Nick Groover

Head XC Coach and HS FACS Teacher @ Chenango Forks, TV, Sports, Reading, Movie, Music, Knicks, Grilling enthusiast. The North Remembers. Beat Navy

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@Andrew_FBB Can we add Austin Riley?

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@JulianCardillo @SethMan31 If it wasn’t meaningless why did they rotate 9 of 11 starters out? I believe we are saying the result is meaningless not necessarily the game itself. We got exactly what we needed to out of the game

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@tomandmartys are you guys going to be open for the USA game tomorrow?

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@nytimes @TheAthleticFC This is insane…. For lots of reasons. But where is Norway??

[Stu Holden @stuholden]

The roster cut email has been completely overblown. If I was a player that didn’t make it, I wouldn’t want a phone call —- the moment is awful however it’s delivered, but what can a coach tell me in that moment that will soften the blow? Nothing.

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@brand0nmurray @usmntaut Roldan is there for his locker room presence. You’re going to have guys on a 26 man roster who don’t play. If it truly was a case of roldan vs Tessman then it doesn’t matter neither will play. You’ve got adams then some combo of Weston Tillman and SB who will man those spots

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@adamhhammer Totally hear you but outside of deeper central midfielders to supplement Adams is there really a big hole? What should he have done different? I’m stunned by no Tessman I’ll give you that. But maybe they think a combo of Adams Weston and Tillman can patrol the middle or Seb

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Congrats to the Cleveland Cavaliers!

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@bryanrbeal @hunterDJ_ @reader24601 @EWErickson So EU proper has 30% more people than the US but the US has about 6 TIMES the gun deaths as EU proper. Am I reading that graph right?

[Danny McCray OLY @I_Coach_Speed]

To the few people I’ve read with comments similar to “follow the rules”, etc

Let me be clear, if you are ok with what happened, I believe YOU are bad for the sport and part of why it doesn’t grow mainstream

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@DSS123 @stevemagness That’s like scoring a touchdown in football going to the middle of the EZ, dropping the ball, having the other team recover it, the ref giving them the ball and saying well I teach my kids to run to to the official. That doesn’t make the call any less ridiculous and incorrect

[DaShawn Brown @DaShawnWSOC9]

Mallard Creek’s Nyan Brown said this, in a statement on social media.

“While I am disappointed in the final decision, I believe this moment creates an opportunity for a larger conversation within track and field about allowing young athletes to celebrate major accomplishments.”

[Shawn Krest @ShawnKrest]

Mallard Creek won their fifth state track championship in the last five years. Then an official at the NCHSAA got offended. My column explains why they should let the coaches handle the teachable moments while the officials shut up and click the stopwatch https://t.co/O8XHbRLnyV

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Just to be clear:

1. The kid was NOT given an official warning earlier when he yelled in excitement (not toward anybody) after breaking a 20 year old state record. Source: The Athletic, his HS track coach. There's a protocol to this. More than likely, it's the official saying this to cover his ass because the stupid call blew up and looks ridiculous.

He put up 5 fingers to signify 5th championship. The same kind of gesture so many others did when they put a #1 up in the air signifying they won...

2. No one in there right mind would DQ anyone for raising their hand in the air at the line, whether it's both hands, a 1 in the air, or whatever. It's literally done all the time. Both hands in the air at the line is literally the default celebration crossing the tape...

3. Go look through the pics and videos of the same meet and their are literally dozens of kids doing the same kind of celebration or more. None DQd. Expand to every state meet or HS national championship...and if we applied the same rule, a large majority of records would be wiped out...

Which is the point... The rule is vague on purpose to give officials leeway. But too often in track, you have some volunteer official who lets the power go to their head and inserts themselves into the

The point of comparing to other sports. Even crappy calls by officials result in a loss of the play. You score a TD, that play is negated. Not the entire game, quarter, or drive. In track, it's all or nothing. Which is insane. Imagine an entire game wiped out because of a touchdown celebration in a college football game. People would be like WTF...you get a penalty, but it's not catastrophic.

So sure, if you want to be stuck int he 1950s and scream "Rules are rules!" without understanding that the rule on taunting is vague on purpose and see how it's incredibly inconsistently applies...then you do you, live in the 1950s.

But to the rest of us living in the real world, it makes zero sense to erase an entire race because some kid raised his arms in the last 5 meters of a race that was over.

[Chris Hopkins @coachhop21]

The track official that determined this should never be allowed on a track again. Feel bad for this kid and his teammates.

Adults ruining a good thing, once again.

[I ❤️ T&F Coaches! @MikeCunningham]

THIS is over-officiating and I'll die on that hill.

THIS
WAS
THE
WRONG
CALL
100%

[Nick Groover @Groove15]

@realdaymon @jjones9 Wtf are you talking about

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

This is ridiculous.

And track and field gives their officials too much power.

Imagine if an NFL or NBA ref could negate all points scored in the last 10 minutes of play off a single infraction. That's essentially what we do in track.

There are no minor penalties. It's dumb.

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Scottie Scheffler just did something no one at The Masters has done since 1942.

Bogey-free weekend.

9 birdies. 1 eagle. 0 bogeys.

[Larry @Tom & Marty's @tomandmartys]

Rory’s been BEGGING someone to make a run at him in the past 30 minutes. But no one did.

Huge historic win for him no doubt. But this will not be a final round that will be re-watched on youtube five years down the road.