Did you hear about the craziness at Mountain West Champs? Air Force forgot to enter their entire squad of distance runners

Seems like it was a good decision on the meet organizers. Nice they allowed the athletes to compete but to allow their scores to affect the overall scoring would not have been fair to the other teams.

my biggest fear as a coach

Sally Vix wrote:

Seems like it was a good decision on the meet organizers. Nice they allowed the athletes to compete but to allow their scores to affect the overall scoring would not have been fair to the other teams.

Am i crazy to think wouldn't it be ok to just let them enter later and pay some sort of huge ass fine?

I mean I know you need deadlines but I'm not sure how I would feel if I was Colorado state. I mean we can all re-score the meet and see what the score would have been.

Or is it a decent solution? This still scares me and I haven't coached in college in like 6 or 7 years.

When entries were coming in wouldn't someone oversee that and notice? A call to the Head Coach and a late fee would have resolved this issue and made it a non-issue.

I once had to pay $1000 fine to the NCAA for failing to declare an athlete, but did receive a call from the seeding committee as soon as declarations were over, and the athlete was allowed to compete and score. I never made that mistake again. Isn't that what cell phones are for?? Seems to me Mountain West didn't think this through very well.

This happened to a team my sophomore year at the DII South regionals in xc

rojo wrote:

Sally Vix wrote:

Seems like it was a good decision on the meet organizers. Nice they allowed the athletes to compete but to allow their scores to affect the overall scoring would not have been fair to the other teams.

Am i crazy to think wouldn't it be ok to just let them enter later and pay some sort of huge ass fine?

I mean I know you need deadlines but I'm not sure how I would feel if I was Colorado state. I mean we can all re-score the meet and see what the score would have been.

Or is it a decent solution? This still scares me and I haven't coached in college in like 6 or 7 years.

I'd agree you'd think they could do something to overcome the honest error. But when that happens the dishonesty starts and it's all downhill from there.

Let me get this straight. They let them compete, but not score, and the points they would've scored weren't awarded to anybody. It was probably more hassle doing it that way than simply officially entering them in the meet.

Common sense did not prevail.

I certainly hope that a conference administrator overrides that decision and resorts the meet. If not, what a hollow victory for Colorado State.

1. Stupid mistake by the distance coach

2. Stupid mistake by the head coach

3. Ridiculous that the runners were unable to score even if the runners weren’t entered. It’s simple for meet management/timers to add entries.

4. This would never happen in football/basketball or any other college sport

AF Head Coach Lindeman has been a "superlative" coach for many years for the academy, and Ryan Cole, the distance coach, is arguably one of the "very very best" distance coaches in the nation! However, these type strange unfortunate incidents do occur, though rarely.

There may even be extenuating circumstances, or just a nightmarish classic chain of bureaucratic administrative deadline paperwork oversights by several coaches. (or was it clever sabotage from within to make someone look bad? Ha! Though that scenario is the most fun, it is most probably the least likely!)

Though this strange affair occurred, I salute Ralph Lindeman and Ryan Cole as two of the best coaches in the nation!!!!!!!!

UnsureSherlock wrote:

AF Head Coach Lindeman has been a "superlative" coach for many years for the academy, and Ryan Cole, the distance coach, is arguably one of the "very very best" distance coaches in the nation! However, these type strange unfortunate incidents do occur, though rarely.

There may even be extenuating circumstances, or just a nightmarish classic chain of bureaucratic administrative deadline paperwork oversights by several coaches. (or was it clever sabotage from within to make someone look bad? Ha! Though that scenario is the most fun, it is most probably the least likely!)

Though this strange affair occurred, I salute Ralph Lindeman and Ryan Cole as two of the best coaches in the nation!!!!!!!!

As long as they don't have to do any administrative duties. :-)

I k ow Ralph well enough and am pretty positive Ralph would’ve pushed for those kids to not even be allowed to compete if it was another University.

He is a “rules” guy for sure.

rojo wrote:

I do remember asking one day, "But if we screwed them up, they'd let us change them, right?"

"Daddy, get out your checkbook and talk to those people saying mean things about your perfect little boy!"

Seems like it was a good decision on the meet organizers. Nice they allowed the athletes to compete but to allow their scores to affect the overall scoring would not have been fair to the other teams.

Disagree.

Mistake should have been obvious to conference reps. An monetary fine for late entry is best solution. Maybe you give AF runners outside lane start position.

Coaches won't purposefully game system through late or swapped entries. Running your best athletes in their best events is the only way to succeed. There are no (successful) tactics in T&F.

I'm all for enforcing bib and check-in procedures to make meet run smoothly, but administrative stuff that happens days in advance should not effect competitive result.

Is jamin the coach there?

Cgty wrote:

There are no (successful) tactics in T&F.

There aren't.....?!

Who knew my 42 titles were just pure luck of the draw....

justthefacts wrote:

When entries were coming in wouldn't someone oversee that and notice? A call to the Head Coach and a late fee would have resolved this issue and made it a non-issue.

I once had to pay $1000 fine to the NCAA for failing to declare an athlete, but did receive a call from the seeding committee as soon as declarations were over, and the athlete was allowed to compete and score. I never made that mistake again. Isn't that what cell phones are for?? Seems to me Mountain West didn't think this through very well.

Lol it's the mountain west's fault to make sure everyone enters their athletes correctly? Come on...

Just goes to show majority of race directors are piss ant never beens. Conference championships are a THREE time a year event with every team ALWAYS showing up.

Any logical piss ant would have noticed AF lacking half a track squad and should have given the courtesy of a “hey, I noticed something odd about your entries,” to the AF coach.

Enough.

USAFA sprinter Terrell Bradford was named outstanding male athlete of the MW meet . He was the runner up in both the 60 and the 200. After receiving the award, he handed the award to distance runner, Jacob Bilvado. Bilvado won the 5000 and was runner up in the 3000. Because the distance runners points did not count, Jacob was not in the running for the award. Bradford was a class act with honor and integrity to not accept an award that he knew should have gone to someone else!

Hanson’s missed the deadline for Payton Jordan one year and were told to go pound sand :)