It's smart. Hate him or love him, we're talking about him. He's gonna do great in self-marketing. When he eventually goes pro, he could end up being terrible but NBC would still cover him more than his faster competitors cuz of his charisma. Heck, he might get some national headlines for being brash, bringing eyeballs to the sport that would've never tuned in. Frankly, I'm all for it. Oh, and he's BACKED IT UP thus far. This kid is going to break the high school 800m record, and the betaboys on here are going to soil their panties over it.
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Conflated ego and takes himself extremely seriously. It's all fine and dandy now but as soon as he plateaus (ie next year) that flashy personality will be exposed for what it really is-- garden variety spazoid tendencies.
Watch the wesfly guy's toe video response and understand what type of guy he is. Flatt is the same. When reminded of his flaws and limitations he will become an impotent ball of seething, emasculated, southern good ol' boy rage with nowhere to go with it. He'll drop the pretense of any irony and just spout off canned redpill/Jocko Willink ideology at imagined haters and insist he is "changing this sport", "an alpha male/winner/champion", whatever else comes to his mind.
He's good at running but the clash between being a middle distance runner and talking like a heavyweight boxer is embarrasing. He has different competitors all the time and personal beef with none of them. It's not "trash talk", it's just a kid copying Jake Paul. Evert Silva does the same tough-guy act and it's just pathetic.
Literally just say "I want to try to run 1:45 this season" instead of being so gd dramatic all the time. Life is not a movie.
Either you fell for an 18 year old's heel schtick hook, line and sinker or you're Cade Flatt generating even more controversy for yourself in which case well played
Buddy I am literally calling him a egotistic spaz.
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It's smart. Hate him or love him, we're talking about him. He's gonna do great in self-marketing. When he eventually goes pro, he could end up being terrible but NBC would still cover him more than his faster competitors cuz of his charisma. Heck, he might get some national headlines for being brash, bringing eyeballs to the sport that would've never tuned in. Frankly, I'm all for it. Oh, and he's BACKED IT UP thus far. This kid is going to break the high school 800m record, and the betaboys on here are going to soil their panties over it.
This is the most typical response. "We're talking about him, he's so smart". Yeah, I'm he's making stacks off this worldwide controversy.
Letsrun talking about a guy with a big mouth--where have we seen that before? Maybe it was about that other super senior associated with Ole Miss. I wonder how that guy is doing this year. I'm sure he has a giant and growing youtube channel, shoe sponsorships, and a few conference titles by now.
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The best way to self market in track and field is to run fast, and win races. If he continues to do that he is free to experiment with whatever marketing bs is available
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"Professional sports, like it or not, is just Real Housewives for guys."
I love that comment, because team/ball broadcasts are mostly gossip. But track is different. In team/ball sports, they argue about referee calls, trades, owners, teamwork, free agents, supporting players, coaches, lucky bounces, stars ... until the actual performance becomes incidental to the overall story.
Track is just the opposite. The performance is the only thing to talk about. Either you beat someone or you don't. You run a PR or you don't. The only incidentals are wind and weather. Nobody cares about the backstory, just what we see on the track. That makes track a much more hardcore sport, it is only about high level competition. But people are too used to the gossip side of sports to value such pure, in-your-face competition.
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Man this kid sounds like a douche
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Public school wrote:
The best way to self market in track and field is to run fast, and win races. If he continues to do that he is free to experiment with whatever marketing bs is available
This is about marketing track as a whole, not self-marketing, although they are intertwined. I think the question we are asking is if this guy's self-marketing is helping or hurting track as a sport. I think he is great for people to realize the brutal, cut-throat nature of each race: either you beat your competition or you don't, there are no time-outs or do-overs. He is verbalizing that relentless anxiety of every race. My only concern is if he takes it off the track and tries to psych out other runners with nonsense that isn't related to the sport.
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Man is a one-liner machine
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He’s just Another Centro wannabe
Teare/Hocker is the future I believe in.
Im going to write “You’re Move” on my vaporflys
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And who focuses on making inspirational tweets?
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"Watching track and field, and watching people race, sometimes it's mindless beings. There's no story. There's no emotional attachment. I want people to know who I am, whether they love me or hate me."
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young, dumb, brash and fast.
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With this type of attitude, you turn out being someone like Alberto Salazar. Even before all the allegations and bans, everyone saw him as the biggest dickhead in track and field.
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He def looks 25 tho. U cant argue with that. Bad/Good genes depending how u look at it. (Good for running - bad for aging n looks).
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"Watching track and field, and watching people race, sometimes it's mindless beings. There's no story. There's no emotional attachment. I want people to know who I am, whether they love me or hate me."
We know he's an egomaniac we already covered that.
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"....but we’ve got to deal with some other people first.”
Yep, you certainly do. 1:47 is good for your age and that's about it. Talk with your legs kid.
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Flatt reminds me of Yury Borizkovzky, also a very brash athlete who won an Olympic gold medal. Topped out at 1:43-44 I think, but more was expected of him from the get-go. People were talking taking out Coe's record, etc. I hope he can stay ... focused at Mississippi State.
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