DC Wonk wrote:
I don’t understand how LR goes from hating on Oregon for years - their coaches, facilities, shoes, affiliation with Nike, teams, attitude, etc, to now hailing the indoor performances and claiming Hocker is a distance star...
I’ve long stopped trying to figure out who the LR latches onto as a new star - but it seems to be driven by whiteness more than anything. The greatest NCAA distance runner of all time, King Ches, was constantly derided on LR, and funny he was also a Duck.
Do you have a brain?
King Ches wasn't hyped up as the next star as he's not American and the community is looking to find the next American star. And many viewed him as being overaged.
Some people were hesitant to get on bored with Rupp simply because I had people callling me about Rupp and medication when he was a freshman at Oregon.
Race has nothing to do with it. Genetics? Yes. I think the average die hard letsrunner is American and they has no east african ancestry. The color of their skin has nothing to do with it. But when they see a guy with roughly their same genetic background doing it, they believe they have a shot at being elite. Yes in your mind everything has to be about since. And since east African descent and dark skinn are highly correlated, you think it's about that. It's not. If Cole Hocker's skin was purple , they'd be just as excited.