I hope he didn't find his earring. And I hope he continues to be angry about it. More fuel for more PR's and his entertaining and petulant public vitriol.
If it is a real diamond, hopefully some underpaid custodian found it and got some coin for it.
He is talented but quite brash….perhaps a conversation with coach Marcus ( or maybe Even Jay Wright) is needed as I do not think he is currently representing the best Villanova has to offer.
Scandal! Are you suggesting that he start molesting hundreds of thousands of children to fit in better with the norms of the Catholic Church?
While entertaining and funny at times, his demeanor is quite aggressive and can't be a good look for potential sponsors. Don't get me wrong I love his drive and intensity, but it still needs to be professional and respectful.
This kid is an absolute disgrace to our sport. A sore loser and completely vulgar at that. He insulted Gary Martin and Habtom Samuel. He looked like he was going to get physical with JG over a simple question. No class, arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. Not to mention he gave this atrocity of an interview representing Villanova in his school attire. They need to launch an investigation and kick this punk kid off of the team and revoke his scholarship. He is a disgrace and should be made an example of by Villanova and the NCAA.
I hope he didn't find his earring. And I hope he continues to be angry about it. More fuel for more PR's and his entertaining and petulant public vitriol.
If it is a real diamond, hopefully some underpaid custodian found it and got some coin for it.
This kid is an absolute disgrace to our sport. A sore loser and completely vulgar at that. He insulted Gary Martin and Habtom Samuel. He looked like he was going to get physical with JG over a simple question. No class, arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. Not to mention he gave this atrocity of an interview representing Villanova in his school attire. They need to launch an investigation and kick this punk kid off of the team and revoke his scholarship. He is a disgrace and should be made an example of by Villanova and the NCAA.
Your post is arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. I mean that in full sincerity.
I don't believe that Marco's behavior was all of those things, but he doesn't fall into the Roger Bannister "gentleman racer" category. It takes all types.
Maybe pop up some popcorn and enjoy the rivalries?
I find Marco to be extremely annoying. He is argumentative and combative without any obvious reason. One day he may realize the world does not revolve around Marco, and that although he is a talented runner, he is just not that important.
He definitely has a chip on his shoulder. The reason for it is he has unresolved issues from his father leaving his family when he was a young kid. He spoke about it in a clip posted on Instagram by The Running Effect about 8 weeks ago. He said he's driven by the insecurity that he's not enough along with the desire to be accepted.
I hope one day he comes to peace with what his father did and realizes those actions were about his father, not him. In the meantime, he's channeling his pain in productive ways, and I applaud him for it.
Running may not be the most important thing in life, but for Langon it appears to have deeper personal meaning. Taking it seriously is also the only way he's going to be able to achieve his goals of becoming an NCAA champion and more.
For what it's worth, his video interview has been the second-most watched video of the weekend on the LRC YouTube channel. It's second only to Jane Hedengren's interview, and their interviews are the only ones with over 10k views as of this writing. All the other ones are under 3k, including Josh Hoey's interview following his indoor world record. So, even if people find Langon to be off-putting, he's at least generating interest.
Yeah but Mac, it’s generating the wrong interest for the wrong reasons. Popular interest in controversy is a weakness of human nature, not a strength. Just because something is generating interest doesn’t mean it’s valuable or good.
A lot of people have deadbeat father figures. It’s no excuse for Langon to have conducted himself the way that he did. He embarrassed and disgraced Villanova. He should be kicked off of the team immediately no matter what his personal family issues are.
He definitely has a chip on his shoulder. The reason for it is he has unresolved issues from his father leaving his family when he was a young kid. He spoke about it in a clip posted on Instagram by The Running Effect about 8 weeks ago. He said he's driven by the insecurity that he's not enough along with the desire to be accepted.
I hope one day he comes to peace with what his father did and realizes those actions were about his father, not him. In the meantime, he's channeling his pain in productive ways, and I applaud him for it.
Running may not be the most important thing in life, but for Langon it appears to have deeper personal meaning. Taking it seriously is also the only way he's going to be able to achieve his goals of becoming an NCAA champion and more.
For what it's worth, his video interview has been the second-most watched video of the weekend on the LRC YouTube channel. It's second only to Jane Hedengren's interview, and their interviews are the only ones with over 10k views as of this writing. All the other ones are under 3k, including Josh Hoey's interview following his indoor world record. So, even if people find Langon to be off-putting, he's at least generating interest.
Yeah but Mac, it’s generating the wrong interest for the wrong reasons. Popular interest in controversy is a weakness of human nature, not a strength. Just because something is generating interest doesn’t mean it’s valuable or good.
A lot of people have deadbeat father figures. It’s no excuse for Langon to have conducted himself the way that he did. He embarrassed and disgraced Villanova. He should be kicked off of the team immediately no matter what his personal family issues are.
Have the integrity to use a registered username. You come across as someone lobbing rocks at the highway from behind the church fence.
This young man is learning as he goes, he is experiencing success from his hard work, and he demonstrates passion and individuality that is so lacking in popular culture. He will develop and grow.
This kid is an absolute disgrace to our sport. A sore loser and completely vulgar at that. He insulted Gary Martin and Habtom Samuel. He looked like he was going to get physical with JG over a simple question. No class, arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. Not to mention he gave this atrocity of an interview representing Villanova in his school attire. They need to launch an investigation and kick this punk kid off of the team and revoke his scholarship. He is a disgrace and should be made an example of by Villanova and the NCAA.
Your post is arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. I mean that in full sincerity.
I don't believe that Marco's behavior was all of those things, but he doesn't fall into the Roger Bannister "gentleman racer" category. It takes all types.
Maybe pop up some popcorn and enjoy the rivalries?
So you are admitting that you are so unrefined and dumb that you want our sport to be UFC or WWE. You have no class. Our sport should be represented by role-model ladies and gentlemen, not embarrassments like Langon. We need to insist upon a standard to preserve the purity of proper conduct in collegiate and professional athletic competition. Langon’s behavior is an abomination and he needs to be shown by the NCAA that his remarks were unacceptable. Anything short of an immediate removal from the team, revocation of his athletic scholarship, and school trial to determine expulsion will be a prodigious failure on the part of Villanova. Our pristine sport has no room for wannabe street thugs like Marco Langon. In fact, I am going to type a petition and gather signatures and I will present the petition to Villanova to insist upon his immediate removal from the track and cross country teams. He blew it.
Yeah but Mac, it’s generating the wrong interest for the wrong reasons. Popular interest in controversy is a weakness of human nature, not a strength. Just because something is generating interest doesn’t mean it’s valuable or good.
A lot of people have deadbeat father figures. It’s no excuse for Langon to have conducted himself the way that he did. He embarrassed and disgraced Villanova. He should be kicked off of the team immediately no matter what his personal family issues are.
Have the integrity to use a registered username. You come across as someone lobbing rocks at the highway from behind the church fence.
This young man is learning as he goes, he is experiencing success from his hard work, and he demonstrates passion and individuality that is so lacking in popular culture. He will develop and grow.
This young man is an adult and should know better by now than to act the way that he did. It is not passion and individuality. It’s crassness and ignorance. Any lack there is of either in so called popular culture should be an even greater lack. He will indeed develop and grow. He will no doubt have learned his lesson once he is appropriately kicked of Villanova’s team and expelled. Nothing fosters learning better than proper consequences.
Have the integrity to use a registered username. You come across as someone lobbing rocks at the highway from behind the church fence.
This young man is learning as he goes, he is experiencing success from his hard work, and he demonstrates passion and individuality that is so lacking in popular culture. He will develop and grow.
This young man is an adult and should know better by now than to act the way that he did. It is not passion and individuality. It’s crassness and ignorance. Any lack there is of either in so called popular culture should be an even greater lack. He will indeed develop and grow. He will no doubt have learned his lesson once he is appropriately kicked of Villanova’s team and expelled. Nothing fosters learning better than proper consequences.
If you are a troll then all credit to you. 10/10
If you are sincere then you are a part of the problem that you think you're trying to solve. You don't like Marco for his unhinged ranting but that's exactly what you are doing here. You are flailing around trying to cancel someone's life because your Salem witch trial instincts are being triggered.
Again, though, if you are trolling it's great work.
This young man is an adult and should know better by now than to act the way that he did. It is not passion and individuality. It’s crassness and ignorance. Any lack there is of either in so called popular culture should be an even greater lack. He will indeed develop and grow. He will no doubt have learned his lesson once he is appropriately kicked of Villanova’s team and expelled. Nothing fosters learning better than proper consequences.
If you are a troll then all credit to you. 10/10
If you are sincere then you are a part of the problem that you think you're trying to solve. You don't like Marco for his unhinged ranting but that's exactly what you are doing here. You are flailing around trying to cancel someone's life because your Salem witch trial instincts are being triggered.
Again, though, if you are trolling it's great work.
I at no point had what could be vaguely considered an unhinged rant. I was simply explaining things as they are. Marco should be banned from collegiate racing. He is a psycho kid who needs immediate psychiatric assistance and does not need to be intimidating the other athletes who know how to act their age and behave with good sportsmanship. The fact that you can’t see how much of a problem Marco is means that you approve of it and are likely as bad as he is.
This kid is an absolute disgrace to our sport. A sore loser and completely vulgar at that. He insulted Gary Martin and Habtom Samuel. He looked like he was going to get physical with JG over a simple question. No class, arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. Not to mention he gave this atrocity of an interview representing Villanova in his school attire. They need to launch an investigation and kick this punk kid off of the team and revoke his scholarship. He is a disgrace and should be made an example of by Villanova and the NCAA.
This kid is an absolute disgrace to our sport. A sore loser and completely vulgar at that. He insulted Gary Martin and Habtom Samuel. He looked like he was going to get physical with JG over a simple question. No class, arrogant, petty, immature, petulant, aggressive, and obnoxious. Not to mention he gave this atrocity of an interview representing Villanova in his school attire. They need to launch an investigation and kick this punk kid off of the team and revoke his scholarship. He is a disgrace and should be made an example of by Villanova and the NCAA.
What a tool...this is the type of interview/personality that resonates with young and immature boys, not with self confident men. Hope he gets himself sorted.
What a tool...this is the type of interview/personality that resonates with young and immature boys, not with self confident men. Hope he gets himself sorted.
100% agree. If he isn’t kicked off the team, he should at least be suspended for indoors and be required to have 100 hours of counseling. This infraction of decency can be met with a warning, but if he doesn’t agree to therapy or has a similar future outburst, then he should be dismissed from Villanova.
Part of the problem with Marco is he is either not very bright or his emotional issues render him appearing to be an idiot. At one point he says he is upset that he didn’t win. A little later he says it doesn’t matter. He is so agitated he cannot think clearly.
manic personality, huge mood swings, full of tics, never sleeps, missed World trials because 'allegedly' he got Covid at the last minute - or maybe he found out they do drug testing at Worlds. running is all he's got and he would do anything....anything...to get a pro contact.
so many talented runners unfairly have a cloud of suspicion hanging over them yet this kid is a walking red flag and no one ever calls him out.
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