You’re 27:39 Robert Brandt: Stay at Gtown or go pro?

DC bro wrote:

haroldhey wrote:

No, high schoolers love Tinman.

People that understand running well do not. As someone who used to like Tinman the last couple years I have realized they provide no real value besides get high school kids excited.

That being said, I do see it can be important for high schoolers to understand the “pro” scene a little more.

So getting high schoolers excited about running is a bad thing?

Literally says seeing it can be a good thing in the last sentence. Read.

Are you people stupid?

Do you want Brandt to make the same mistake that Drew Hunter did?

Who cares about the freakin money? We're runners, we will literally never make good money as athletes, no matter how good we are. The best runners in the world make peanuts compared to even low level pro Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball players, not to mention Football.

He has a chance to take national titles as an American, like Drew Hunter did. Hunter could have re-established an American dominance in the NCAA, instead of letting a bunch of foreign athletes continue to walk all over us.

Instead, Hunter "took the money and ran," and has stagnated under a mediocre coach with the rest of Tinman.

Stay at Georgetown, get the degree, get the glory and NCAA titles, and THEN go pro when he's a more mature and better developed athlete.

Some of y'all need to do some serious growing up and get some perspective on life. Don't be the millionth garbage dude to go live in Flagstaff or Boulder working at a gas station or restaurant, with some crappy gear deal, "chasing the dream" (i.e. never having a chance) and never moving on with life.

I agree w the finish up at G’Town, get the degree, & take one more chance at NCAAs what with Covid.

But, there’s no reason he shouldn’t catch on with a pro team in June and give it a few years. If it doesn’t pan out, and it usually doesn’t, he can move on with life.

If he becomes one of America’s best marathoners, well, then he has an opportunity to be a pro runner for about 8-10 years, if that’s what he wants.

It would be tough to squander degrees from UCLA & G’Town though and then try to eke out a modest living as a runner... especially if the guy wants a good career and a family. Not that it can’t be done, but it’s much harder to start a career at 33 then, say, at 25.

Corn Man wrote:

Some of y'all need to do some serious growing up and get some perspective on life. Don't be the millionth garbage dude to go live in Flagstaff or Boulder working at a gas station or restaurant, with some crappy gear deal, "chasing the dream" (i.e. never having a chance) and never moving on with life.

BOOM!