Ron and Dorothy Strasser
Thanks Flo.... I got that right off (working in a high school I knew there was no way they would drop football in place of cycling....maybe add cycling, but not drop football). California is for sure not Oregon, but going as far as swapping out a football field for a velodrome.... not even in California. The actual idea of adding cycling is great because it would allow more students to be involved with a positive activity, but I think it is pretty rare. I know there is some interscholastic cycling (the mountain XC races they mentioned and here we have had some high school XC competition, but it is more of a club type activity instead of sanctioned athletic activity run through the state governing body. Maybe in the future it might happen. Who would have thought kids would have been playing soccer when I was a kid (I am 59) and in the last 7-8 years Lacrosse has come on pretty well in the urban areas. Things can change for sure. But I really feel that in America.... Football (with the weird shaped ball) is just too big to fail! Since it is April Fools Day... I heard since the state budget is in such a flush mode the legislature is thinking again about funding a velodrome in the mid or southern Willamette Valley. Have a great day.
Remember Mud is Cheap. The rain is Free.
ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Leibowitz, Flo
To: obra@list.obra.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] HIGH SCHOOL GETS VELODROME
Do you folks not know an April Fool's gag when you see one??
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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org on behalf of Michael O'Hair
Sent: Wed 4/1/2009 7:58 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] HIGH SCHOOL GETS VELODROME
I hope that this is a typo or something. $1.8 TRILLION for a velodrome?!?!?!?!
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: League Director
To: raggy23@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:25:59 AM
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GETS VELODROME
Cedar Glen, CA -
School Superintendant, Jim Swift, said "I advocated for this as soon as I saw the cost-benefit analysis. A velodrome is going to cost $1.8 trillion whereas a stadium retrofit and new astroturf was going to cost us $1.9 trillion. That may seem like a small difference, but that's actually $100 billion dollars. We can buy quite a few books and computers for that much money."
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