NCAA violation? wrote:
How is this different than the A&M kid selling water bottles a couple years back? .
The water bottle kid now has 1.8 MILLION!! youtube subscribers. Just released a video that got 1.6 million views.
(none of which is about running)
After first round of 2nd flight of LJ, Tara Davis is sitting in 10th (Tara was in first flight, she has no more attempts). She will miss the finals. Will she return the money she collected in her gofundme page?
I guess she has to but... I believe already has a violation.
She is the biggest loser at the current time in all of T&F.
Hate to say it, but glad she failed.
Best way to fund yourself is with usatf prize money
1st- $8000
2nd- $6000
3rd- $4000
4th- $3000
5th- $2000
6th- $1000
7th- $1000
$0 for her. She'll need her gofundme money to cover the cost of this meet.
umpire... wrote:
Hate to say it, but glad she failed.
I used to be a fan of her while at Georgia, but not anymore. There aren't many people in this sport that I will root against, but Tara is one of them. She joins a list full of dopers and that steeplechase guy that pushed the mascot that was a 14 year old girl. Great job, Tara.
Maybe just quit track and focus on your youtube career, you have a better shot at being the next Kim Kardashian than being the next Brittney Reese.
And do yourself a favor, stop taking advice from your Dad. He is giving you bad advice, he needs to grow up and stop living his life through you.
no more fans wrote:
umpire... wrote:
Hate to say it, but glad she failed.
I used to be a fan of her while at Georgia, but not anymore. There aren't many people in this sport that I will root against, but Tara is one of them. She joins a list full of dopers and that steeplechase guy that pushed the mascot that was a 14 year old girl. Great job, Tara.
Maybe just quit track and focus on your youtube career, you have a better shot at being the next Kim Kardashian than being the next Brittney Reese.
k
I coached a couple of age group national champions in Texas, and Tara used to come to meets here from California (at her own expense) and kick our ass. She (and her dad) actually believe in competing against the best on their own turf.
I also coached (for free) some international class post-collegians who eventually had to retire because they didn’t have enough sponsor/travel/winnings money to keep going. I urged many of them to try starting a GoFundMe page. (Unlike sprints and distance, there isn’t a lot of money in the jumps.)
My concern with Tara is not that she is behaving like a professional before her college eligibility is finished. (If her brain trust is smart enough to find a way around the NCAA’s asinine rules, more power to them). It is that while she was arguably the very best U20 athlete in the world in 2018, she hasn’t improved enough since then to be competitive at the international level. That’s why I waited to donate to her fund until I saw whether she made the World Championships team.
For someone who transferred twice and sat out a year before finding a college coach and program that improved me enough just to make All-American, it is easy to understand why a young athlete who doesn’t improve under one college program would want to transfer to another. I hope Coach Floreal can improve Tara’s performance to the point that she can have the type success of success at the senior level that she has come to expect based upon her accomplishments at the age group and junior levels, but I think she may be too close to her maximum potential.
I’m rooting for her to prove me wrong.
ncaa did Ryan a favor..... wrote:
NCAA violation? wrote:
How is this different than the A&M kid selling water bottles a couple years back? .
The water bottle kid now has 1.8 MILLION!! youtube subscribers. Just released a video that got 1.6 million views.
(none of which is about running)
Slightly off topic, but not really. Could a high profile college athlete (think Baker Mayfield) operate a POLITICAL podcast and make $$$ from it? If he was marketing himself as a college student (but not athlete) political junkie, would he be in violation of NCAA rules?
Does NCAA own your STUDENT likeness, or just your student athlete likeness?
Thoughts anyone?
We live in America. In America you can make money by coming up with an idea that causes people to give you money. We should be congratulating her for marketing a truly useless project and making money off it.
She'll be hired as a top marketing manager at Nike one day making millions of dollars.
The hats were FRESH...?
The only check she will be collecting in a few years will be from her uncle for welfare. She will still wear more expensive clothes than most of us though.
CoachWag wrote:
no more fans wrote:
I used to be a fan of her while at Georgia, but not anymore. There aren't many people in this sport that I will root against, but Tara is one of them. She joins a list full of dopers and that steeplechase guy that pushed the mascot that was a 14 year old girl. Great job, Tara.
Maybe just quit track and focus on your youtube career, you have a better shot at being the next Kim Kardashian than being the next Brittney Reese.
k
I coached a couple of age group national champions in Texas, and Tara used to come to meets here from California (at her own expense) and kick our ass. She (and her dad) actually believe in competing against the best on their own turf.
I also coached (for free) some international class post-collegians who eventually had to retire because they didn’t have enough sponsor/travel/winnings money to keep going. I urged many of them to try starting a GoFundMe page. (Unlike sprints and distance, there isn’t a lot of money in the jumps.)
My concern with Tara is not that she is behaving like a professional before her college eligibility is finished. (If her brain trust is smart enough to find a way around the NCAA’s asinine rules, more power to them). It is that while she was arguably the very best U20 athlete in the world in 2018, she hasn’t improved enough since then to be competitive at the international level. That’s why I waited to donate to her fund until I saw whether she made the World Championships team.
For someone who transferred twice and sat out a year before finding a college coach and program that improved me enough just to make All-American, it is easy to understand why a young athlete who doesn’t improve under one college program would want to transfer to another. I hope Coach Floreal can improve Tara’s performance to the point that she can have the type success of success at the senior level that she has come to expect based upon her accomplishments at the age group and junior levels, but I think she may be too close to her maximum potential.
I’m rooting for her to prove me wrong.
Tara is extremely talented. She has more than enough talent to achieve at the highest level. But she doesn't have the attitude or mental toughness to do it. She thinks she walks on water.
Tara lacks the class or character to go far in this sport. Part of it is because of her father, who reminds me a lot of Lavar Ball.
Petros was the best thing for Tara because he wasn't going to let Tara be a diva. But Tara couldn't handle being treated as an accountable adult, so she ran away crying.
Well it appears as if she's doing quite well on the NCAA level.
umpire... wrote:
Hate to say it, but glad she failed.
Say that one more time for me- TD