The State of Track & Field

Track & Field is in a bad position right now. No one wants to cover the sport because there is no money in it. When it is covered in the United States most of the true fans don't feel it is covered properly. To make matters worse a lot of people post what little coverage the sport gets on YouTube. Now there is a whole sewer of degraded content out there. This has brought the marketability of Track & Field to an all time low. For instance a little over 3,000 fans showed up to watch the Adidas Track Classic which was suppose to be one of the biggest meets in the United States. Why would anyone want to actually go see the event in person when they are satisfied with watching all the degraded content on YouTube? Also to make matters worse there are a few sites that have tried to create a hippy utopia for fans of the running events. These two sites would be www.runnerspace.com and www.flotrack.com. These sites have no business model and the try to get skilled people to donate their time to come up with video content and make the website better. These sites have dumped a lot of time and money into providing this content but it is just a matter of time before they will give up. You can only go into debt so much before you have to call it quits. A lot of people who read this would be mad because they go to these sites and look at all the free content and never have to pay for anything. The people involved in Track & Field and the few fans we have are getting more accustom to not paying for anything. To make track & field marketable fans need to be paying a little bit for something. Then at that point if people could make a little off of track & field they will push the limits and provide better content and merchandise. If no one pays for anything then the quality of everything will remain CRAP!