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Would you rate Deegan as the same amount of hype as AC?
I mean they’ve both took strategic routes (racing certain classes avoiding competition) during their am careers.
Last person to have this much hype would be AC when he went pro. Does Deegan do better his first yr as a pro than AC or do you think he catches a reality check like AC did and the injury bug like Adam derails his hype.
I mean they’ve both took strategic routes (racing certain classes avoiding competition) during their am careers.
Last person to have this much hype would be AC when he went pro. Does Deegan do better his first yr as a pro than AC or do you think he catches a reality check like AC did and the injury bug like Adam derails his hype.
I don’t think he ended up doing a Loretta’s on a 250f. He went Straight into the nationals off the super mini
AC was basically signed to pro circuit his first year of 65’s . He showed up to the track with a rig that had his name plastered in cursive. You couldn’t walk through the pits without hearing rumors about his sponsor deals “$200k from Verizon, $100k from the helmet painter, $500k from PC/Kawi”.
AC did essentially earn his “hype” by winning nearly every am event he entered. But, he won these races by always pulling the holeshot and riding around out front. He was able to slightly out ride Guys like Covington, Webb, and AP. But in fact he wasn’t that much faster than Webb and his speed wasn’t quite there with a Masterpool. A lot of these guys competing against him knew he wasn’t that great at an early age because he would usually fall apart and get flustered in any race he didn’t holeshot. He also came across as brittle because anytime he had some small crash he would disappear from the event and not ride for weeks.
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Who was the least hyped modern era rider who has done the most?
The hype surrounding AC was ten times more because of the expectation of winning. Deegan really isn’t close to that. He doesn’t seem as dominant. He isn’t a prodigy like AC was through his amateur career.
He still has a few years left to generate hype though.
He’s more on the hype level of Forkner. Forkner hype developed later. In really just his last few years as an amateur. Forkner was absolutely dominant. This created hype coming into the pro ranks.
Having a big social media following doesn’t create hype. It creates popularity. Sure. But the only thing that can create true hype is being absolutely dominant in the amateur ranks.
The last two who had a ton of hype surrounding them were Forkner and AC.
Certainly some others but to a lesser extent.
Up to this point, Deegan has not been a prodigy in the amateur ranks. Popular yes. But hype? No.
Pit Row
Deegan has always strategically gone up when ryder exits the class.
You know..
We will get there when it's time.
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