Serious? wrote:
1. He has $100,000 (an offer last year) on the table and they say he will get about that when he gets out. It will take a long time to make up for the $100,000 he lost by whatever contract he gets over and above that.
2. See number 1 and him making his parents pay all his bills when he can do the same thing and make $100,000 is selfish.
3. Do that when you have the big contract not when you are "focused" on school and competing for your school.
Where in the article does it say - "He has $100,000 (an offer last year) on the table and they say he will get about that when he gets out. It will take a long time to make up for the $100,000 he lost by whatever contract he gets over and above that."?
It doesn't. Article says (I've now taken some time to read it) "Salazar said Rupp HAD (my emphasis) an offer to go pro after high school that would have paid him $100,000."
The article says it is reasonable for him to get a $150-200K contract plus an additional $50K in incentives. Would seem to be in line with Webbs contract out which I think was $250K.
It is not selfish if your parents want to support your dream. I'm sure Rupp would tell you he would pay all of his training bills if he had the money. He doesn't since he goes to school. Passing on the instant $100K when you could get more by running even better is not selfish and say he had signed that contract and then with his injuries of the last few years he would have been attacked by you for getting the big contract. He can't win with you and others on this board (BTW - I'm not a huge Rupp fan. Nice what he has done, but the success while being diagnosed with hypothyroidism and I think he has some allergy issues is just one of those things that deep down bother me but that is for another thread).
Finally, you can go to Europe when you are focused on school - it's SUMMER BREAK!
Now after reading the article I can ballpark his parent's income in the upper five figures at least. Mother is a neonatal intensive care manager at Emanuel Hospital who makes mid-60s or so based on my knowledge of health care pay in the Portland area and his father is a respitory therapist who makes at least $35K a year which would actually put them in the low six figures. They are not impoverished unless they have a huge mortgage and a lot of debt.