But not at the Adidas meet. There were at least 3k-6k attendees at each of the 4 CIF HIgh School championship preliminaries and likely 2500 or so at the Beg West meet in So Cal.
The empty stands at the Adidas meet hurt our sport and a casual fan would certainly assume it was not worth watching. Here is a quote from the Orange County Register covering the meet
"Even when he isn't racing Wariner, Merritt, who dethroned the Texan as Olympic 400-meter champion last year, seems ever-present.
Take the Adidas Track Classic at a largely empty Home Depot Center on Saturday evening, for example"
This meet should come earlier to avoid this conflict as the most rabid fans and ones who likely attend are involved or have family involved at the HS meets.
Do you not think it would be great to offer on an eariler or later weekend with student tickets. And if earlier in the year add a small HS section with one or two featured relays in the main meet.
Maybe even a collegiate 4x1 or 4x4 showdown to create some buzz of head to head competition.
Football, Basketball etc thrive on competing while track and field get away from it by chasing records and not head to head competition that focuses on victories and not records.
Very seldom are any records broken in other sports but it does not take away from the fans enjoyment.
We need to rethink where we have gone with our sport.
No, we would rather have ....
Our sport has the highest level of participation in HS athletics but we do nothing to truly promote it.
The empty stands at the Adidas meet hurt our sport and a casual fan would certainly assume it was not worth watching. Here is a quote from the Orange County Register covering the meet
"Even when he isn't racing Wariner, Merritt, who dethroned the Texan as Olympic 400-meter champion last year, seems ever-present.
Take the Adidas Track Classic at a largely empty Home Depot Center on Saturday evening, for example"
This meet should come earlier to avoid this conflict as the most rabid fans and ones who likely attend are involved or have family involved at the HS meets.
Do you not think it would be great to offer on an eariler or later weekend with student tickets. And if earlier in the year add a small HS section with one or two featured relays in the main meet.
Maybe even a collegiate 4x1 or 4x4 showdown to create some buzz of head to head competition.
Football, Basketball etc thrive on competing while track and field get away from it by chasing records and not head to head competition that focuses on victories and not records.
Very seldom are any records broken in other sports but it does not take away from the fans enjoyment.
We need to rethink where we have gone with our sport.
No, we would rather have ....
Our sport has the highest level of participation in HS athletics but we do nothing to truly promote it.
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