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1. Instead of daily heat sheets and a program here at the NCAAs, they have a new $4 program every day. Not only is this needlessly more expensive for the fan, but it creates more publication complications than with plain heat sheets when, for example, it rains heavily on the first day and the schedule has to be completely revamped.
2. Even before the rainouts, the first day, programs were not available at the stadium at the beginning of competition.
3. Today, the third day, when for purposes of obtaining programs one would expect to have a booth or sellers at each entrance gate, one instead has to trundle over to a single booth underneath the east stands, and deal with a line of other customers who are buying T-shirts.
4. When one then buys the $4 third-day program, it has two flights of men's discus. The actual competition consisted of three flights!! The program is useless in that event.
5. Trundling back to my office to get start lists and heat sheets from the Internet, I find that they're not available for the women. There's a garbled shortened version that has the already-complete heptathlon, the already-complete javelin prelims, and 400 relay prelims, and THAT'S IT!!
6. The unavailability of women's third-day start lists on the Internet is the same as the situation for the women generally on the eve of the meet. Start lists weren't posted until late in the evening, and the women's link led not to women's start lists but to the same men's start lists as the men's link.
7. At least one track nut I know consequently has resorted to getting info from somebody in the pressbox.
8. The Austin American-Statesman this morning had the women's discus starting in the afternoon, whereas the women's discus in reality started at 11 a.m. and was posted that way on the revised schedule on the Internet. I can figure out that the schedule has been changed. Why can't sports reporters who presumably have gone to journalism school?
9. How are normal fans, if they show up curious, supposed to follow the action with these kinds of obstacles?
10. The old adage holds: You can't tell the players without a program. The program and scheduling info at these NCAAs is a bust.
2. Even before the rainouts, the first day, programs were not available at the stadium at the beginning of competition.
3. Today, the third day, when for purposes of obtaining programs one would expect to have a booth or sellers at each entrance gate, one instead has to trundle over to a single booth underneath the east stands, and deal with a line of other customers who are buying T-shirts.
4. When one then buys the $4 third-day program, it has two flights of men's discus. The actual competition consisted of three flights!! The program is useless in that event.
5. Trundling back to my office to get start lists and heat sheets from the Internet, I find that they're not available for the women. There's a garbled shortened version that has the already-complete heptathlon, the already-complete javelin prelims, and 400 relay prelims, and THAT'S IT!!
6. The unavailability of women's third-day start lists on the Internet is the same as the situation for the women generally on the eve of the meet. Start lists weren't posted until late in the evening, and the women's link led not to women's start lists but to the same men's start lists as the men's link.
7. At least one track nut I know consequently has resorted to getting info from somebody in the pressbox.
8. The Austin American-Statesman this morning had the women's discus starting in the afternoon, whereas the women's discus in reality started at 11 a.m. and was posted that way on the revised schedule on the Internet. I can figure out that the schedule has been changed. Why can't sports reporters who presumably have gone to journalism school?
9. How are normal fans, if they show up curious, supposed to follow the action with these kinds of obstacles?
10. The old adage holds: You can't tell the players without a program. The program and scheduling info at these NCAAs is a bust.
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