.org

Also be mature don't hate mail the guy just tell him why holding a conference championship in conjunction with a regional championship does not make sense. This is for the athletes!!

This is not a meet that can be canceled in all of the runners minds. I know that there are only a select few that want this meet canceled, and they are not the runners. I have heard good reasons why not to hold the meet at cal poly slo, mainly costs would be too great for our out of state teams. But what a lot of us runner thinks need to be done is move the meet to either Long Beach State, or UCI. Both of these options would be very eay to accomodate for the out of state teams and both are good courses. People may complain that the air quality is poor in these places too, but this wont be the case for much longer. The on-shore flow has already started blowing the smoke away and this will only keep up though the rest of the week. Like jenGa said earlier, all you runners out there lets be heard and make our wishes come true

That's right bigwestrunner don't let the meet die, that should be the absolute last option, discuss/raise all the other possiblities before even considering canceling the meet.

jenGa

Already sent an email ... thanks for the address Jeff.

Nice I just composed my email but I\'m just a coach, you athletes keep the meet alive, don\'t accept the alternative, let him know how important this meet is to you

jenGa

thanks everyone for sending the emails keep them coming, lets not a allow a guy in some office decide if we run or not without our input.

perv

What is the Mountain West doing, supposed to be in San Diego?

The onshore flow isn't going to help things too much in the next couple days. Have you seen the satalite photos that show the smoke? Shitloads of smoke went over the ocean and now it is being pushed back onshore.

another point to make is that last night, LBSU and UCI played a women's soccer game.....so, if the conference office can permit a conference soccer game to be played last night, surely moving forward with our conference meet and not cancelling it, would seem to be very do-able!

every available option needs to be explored before this "option" of running at regionals (not an option in my mind but a big-time cop-out) is allowed to be chosen.

good point, i guess we will find out today.

I should know in a couple hours what they have decided. I'll post what I know when the information becomes available.

The Big West XC Championships are going to Be at Cal Poly SLO now.

jenGa wrote:

What is the Mountain West doing, supposed to be in San Diego?

They moved it to New Mexico.

Big West Release:

http://www.bigwest.org/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=162

Cal Poly's Release:

http://www.gopoly.com/crosscountry/fall/2003/news/BigWestMoves.html

You got any questions? You got any questions?

Lets get it on!