The men's 10k is in three days, how will the crowd react to Galen Rupp?

The Dingo wrote:

rupphasamedalandyoudont wrote:

Deafening roar. It is in Oregon, and the stands will be filled with Duck/Nike fanboys/girls.

Bingo.

No chance he gets boo'd. There might be one or two, but the fanboys will make sure they're out-roared.

There will be maybe ten fan boys there.

The rest will be locals and track fans, often older who don't read this shite.

I see no purpose in yelling from the stands like a hooligan. When I have something to tell Galen I do so like a man: I write him a note, put it in a hollowed-out book, and send it in the mail.

Farenji wrote:

I see no purpose in yelling from the stands like a hooligan. When I have something to tell Galen I do so like a man: I write him a note, put it in a hollowed-out book, and send it in the mail.

Hooliganism doesn't begin to describe the conduct on this website!

webby wrote:

How will Patriots fans react to Tom Brady?

There isn't much evidence that Rupp has cheated but there is way more evidence that he has cheated than there is that Brady has cheated.

There is no one with inside knowledge saying Brady cheated. No photos. No proof that the balls were even deflated.

Terrible comparison.

I think to be accurate we need data on a lot more than 800 startups. The difficulty in doing it within one accelerator is that you have a culture -this expectation and pressure that every company in the program has meet 7-10% growth. I'm not saying that is bad, but that the pressure takes away from the founders' personal decision on how they want to grow their company.

For example, one company I worked with decided from the beginning that they weren't going to work 100hrs a week and that health (mental and physical) was one of their company values. These female founders are still together and their business is doing well. They were consistently delightful to be around during the entire session.

When I think back, I think smiling was a big indicator. The founders who smiled more were in the office less. The ones who worked long hours and on the weekends barely smiled. But that's only my experience.

brogan1 wrote:

Shamrockwiz wrote:

It will be a sad reflection of the state of track and field if there is anything short of a shower of boos and heckles. In any other sport this sort of scandal would produce a litany of heckles/posters/boos upon the athlete in competition. Rupp deserves this treatment, those in attendance, please let him hear it.

That is only true when the athlete performs in opposing cities. The homers always defend their guy.

Hasn't any one of you gone to an away game to support your local team in some other sport? It's great fun to be louder than the loser home team. I would heckle rupp and Nop even if he was cleaner than an alter boy lighting his first candle at mass. I live in Oregon and know that most people here aren't so thin skinned that they couldn't take a little baba booey for 27-28 minutes. What's rupp's problem that he needs dozens of people protect him?

I think you're wrong. It will be the loudest cheer there has ever been at that stadium. It'll be like the second coming of a certain runner from Coos Bay. The crowd will go 100% nuts in their support. There will be no boos at all. Lots of we love yous and screaming. He will wave to the crowd and smile. It will be a triumphant return. This is my prediction.

And I am going to separate the startups.

One group of startup founders work full time on their company and have no family to care for.

The other group of startup founders working on their startup full time have a family and/or another job/school...something extra they are also doing. Having a family is like having a part time job on top of having your startup. It adds a lot more stress so the founders' experiences aren't equal.I saw founders who did their startup F/T had a family and was finishing their degree at Stanford. Crazy life, but they smiled through it.

Then you have the part time startups.

Then you have startups that used many part time workers in the beginning.

Work sucks wrote:

I'm thinking about going just to heckle him. Is there anything in particular the letsrun crowd wants to be hollered every lap?

Nobody cares. Rupp won't even hear you and you'll just look like an idiot.

But maybe they read the BBC, Eurosport, Oregon Live, Reuters, NYRR, Register Guard, Runners World, Daily Mail, Guardian, Delhi News, Singapore News, Kuwait Times, etc?http://www.eurosport.com/athletics/alberto-salazar-galen-rupp-in-spotlight-at-u.s.-trials_sto4792191/story.shtml

A Duck wrote:

The Dingo wrote:

Bingo.

No chance he gets boo'd. There might be one or two, but the fanboys will make sure they're out-roared.

There will be maybe ten fan boys there.

The rest will be locals and track fans, often older who don't read this shite.

might not be might be wejo wrote:

I think you're wrong. It will be the loudest cheer there has ever been at that stadium. It'll be like the second coming of a certain runner from Coos Bay. The crowd will go 100% nuts in their support. There will be no boos at all. Lots of we love yous and screaming. He will wave to the crowd and smile. It will be a triumphant return. This is my prediction.

I agree with this. It's a given that whenever a group of people with a common interest, like religious groups, gun nuts, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, etc, has their belief system challenged or made to look questionable, their natural reaction is to double down and be even MORE of a religious freak, more of a gun nut, more of an anti-vaxxer, etc. In the same way that every mass shooting somehow convinces gun worshippers to be even more entrenched in their support for relaxing the already weak restrictions on gun ownership, the NOP scandal will just make the Rupp/NOP/Nike/UofO-lovers be even more vocal than usual in their support of the Dynamite Kid.

I'm thinking about going just to heckle him. Is there anything in particular the letsrun crowd wants to be hollered every lap?"

- yeah, right. Typical lrc big talker. Blowhard.

Marion Jones was cheered, after sh|.t hit the fan.

At best there will be a couple dozen admitted letsrunners at the meet. If they have signs those would be taken away by Nike (er U Oregon) security guards.

The US media will be as clueless as the likes The Duck. Just not a big story in the US, and it won't be big unless there are more revelations or if Farah does quit NOP.

He'll get a positive reaction.

Most of the boos will be typed on the internet by people at home.

A Duck wrote:

The Dingo wrote:

Bingo.

No chance he gets boo'd. There might be one or two, but the fanboys will make sure they're out-roared.

There will be maybe ten fan boys there.

The rest will be locals and track fans, often older who don't read this shite.

As I live and breathe! A Duck, it's good to see you -- we thought you were in permanent hiding after the initial Epstein report came out.

Since it's in Oregon, there will be mostly cheers, but there will definitely be some booing mixed in. If it was in Des Moines or Sacramento, the boos would be louder than the cheers for sure.

Star wrote:

He'll get a positive reaction.

Most of the boos will be typed on the internet by little boys in mommy's basements.

might be wejo wrote:

Will they announce all the entrants at the start like they do at Diamond League meets? If/when Rupp's name is announced, how will the crowd react? Cheers, boos, silence? It's probably in Rupp's favor that he's running at home.

I think he'll get his usual, which is a slightly louder cheer than everyone else. It would be interesting though if the crowd gave him the silent treatment. I can't imagine him getting boo'ed.

They may or may not announce, if they do Galen will get strong support from his collegiate Duck days fans. The fans are there for a race and the people that are sticking around at that time of the evening to watch the 10k are the distance die-hards that appreciate the athletes.

The 25 or so angry petty anti NOP posters on this web site won't be at the meet, probably have never been to the meet but consider themselves experts none the less.