I did remember this and actually got watch it live. Tbf he knew ahead of time who he had to beat and who he didn’t as most didn’t have the A standard. So in my mind he only ran as hard as he had to make the team and took no risks he didn’t have to.
If that was true, it's shameful. It was the US championship final not some meaningless prelim. I personally think Hunter always races all out except when injured and sometimes even then.
You probably don’t remember this but Hunter broke his foot with 200m to go. That’s why his entire body basically seizes up in the last lap. Regardless, given the circumstances, he made the team. Was it the most competitive field? Not really, with several top Americans injured or aging out of competitiveness at 5k. But hell, he did it. None of us can take that away from him in the end.
If that was true, it's shameful. It was the US championship final not some meaningless prelim. I personally think Hunter always races all out except when injured and sometimes even then.
You probably don’t remember this but Hunter broke his foot with 200m to go. That’s why his entire body basically seizes up in the last lap. Regardless, given the circumstances, he made the team. Was it the most competitive field? Not really, with several top Americans injured or aging out of competitiveness at 5k. But hell, he did it. None of us can take that away from him in the end.
In my book he did NOT make the world team. The point is to be able to run at the World Championship. Finishing in a qualifying position while injuring yourself so that you can't actually race at the world championships doesn't count. He was still at home watching the race on TV.
Drew Hunter beat Grant at Brooks PR, so his ceiling is much higher. Honestly gives me tingles imagining Drew Hunter shuffling his way to a 12:4x in the near future.
As good as his Brooks PR run was, my favorite Drew memory from HS is the DMR comeback at Penn Relays. The whole crowd was lit for that. It was electric.
Fischer has an engineering degree from Stanford and an American record. Hunter has his adidas contract. Who’s future looks brighter??
good luck getting a job in that field with no experience and a piece of paper that will be 15 years old by that time. So yes, his degree is useless.
He’s getting a masters in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford as we speak.
Surely Nike or another major athletic brand will hire him when he’s done running. Could be in engineering, could be in some sort of management, who knows.
Once that position is on his resume along with being *at least* 5th/9th in the Olympics, an American Record holder, etc., he’ll be able to choose what he wants to do and where he wants to live. And he’ll be making a lot of money doing so.
Out of curiousity- anyone know what he’s likely making now with Nike? Did he get any increase or bonus for being 5th/9th in the Olympics? And now for his 12:53 AR?
Fischer has an engineering degree from Stanford and an American record. Hunter has his adidas contract. Who’s future looks brighter??
good luck getting a job in that field with no experience and a piece of paper that will be 15 years old by that time. So yes, his degree is useless.
Lol people love hiring Olympians. I assume when Grant is finished his pro running career he'll hop right into a big consulting job and make some good coin. An Olympian Stanford engineer is very very marketable to clients.
I know a few Olympians (in fairly obscure sports) who have crappy education but landed pretty cushy jobs just from being Olympians.
Fischer has an engineering degree from Stanford and an American record. Hunter has his adidas contract. Who’s future looks brighter??
good luck getting a job in that field with no experience and a piece of paper that will be 15 years old by that time. So yes, his degree is useless.
Random example but Niall Bruton has gone on to carve out a very nice pro running career for himself and his degree is from Arkansas. I think Grant will be just fine with his Stanford degree and Olympian credentials.
Do we have a quote or reason why Hunter ran such a poor race?
It's February. If drew ran 13:00 and didn't make a world team later on this year you guys would crucify him. You guys have to be rational.
Drew is a good runner but like ALL runners historically you need to be healthy to run fast and ideally for more than one season. If drew stays healthy for extended year or two I can see him continuing to progress as a runner. Otherwise it's going to be tough.
Statements like that when people go pro are statements that I don't understand. How do we know he or Cain would have been any better if they went to college? They at least got paid.
Dude got a minimum of $2.5 million. 10 years 250k per year.
Couldn’t agree more. Also, isn’t he going to CU, at least part time, also subsidized by Adidas? He would’ve been a fool not to take the money.
Again, 3:35, 13:17 in the pre-cheater shoe era. If he never runs any faster, he had a decent career. His injury issues may be a result of overdoing it in high school. We’ll see.
Statements like that when people go pro are statements that I don't understand. How do we know he or Cain would have been any better if they went to college? They at least got paid.
Dude got a minimum of $2.5 million. 10 years 250k per year.
Couldn’t agree more. Also, isn’t he going to CU, at least part time, also subsidized by Adidas? He would’ve been a fool not to take the money.
Again, 3:35, 13:17 in the pre-cheater shoe era. If he never runs any faster, he had a decent career. His injury issues may be a result of overdoing it in high school. We’ll see.
I wish him the best.
His injury issues are the combined result of crappy training, crappy lifestyle, crappy teammates, and living at altitude. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
I won't disagree that a CU degree probably isn't any worse than one from UO. The UO coaching staff might have had just as much difficulty keeping him healthy, but we can never know. He would have had vastly better training partners and injury-prevention resources at UO, that's quite clear. As mentioned already here, bet he'd give back $2M to be at Fisher's level today rather than at Joey Cheese's level.
Nobody would pay $2M for a track time. Maybe an insane person would I guess but Hunter is smart. He laughs at us everyday because he knows that he has $2M that he wouldn't have had he chosen the traditional route.
Drew Hunter beat Grant at Brooks PR, so his ceiling is much higher. Honestly gives me tingles imagining Drew Hunter shuffling his way to a 12:4x in the near future.
Rexing..your point about trading the money for faster marks, is one of the worst points made on this. Its pretty clear now, that he was not going to ever run 12:53, or 3:50.
His biggest challenge which is obvious to anyone, is his form, it is a lurching "pull yourself along" style, running fast is not as easy to him as it would ever have been to Fisher.
Getting paid along the way, or going to this "Holiest of grails" NCAA show, is simply an absurd comparison .It really is. Getting a jump start on life with $2.5M starting stake in gross wages by 28? Is guaranteed to no one.
Nobody would pay $2M for a track time. Maybe an insane person would I guess but Hunter is smart. He laughs at us everyday because he knows that he has $2M that he wouldn't have had he chosen the traditional route.
If this is his attitude - which I don’t believe it is - Then he was a fraud to begin with.