As everyone in here knows, we can be very funny when it comes to public criticism and I tried in vain since 2016 to alert and warn and explain that the "do it as we always have, and hope for the best" path was going to eventually leave us in tatters - so where are we now as "worlds" starts next week?
ZERO 4x100m relays qualified, male or female.
ZERO realistic medal chances on the track, in any event (and TBH it's not really close)
ZERO world championship medals since 2017
ZERO Olympic medals since our 1 in Rio
and the worst part
ZERO juniors looking like they are ready to step up and be pros. Our college athletes have disappeared, for the most part.
So after all the warnings, back and forth talk, then the customary "fight-down" of the messenger, they still ran the ship into the iceberg, especially with the sprint relays which went from gold in 08 and bronze in 2015 (women) to lane fillers in 2021
Now, we pay the price, while they (admins) are long gone.
If someone asked me, I'd say the drought between '76-95 of no track and field medals at worlds or Olympics looks likely to repeat itself now. If TTO track and field was a stock, you'd be offloading it.
Meanwhile, Grenada will likely get TWO medals in Oregon (400m, JT)
We shall see.
I welcome any counter to this opinion. I'd gladly be swayed.