Galen Rupp's yearly salary

toodarnloud97 wrote:

The dude plays video games 4+ hours a day when he's not training. What is he going to be after he's a professional runner, a professional video game player? You don't waste time like this unless you don't have to worry about money.

There is a lot more money in pro gaming than pro running.

simple math wrote:

Puzzled wrote:

...outside of distance running circles few people know who the heck he is.

"Distance circles" are pretty big! Have you checked the numbers of HS runners and the number of entrants at road races? Pretty big. And if you don't follow basketball you won't be influenced by their sponsored athletes in BB. "BB circles" will.

I recall seeing a picture of a HS boys 3200m last year. ALL 10 kids in the picture had Nike spikes. I would wager that most of them also train in Nikes. At 1 Mil. Nike is more than getting their moneys worth. Good for Rupp.

Actually you'd probably be wrong. Nike clearly has a dominant hold on distance spikes (idk about other spikes) and is the best for spikes, but everyone I know is split on different trainers. I wear nikes and asics. Others wear brooks or saucony just as often.

There is practically no money in pro gaming...

Puzzled, I wrote a piece precisely on this topic: http://onceandalways.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/making-it-count-or-why-shoe-companies-should-rethink-their-sponsorship-foci/

Puzzled wrote:

Again I find these endorsement deals puzzling. He is not a household name. Believe it or not outside of distance running circles few people know who the heck he is. Further perhaps because I'm in the demographic that is not influenced by trends I can't imagine going out and buying a pair of Nike shows because I see Rupp wearing one. When I do buy shoes it is because I need them and I tend to base my decision on the look, comfort, feel and price. Not sure how that fits in with Nike's marketing strategy.

I think the marketing dollars spent on pro running are not as much to gain marketshare but to keep it. It's expected that the largest equipment providers of any sport sponsor the best professionals. If they don't then the competition will and their product won't be take as seriously. It wouldn't look good if Nike made a bunch of running shoes and every pro wore addidas. The little money spent on a handfull of professional contracts is a drop in he bucket of the selling cost line. Nike just pays the few biggest stars because they can...

There's a few other things to take into account when referencing the guys who make the most money, and that's the affect the Olympics have on the average joe every 4 years.

It's the one time that people seem to care about track and field, and you finally have a few prospects that are pretty marketable in events that have been dominated by the east Africans. Rupp, Solinski, Wheating, Centro, etc...

You pay the guys who have the highest probably of giving your brand the most exposure it can get... The above mentioned guys are probably all worth an Olympic "interest" piece giving Nike more exposure than just to the elite running world. Here's your underdog average white guys to the rest of the world... they're like Brian Sell's for the general population, but instead of being the ultimate fan boy jerk off material for the untalented in the States, you've got it on the world stage.

It's sad that more people can't make a living off of running, but the market speaks for itself. Football players and Baseball players all have a few things in common that help their values go up... first is a players union and second, they have a league that's worth billions annually.

Example, I'm from Wisconsin, I love the badgers, the brewers and the packers... when it comes to track I root for.... America? yea, once every 4 years... other than that, track is a completely uninteresting series of uninteresting athletes running times that the general population, even a majority of the running population, have no context to appreciate what they just saw.

We just have to accept the fact that track will never be important until we find a way to make it entertaining. Until then, expect all the money to go to the few people who have an opportunity to make some impression on the average person, which is pretty much only possible in an Olympic year.

MBA guy wrote:

I think the marketing dollars spent on pro running are not as much to gain marketshare but to keep it. It's expected that the largest equipment providers of any sport sponsor the best professionals. If they don't then the competition will and their product won't be take as seriously. It wouldn't look good if Nike made a bunch of running shoes and every pro wore addidas. The little money spent on a handfull of professional contracts is a drop in he bucket of the selling cost line. Nike just pays the few biggest stars because they can...

As a business preventing a loss and making a gain are essential the same. While some people will say they dont buy based on advertisements they just do not know the truth. Theres is a lot of evidence to suggest that advertising works very well yet most people would say they are not effected. This is because most of advertising is a secondary effect. Meaning you dont watch galen rupp win a race and immediately go out and buy nike products. But the next time you are looking for running gear you will probably recognize the nike products weather its conscious or not. When people buy products that actually have some significant impact on their life they will almost always go with the more familiar one even if its a little more. This is especially true as the product become more specialized. Galen gets paid decently well in part because is the American Boy. People especially distance runners can relate to him. Yes hes skinny and white yet so are a lot of high school and college track athletes. The africans dont get paid as much because there is not relation.

You're from Wisconsin and yet you can't spell Solinsky correctly ? I'm surprised they let you stay.

He isn't famous enough to remember the correct spelling.

coach d wrote:

You need a reality check. Rupp's salary is frankly none of the business of posters here. But high school runners care about THEIR teammates and THEIR rivalries. Most pay precious little attention to elites. Many will be much more likely to know the name Sarah Baxter than Galen Rupp.

You need a reality check. Hang out with my team for a while. The kids love Rupp, Ritz, Lamong, Huddle, Kara, Shalane, etc

Maybe my kids are just smarter and more knowledgeable than yours.

The top athletes in the world get their sponsorship because if they're not wearing one brand, they'll be wearing the competing brand.

What are you talking about? Rupp will have a ton of offers and opportunities regardless of his gaming. Besides, you do know that professional gaming is huge these days? Anyway, that's not the point. He'll be fine. Believe me, I am not a fan of the 1-trick pony but when you do this well it makes up for it. Again, he'll be fine and probably better off than you or I.

The job Rupp will take after retiring from competitive running was decided years ago. He will take over NOP from Salazar. Salazar will be a part-time consultant to Rupp. Rupp will become a Salazar-trained expert chemist, lab rat, pharmacist, used book and magazine editor, stealth supplements shipper, endocrinologist, and more; much, much, more.

How do you know?

Info is Pistolorious, is planning on switching to distance...when he gets out of vacation prison. Word is he can actually bounce along for miles with no real aerobic effect. Is going after the Marathon. Here we go.

Nobody knows who Galen is aside from Americans.

I wonder how much he had to contribute to the big Rio bribe

I agree. A guy came up to my 8th grade son at the district meet and asked him if he knew Galen Rupp. My son said yes. The coach then asked him if he knew what school he attended in High School. He then insisted that no one found out about the conversation and to keep his grades up, He would be watching my son and then he refused to give him his name. This is spooky when it is coming from a catholic School like Central Catholic.

toodarnloud97 wrote:

The dude plays video games 4+ hours a day when he's not training. What is he going to be after he's a professional runner, a professional video game player? You don't waste time like this unless you don't have to worry about money.

A gofer for Salazar. Run to the secret lab, grab the magic pills and juice, run back to papa Al.