Brooks Doughtie wrote:
Yes, non-draft is catered to AG athletes, while ITU is catered to a professional setting. That's the big difference. It's why if you can stay in ITU, athletes will stay in ITU. You don't leave ITU unless you just can't hack it, or get tired of the BS politics when your not the overwhelming fastest athlete of your federation.
So now the question becomes how does ITU change your mindset. You have this idea as you stated on 2 different posts you'd never do DL because of some yahoo putting you in the hospital. Whether true or not isn't the issue. The issue is, how can ITU get you to atleast appreciate DL racing to care enough to watch/support it. Or is it simply because most AG'ers will never do it, that they won't ever give it the time of day to just appreciate it for the fantastic racing that it provides. Because ITU racing is far and away the best production in triathlon. It's just the best production in front of very little audience. So can a guy like yourself, not want to do DL but still appreciate it?
So my question is, Dev, do you pay $20 to watch ~10 ITU races? If so why? If not, is it because you don't do it?
Hi Brooks, I actually follow every ITU race and the results. For the same reason I don't pay to follow the ICC World Cup, or the upcoming Euro or the Rugby World cup, I don't pay to watch the ITU events, because of the time zone differences. I just read up on what happened. Only reason I follow ITU is because I am a triathlete, but I am going to care about the results from the various top flight European Football leagues (soccer), Tennis and NFL a bit more before ITU (mainly because other family members will watch those too, so we have something to talk about). But I do follow it every weekend. The odd time there is a tri on TV here in Canada, it will be on in my house over the other sports, just because it is on.
All that aside, many of us care more about what Brent is doing now vs when he was racing ITU. As GMAN said in many threads pros are irrelevant because the show is about the age groupers and they just happen to be playing in our sand box. Well, I won't take the extreme view that they are irrelevant and that they are playing in our sand box. I would say we are playing in the same sand box which makes us care about what they do making them relevant to us.
