Good on him for knowing his worth. Other athletes get paid 5 times more for being the bottom 25% of performers in big leagues compared to an Olympic champion in a stacked field.
His stock will never be higher! How do you know he’s talking to Nike?
he doesn't. just another comments, like all the rest of the people here that want to act like they know what they are talking about when it comes to shoe contracts and they don't have clue one.
for one, we don't know if he was talking to nike. maybe is buys stocks.
even if he was talking to nike, it's still too early to determine how well his running career will go. this was the only run that he has done that puts him at the very top, but it could've been a fluke and he never performs this well again. it's too early to tell.
for one, we don't know if he was talking to nike. maybe is buys stocks.
even if he was talking to nike, it's still too early to determine how well his running career will go. this was the only run that he has done that puts him at the very top, but it could've been a fluke and he never performs this well again. it's too early to tell.
Leo Manzano got silver and he wasn't able to get the price he was asking in his contract negotiations and he got booted to a lower level sponsor. Some guys - Leo and Cole - sadly aren't super marketable. There was a funny post above about CH being into bleak Norwegian death metal - that's the vibe he puts off. And I hate to compare, but someone engaging/half cocky/funny/traditionally handsome like Centro is far more entertaining to follow.
It’s unfortunate but a bad mixture of unnatural charisma (if any), bad/unphotogenic appearance, and overly religions nonsense make Hocker unpalatable generally. His looks make him popular among incels, But I don’t know if he knows this. He’s not on the same level as Sydney or even shacarri. Hell, Yared is higher on the advertising scale than he is. Gold medalist just doesn’t really cut jt like it used to.
Honestly. He is WAY overestimating his own value, and a post like this gives a cynical gimme-gimme vibe that isn't exactly catnip for sponsors.
If you ask the man on the street in November who Cole Hocker is, you are going to get blank looks the majority of the time.
Noah, Rai, Femke, Sha'Carri, Mondo, Karsten -- THOSE are gold medalists whose names have a real price. Cole just isn't a star like that yet. Maybe he'll get there.
for one, we don't know if he was talking to nike. maybe is buys stocks.
even if he was talking to nike, it's still too early to determine how well his running career will go. this was the only run that he has done that puts him at the very top, but it could've been a fluke and he never performs this well again. it's too early to tell.
Leo Manzano got silver and he wasn't able to get the price he was asking in his contract negotiations and he got booted to a lower level sponsor. Some guys - Leo and Cole - sadly aren't super marketable. There was a funny post above about CH being into bleak Norwegian death metal - that's the vibe he puts off. And I hate to compare, but someone engaging/half cocky/funny/traditionally handsome like Centro is far more entertaining to follow.
cole's manbun isn't going to make him a superstar. he's gonna need to be a little more stylish and get a cut that is somewhere between jakob and kerr's haircut. he also needs to start talking smack to both jakob and kerr to give himself some personality. after this, he needs to win another major race before we can say that he isn't a fluke.
It’s unfortunate but a bad mixture of unnatural charisma (if any), bad/unphotogenic appearance, and overly religions nonsense make Hocker unpalatable generally. His looks make him popular among incels, But I don’t know if he knows this. He’s not on the same level as Sydney or even shacarri. Hell, Yared is higher on the advertising scale than he is. Gold medalist just doesn’t really cut jt like it used to.
Honestly. He is WAY overestimating his own value, and a post like this gives a cynical gimme-gimme vibe that isn't exactly catnip for sponsors.
If you ask the man on the street in November who Cole Hocker is, you are going to get blank looks the majority of the time.
Noah, Rai, Femke, Sha'Carri, Mondo, Karsten -- THOSE are gold medalists whose names have a real price. Cole just isn't a star like that yet. Maybe he'll get there.
Cole's about to get that Clay Matthews shampoo/conditioner check.
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