Jessica Hull is going to sign with Brooks.... Calling it

Marketing Nightmare wrote:

This would be a horrible decision by Brooks.

YOU CAN’T MARKET FOREIGN ATHLETES IN USA.

If Katie Mackey makes the Olympic Team that would be a great development story. If Josh Kerr becomes an Olympian everyone yawns and takes no personal excitement. The same would be true of Jessica Hull or anyone else that is not wearing the Home Teams uniform.

Chris Derrick drew attention to BTC but Mo Ahmed not so much. Ahmed has been way more successful than Derrick but Americans don’t care because Mo is representing Canada.

Disagree. Justyn Knight? Willis? Farrah? All names that most (informed) runners know, yet none are American.

I could list more, but you get the point.

Hull will be joining OTC.

Marketing Nightmare wrote:

This would be a horrible decision by Brooks.

YOU CAN’T MARKET FOREIGN ATHLETES IN USA.

If Katie Mackey makes the Olympic Team that would be a great development story. If Josh Kerr becomes an Olympian everyone yawns and takes no personal excitement. The same would be true of Jessica Hull or anyone else that is not wearing the Home Teams uniform.

Chris Derrick drew attention to BTC but Mo Ahmed not so much. Ahmed has been way more successful than Derrick but Americans don’t care because Mo is representing Canada.

Do you really think the average American even knows where she's from?

lilbyte wrote:

Marketing Nightmare wrote:

This would be a horrible decision by Brooks.

YOU CAN’T MARKET FOREIGN ATHLETES IN USA.

If Katie Mackey makes the Olympic Team that would be a great development story. If Josh Kerr becomes an Olympian everyone yawns and takes no personal excitement. The same would be true of Jessica Hull or anyone else that is not wearing the Home Teams uniform.

Chris Derrick drew attention to BTC but Mo Ahmed not so much. Ahmed has been way more successful than Derrick but Americans don’t care because Mo is representing Canada.

Disagree. Justyn Knight? Willis? Farrah? All names that most (informed) runners know, yet none are American.

I could list more, but you get the point.

Who is this Farrah you speak of?

NOPE wrote:

Not going to stay in Oregon, at least not with Coach Lehman-Winters. They do not get along.

OTCFanCLub wrote:

Hull will be joining OTC.

YoureWrong wrote:

She has a long term boyfriend back home in Australia, she turned pro so that she wouldn’t have to spend another year in the states and make the most off her current success.

Take: I think New Balance signs her and she goes to Crested Butte to train with Bosshard. Coburn, Praight-Leer, D Scott, McGee, K Edwards, all good training partners and I assume McGee would be her main fit being a 1500 runner. Plus, they have taken on a jamacian and south american so they're not biased by nationality and Joe takes on different sponsors (NB, Puma, Adidas) so it wouldn't necassarily have to be New Balance.

Nike and MTC most likely.

Have it on good authority she is going to be Hoka Hottie and signing with NAZ Elite.

I’m betting Brooks.

1. They are desperate for women.

2. They make illogical decisions based on instant gratification with no follow up.

I don't understand why a makeup company wouldn't try their luck with a hottie like her.

NOPE wrote:

Not going to stay in Oregon, at least not with Coach Lehman-Winters. They do not get along.

If what you say is true, and she doesn't go to Nike & Nic Bideau, possibility of Hull staying in the States, going with adidas & training under Maurica Powell. Her husband coaches an adidas athlete in Sam Prakel, and Washington goes adidas July 1st.

Leave it to Beaverton wrote:

Brooks is where decent female track athletes go to die.

Didn't Brooks axe all of their female runners except for Katie Mackey? Who they obviously couldn't cut since she's the head coaches wife

Maybelline wrote:

I don't understand why a makeup company wouldn't try their luck with a hottie like her.

Red head with a cake face. No thanks

The best think Emma Bates did was leave Brooks for Asics!!