OFF TO OZ

Last year around this time I had posted comments with regards to some teams safe scheduling and why other teams fare better when STATE comes around. Another coach and I have said on numerous occaisions,"We play chess ,while everybody else plays checkers( if I got to explain it then I'm talking about you ;-)  ) . If you are gonna be the best you have to run with the best.  I was told a few years back, by the head coach of my school,that we couldn't get into  a certain meet( Henle Holmes) because it was closed......pardonnez-moi ma Francais -BULL....  . The only reason we couldn't get in is because you didn't want folks to know how poorly you coach track. When I  started my HS coaching career at Incarnate Word Academy in St Louis,I had to battle with the AD,Principal and some of the seniors on the team to upgrade the schedule. I wanted to give the program the same level of respect that the BasketBall,VolleyBall,Soccer and even the CheerLeaders had  at the State level......but nooooooooo. The AD even said-"Track is easy to coach". Well I'm going to sit back and watch the schools that go to the KU Relays this weekend come back to Missouri and wreck shop on everybody else....ciao