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  • Fly4Fun
    ccrunner609;832587 wrote:there are more kids that participate in CC in OHSAA then soccer.

    How many professional CC teams play in America's Professional CC League?

    I think your little fact might be explained because with CC everyone can run... not so much with soccer... limited space.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Fly4Fun;832625 wrote:How many professional CC teams play in America's Professional CC League?

    I think your little fact might be explained because with CC everyone can run... not so much with soccer... limited space.

    Oh C4F being a smug asshole, whats new.
  • ohiobucks1
    Fly4Fun;832625 wrote:How many professional CC teams play in America's Professional CC League?

    I think your little fact might be explained because with CC everyone can run... not so much with soccer... limited space.


    quoted for truth
  • Thinthickbigred
    Where were the Urin and blood bombs?
  • Midstate01
    ccrunner609;832659 wrote:http://www.ohsaa.org/members/sptdivis11.htm

    there are 10 more schools that offer CC in the state then boys. Wanna argue that?

    Guessing only varsity numbers go into these figures right. Or no?
  • Hb31187
    ccrunner609;832659 wrote:http://www.ohsaa.org/members/sptdivis11.htm

    there are 10 more schools that offer CC in the state then boys. Wanna argue that?

    There are 10 more schools yes, because it doesnt cost SHIT to have a CC team. You literally need nothing but a coach that tells his team "run". Dont need as many players to have a CC team as compared to a soccer team either
  • Fly4Fun
    CC doesn't require a designated field or a minimum amount of players to do.
  • DeyDurkie5
    cross country is for fags, plain and simple.
  • sportchampps
    Dlazz speaks the truth......99% of this country could care less. Its not a growing sport in this country.......its not even a popular HS sport. Its a rec sport for 8 year old girls.
    Cross Country is a sport for people who cant make the football or soccer team. My HS which has a Great CC (Reynoldsburg 02) team didnt cut anyone and had three runners on their team who didnt make varsity soccer so decided to run.
  • dlazz
    sportchampps;832677 wrote:Cross Country is a sport for people who cant make the football or soccer team. My HS which has a Great CC (Reynoldsburg 02) team didnt cut anyone and had three runners on their team who didnt make varsity soccer so decided to run.

    Because 3 people did it at your school means it's true everywhere.
  • Hb31187
    ccrunner609;832693 wrote:statements like this show how stupid alot of people are. You have no clue. EVERY sports costs money. Bus trips, drivers, meet entries etc.... CC is more costly then soccer, unlike most soccer games (empty stands and no ticket gate), Some athletic departments that run large CC invites make more money in one day in CC then a whole season of soccer.
    And you show your stupidity by saying that CC is more popular than Soccer because theres more runners than soccer players (even though its obviously more because many schools nobody gets cut from CC) and that theres more schools that have CC teams (even though it costs much less money than a soccer team, theres no minimum amount of players and you dont have to have a designated field for CC). Which is obviously why it has more teams, nbot because its so insanely popular.
  • Laley23
    dlazz;832562 wrote:I guess you could call it growth...but most Americans (including myself) won't give a fuck until the World Cup comes around next. What they do between then and now is not relevant to anyone.

    Even if the girls team had won, a week from now most wouldn't give a shit.

    Of course no one will care. Who is saying they will. But dont act like soccer hasnt grown in the last 15 years. It would be one of the most ignorant statements you could make, because it just isnt true, and many, many things point to it.
  • Mulva
    Hb31187;832472 wrote:Has there ever been a shut out in Penalty kicks? hahahah

    Brazil got shut out in PKs today by Paraguay in the Copa America. Went 0 for 4 and lost 2-0.

    Just thought it was weird timing with that comment, because I'm not sure I'd ever seen it before.
  • Laley23
    ccrunner609;832693 wrote:statements like this show how stupid alot of people are. You have no clue. EVERY sports costs money. Bus trips, drivers, meet entries etc.... CC is more costly then soccer, unlike most soccer games (empty stands and no ticket gate), Some athletic departments that run large CC invites make more money in one day in CC then a whole season of soccer.

    The only thing you listed that isnt true for every sport is meet entries. I guarantee the water and treatment for a soccer field is a pricey undertaking. You have to pay the referees (about 100 a game, not volunteers).

    I fail to see a sound argument for CC being more popular than soccer. What does the amount of schools who have one really mean? I went to a very small school. We had 1 kid run cross country...but we are in the OHSAA listing or whatever. Me cousin went to another HS and they had a limit of 18 for soccer. So the 10 kids that didnt make it formed their own CC team and they are in the OHSAA listing....
  • killer_ewok
    I think soccer is going to become more popular in the US. I have no information that I can provide to back that up......but I think it will based on the coverage and hype surrounding the women's World Cup. My interest was piqued....I can tell you that.
  • se-alum
    killer_ewok;832718 wrote:I think soccer is going to become more popular in the US. I have no information that I can provide to back that up......but I think it will based on the coverage and hype surrounding the women's World Cup. My interest was piqued....I can tell you that.

    It had my complete interest as well, but so did the men's hockey team in the Olympics, and I haven't watched a hockey game since. International events interest alot of people.
  • killer_ewok
    se-alum;832726 wrote:It had my complete interest as well, but so did the men's hockey team in the Olympics, and I haven't watched a hockey game since. International events interest alot of people.

    Point taken. That being said.....I just watched the replay of extra time and the PK's in their entirety on ESPN2. I'm still upset that we lost. I don't know, I might be a soccer fan now. Well, at least more of one than I was prior to the Women's World Cup. I typically only watch replays of football games.
  • Automatik
    You're 38! LULZ
  • Laley23
    ccrunner609;832734 wrote:teh ammount of teams that the OHSAA uses for divisional breakdowns dont include the schools that have partial teams in CC (So the actual ammount of schools in the state that have CC is actually much higher). Only the total teams that put 5 kids on the line at the districts. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL at you talking about watering "soccer fields" You mean the football teams field in 99% of the cases?

    I have posted concrete evidence that their are many more schools and kids running then playing soccerIn regards to $....that argument has nothing to do with it but the person that brought it up was wrong about that also.

    Not a whole lot of division 3 schools have football. Most have soccer. Of the 16 teams we played in HS, 13 had their own field. We had 1 real one and a practice. St. Johns, St. Francis, and Whitmer (the 3 biggest and best football schools in Toledo) all have their own soccer fields. SFS and SJJ dont even have a football field. Those fields take a TON of water, each day, vis the sprinkler system. Im not trying to prove that it is a huge tax on money to run a soccer program, but you listed paying a fucking bus driver...come on.
  • Laley23
    killer_ewok;832730 wrote:Point taken. That being said.....I just watched the replay of extra time and the PK's in their entirety on ESPN2. I'm still upset that we lost. I don't know, I might be a soccer fan now. Well, at least more of one than I was prior to the Women's World Cup. I typically only watch replays of football games.

    Just gotta pick a domestic and international team to follow. Domestic, because well....its USA.International because the best teams play in England/Spain/Germany/Italy etc. They have the most coverage, the best players, and are in the biggest leagues/tournaments. Plus, the domestic (MLS) league is over the summer. Those other leagues have summer as the off-season, so you can follow a team all year round.
  • ohiobucks1
    Laley23;832752 wrote:Just gotta pick a domestic and international team to follow. Domestic, because well....its USA.International because the best teams play in England/Spain/Germany/Italy etc. They have the most coverage, the best players, and are in the biggest leagues/tournaments. Plus, the domestic (MLS) league is over the summer. Those other leagues have summer as the off-season, so you can follow a team all year round.


    Go Columbus Crew and Chelsea if you want to be both happy and depressed at the same time
  • killer_ewok
    Laley23;832752 wrote:Just gotta pick a domestic and international team to follow. Domestic, because well....its USA.International because the best teams play in England/Spain/Germany/Italy etc. They have the most coverage, the best players, and are in the biggest leagues/tournaments. Plus, the domestic (MLS) league is over the summer. Those other leagues have summer as the off-season, so you can follow a team all year round.
    Hmmm. I'm still trying to figure all of this stuff out. My uncle and I talked about this earlier and he said the UEFA (?) was something that I should check out if I'm going to start watching soccer.
  • Automatik
    The Euro tourney is next summer. Gonna be sickkkkkk

    Spain to repeat. Heard it here first.
  • Laley23
    Automatik;832764 wrote:The Euro tourney is next summer. Gonna be sickkkkkk

    Spain to repeat. Heard it here first.

    Watch your step on that fragile limb....lol
  • Automatik
    The last Euro WC and then repeat....that will be tough to do.