New Gen - growing the sport or leaching off it??

Why am I being downvoted for this? He graduated college in 2021...

he’ll need a Time Machine to get closer to 20. No cap

Well that makes him giving alcohol and taking the purity test with high schoolers okay, why didn’t you just say so?

No but seriously I’m the same age as Ben and I can’t imagine drinking with a 15-17 year old girl or doing the rice purity test with one.

The New Gen guys need to understand that if someone’s a minor, they shouldn’t consume alcohol/edibles with them and shouldn’t discuss sex or tell one of the minors to sexualize one of the adult counselors in her writing.

No one is saying because he’s closer to 20 y/o the behavior is acceptable. But if you want to have an honest discussion don’t make up blatant lies like Ben Crawford being in his 30s to make him sound creepier than he already is.

I just don't think track and having an overblown personality mix. While it is a competitive sport, the biggest source of competition is yourself and hundreds of athletes are going through that process every meet. There just isn't as much room for promotion or peacocking as say, football, MMA, basketball, etc. Most of the athletes and spectators seem to respect and want to interact with chill people who have a handle on themselves. As far as behind the scenes stuff goes, it's just not as interesting or as fun as having the same interaction with your own teammates. I wouldn't say New Gen harms the sport but I do think their niche is a limited appeal dead end.

It’s creepy either way

Great point. This is a sport that requires discipline and consistency above all else which usually requires a pretty stable, low-key personality. There's a reason that the Kipchoges, Rupps, and Mantzs of the world are so successful while the Evert Silvas fade into mediocrity. No matter how much New Gen or any of the other "cool" influencers of the world want that to not be true. If it was easy to be the next Pre, somebody would have done it by now.

Not saying that being a stable personality is bad or not interesting at all. I would argue that those people are infinitely more fascinating than some sort of running Kardashian or Mr. Beast would be. Just that they might be a little harder to market.

Since that question was asked at a college meet it makes it...good for the sport?

My bad for thinking it was at a hs meet, just goes to show the youtube channel is too stupid to bother looking at lol. But I don't think wahwahwah was saying it makes it okay, he's just pointing out a flaw in my post. No worries, though, central message remains in tact. Still a weird thing to be asking 20 year old girls when you yourself are 25.

Is he in his 30’s or is he 25? Make up your minds

Basically none of the "grow the sport" people actually can or try to do anything to grow the sport -New Gen is just one of the most obviousness and incompetent leaches of this category.

The problem with athletics/tf in the US at least is that the competitions are fundamentally uncompelling as an entertainment product for the average person -not that the athletes aren't interesting enough. There's no coherent season with consistently compelling matchups outside of championships, it's hard to find meets/broadcasts, and the coverage itself is straight up laughable half the time.

The athletes we have are fantastically talented and interesting people, but we have no effective way to bring in new fans and appropriately monetize these talents. A few quirky photoshoots and articles wouldn't grow the sport even if they were done by GQ, that product done by people that can barely operate a camera sure as hell won't do anything. Marketing 101 -a funnel needs to go somewhere, right now we have good top of funnel awareness but are sending prospective fans to the marketing equivalent of a trampoline.

Turning athletics into an influencer game will destroy the sport not save it. While many of the highest performing professional athletes happen to be influencers those two categories are fundamentally different marketing channels that just happen to be somewhat muddied at the moment. The more you decouple them and drive additional ROI through influencers the more you will bleed out real professional athletics.

So if anyone actually wants to save the sport they should be looking at how to make watching competition more accessible and exciting, not taking a slice of the current attention pie.

taking pictures of minors in a girls bathroom for media content!! Real good for sport

too much horniness goin on

The creepy thing is the stalker weirdos here posting teenage girls instagram photos and fantasizing about them. F*cking gross.

If you think that's bad, I can't imagine what kinda twisted stuff MW and BC have on their phones 🤢

They probably have your mom’s photos in there. Reasoning- she’s obnoxious and easy, that’s why she raised a little wimp who has so much hatred towards two people attempting to improve the sport instead of spending time hating anonymously on Letsrun. You think talking bull is making the sport better? Nah it makes nobody want to do anything out of fear of being “canceled”.

Wrong. You can continue to act like young men -- whether online or offline -- and run your mouth. When adults get involved -- and point out to you that you have seriously messed up -- and will face consequences unless apologizing completely, then you will see what "learning the hard way" means. Stop defending the behavior. 99% of people think it's way out of line. Simple as that. It is hard -- but when a mistake is made -- just own it. People will give you grace.

One of these is not like the others.