I’ve been wondering where the hell Cole Hocker had been (haven’t we all) and then I watched new gens newest video where I find out he’s running on the Oregon Track Club with a bunch of oregon guys who couldn’t get a pro contract. No disrespect to those guys but Cole Hocker should be running on bowerman not on the oregon track club where he just dusted a field of nobodies at club cross country nationals. What do y’all think of this?
I’ve been wondering where the hell Cole Hocker had been (haven’t we all) and then I watched new gens newest video where I find out he’s running on the Oregon Track Club with a bunch of oregon guys who couldn’t get a pro contract. No disrespect to those guys but Cole Hocker should be running on bowerman not on the oregon track club where he just dusted a field of nobodies at club cross country nationals. What do y’all think of this?
all i can think is that he's a big enough name where if his coaches didn't want him to, he wouldn't. but what do i know, im genuinely a nobody lol
I’ve been wondering where the hell Cole Hocker had been (haven’t we all) and then I watched new gens newest video where I find out he’s running on the Oregon Track Club with a bunch of oregon guys who couldn’t get a pro contract. No disrespect to those guys but Cole Hocker should be running on bowerman not on the oregon track club where he just dusted a field of nobodies at club cross country nationals. What do y’all think of this?
He ran 3:31 and finished 6th at the Olympics as a 20 year old with Ben Thomas as his coach. Don't think its unreasonable for him to want to stick with his college coach given that success he has had. Maybe he ends up on Bowerman at some point.
I’ve been wondering where the hell Cole Hocker had been (haven’t we all) and then I watched new gens newest video where I find out he’s running on the Oregon Track Club with a bunch of oregon guys who couldn’t get a pro contract. No disrespect to those guys but Cole Hocker should be running on bowerman not on the oregon track club where he just dusted a field of nobodies at club cross country nationals. What do y’all think of this?
He ran 3:31 and finished 6th at the Olympics as a 20 year old with Ben Thomas as his coach. Don't think its unreasonable for him to want to stick with his college coach given that success he has had. Maybe he ends up on Bowerman at some point.
He ran 3:31 and finished 6th at the Olympics as a 20 year old with Ben Thomas as his coach. Don't think its unreasonable for him to want to stick with his college coach given that success he has had. Maybe he ends up on Bowerman at some point.
I agree with this. That being said, it will be interesting to see how Cole's old training partner Cooper Teare responds to the training in the Bowerman group and whether he takes another jump forward this year relative to Cole. Would be awesome to see these two duke it out in the US Champs 1500m like Hocker did with Centro at the 2021 trials.
I’ve been wondering where the hell Cole Hocker had been (haven’t we all) and then I watched new gens newest video where I find out he’s running on the Oregon Track Club with a bunch of oregon guys who couldn’t get a pro contract. No disrespect to those guys but Cole Hocker should be running on bowerman not on the oregon track club where he just dusted a field of nobodies at club cross country nationals. What do y’all think of this?
It’s not too surprising considering Ben Thomas coached Cole to a faster 1500 than anyone Jerry has coached so far (Centro ran 3:30 with NOP). If he wants to make it as a 1500 runner, it makes sense to stick with the program that got him to 3:31 and 6th at the olympics. Not all athletes need top training partners to perform either (ie, Jakob these past two years)
I’ve been wondering where the hell Cole Hocker had been (haven’t we all) and then I watched new gens newest video where I find out he’s running on the Oregon Track Club with a bunch of oregon guys who couldn’t get a pro contract. No disrespect to those guys but Cole Hocker should be running on bowerman not on the oregon track club where he just dusted a field of nobodies at club cross country nationals. What do y’all think of this?
He ran 3:31 and finished 6th at the Olympics as a 20 year old with Ben Thomas as his coach. Don't think its unreasonable for him to want to stick with his college coach given that success he has had. Maybe he ends up on Bowerman at some point.
1) agree with above: stick with what's worked so far 2) while he has run 13:08, he's more of a 800/1500 guy and theres not many of them on Bowerman 3) I know he has forgone his NCAA eligibility and is on a full contract not a NIL deal, but is he still studying in some capacity at Oregan? I might be wrong.
when you consider those, then the only reasons to join Bowerman become: they're a good team & his best friend is there. as someone else mentioned, presumably he could always move at some point as both are Nike teams
Although Cooper is the US 1500m champion, he has generally had more success as a 5K runner and most people see his as having more potential over that distance, so it makes more sense for him to train at Bowerman with similar runners.
Cole, on the other hand, is much more of a specialised 1500m runner, with phenomenal speed and far better credentials over that distance than any other. Schumacher has had limited success with this type of runner (relative to more distance based athletes) so staying in an environment and with a coach who allows him to train more to his strengths makes much more sense for him.
Oregon Track Club no longer functionally exists. Bowerman TC barely exists as an elite program anymore. Nike has pulled back a lot of support for the sport since Mark Parker was ousted as CEO. Read the writing on the wall, Nike is no longer supporting the big group training programs anymore.