Evan Jager Missing In Action?

The sport doesn’t have the time, money, infrastructure etc to be super fan contact and promotional. What the NFL, NBA,MLB etc can do and does with their athletes is a whole other ball game.

Perspective - I’d say just the stadium operations of your average Triple-A baseball team has more $ than all of USATF.

By its nature, Track is not the best fan sport. Nobodies fault. Just the way it is.

Every other sport you can see your favorite athlete competing hours on end, daily, weekly, monthly- showing their personality and emotion.

Track.... maybe a half dozen races yearly, the best we get is a couple minutes of race video and a typical post race interview if your guy wins.

Deal with it.

The individual pro training groups are VERY proactive and doing the best they can to engage their fans and promote the sport (if you’ve been paying attention).

Too many people on LRC race when they are injured and encourage or push others to do the same.

Mr. Virgin

What is your opinion of Matthew Centrowitz joining BTC? I don't believe that he is a clean athlete.

Kickapoo wrote:

Too many people on LRC race when they are injured and encourage or push others to do the same.

It's called being a man.

Saw him running near the Nike campus. He was running very slow. Maybe 8 minute mile pace. Either it was his 2nd run of the day, recovery day or he's really injured and taking it slow.

He face planted over a barrier that cost him a sub 8.

That was peak Jager.

Now it’s just hold on Jager.

Followed by a retired Jager.

DoctorGrubHub wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

He needs to start spelling it "Jäger" and pronouncing it like Chuck Yeager. That will reestablish his credibility.

He can do that to repay this sage advice: dude, you bounce too much! You'll never have a kick unless you can increase your cadence. Research the gravitational constant of the universe.

I do find it interesting how light and bouncy he is on the track. His stride looks very fluid and peaceful but begs the question whether it is optimized.

Do you know what "begs the question" means?

he's finished

Not even close to true. The Instagram for BTC tells the future races and athletes running each race. They typically also include ways to actually watch said races. Every athlete has an account as well, and puts up 3-5 posts a week with them training- runs, track, gym, etc.

*Super cool for Virgin to comment, too. Most of the younger guys here have no idea what a badass he was.

I'm a big big man wrote:

[quote]Kickapoo wrote:

Too many people on LRC race when they are injured and encourage or push others to do the same.

It's called being a man.[/quote

Worked great for Durant!

He’s currently serving out a secret doping ban, similar to Makhloufi the last couple years.

Goldenmeans_ofTraining wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

He needs to start spelling it "Jäger" and pronouncing it like Chuck Yeager.

That pronunciation would echo in the mead Yule halls... (its Icelandic for “I am”)

There must have been great confusion when German hunters visited Icelandic mead halls.

How can you say we don't interact with fans?! Have you never heard of #FrenchBreadFriday?!

Guy gets named as a doper by IAAF and figuratively disappears after that. If he was any other nationality we'd be crying foul. But since he's an American we just keep believing that he's "injured."

Blatant wrote:

Guy gets named as a doper by IAAF and figuratively disappears after that. If he was any other nationality we'd be crying foul. But since he's an American we just keep believing that he's "injured."

Think the whole wearing a boot and spending countless hours in the pool is a ruse, huh?

I really agree with this. Whilst BTC have gotten better in the last year or so, they still have a very weak social media presence compared to other post collegiate groups. The groups profile itself and the profiles of athletes within it aren't very active. Say what you want about Tinman Elite but they are incredibly transparent and atleast attempt to be engaging.

Poor logique wrote:

Blatant wrote:

Guy gets named as a doper by IAAF and figuratively disappears after that. If he was any other nationality we'd be crying foul. But since he's an American we just keep believing that he's "injured."

Think the whole wearing a boot and spending countless hours in the pool is a ruse, huh?

I didn't even know he was injured...what's the diagnosis? Is he out for Doha?

intheno wrote:

He’s currently serving out a secret doping ban, similar to Makhloufi the last couple years.

Sounds kind of corny unless you're saying that for parody. If you're serious though, who supposedly gives out these "secret doping bans" and why Jager & Makhloufi?

How come none of the Russians are getting any? And also Kiprop -- why didn't he get one instead of receiving a career ending doping ban?

Wow, it is cool to see Craig Virgin on thos thread! Hope Jager has a smooth recovery from here on out. If anyone can make the turn around necessary to compete in Worlds, he can. That is one thing about the Bowerman group: they may get hurt a lot, but they are normally ready when it counts. They always have jerseys on the startline at the outdoor qualifying meets. And they do a great job of providing transparency and fan interaction on IG. Check out the club IG or most any of the individual athlete's accounts. Quigley, in particular, has been noted for her IG activity.