why no love for rupp?

Like Underdog, Meb is a little bit humble and lovable.

rupp is not humble or lovable. He is pretty close to universally hated.

rupp is a piece of garbage

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I really don't have strong feelings either way with Rupp. But, it does seem that he is not a very selfless individual. Meb comes off as a very likable guy. I never see Rupp giving anything back to running. It seems he used Ulrey and others to help in their training and races and then casted them aside. Everyone caters to Rupp but he never reciprocates. I never see him giving seminars or helping out younger runners. He lives in an insulated world with buffers so no one can interfere with his training. He never opens up to anyone. It is all about him. He just seems very selfish. And Salazar is a very unlikable person too. That compounds things.

Lazy naygers.

rupp is a stupid doo-doo head

There is just one problem. That isn't true. None of Rupp's rivals give back to society or any more engaging. Again, its Rupp revealing your own inadequacies that make you hate him.

Sally Vixxxxxens wrote:

I really don't have strong feelings either way with Rupp. But, it does seem that he is not a very selfless individual. Meb comes off as a very likable guy. I never see Rupp giving anything back to running. It seems he used Ulrey and others to help in their training and races and then casted them aside. Everyone caters to Rupp but he never reciprocates. I never see him giving seminars or helping out younger runners. He lives in an insulated world with buffers so no one can interfere with his training. He never opens up to anyone. It is all about him. He just seems very selfish. And Salazar is a very unlikable person too. That compounds things.

NOPe. What makes everyone hate him is his personality and looks. Do you think that we hate Charlie Manson or Bernie Madoff because of our own inadequacies? Or is it because they are bad, unlovable people? Like rupp.

Uummm, mr. ryan. never post while wearing your super-tight rupp-hero underpants. that ain't a pretty thing to do.

ryan foreman wrote:

There is just one problem. That isn't true. None of Rupp's rivals give back to society or any more engaging.

Again, its Rupp revealing your own inadequacies that make you hate him.

There must be somebody who doesn't hate rupp, if you look long enough and hard enough. Maybe his mother?

I've always been a fan of Rupp. Unfortunately over the past few years he does not seem as engaging or outgoing as he used to be which is probably harder to like for many people and that is fair.

The sad part is that it was probably largely due to the rabid criticism from this site that he put up walls. When the founder of this site interviews him after he sets an AR and excitedly states the Lagat got his other AR, you can kind of understand the desire to avoid a lot of media.

He used to tweet, but hasn't for a long time now. I think he should just be more vocal, give the interviews, tweet what he wants and call out the boogeymen for what they are. Some people will like him, some will not, but at least he can be himself and enjoy what he is doing again.

Barring injury,Rupp will eventually be the best natural born runner from the USA.

He already has a silver in the 10,000m. If he gets a major marathon W and a few ARs it will not even be a question.

There isn't a huge up side to him being really active on twitter and such (he's already paid well by Nike). I think a guy like Rupp is best served by tending to his craft and letting the results speak for themselves.

Go f""ck yerself

I don't think that's true. There are hundreds of high school runners that would probably love to follow and engage with Rupp like they can with other runners. It's a dissappointment that they cannot. It's not a huge loss, but it's just dissappointing.

kara, shalane, nick and hasay live their lives on twitter and talk shows. nike knows that putting rupp out there would turn people off and hurt sales