Just curious, how many of Barton's 20 years of championships came after
the demise of Blinn?
The Austin American-Statesman had a long article on the Blinn program at
the time it was dropped and I remember a Blinn spokesman specifically
saying that they needed to add a women's sport (softball or
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Blinn Junior College. Just a JC, but arguably the greatest JC track
program of all time.
They cut it but kept men's tennis because men's tennis had a better
quality of student athlete. Read: Rich white kids.
Didn't
Didn't Blinn have a majority of foreign athletes on its track teams?
Perhaps better quality of student athlete meant local kids?
Jason
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From what I remember that was one of the reasons for dropping track and
adding
Oregon State, San José State
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In light of the recent announcement that St.John's(NY) is dropping its men's
programs after this
San Diego State
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Oregon State, San José State
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Yes, SD State, but Men only.
Scott
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San Diego State
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Oregon State, San Josi State
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Why the racial reference?
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Why the racial reference?
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Yes, SD State, but Men only.
Scott
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The medicre tennis team was 100 percent white kids, mostly upper-middle
class. The perennial national champion track team was mostly black. Maybe
that is irrelevant to the better quality of student-athlete reference, but
it looked fishy. Quite a few
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Blinn Junior College. Just a JC, but arguably the greatest JC track
program
of all time.
They cut it but kept men's
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