Cole Hocker turns pro, signs w Nike

Nuge wrote:

Have fun humping it at The awful Reggie Lewis track.

Your pillow soft if you think Reggie Lewis is awful, or having to run at it once a year (maybe) is some huge problem.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

It's a shame that even as NCAA athletes are making hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions for the Alabama quarterback, Kessler and Hocker can't sign with a shoe company and still compete. We miss out on a lot of fun and I think that they do too, though Hocker at least had the NCAA experience and 3 titles to show for it.

Is it possible with the new NCAA sponsorship rules he could still race for Oregon while being sponsored by Nike?

That would be huge for the whole NCAA sponsorship thing. Possible NATTY NBC/ESPN/World Headlines. Front page super hot on LRC material.

rrrtty wrote:

Hopefully Nike requires him to be vaccinated, including for Covid19

Wonderful visual. I'm already picturing him resisting and throwing a loud tantrum

help me break 16 wrote:

Didn't he just this past winter say "why go pro? I'm young. I've got plenty of time"

Apparently he changed his mind.

Why don’t more American born pros consider training with Paul Chelimo’s group and Scott Simmons?

They are obviously producing medals on the world and Olympic stage. Arguably producing better results than Bowerman is considering their talent pool.

He wouldn't be able to promote Nike in the Oregon uniform so it doesn't seem like it would be worth Nike's money to pay him to run in Nike stuff in the NCAA because that's already what he's doing. He's also only got 33k followers on Instagram compared to the 100k+ that top college football players have so he's not worth big money for his social reach. The only logical thing is that Nike is paying him to win on an international stage.

rrrtty wrote:

Hopefully Nike requires him to be vaccinated, including for Covid19

While I'm very pro-vaccine for the vast majority of people. I still don't agree with this. If I was Hocker, I still wouldn't have taken the vaccine.

Please remember, he already has natural immunity as he had Covid-19. That inforgraphic isn't coming from some far right site. It's coming from the BBC. Now maybe the BBC article ends up not being true but we don't know all of the facts. He's an elie distance runner.

His choice but he has gotten it since the olympics.

WCAP? wrote:

Why don’t more American born pros consider training with Paul Chelimo’s group and Scott Simmons?

They are obviously producing medals on the world and Olympic stage. Arguably producing better results than Bowerman is considering their talent pool.

Scott Simmons? The exercise guru?

Hocker is age 20; those stats are for children.

Am I missing something?

Why is rojo sharing articles about covid vaccinations for children aged 12-15?

What does this have to do with Hocker?

Where to next? wrote:

Any word on who his coach will be? BTC is the premier team right but Jerry hasn't done well with milers.

Al Sal has been coaching him all along…all done behind the scenes. All you need is Al Sals special hot sauce and you too can be a champion!!

Best thing for Hocker and Kessler. They both have the potential to compete on the global stage which will mean being able to hang with the hard front runners who are dominant right now and will be for the next 5 years or so. What would be the point of them competing in the NCAA against a bunch of kids running 3:38-3:40? How will that prepare them for the real competition? Hocker and Kessler have their eyes on real prizes, not NCAA titles

Its incredible that some expect that he would stay as an amateur and focus on running the college league. If US track and field would pull their head out of their own NCAA ass they would dominate middle distance.

douglas burke wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

3:31.40 for 1500 at age 20 or 21 He is Ready in Monaco sub 3:30 is possible next year, he will do good as a PRO.

Looked it up, he is 20 DOB June 2001, Side Note, NO ONE in the World who is Younger than Him Currently has a Faster Time.

And s**t like this doesn't help either. That stat also works for runners older than him, lol.

take that monay wrote:

I bet he’s making 500k+ a year based off the recent tweet he liked that stated “take the 500k”.

That was regarding a question that went viral on twitter about 'would you take 500K cash or a sit-down dinner with Jay-Z'. It has nothing to do with his contract.

Rojo you cherry-picked that graphic. The article also states:

"A recent US study suggests having Covid-19 could be six times more likely to trigger myocarditis in young men than the vaccine, with a rate of about 450 per million infections."

So if we let the teens go to school/university unvaxed and spread covid, result is many more cases of the myocarditis that you are so worried about.

explain this pleeze wrote:

Why is rojo sharing articles about covid vaccinations for children aged 12-15?

What does this have to do with Hocker?

antivaxxer and has a big platform

still unbanned wrote:

Rojo you cherry-picked that graphic. The article also states:

"A recent US study suggests having Covid-19 could be six times more likely to trigger myocarditis in young men than the vaccine, with a rate of about 450 per million infections."

So if we let the teens go to school/university unvaxed and spread covid, result is many more cases of the myocarditis that you are so worried about.

Seriously, don't feed the troll. He's using this opportunity to double-down on that atrocious article he wrote just before the Olympics. It was embarrassing then, it's humiliating now.