Just Some Rando wrote:
I always got a bit of an exuberant-entrepreneur/wannabe-startup-founder vibe from him in his prior interviews, but this year he's seemed different.
You should watch the interview from the mixed zone after he made the final in Eugene. The guy is still a chode, but he is running better this year. These things can co-exist. Kudos are warranted.
What happens to him when his contract is not renewed? This team is not producing and are only just figuring out or investing in going to altitude? If the merc isn’t selling, they got rid of their strength coach, they’re getting married, moving out of their pseudo frat boy lifestyle…what next?
There doesn't have to be a next. The dude has run at global championships. He's sort of an accomplished The Athlete Special.
bloviating wrote:
What happens to him when his contract is not renewed? This team is not producing and are only just figuring out or investing in going to altitude? If the merc isn’t selling, they got rid of their strength coach, they’re getting married, moving out of their pseudo frat boy lifestyle…what next?
They got rid of their strength coach?
bloviating wrote:
This team is not producing
Off the top of my head, Reed Fischer got top 10 in Chicago, Coleman represented GB in Steeple after winning the British champs, Hunter just ran a 3:54 mile, and Parsons just finished 9 seconds behind Jakob. I think by any objective standard, that is at least 'producing'.
When you have 14 athletes and 3-4 of them are running well its hardly success. They're running well despite the coaching not because of it.
obviusllyy eeeee wrote:
When you have 14 athletes and 3-4 of them are running well its hardly success. They're running well despite the coaching not because of it.
Awful point- how many teams are you aware of that have 14 athletes on top of their game all at once? How many athletes crushed it this year from say...Brooks Beasts?
obviusllyy eeeee wrote:
When you have 14 athletes and 3-4 of them are running well its hardly success. They're running well despite the coaching not because of it.
TME doesn't have fourteen athletes, so it's idiotic for obviusllyy eeeee to have said so. Maybe the purpose was to slam TME by posting false information. Hate or just dislike shows up in this manner on this message board. The TME website, which does need updating, currently lists TEN men and ONE woman, and possibly one or two more men have either been dropped or they retired or left the team.
Call the correct number eleven, even if it is less. Eleven is still just a little less than fourteen, don't you think? There are a couple of other who, on video, can be seen training with TME on occasion, but they're not on the team.
And among those eleven, there have been a bunch of PRs this year. Nobody's won a gold medal lately except Drew Hunter for his 5k national road championship in New York City last year. No, I take that back. Jamaine Coleman won the British national championship in the 3k steeplechase. He WON, even if he didn't set a world record or even a PR, OK? THAT STILL SPELLS "SUCCESS". (Makes me think of Matthew Centrowitz winning an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL despite a very slow time. What's more important -- the time or the medal?)
Why have they been "running well"? Yeah, natural talent is part of it, and SO IS COACHING. GIVE JOAN HUNTER A BIT OF CREDIT HERE!!!