guys, I'm not a track guy but I'm really enjoying getting to understand and know it from a fan's perspective. If we had hosted the NCAA outdoor track championships here 10 days ago seems to me we would have killed some athletes in the heat. Could CS be too hot in mid-June for the outdoor championships?

College Station averages in June:

High Temp: 89
Low Temp: 71
Mean Temp: 80
Morning Rel. Humidity: 83%
Afternoon Rel. Humidity: 56%
Days above 90 degrees: 16


Fayeteville averages in June:

High Temp: 89
Low Temp: 66
Mean Temp: 78
Morning Rel. Humidity: 88%
Afternoon Rel. Humidity: 51%
Days above 90: 15

If they can handle Fayetteville year after year, they can handle College Station.

The biggest concern by the track community is not the heat, but the thunderstorms. It was bad in Austin the last two times and we had 7 hours of weather delays at Fayetteville. Many people like the West Coast, Sacramento is hot without the thunderstorms, and Eugene is too cool for our sprinters.
The meet this next year will be in Eugene and this will defintely give OU an edge hosting with their distance crew.

I went to an NCAA meet and an Olympic Trials in New Orleans and no one died (although I thought I was going to). If you could have one in NO in June, you could have one anywhere. If we can move forward with the outdoor facility, that may happen. We have had major meets here before.

The weather is a concern but a bigger one is our hotel rooms. The outdoor meet is much larger than the indoor championship.

B/CS oughta be in pretty good shape hotel wise.

Especially in the summer. There can't be more people for outdoor track than you'd expect for a football weekend, with 30000+ out of towners.

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The weather is a concern but a bigger one is our hotel rooms.

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Any city with enough hotels to handle up 30-50k visitors for a big home football game has more than enough to handle track ncaas.

btw I'm not sure if those averages are from THIS June or historical, but on weather.com the June averages listed are:

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USAR0189?from=36hr_bottomnav_undeclared

Fayetteville
High 84
Low 64

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USTX0270?from=36hr_bottomnav_undeclared

College Station
High 92
Low 72

I don't necessarily think that the heat is a reason not to have the T&F ncaas in CS, but the temperature is typically about 10 degrees warmer in CS. There are a lot of reasons to have it in CS (and a lot not to have it in Fayetteville so often), but weather is not one of those.

Harry, that's likely historical for a long time.

The numbers I posted above are based on the last 20 years.

t.u. has hosted regional and NCAA meets in recent memory and it is always VERY hot at Mike Meyers Stadium in late spring and summer. If any of you have ever been to the H.S. state track meet there, you know what I mean.

Heat isn't really a huge issue. The only track athletes that REALLY hate the heat are the distance runners. I say bring Oregon down here and show them what heat is!

Obviously nobody likes 100+ degree weather, but sprinters and jumpers would prefer 80's & 90's over 50's and 60's any day, while distance runners would prefer the opposite.

The NCAA Outdoor Championship has been hosted by the University of Houston.

Build a facility with shade, lots of shade, and some other side venues, and it will be fine. Summer track in Texas sucks yet thousands show up to run every weekend at numerous tracks, beginning in May and lasting until the nationals in August. Build a fan friendly facility, with TV monitors and lots of fans, and they will come. SHADE SHADE and MORE SHADE.