I would love to hear a decent explanation as to why Galen Rupp is foregoing the New Balance Grand Prix at the Reggie to chase the AR in the mile at a random collegiate meet at BU. Yes, AlSal has a love affair with the BU track and Galen loves to hear the college kids shout his name, but come on. The Reggie is a world-class facility (several world records on it), and it is almost an affront to the track community to stage an attempt of this profile on the SAME EVENING everybody will be watching New Balance. The Grand Prix is a golden opportunity for boston area fans to watch truly world class competition once a year. The turnout and the environment are fantastic, and the crowd loves their distance runners. It's a joke that this crowd, and the track community, should be torn between watching this world class meet and watching a single record attempt on another track at the same time, 3 miles away. For god's sake, the rest of the oregon project are running at new balance anyway. Rupp and the NOP are out of touch.
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NBIGP NOT RUPP-CERTIFIED
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its reasonable to look for a less high-profile media meet but this is a typical NOP move. now wait for the nike trolls to come out in force.
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Seriously. Rupp may be a great runner and Salazar may be a great coach, but they're incredibly frustrating to try to follow.
This is probably because Nike doesn't want any records set at a meet bearing a competitor's name as title sponsor. Extremely petty.
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Why are people not more outraged about this?
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bostonboy wrote:
Why are people not more outraged about this?
We haven't all been conditioned by the fox news outrage machine.
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tenant wrote:
This is probably because Nike doesn't want any records set at a meet bearing a competitor's name as title sponsor. Extremely petty.
I think just the opposite. What better way for Nike to show up its competitors than to be the star of someone else's show - basically soak up the air time that New Balance is paying for.
In any case, it would carry far more weight to have a high level performance on national television than on a flotrack webcast.
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And NBIGP is on ESPN
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tenant wrote:
This is probably because Nike doesn't want any records set at a meet bearing a competitor's name as title sponsor. Extremely petty.
Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is Rupp and Salazar think the greatest chance at the mile AR is at BU. Get over it.
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webfoot wrote:
Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is Rupp and Salazar think the greatest chance at the mile AR is at BU. Get over it.
The question is why they think the BU track is so much more likely to produce the performance, why they have chosen to stage the most highly-sought after record on the same day as New Balance, and why they continue to have such awful publicity.
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aslan wrote:
The question is why they think the BU track is so much more likely to produce the performance.
...because he's already run 3:50 and 13:01 there?
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not a tard wrote:
aslan wrote:
The question is why they think the BU track is so much more likely to produce the performance.
...because he's already run 3:50 and 13:01 there?
......still doesn't have to be on February 8th.
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aslan wrote:
not a tard wrote:
...because he's already run 3:50 and 13:01 there?
......still doesn't have to be on February 8th.
*sigh*
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Because the BU track is a better track. The Reggie Lewis Center sucks compared to other tracks these days. Maybe it was great in it's heyday, but no longer.
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The "Rupp certified" joke was funny the first 4000 times, but not anymore.
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Rupp and the NOP are out of touch? Are you kidding? They are a public relations machine. Sorry, Bud, but the NOP is the show and they are more in touch with the young fan base than Nike, USATF and IAAF could have ever hoped for. Have you seen this team enter a track meet or try to leave a track meet. Kids swarming for autographs and pictures everywhere. It's a great sight to see.
It's ok to jump on the bandwagon. Room for everyone!
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Rupp's mile race on February 8 will be at 3:49 pm (for obvious reasons).
The main events won't start at Reggie until 4:20 pm. Watch Galen's race, then shoot over to Reggie (3 miles away) and Bob's your uncle...
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the water is fine, come on in wrote:
Rupp's mile race on February 8 will be at 3:49 pm (for obvious reasons).
The main events won't start at Reggie until 4:20 pm. Watch Galen's race, then shoot over to Reggie (3 miles away) and Bob's your uncle...
this is exactly what I was planning on doing.
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NO drug testing at those meets silly
so let the records fall these athletes are in a situation where Nike and Alberto and USADA wont let them test positive they are doing ridiculous stuff don't believe the hype
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Stay frisky my friends wrote:
the water is fine, come on in wrote:
Rupp's mile race on February 8 will be at 3:49 pm (for obvious reasons).
The main events won't start at Reggie until 4:20 pm. Watch Galen's race, then shoot over to Reggie (3 miles away) and Bob's your uncle...
this is exactly what I was planning on doing.
Pub-crawl from Allston to Roxbury? Who's in?
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