Kerr's "team" around the table is a freaking joke. Incompetent people that he can talk down to. The "asst" coach of the team is a loser who doesn't know anything about running. His "chef" is the asst coaches wife. The new video dude is like a groupie. And the new guy sitting next to Kerr was on the Lobo team at one point but washed out. This is not a "professional" group which is just about what Brooks Beast have always been.
OP is right, and I'm absolutely sick of guys like Kerr trying to make athletics popular. Jakob too. I hope Wanynonyi and Sedjati don't get caught and destroy the record books, and a new Komen appears and runs sub 7:10 to spite Jakob. A few years of African domination and Kerr and Jakob and the rest of them will have enough and retire, and athletics will be back to a niche sport that nobody ever talks about except connoisseurs of thin ebony calves. Good!
OP is right, and I'm absolutely sick of guys like Kerr trying to make athletics popular. Jakob too. I hope Wanynonyi and Sedjati don't get caught and destroy the record books, and a new Komen appears and runs sub 7:10 to spite Jakob. A few years of African domination and Kerr and Jakob and the rest of them will have enough and retire, and athletics will be back to a niche sport that nobody ever talks about except connoisseurs of thin ebony calves. Good!
This is one of those videos I watch on 2x speed and still wish I could get the time back. saw it last night and was surprised no one had posted anything about it then. Nice to see others had similar reactions (ie. embarrassingly self-indulgent and just honestly looked like amateur hour in terms of the "staff").
The previous videos at least had decent production quality. This was just setting up a camera in the corner and then uploading straight to Youtube?
Also why is that crying baby in the video again? Honestly couldn't focus much on anything else but I don't think I missed much.
Quite frankly, this is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
From an internal management perspective, the vibe of this "emergency non-emergency" meeting is just... odd.
But above all else, to post this to your Youtube channel? Am I missing something? Do people actually give an F about the state of affairs with this dudes' "team"? (Not the Brooks Beasts, his personal "staff")?
Someone please explain any of this to me.
You did not miss anything. I felt uncomfortable watching that. Kerr is delusional. Just an f-ing weird video. Does he have a GF? Dating Kerr must be brutal
Quite frankly, this is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
From an internal management perspective, the vibe of this "emergency non-emergency" meeting is just... odd.
But above all else, to post this to your Youtube channel? Am I missing something? Do people actually give an F about the state of affairs with this dudes' "team"? (Not the Brooks Beasts, his personal "staff")?
Someone please explain any of this to me.
My take is that someone in his team brought up the idea of creating a YT channel for him as they saw the growing trend amongst professional athletes in multiple sports that are doing this. They thought it looked cool and tried to apply it for Josh. Turns out, they maybe don't consume much of YT and they just tried to jump on the wagon, as most of the content they are putting out is not really engaging or compelling. Nor does it make him more likeable.
As for this video, I think they were planning on doing some sort of video on GST before the weekend, but after maybe Josh wasn't in the mood to do anything fancy and all they came up with was this, which is not quite good. I like when athletes post content after a bad result and are capable of showing the lows it can create. But if this is all you can do, maybe it's better to just reassess internally and not post it.
As him and Jakob are usually in the same conversation and since Jakob is extremely active on his socials, it is easily comparable on what you could/should do to attract new audience vs what you shouldn't do. Watching Jakob's channel, I really don't care much about cars, but somehow I find myself watching all of his videos.
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Kerr's "team" around the table is a freaking joke. Incompetent people that he can talk down to. The "asst" coach of the team is a loser who doesn't know anything about running. His "chef" is the asst coaches wife. The new video dude is like a groupie. And the new guy sitting next to Kerr was on the Lobo team at one point but washed out. This is not a "professional" group which is just about what Brooks Beast have always been.
This is a thing Kerr does because he feels important saying things like "i have a staff of 6 people working for me everyday, making sure everything I do is optimal for being the best runner in the world."
It's funny seeing the contrasts between this and what a fellow Brit like George Mills is doing. Spending a large part of the year in South Africa with as little distractions as possible, just him and a few other On teammates, eating rice and chicken every day and doing nothing but training, eating and sleeping, and seeing the progress he's made in his results since then.
Interview: The 25-year-old discusses his strict winter regime of rice, running and siestas in South Africa ahead of his battle with Ingebrigtsen at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn this weekend
It's funny seeing the contrasts between this and what a fellow Brit like George Mills is doing. Spending a large part of the year in South Africa with as little distractions as possible, just him and a few other On teammates, eating rice and chicken every day and doing nothing but training, eating and sleeping, and seeing the progress he's made in his results since then.
Kerr is more concerned about building his personal brand than anything else.
idk though. Mills is kind of insane. Bland as cardboard and with dead eyes. Does he have a soul lol? Maybe not, but he's been running fast so I guess he's happy to sacrifice any semblance of mirth in the pursuit of the dream.
Also, Kerr was suuuuper lean last year during the Olympics (and somewhere detailed his daily meal plan from his "chef" and we all commented then that it was bordering on starvation diet mode for his training volume).
But I get your point about distractions. Ironically Kerr thinks outsourcing all these facets of training (because he's apparently impossibly busy) to this hodgepodge group removes distractions...
"Behind the Bib" implies BTS content from race day, Premeet, etc, not just a 21 minute team conversation recorded.
There are two possibilities:
A) He's literally recording his team recap and debrief after GST, and his coaches have approved this. This would also mean that his team is extremely shallow and unhelpful, as there was literally nothing remotely intellectual said in that video, and I'd be extremely concerned if that was their true reaction.
B) He's staging a 21 minute conversation with his personal team as a publicity stunt or a clout chase?
I'm not sure which scenario is more concerning to be honest.
I honestly didn't mind Kerr when he had just turned pro and had a little bit of ego/attitude but the past 18 months this guy has become so insufferable.
I think his 2023 WC title got to his head and from what I've heard, that's the moment he started employing a "team" to help him become the ultimate professional.
These awful Youtube videos are just the icing on the cake - No candidness, no authenticity. Who are these videos even for? They're terrible.
What I find fascinating is it’s not like Josh hasn’t been public since his early days. We literally got podcasts with him leading into his first world championships in Doha where he finished 6th..I’ve been a Kerr fan since the Sit and Kick days and Josh’s YouTube videos are teaching me a few things…
1) Josh felt way more transparent and relatable on the mic with David and I can’t buy in to this YouTube series. Besides success, what’s changed?
2) in our weird sport, athlete branding is important and i’m not sure Josh had much to do with the brand of Sit and Kick beside being a co-host because this branding is the exact opposite of who he was on the podcast.
still a fan but learning how important it is for athletes to have great brand awareness.
Quite frankly, this is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
From an internal management perspective, the vibe of this "emergency non-emergency" meeting is just... odd.
But above all else, to post this to your Youtube channel? Am I missing something? Do people actually give an F about the state of affairs with this dudes' "team"? (Not the Brooks Beasts, his personal "staff")?
Someone please explain any of this to me.
You did not miss anything. I felt uncomfortable watching that. Kerr is delusional. Just an f-ing weird video. Does he have a GF? Dating Kerr must be brutal
He's been engaged for (I believe) 4 years but is finally getting married this year.
this youtube channel makes me like Jakob so much more. he is just out here living life, is building a family, has fun with his mechanical skills and cars, is a goof with his friends and siblings, and is supportive of competitors who aren't jack-offs to him (like when he thanked Hocker for showing up at the Diamond League after the Olympics, the support he showed to Yared's public coming out post, the respect he showed to Ollie Hoare who was struggling last year to get back into shape, the admiration he's always had for Stewy McSweyn)
