Oso planning to go pro
I guess someone could argue the route, but a grand total of six cars drive down Wisconsin Ave on a Saturday morning.
In the end, it raised money, lots of it. "It didn't raise enough money"??
The release sounded to me like the woke crowd intervened. Complete crap in my opinion. I could see re-formulating it for a common start/finish point...I could see so many ways to preserve it. Maybe after next year's NCAA Championship MU can sponsor it (again) and re-name it Shaka's Run?I ran it every year as a student. Nothing better.
It didn't read like that.You guys are going to be shocked when you hear that they're just rebranding the run to Wojo's Run.
So why doesn’t MU sponsor this event now. Have the NIL collective run it for the benefit of other 501c3 and a little bit for itself
So the route fades at the end and no one finishes the race upright?
Can Marquette sponsor Al's run to benefit the NIL Collective?
MU can’t have the NIL collective do anything. They are not affiliated.
You think the optics on this were bad for Children's, imagine how it'd look to pivot this event to put cash in the pockets of athletes.
No chit. People need to get their heads out of they asses.
I have no insider info, but I’m guessing it’s a combo of two things:1. I think Briggs & Stratton pulled or greatly reduced their sponsorship. That company is barely a presence in Milwaukee anymore. In fact, I think they’ll be gone from the city in a few years, so sponsoring this event doesn’t really benefit them.2. Attendance was way down last year. 8000 runners in 2022 vs. 15,000 in 2018. And it was only 10,000 in 2019, so it wasn’t all covid related. It probably takes more than 8000 runners to make something of that magnitude make sense.