Wheating Signs With..... Nike

seems as though turd is just a turd trying to stink up the thread by instigating other posters with a comment he can't possibly believe.

Holmdel wrote:

seems as though turd is just a turd trying to stink up the thread by instigating other posters with a comment he can't possibly believe.

Likely, and for his sake hopefully.

How marketable is Wheating?

....not at all....

What planet does everybody live on? Nobody knows who AW is, nobody cares. He is invisible. The mainstream media has no idea who he is.

Maria Sharipova signed w/ Nike for $65mm. She is marketable.

What the hell can AW bring to the table as far as marketability? People seem to confuse athletic performance w/ marketability.

Viv Savage wrote:

How marketable is Wheating?

....not at all....

What planet does everybody live on? Nobody knows who AW is, nobody cares. He is invisible. The mainstream media has no idea who he is.

Maria Sharipova signed w/ Nike for $65mm. She is marketable.

What the hell can AW bring to the table as far as marketability? People seem to confuse athletic performance w/ marketability.

I think you missed a lot of this thread with your last sentence, precisely we do not.

How many high school tennis players are there in the U.S.? How many cross country and track runners?

That's what I thought. There are not droves of people going out to by tennis rackes or tennis skirts. There aren't tennis tournaments with tens of thousands of casual weekend players. There is a huge market of people who are interested in running for one reason or another, all of them are potential fans of elite runners. It takes the right marketing and the right marketing tool/athlete to get them interested.

I don't care about basketball, but I loved watching Jordan play.

Read what was said about Teg and Solinsky VS Wheating in terms of marketability and you will (hopefully) understand that it is not related purely to athletic performance.

However you'd be a fool to think that all other things equal (ALL OTHER THINGS EQUAL) the faster runner or runner more capable of doing more on an international level doesn't increase his/her marketability over the slower runner.

What does Wheating have? Ask any high school or college runner gal. Ask the random sorority gals at Oregon. Ask a high school runner boy. Ask their parents. He has it in spades.

I think that every Oregon runner that wants to be pro will sign with Nike.

Except for the Mercados cuz they're really good friends with Arciniaga and Jordan Horn who're signed with McMillan ELITE/Adidas

Viv Savage wrote:

How marketable is Wheating?

....not at all....

What planet does everybody live on? Nobody knows who AW is, nobody cares. He is invisible. The mainstream media has no idea who he is.

Maria Sharipova signed w/ Nike for $65mm. She is marketable.

What the hell can AW bring to the table as far as marketability? People seem to confuse athletic performance w/ marketability.

I guess understanding things in context is too logical for you.

He is marketable in the running and track world, which we of course all know is a niche.

If he wins a gold medal in 2012...then he becomes marketable for a blip post Games.

Get Real Real wrote:

Viv Savage wrote:

How marketable is Wheating?

....not at all....

What planet does everybody live on? Nobody knows who AW is, nobody cares. He is invisible. The mainstream media has no idea who he is.

Maria Sharipova signed w/ Nike for $65mm. She is marketable.

What the hell can AW bring to the table as far as marketability? People seem to confuse athletic performance w/ marketability.

I guess understanding things in context is too logical for you.

He is marketable in the running and track world, which we of course all know is a niche.

If he wins a gold medal in 2012...then he becomes marketable for a blip post Games.

Nike is paying top dollar, for a track athlete at least, because he is so marketable. Now what Nike needs to do is, gasp, market him!!!!!

I get so sick of Nike getting top athletes that are extremely marketable and then doing absolutely nothing with them! The Nike ads I see for running are still some hobby jogger running with an iPod and Nike plus system.

I believe that if Nike wanted to make Andrew Wheating or Rupp or Solinsky or anyone well known and an asset to the company, they could get it to the point where everyone in America knew about our top distance runners. They are sitting on a gold mine of advertising with the number of young, upcoming distance talent in their back pocket!

For example, we heard all about Nike paying top dollar to get a high res vid of Rupp going for the American record, so we know they got some great shots of Solinsky doing it. It would be so simple and cheap for them to throw together a 15-20 second commercial of him running the last 100 meters or so with everyone going nuts followed by a simple CHRIS SOLINSKY: NEW AMERICAN 10,000 RECORD HOLDER: 26:59 followed by the Nike swoosh, yet they are just sitting on that film doing nothing. I get fired up seeing that clip and all of my non-runner friends tell me the same when I show it to them. You know how many people that would reach who would then at least know what happened and who Chris Solinsky is? That seems to me like an advertisers dream!

Needless to say, if Wheating is not marketed and made known to the public by Nike, what is the point of paying top dollar? Everyone could know who Wheating is if Nike wanted it that way. Why don't they do something with their assets?

wow... wrote:

I get so sick of Nike getting top athletes that are extremely marketable

OMG.... are you throwing up?????????????

hope you get over it soon wrote:

wow... wrote:

I get so sick of Nike getting top athletes that are extremely marketable

OMG.... are you throwing up?????????????

hahah!! LOLZZZ!! ROFL!!

Holmdel wrote:

seems as though turd is just a turd trying to stink up the thread by instigating other posters with a comment he can't possibly believe.

well i'll be dipped in shit!

i've been shamed and called a troll!

An American will get more than a Kenyan.

I assume Steve Holman made more money that the Kenyans that were ranked ahead of him.

Kind of throws out the black thing.

eatyerfnwheatings wrote:

Why is Wheating getting more already than Tegenkamp?

Teg was the first and biggest home grown prodigy to come in years with a shot at BK's 3K and 5K records. He was 5th at the world junior cross champs, ncaa champ, world team member and olympia who missed a medal by a single place. He holds the american two mile record and and narrowly missed the AR in the 5000 last summer.

How about Solinsky?

NCAA Champ, World team member and finalist, nearly had the AR in the 5000, has the AR in the 10000 and is the first american (and white man) to break 27:00.

At this point Wheatin is technically further from any AR and international medal than either of them, and they are both white, so why would he get more?

Teg has almost always been in Ritz's shadow, despite Ritz being younger. Ditto, Solinsky and Rupp.

Wheating is 22 and keeps coming up as the 1st American finisher in his post college races, over Symmonds, Lagat, Lomong, Manzano, etc.

Wheating will be a coach in 20 years. This is short term $, enjoy it while you can

Lottery wrote:

Wheating will be a coach in 20 years. This is short term $, enjoy it while you can

Honestly, he may be something like Salazar or Schumacher in 20 years (which would be fantastic), but Wheating seems to have success written all over him. He may own a company that does motivational speaking for companies and other sports teams with himself as one of the main speakers.

Point is, I think he's smart enough and charismatic enough to take it to the next level when running is over like very few do.

not likely wrote:

Point is, I think he's smart enough and charismatic enough to take it to the next level when running is over like very few do.

???? where did this come from?

thats funny...

not likely wrote:

Point is, I think he's smart enough and charismatic enough to take it to the next level when running is over like very few do.

Derek Smalls wrote:

???? where did this come from?

thats funny...

He saw Wheating's picture in the latest issue of Teenbeat Magazine and got wood...

Local Vermont newspaper did a story:

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100729/SPORTS/707299973/1007/SPORTS

thanks, look for the upper valley paper too.

So, does this make it offical that Webb is no longer the Golden Boy for Nike?!