Michael Wottle

Slow runner, fan of the 68000 processor, world’s okayest former assistant soccer coach.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@IntraRunner All those sports in high school have rules against excessive celebration. You literally cannot celebrate in football before you cross the end zone. The kids coach admitted he broke the rules. Silly comparison that ignores reality.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@johntalsr @AlvinHo06999430 @HighSchoolOT So if someone violated the rules but are really good, what’s your solution? No first place team. Just second place? I’d be ok with that. But I’d say moving a team up to first place because the winning team violated rules is a less egregious lesson than ignoring rule violations

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@johntalsr @AlvinHo06999430 @HighSchoolOT That’s a cool story. He broke the rules and got punished. Should have thought him a lesson. He could have celebrated like everyone else. But he chose not to. Now the ignorant populist uproar has fought him he can break the rules if he’s good enough. Terrible lesson for teens

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@nebyalous @HighSchoolOT @Somewhere0991 True, I’ve never had a win taken away from me for being unable to wait 2s to celebrate.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@johntalsr @AlvinHo06999430 @HighSchoolOT Fine. Petition to change the rules. Your feelings don’t change what the current rules are. The kids own coach admitted he broke the rule. I’ve won plenty of races. Never once was low self esteem enough to need to celebrate early. Ignorant people waiting in here.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@BePerrinoid3 @HighSchoolOT You want the black official fired from her volunteer track officiating role? For calling a violation when the kids own coach admitted he was breaking the early celebration rule. The violation we all saw on video that is irrefutable that he broke the rule?

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@10nomad22 @HighSchoolOT @rolandsmartin It was a black woman. And the kids own coach acknowledged that he broke the early celebration rule. To call for the official to be fired is the most ignorant of takes. This was overturned to appease the ignorant masses. Simple matter of populism over the rules.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@Charl3sZ @HighSchoolOT How do you explain that other minority athletes celebrated as well and didn’t get DQed. Also, it was a black woman judge. Also, not a single bit of evidence that any of the other athletes who celebrated *at the line* had been wanted before. Is not the same thing.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@BogardGreedy @HighSchoolOT It wasn’t taunting. It was early celebration.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@gullah_gal25 @Viviantooshy @HighSchoolOT I think teaching young adults they can ignore the rules, violate them, and then have the court of ignorant public opinion cause the officials enforcing the rules to be overturned, that is what caused kids to become terrible adults.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@Viviantooshy @HighSchoolOT Different leagues have different rules. To imply that high schoolers can do the same things as pro athletes is absurd.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@maddman727 @HighSchoolOT Not taunting. Early celebration is against the rules in the same section about sportsmanship.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@AlvinHo06999430 @HighSchoolOT They are not prevented from celebrating. Not really sure where you’re getting that. The kids own coach admitted he violated the rule by celebrating well before the finish line. And it seems he was warned earlier and this was a second offense. Plenty of other athletes celebrated.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@nebyalous @HighSchoolOT @Somewhere0991 I care deeply about the sport. I think this is the wrong decision. Next year will be a mess.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@ChamCunningham @Predamame No, I vaguely remember a race walker with a similar name. But he never was a competitive walker.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@CozyVaporwave @raven_brah We never ate out. College educated parents. My parents are likely in the 1%. We would share a soda and one fries if we went to the Dairy Queen. They’re in the 1% because they did that. Plenty of middle class families ate out all the time. They stayed or fell out of middle class.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@truspeedtc @ChrisParno Yes. And you realize that when you have a warning for excessive celebration, you shouldn’t follow it up with an early celebration? I don’t know what exactly the call was in the 300h, bc I didn’t see him do anything wrong. But once you have a warning, don’t risk it.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@truspeedtc @ChrisParno No, celebrating well before the finish line is. I love emotion. I love seeing the joy when a kid wins a race. No reason to raise your hand like that with 10m to go. I’ve sacrificed. I’ve won. Never had to do that. Weird you cannot delay gratification for 2s.

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@truspeedtc @ChrisParno They’re high schoolers. They should be taught sportsmanship. If you want to be an arrogant show off in college, go ahead. Having rules in HS track is not stopping a single fan from following track. 😂

[Michael Wottle @wottle]

@SeQuel16 @sharp_ssbm @I_Coach_Speed I’ve not been subjected to anything, it just never once occurred to me to celebrate before I’d actually won. Honestly, all the times I did win it was more about how my team did. The board is only reviewing for peer pressure. If evidence comes out he was never warned, overturn.