LRC note: We had him on as a special guest on this week's podcast where we talked about Diadora, Penn and much, much more. It did not disapoint.
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Marco Langon signs NIL Deal with Diadora & shares all with LetsRun.com
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Congratulations to Marco Langon! Hopefully this signing eases his concerns about needing to help with his family’s finances.
On the other side of the deal, I didn’t know Diadora still makes running shoes. I haven’t heard anything about them in years. This NIL deal is already working out well for them!
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Lets hope using Diadoria works out better for Marco than it did for the last guy who ran in them - Ben Johnson
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comewifme wrote:
Lets hope using Diadoria works out better for Marco than it did for the last guy who ran in them - Ben Johnson
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Congrats, Marco.
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We had him on as a special guest on this week's podcast where we talked about Diadora, Penn and much, much more. It did not disappoint (I've added the part about the podcast to the title of this thread as well).
PS. If you are a Marco fan, you really should read this feature on him in the Philly Inquirer that came out the other day for Penn:
This one from when he was in HS and had a fractured skull and broken ear drum is pretty good as well:
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Good for him. Enjoyed the training talk and the fact that he goes deep on old races is very cool.
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Anyone else not have a clue what diadora is?
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whawha wrote:
Anyone else not have a clue what diadora is?
something to do with elder scrolls game
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Well, the NIL is awesome. Good for him and good for Diadora! We (my club team) was sponsored by Fila once (1998?) and they flew us to nationals and the kit they gave us was hilarious... so Italian!
But it looks like Diadora has some supershoes, so that is an upgrade from what we got from Fila! :)
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Good listen. Raw for sure. Good luck to him.
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whawha wrote:
Anyone else not have a clue what diadora is?
I know it mainly as a football (soccer) brand. They made good boots. More brands in the athletics world is a good thing. Hopefully, more money for young talent out there, though the key will always be having competitive equipment
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Excellent news for Langon! Well deserved!!!
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whawha wrote:
Anyone else not have a clue what diadora is?
90s kids who played soccer knew.
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They seem to have a wild number of running shoes so they must be big in Europe. I expected 4 or 5 models but it's over a dozen.
They have a sprint spike but not a distance spike that I could find. Not a bad thing for Marco, that probably just means he can race on the track in anything he wants for now (or whatever Villanova requires).
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Awesome young man - truly one-of-a-kind! Great interview! Go Jersey👍
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“If you wanna win a Penn Relays wheel and you
realize how deep it is to your program and how much that's instilled
into your DNA as a Villanova athlete, you're gonna do anything you can
to win that. Because if you don't win, you bring shame to the program,
you're a disgrace to the alumni foundation, and you shouldn't be happy
that you're the one wearing a Villanova jersey and you didn't win.”I find this an oddly negative, glass-half-empty mindset for an athlete to have, especially one at Langon's level. Instead of emphasizing the pride, honor, and joy that can come with winning, he talks about the shame, disgrace and unhappiness will come with a loss. He could just as easily have said "When you win you bring honor to the program, you're the pride of the alumni foundation, and you should be overjoyed that you won in a Villanova jersey."
An athlete should be chasing victory, not fleeing from defeat. This is like a coach going up to one of his charges before a race and saying "Don't lose, or you'll be a pathetic failure" rather than "Dare to be great; now go out there and win."
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ArthurNotInMyYard wrote:
“If you wanna win a Penn Relays wheel and you
realize how deep it is to your program and how much that's instilled
into your DNA as a Villanova athlete, you're gonna do anything you can
to win that. Because if you don't win, you bring shame to the program,
you're a disgrace to the alumni foundation, and you shouldn't be happy
that you're the one wearing a Villanova jersey and you didn't win.”I find this an oddly negative, glass-half-empty mindset for an athlete to have, especially one at Langon's level. Instead of emphasizing the pride, honor, and joy that can come with winning, he talks about the shame, disgrace and unhappiness will come with a loss. He could just as easily have said "When you win you bring honor to the program, you're the pride of the alumni foundation, and you should be overjoyed that you won in a Villanova jersey."
An athlete should be chasing victory, not fleeing from defeat. This is like a coach going up to one of his charges before a race and saying "Don't lose, or you'll be a pathetic failure" rather than "Dare to be great; now go out there and win."
I think he tries too hard to say things he thinks sound good, but I don't think he really means it that deeply. Important, yes. But not life or death.
im just guessing. don't really know.
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high school xc coach wrote:
ArthurNotInMyYard wrote:
“If you wanna win a Penn Relays wheel and you
realize how deep it is to your program and how much that's instilled
into your DNA as a Villanova athlete, you're gonna do anything you can
to win that. Because if you don't win, you bring shame to the program,
you're a disgrace to the alumni foundation, and you shouldn't be happy
that you're the one wearing a Villanova jersey and you didn't win.”I find this an oddly negative, glass-half-empty mindset for an athlete to have, especially one at Langon's level. Instead of emphasizing the pride, honor, and joy that can come with winning, he talks about the shame, disgrace and unhappiness will come with a loss. He could just as easily have said "When you win you bring honor to the program, you're the pride of the alumni foundation, and you should be overjoyed that you won in a Villanova jersey."
An athlete should be chasing victory, not fleeing from defeat. This is like a coach going up to one of his charges before a race and saying "Don't lose, or you'll be a pathetic failure" rather than "Dare to be great; now go out there and win."
I think he tries too hard to say things he thinks sound good, but I don't think he really means it that deeply. Important, yes. But not life or death.
im just guessing. don't really know.
For his sake I hope you're right, because otherwise I'd want someone to do a welfare check on him after he loses...
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ArthurNotInMyYard wrote:
“If you wanna win a Penn Relays wheel and you
realize how deep it is to your program and how much that's instilled
into your DNA as a Villanova athlete, you're gonna do anything you can
to win that. Because if you don't win, you bring shame to the program,
you're a disgrace to the alumni foundation, and you shouldn't be happy
that you're the one wearing a Villanova jersey and you didn't win.”I find this an oddly negative, glass-half-empty mindset for an athlete to have, especially one at Langon's level. Instead of emphasizing the pride, honor, and joy that can come with winning, he talks about the shame, disgrace and unhappiness will come with a loss. He could just as easily have said "When you win you bring honor to the program, you're the pride of the alumni foundation, and you should be overjoyed that you won in a Villanova jersey."
An athlete should be chasing victory, not fleeing from defeat. This is like a coach going up to one of his charges before a race and saying "Don't lose, or you'll be a pathetic failure" rather than "Dare to be great; now go out there and win."
Yep!
Because if you don't win, you bring shame to the program,
you're a disgrace to the alumni foundation, and you shouldn't be happy
that you're the one wearing a Villanova jersey and you didn't win.”A bit dramatic and over the top for sure. If that's the pressure Marcus O puts on his athletes about Penn Relays, well ok then. Whatever floats your boat, although I don't think Marcus O does that, and I think Marco added some "spice" to his comment.
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