I know, coaches lose their jobs all the time but sometimes it just ain'r right. Or smart.
I am not a Univ Ark alum but I have been a member of the UA Officials Association for about 20 years and work four or five meets a year there.
I deliberately avoid cultivating a close personal relationship with any active coach, or athlete while they are still competing, but have come to know Booth and several ex-Arkansas athletes, some of whom are now coaches and occasionally volunteer officials, fairly well.
Arkansas has had an unparalled and unbroken five generation succession of national and world class jumpers, both horizontal and high jump, while Booth was at Arkansas.
I have spoken with several Arkansas officials and former Arkansas horizontal jumpers, all devout Razorback boosters, who expressed their dismay at Booth's termination and how it has alienated their affection for UArk.
Booth is not only a good coach, he is a good guy and I predict Arkansas' recruiting of field event athletes will suffer.
Dick Booth is the "Dick Clark" of track and field. I had kinda lost track of time and did not think about Booth being 65 years old. I remember the first time I met him, in an airport waiting room somewhere, Indy I think, I mistook him to be one of his athletes.
I am not a Univ Ark alum but I have been a member of the UA Officials Association for about 20 years and work four or five meets a year there.
I deliberately avoid cultivating a close personal relationship with any active coach, or athlete while they are still competing, but have come to know Booth and several ex-Arkansas athletes, some of whom are now coaches and occasionally volunteer officials, fairly well.
Arkansas has had an unparalled and unbroken five generation succession of national and world class jumpers, both horizontal and high jump, while Booth was at Arkansas.
I have spoken with several Arkansas officials and former Arkansas horizontal jumpers, all devout Razorback boosters, who expressed their dismay at Booth's termination and how it has alienated their affection for UArk.
Booth is not only a good coach, he is a good guy and I predict Arkansas' recruiting of field event athletes will suffer.
Dick Booth is the "Dick Clark" of track and field. I had kinda lost track of time and did not think about Booth being 65 years old. I remember the first time I met him, in an airport waiting room somewhere, Indy I think, I mistook him to be one of his athletes.
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