View Full Version : Cole Thompson: real laxer or fake ad campaign?
pvilaxmadd
11-29-2004, 07:33 PM
Hey guys- i can't figure it out... was that guy in all the brine ads last year(Cole Thompson) a real lacrosse player or a made up ad campaign?
faceitoff
11-29-2004, 07:36 PM
Fake as a... fake thing. Brine just used it as a clever advertising scheme. Which tricked even me, the smartest person in the universe.
unta8
11-29-2004, 07:37 PM
He was real I believe. He was a stand out HS player and I think he goes to UVA.
unta8
11-29-2004, 07:38 PM
looking back, i'm a tard.
kryptic
11-29-2004, 07:39 PM
from e-lacrosse:
Cole Thompson \ n. \ a fictitious character in Brine ads and E-Lacrosse stories in 2003. See Picture 27.
but his full story is here: http://www.e-lacrosse.com/2003/spotlight/cole.html
liveforlax19
11-29-2004, 08:33 PM
so hes fake.... but theres an entire story about him??
i dont get it
aussielax
11-29-2004, 09:41 PM
what the hell. ehy would you make up some fake lacrosse player as a marketing scheme. Thats Stupid. It obviously didn't work because it didn'y make me buy brine stuff.
Yes, but some of us did. I bought Brine stuff. But it had nothing to do with Cole Thompson.
pvilaxmadd
11-29-2004, 10:33 PM
well- yeah i checked up on it- he IS fake- but that e-lacrosse article threw me off big time and ya know what? in all the pictures in the article that kryptic wrote the hyperlink to, you can't see his face - and i DON'T think the pictures have the same guy in 'em! in the one with coach desko- from the back "cole" looks like a 40 year old man. but those ads kinda evoked a sense of work ethic and a need to strive to make it to the college level, for me at least. i was actually a bit bummed to find out that he was just a carefully planned out ad campaign
stegmakk
11-30-2004, 09:30 AM
and don't forget to thank E-Lacrosse for perpetuating a load of BS...
I think after this whole incident I learned that everything E-lax writes as stories should be considered a load of BS...
Their Stick Tech sections are the only thing to keep them alive...
joeyp2003
11-30-2004, 12:23 PM
yeh i was fooled back in the day but some of the stuff seemed fake, like elacrosse said he threw a shot through two nets... broke both of them at the same time...i doubt it unless they were like .5 thick each
Lacrosstitute
11-30-2004, 02:18 PM
Whether Brine has stupid marketing techniques or not, they're the best company IMO. Warrior lost some respect for me after I found out first hand how crappy their shafts are. But that's a whole other story.
LCNlaxman
11-30-2004, 03:41 PM
yeh i was fooled back in the day but some of the stuff seemed fake, like elacrosse said he threw a shot through two nets... broke both of them at the same time...i doubt it unless they were like .5 thick each
don't you mean the nets made out of 2 pieces of paper?? :chuckle:
pretty much ANY BODY who starts off at lacrosse has a WEAK shot, i mean WEAK. almost no matter what too!! my friend is a HUGE guy and he picked up a lacrosse stick and can barely make a shot without missing the net. he just started a month or two ago.
CyCloneLaXer17
12-05-2004, 01:29 PM
hey guys, cole is truthfully drew thompson or w/e and he really plays for virgina.....the name switch was for his sake. I asked coach desko he said thats whats up...
joeyp2003
12-05-2004, 01:33 PM
thats dumb bc im pretty sure its illegal to have some one in college endorsing somthing...aka labron james taking gifts and stuff from people before he went to college
CyCloneLaXer17
12-05-2004, 01:36 PM
ya, he was edorsed by brine in hs....but still he is a real college player...he is drew thompson(sp?)
joeyp2003
12-05-2004, 01:37 PM
wow howd he pull that one off? i dont even think he was that good
CyCloneLaXer17
12-05-2004, 01:39 PM
idk...he just happened to be good enough i gues....its like jon jerome for SU...I played with him in hs....hes just good at faceoffs, thats all
cloo24
12-05-2004, 01:53 PM
a college player cannot be sponsored or he is kicked out of the NCAA sports program. a TEAM can be sponsored but no single player
Lax101
12-05-2004, 01:56 PM
yeah. you're not allowed to profit off a college player one bit. even the college he plays for selling his jersey with his name on it is strictly forbidden (but obviously just selling his number without his name is). the point of college sports is that they're amateurs. they cant receive money or be profited off of at all.
CyCloneLaXer17
12-05-2004, 02:05 PM
no in hs he was endorsed by brine...maybe not for free...but endorsed...he only used brine....he might have had to pay small amounts, but he still was stricktly brine
MoCoLax4
12-05-2004, 02:08 PM
Mad Lax PVI, you bring shame upon Paul VI, the WCAC, & the entire DC area for starting this thread.
faceitoff
12-05-2004, 05:42 PM
hey guys, cole is truthfully drew thompson or w/e and he really plays for virgina.....the name switch was for his sake. I asked coach desko he said thats whats up...
I believe that as BS.
CyCloneLaXer17
12-05-2004, 05:45 PM
No, if you have the chance to talk to a top D1 coach they will tell you.
Levin
12-05-2004, 07:25 PM
Is it even possible to throw the ball so hard, it breaks through the net without slowing down?
stegmakk
12-06-2004, 08:25 AM
hey guys, cole is truthfully drew thompson or w/e and he really plays for virgina.....the name switch was for his sake. I asked coach desko he said thats whats up...
No it wasn't...and wouldn't Starsia know, not Desko?
Drew was From Northport HS...He went to UVA, and so did his brotherRyan who played Goal...so there were a couple Thompsons at UVA recently
UVA press release Nov 2002 already said UVA signed Drew...
Cole fictitious article appeared in May 2003 saying he decided where to go...
Images of "cole" on e-lax were not of drew...