Baseman
New Fish
What did you run and for what team?
I ran cross country for OSU in the early 70’s for two years. Never ran a college race on Hayward Field.
Ran in the Northern Division meet at Corvallis in 1973 won by Prefontaine. Only race I ever dropped out of. Oregon went on to win the NCAA cross country championships that year. Dellinger was the head coach.
It was Pre’s last term of college eligibility. He skipped cross country the year before because of the ‘72 Olympics.
No, I didn’t hang with Pre, Terry Williams, Gary Barger or any of the others on that great team.
I was not recruited by or offered to run at UO.
Fuck you too, Damone.
So now it comes out. You're a Beav but you root for the Ducks. Wow, just wow.
And you had a chance to run against Pre and dropped out? what a Pussy.
What athlete has a chance to compete against the best and drops out? You saw Pre was bad ass. He was a Duck. As a Beav you wanted no part of him in the competitive arena and quit. Then when you graduated you became a Duck.
My Godfather was a big OSU alum. James Rogers was his name. He helped get Gary Payton to OSU and drove around in an old station wagon with a big OSU sticker on his car. He lived in Tacoma and my family were all Dawgs yet he refused to turncoat on his Beavs even when they sucked. He was rewarded when the shit Beavs upset UW at Husky stadium in 1985. He never ran from his team. Football. Basketball. Whatever the sport. He was all Beav, all the time.
Wow. Just wow. He's rolling over in his grave right now.
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