A 2:08 American is running New York and he's still unsponsored.... Q&A with Scott Fauble

What is "considerable?" He said in the video that he's making a living from the sport and vaguely mentioned a few paydays. I doubt even the Jobros know how much Rupp, True, Fauble, Kibet individually get just to show up at NYCM.

Very interesting questions on this thread. If I had a bunch of marketing cash to throw at a US runner, who would I choose?

I don't know how much appearance $ guys like Fauble get, but domestic marathons are probably paying enough to make it worth their while. Races like Boston and NY want to ensure there's a couple Americans mixing it up in the top 10, and the prize money isn't enough to do that on its own (7th at Boston gets you $10k).

Great post. I could understand if perhaps Galen said something like this, but then again, Galen has more common sense than that and never would.

All you have to do is look at instagram/tik tok to know the answer to this. Absolutely would throw it to someone who is basically an influencer and can guarantee to sell stuff!!! (a la Colleen Quigley)

Puma could use a marquee male marathoner to balance Molly OR maybe he could get a deal with Tracksmith, Lululemon, etc. and wear the clothes but still wear whatever shoes he wants.

Agreed on Molly and someone else. Assuming Puma had a retail presence not just on their web site.

That said, I don't understand how cycling teams do it one way and running teams another. I'd think we'd have a team with all sorts of gear placement assured, moreso than just Nike. Japanese runners have it figured out. Companies of all sorts and sizes sponsoring runners. And here we have a few dozen wearing freebie handout stuff until someone gives them an extra pair of socks or something.

I'd hope to find someone without a lot of baggage who races all distances frequently and can go 2:07 or better with regularity. Pie in the sky, I know.

The reason I said the above is because I set up a sponsorship campaign for a cycling team once.

Soap, coffee, beer, a bike shop, a pizza place. It's not complicated.

why should any marathoner be sponsored?

What would they do? Get a job?

Would we miss them?

Runners run for their own personal psyche. Not ours

If you can get paid, all the better.

Well except that Tracksmith's program is really just gear, similar to Oiselle and not enough to not have at least a part time job to pay bills. Just like Rabbit sponsorship is for people who don't need money. Lululemon wants someone who looks good on SM and does yoga, pilates, SUP with a smile on their face as well as running. Fauble wants to run and otherwise lead a private life to think about betting lines or whatever. I guarantee you his agent sent the Citius crew to him with the instructions that this is his only avenue to possible sponsorship at this point, to put up with 90 minutes of chit chat and he told them they could do it while he was knocking out an easy run but otherwise he didn't have time for it. One thing to keep in mind is that all of these deals come with clear expectations to promote and show up at events sponsored by the brand, be sociable and fun around the public at these events. If Fauble doesn't have the patience for running with people he knows or knocking back a coffee while sitting down for an interview with fanboys, he for sure doesn't want to spend hours of his life forced to be around randos without a huge paycheck coming to him as a result.

He is a b-lister on his pie in the sky best day ever. His garbage form suits his ability.

His agent is Josh Cox so I wouldn't count on that sort of foresight.

Today I learned that when rojo puts a swear-word in a post... It doesn't get censored out.

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Rupp, True, and Fauble.

An exciting American presence.

"Rules for thee and rules for me"

What, you never saw his privilege before?

Businesses aren't charities. Harsh reality.

I'm not sure if it's just the camera angle on him running, but I don't think I've ever seen an elite distance runner with such short legs and long a trunk.

I think you’re right his form might look efficient at all, but there are plenty extremely good runners with much worse form. 10 years ago sub 2:10 was great now unfortunately is kind of irrelevant even East African women getting close to that kind of performance.

The only thing I ever think about when I hear “Scott Fauble” is that photo of him looking at Galen sitting down at the starting line at the trials.

I will tell you within 10% of what these runners get from NY.

Fauble - $15000

Kibet - no running, deployed overseas

Korir - not for publication due to WCAP

Rupp - $80,000

True - $7500