Scott Fauble First American thread

Oh I’m sorry, a whopping one time he was 3rd. Point is people talk about it like it was the glory days. You had Hall get 3rd once and Men win twice over a 10+ year time period. The past seven years (2016 to present) have been better for American marathoning than the previous ten years (2006-2015). Way more depth as well.

Scott may not be the hero you want but he’s the hero you need right now.

Wishful thinking. Get the basics down, first.

I’m not buying the story:

Nike contract signed over dinner Saturday night then Fauble takes an Uber to the Manhattan Nike store to get a pair of racing shoes for the next morning’s NYC marathon, with his racing gear arriving at 10pm.

Nell paid back the money to ADIDAS.

Oh so now heroes finish 9th place in a terrible time?

Imagine a world where we had a US guy who was running 2:04 at London or Berlin, 2:07 or 2:08 on US courses, and raced more than twice a year. Then quit being so foolish because it's never going to happen.

Marathoning might as well be ski jumping, bullfighting or jai alai at this point. We're never going to get it, or be a part of it.

Freaking George Malley ran faster than "Faubs" at NYC in 1982, and he wasn't wearing Vaporflys.

Yes, people are embarrassing themselves with this take. He just ran a slow race in a terrible time that will not help him progress. He would have been better of doing a training run (this was nearly a jog pace to Kipchoge).

Cox had already been talking to them. If the offer was bigger, it would have been signed weeks ago. It was an act of last-minute desperation by Fauble. No one said the entire process - Nike contacts Cox; calls Beaverton back; first number thrown out; counter-offer sent back; etc - all happened an hour before the race. All that was done a week ago, maybe more.

Also, I think it was a training shoe he got at the last minute. He already had a Nike racing shoe on board. He needed something to walk around the finishing area and hotel.

You sure? Ric said this, or adidas said this? Didn't see it on any of her media. I'm not saying it is impossible this happened. But until adidas makes such a claim - you know, a Tweet saying "We're sorry it didn't work out with Nell. We were looking forward to a long realationship with such a great and charismatic runner. SHE PAID US BACK. NO HARD FEELINGS. Good luck moving forward, Nell!" - I ain't buying it.

I don't actually know. It's possible she has 50 or 60k in a checking account at any given time. But I ain't buying it.

I agree with the above. The NY Times wrote the version I disputed.

Nell said it in an interview. She only stayed with Puma’s brother for 3-4 months. And contracts do not pay in lump sum.

And how much would he won with that training run?

9th place paid out 2.5k which is maybe 1.5k after taxes. Combine that with the wear and tear for a garbage time and the mental trauma for a garbage time (he was nearly in Walmsley PR territory) and this was clearly a net deficit and not worth the 1,500 bucks.

Should get another new coach perhaps.

“I’m not knocking Fauble at all but he’s slow and ran a terrible time (yes it’s an hour better than my PR, but terrible!)”

Such a wide range on here. How much is
Scott Fauble really making?

What about Nell Rojas?

Almost any job comes with mental wear and tear as well as money lost to taxes. And like anyone else who races, he doesn't know beforehand what the outcome would be. He could have run faster and placed higher but would have forfeited those possibilities had he just done a training run. And you know all that, you just thought you'd found a clever way to have a dig at him.