Walker red wrote:
fpole wrote:Cain would go home and count her millions in running earnings. Efraimson would go home and do her biology homework.
Millions? I bet Cain has homework too.
I must admit why wouldn't Efraimson be offered a pro contract. She clearly is at least as talented as Cain.
1. Better form (Cain will never have form as good as Efraimson and there is a chance Al Sal will screw up Mary trying to achieve the form)
2. No Al Sal coaching (although her coach is most likely excellent)
3. No Al Sal resources (sports psychologist, nutritionist, physical therapists, thyroid doctor, etc.)
4. No Al Sal gimmicks (underwater treadmills, cyro chambers, cold leg wraps, pollen masks, all of the unknown gimmicks)
From my perspective if Mary Cain warrants a contract so does Alexa Efraimson. Something tells me it will never come to fruition.
Well until Efraimson shows more there is a significant difference between Cain and Efraimson. Efraimson is now only a few seconds off what Cain ran in the 3k/2Mile indoors last year (Cain's 2 mile record is still about 5 seconds better than Efraimson's 3k). That is amazing! But, Cain is an 800/1500 runner right now. She didn't get a pro contract because she ran around 9 minutes in the 3k. She got a pro contract because last year she was one of the absolute best American 800 and 1500 runners, has a ridiculous kick which means she wins races and is not just carried to fast times, and went to the World Final in the 1500. Efraimson has run one great indoor 3k. How about we wait to see if she can compete significantly on the pro level before we start saying she should be pro because Mary Cain is pro. No doubt Efraimson should be able to go pro after she graduates high school, but unless she starts doing a bunch of amazing stuff to follow up this 3k, there is no reason she should go pro before she graduates high school.