Where is he training? I'm sure Li is still coaching him? How does he not have a sponsor???
Where is he training? I'm sure Li is still coaching him? How does he not have a sponsor???
Lalang is still with Coach Li, running for Nike now.
He isn't marketable in any way. Why would someone pay him
I'm confused. I thought in America, endorsement deals were a right given to elite athletes, and it was only health care that nobody had a right to.
Dial it up wrote:
He isn't marketable in any way. Why would someone pay him
Dial it up wrote:
He isn't marketable in any way. Why would someone pay him
Um, elfie rupp isn't marketable in any way. In fact, plenty of people will never buy nike because they hate rupp so much.
Still? He has no affiliation for the oxy meet tomorrow?
SMNRunner wrote:
Lalang is still with Coach Li, running for Nike now.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEbQDbJVAAE1AWM.jpg:large
Ha! Rupp has been marketable, like him or not, since 2003. "The Rupp" started the ball rolling. 13:37 and beyond just kept it going. He's as tangible of a product for marketing to HS distance runners as you can get right now. Meb's 40, not-american-born, and hitting the thon. Ritz is injured and trying to run on the roads. Webb is Tri-sezual. Mo is brit-tish. Leo is from south of the border. Rupp is your answer.
Miami Horror wrote:
Ha! Rupp has been marketable, like him or not, since 2003. .
rupp is goofy looking, stupid as stone and has the personality of a cabbage. In addition, he is a cheating punkassbitch doper. How, in any way, is this eugene clown kollege dropout marketable? nike just doesn't put his ugly mug in their ads.
ryan foreman wrote:
I'm confused. I thought in America, endorsement deals were a right given to elite athletes, and it was only health care that nobody had a right to.
Dial it up wrote:He isn't marketable in any way. Why would someone pay him
Education. No one has a right to a decent education either.
Because he is not fast.
late to the party wrote:
Still? He has no affiliation for the oxy meet tomorrow?
SMNRunner wrote:Lalang is still with Coach Li, running for Nike now.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEbQDbJVAAE1AWM.jpg:large
Just a mistake during entry process by coach/athlete/Lawi.
How about we sponsor him? $10 and he writes your LRC handle on a singlet in black magic marker for one meet. 100 names = $1000.
Law I was listed in the
Aston Jordan rsults under his management "global sports." Don't know if that was a marketing thing for global or what. A couple other athletes were similarly listed.
Yea pretty sure he has no sponsor. I can't imagine he has a side job to make money, either.
VAcoach wrote:
Law I was listed in the
Aston Jordan rsults under his management "global sports." Don't know if that was a marketing thing for global or what. A couple other athletes were similarly listed.
Not a marketing thing, no. "Global Sports" is Jos Hermens' firm. That must have been the name they used in setting up their Direct Athletics account. Nothing more than that.
Lalang is sponsored by Nike. Just search "Lawi Lalang" in Google images.
sawi lawi wrote:
VAcoach wrote:Law I was listed in the
Aston Jordan rsults under his management "global sports." Don't know if that was a marketing thing for global or what. A couple other athletes were similarly listed.
Not a marketing thing, no. "Global Sports" is Jos Hermens' firm. That must have been the name they used in setting up their Direct Athletics account. Nothing more than that.
Lalang is sponsored by Nike. Just search "Lawi Lalang" in Google images.
I'm not saying he isn't sponsored by nike, but searching for lawi in google images gives you a lot of images with him in AZ gear. That just tells you that AZ is sponsored by nike.
sponsor Lawi wrote:
Dial it up wrote:He isn't marketable in any way. Why would someone pay him
Um, elfie rupp isn't marketable in any way. In fact, plenty of people will never buy nike because they hate rupp so much.
You're right, in no way is a white guy beating Africans in distance running marketable to white distance runners....oh wait, it is? More so than another faceless African? Who would have thought..
Miami Horror wrote:
Ha! Rupp has been marketable, like him or not, since 2003. "The Rupp" started the ball rolling. 13:37 and beyond just kept it going. He's as tangible of a product for marketing to HS distance runners as you can get right now. Meb's 40, not-american-born, and hitting the thon. Ritz is injured and trying to run on the roads. Webb is Tri-sezual. Mo is brit-tish. Leo is from south of the border. Rupp is your answer.
You don't really give any support as to why Rupp is marketable, just why others aren't. He's fast? Well, when Rupp signed his pro contract he was not as fast/successful as Lawi, nor even close. It is, as others have mentioned, because Rupp is a whitey from here in the USA, and guys like Dial it up can't tell Lawi Lalang from Boaz Lalang because they don't know much about the sport.
Listen to you haters !!!!
come on !
8 time NCAA CHAMPION
Of course he has a contract! Its w Nike through Global Sports
Come on people just because you didn't see him listed under anyone doesnt mean he doesnt have one . Did it occur to anyone the meet management missed a tiny detail !
Happens every day !
LRC ers should be a lot more gracous !
Look a bit more people before you start flinging mud !
Lawi Lalang is the most humble and hard working athlete I have ever had the privilege to know !
And i am calling it here and now !!!!!
Lawi makes the WC team for Kenya !
totorious wrote:
Miami Horror wrote:Ha! Rupp has been marketable, like him or not, since 2003. "The Rupp" started the ball rolling. 13:37 and beyond just kept it going. He's as tangible of a product for marketing to HS distance runners as you can get right now. Meb's 40, not-american-born, and hitting the thon. Ritz is injured and trying to run on the roads. Webb is Tri-sezual. Mo is brit-tish. Leo is from south of the border. Rupp is your answer.
You don't really give any support as to why Rupp is marketable, just why others aren't. He's fast? Well, when Rupp signed his pro contract he was not as fast/successful as Lawi, nor even close. It is, as others have mentioned, because Rupp is a whitey from here in the USA, and guys like Dial it up can't tell Lawi Lalang from Boaz Lalang because they don't know much about the sport.
I cooled down with Boaz at Drake in 2010 so I'm quite certain I could tell him apart from Lawi. Same reason you could tell the fat guy apart from the fat mom at the local 5k that you've run. That being said none of it has any bearing on my point that Rupp is much more marketable than Lawi to Nike's target market.
