If Rupp wins an NCAA title at 10k this spring then follows it up with a few more good 5k's and 10k's this summer (lets say sub 13:20 and in the 27:20's). Will he turn pro?
If Rupp wins an NCAA title at 10k this spring then follows it up with a few more good 5k's and 10k's this summer (lets say sub 13:20 and in the 27:20's). Will he turn pro?
Nike Baby wrote:
If Rupp wins an NCAA title at 10k this spring then follows it up with a few more good 5k's and 10k's this summer (lets say sub 13:20 and in the 27:20's). Will he turn pro?
Wait, so Rupp's NOT a pro?
I got an idea...lets see how many threads we can start about rupp!!!!!! yeahhhhhh
We're way ahead of you.
Nike Baby wrote:
If Rupp wins an NCAA title at 10k this spring then follows it up with a few more good 5k's and 10k's this summer (lets say sub 13:20 and in the 27:20's). Will he turn pro?
What would the difference be between Rupp as a pro and Rupp as a University of Oregon student (aside from his singlet)? Nike already owns his soul.
Maybe Rupp will revolutionize college athletics, much the way Pre revolutionized amateur athletics. Perhaps he'll blow it wide open and we'll see OJ Mayo get paid $3 million to play hoop for USC next year. Ginn Jr. get $5 million to come back to Ohio St for his senior year. And Rupp get $250k to run another season for Oregon!
American Hero wrote:
Nike Baby wrote:If Rupp wins an NCAA title at 10k this spring then follows it up with a few more good 5k's and 10k's this summer (lets say sub 13:20 and in the 27:20's). Will he turn pro?
What would the difference be between Rupp as a pro and Rupp as a University of Oregon student (aside from his singlet)? Nike already owns his soul.
As a student he can get a degree so in case he ever gets permanently injured, he'll have that to fall back on.
So what? At least he's running fast. He beat all the pros who have all the best tools available to them. Culpepper and Torres can't seem to run faster than him and they have no academic stress. Leave the guy alone. Is there one of you out there that wouldn't take advantage of all the legal opportunity to be the very best? Life is very short and running careers are shorter.
I said turn pro, not drop out of college.
He can still earn a degree while running. Just it doesn't make much sense running 27:30 for 10k and not being able to get any $ for it whn all they guys you beat can and do get paid. He could have been 20 something seconds slower and Hansons would have still guarenteed him $100k per year.
Running is the one sport that turning pro doesn't mean you have to stop going to school. It just means that you get paid for your races and for wearing your gear.
Why would Rupp turn pro...he would get lapped in alot of 10ks by "real" pros! He couldn't even run the first 1/2 of Wanjuri's 1/2 marathons without falling off!
i bet he hangs with UO to get a xc championship.
Bostoner wrote:
Why would Rupp turn pro...he would get lapped in alot of 10ks by "real" pros! He couldn't even run the first 1/2 of Wanjuri's 1/2 marathons without falling off!
i doubt that
Nike Baby wrote:
I said turn pro, not drop out of college.
He can still earn a degree while running. Just it doesn't make much sense running 27:30 for 10k and not being able to get any $ for it whn all they guys you beat can and do get paid. He could have been 20 something seconds slower and Hansons would have still guarenteed him $100k per year.
Running is the one sport that turning pro doesn't mean you have to stop going to school. It just means that you get paid for your races and for wearing your gear.
I bet Nike will up the ante once he gets out of school, if, for no other reason, that Rupp is THE catalyst for the second coming of Oregon distance running. He is not the next Steve Prefontaine. He is one better. He is the next real US superstar in the sport and probably the only one capable of dropping a sub-27:00 10k, Ritz, Hall, Teg, Webb, et al included. If nothing else, I bet he finds lifetime employment with Nike, for which he will probably need some kind of degree, albeit a lame one. What is Rupp majoring in anyway? Exercise phys?
It might be close, but it might be the case that in any race in history, he would only have been lapped by one runner (he passed 9600 in about 26:33.0 and that is close to the fastest second-place time. There are probably one and maybe two cases but I am not sure. Even the list of all the runners faster than 26:33 is quite small (KB, Geb, and Tergat are the only winners faster than that time, I think).
Nike Baby wrote:
Running is the one sport that turning pro doesn't mean you have to stop going to school. It just means that you get paid for your races and for wearing your gear.
True or false: Shaq finished his degree while in the NBA?
Don't be ignorant.
True. It was in Physical Education.
Nike Baby wrote:
I said turn pro, not drop out of college.
He can still earn a degree while running. Just it doesn't make much sense running 27:30 for 10k and not being able to get any $ for it whn all they guys you beat can and do get paid. He could have been 20 something seconds slower and Hansons would have still guarenteed him $100k per year.
Running is the one sport that turning pro doesn't mean you have to stop going to school. It just means that you get paid for your races and for wearing your gear.
In order to get the $100K, you have to run sub-28 while under contract with them(or so it seems from their press release.) Hasn't ever even almost happened. Can't say if it could either.
irun wrote:
Bostoner wrote:Why would Rupp turn pro...he would get lapped in alot of 10ks by "real" pros! He couldn't even run the first 1/2 of Wanjuri's 1/2 marathons without falling off!
i doubt that
Yea, it's not like Wanjiru ran a 26,41 WJR two years ago...
OH, thats right he did.
Rupp will NEVER play on that stage.
Really? wrote:
[quote]Nike Baby wrote:
He could have been 20 something seconds slower and Hansons would have still guarenteed him $100k per year.
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In order to get the $100K, you have to run sub-28 while under contract with them(or so it seems from their press release.) Hasn't ever even almost happened. Can't say if it could either.
Not according to the bros. You don't have to be running for them at the time of the sub 28 to qualify for the $100k. I asked that exact question.
Rupp went pro the summer after his senior year of high school.