Cole Redalen DNF's Because Of FPO Playoff 

Because he is 😂

@@phillip3m 😭😂

That's the classic apathetic cool guy face. Never phased 😎

Higher than dragons tits. 😂😅😂😅 Disc golf and weed might have some crossover. I bet it pisses the hardcore Bros off when Calvin comes in blazed and shoots circles around them.

Looks like he's having his mug shot taken. 🤣😂🤣

That’s Zach’s east tn coming out lol

Agreed!

Here we go. Get the women on their own dedicated track, and so many problems get fixed. No overlap delays. No FPO field limits. No issues setting the course for current FPO ratings (i.e., no elevated baskets on hills)

@@goodnerarts1206 They should be on tour separately from the MPO. Imagine the LPGA trying to ride the coattails and profitability of the PGA in golf. It doesn't make any sense.

It would be cool if they were one stop in front of the mpo

They should also all be women

There's still not a lot of money in disc golf. They don't have the money or resources to have FPO playing on different days or courses for the most part.

Agreed. Do cuts leave only those who are going to cash?

100% - cuts need to be standard on the final round of every pro event, imo. Having a hundred MPOs still playing on the last day is just dumb, and a ton of extra unnecessary work for no reason.

Like in the PGA, after round 2 if you’re out of the cash line, you should be cut from the field. The majority of tourneys wouldn’t be impacted, but this should be the norm for 3 round+ tourneys.

Yeah there definitely needs to be cuts after 2 rounds. No matter if it’s a 3 or 4 round event. I would possibly even cut twice in a 4 round event

Yep, I totally agree. I really think all tournaments should be 4 days with a cut after day 2. And majors can be 5 days with a cut after day 3.

Exactly. A lot of people play church baseball or softball leagues for fun, or rec basketball games... those aren't held to the level of professionalism that the MLB or NBA are. In most professional sports, if you just decide not to participate, you get fined, because you're being paid to play. You are sponsored because your sponsors are buying exposure. YOU are the product being advertised. People see you throw discs, they want those discs. They see your bag, they want it. You aren't there, you aren't giving the brand the exposure they are paying you for. And while we're on the subject of professionalism... GET RID OF SELF OFFICIATING! It's fine for am stuff, but there should at LEAST be professional officials at the pro tour level. Players being officials against their competition is nonsense when there are tens of thousands of dollars on the line at times.

I don’t know where I stand on this question myself. That said, one of the things that draws me to the pro side is the inherent lack of isolation between the pro and am side of the sport.

The pro level is too close to the am level. If we want a pro tour - changes need to be made to the pro-level game: cut lines, longer holes, smaller baskets, more trees, sand traps,...I don't know exactly what. But the pro level should not be so accessible to so many players.

@@ETXBI fully agree with you. The separation between a low level player at a pro tour event and your average pretty good local disc golfer isn’t really that far apart. I think the field should be much smaller to be honest. The reality is that many “professional” disc golfers aren’t really making a good living anyway. Cut the field so that those who do play in these pro tour events have a shot at really making at least an okay living. It also could improve the fan experience because your resources for coverage aren’t spread as thin and maybe there’s even a path to having officials on every card so players can focus on their play and not officiating rules. Would this exclude a lot of current “professionals”? Yeah probably, but in every major sport (not that disc golf is in the same category), you learn pretty early on that the dream is reserved for a small group of elite players. Right now you have a ton of people who think they deserve to be playing in front of galleries when the reality is that they should just be playing for fun.

​@@barnee27but if you shrink it it just becomes a private members club for frisbee, it would be harder to respect the players living their gilded frisbee joke job. The concept of a professional disc golfer is already somewhat tenuous, you need wide fields to keep it accessible and let new talent break in. It's already quite hard to progress as tournaments fill up so quickly

he can use that as an excuse for finishing 90th every week

Posting a video about it AND laughing in the video like he didn't care = super unprofessional. He just showed that he's still an immature kid, not a pro.

Matt Bell doesn't make a video each time he DNFs because he gets an 8.

It was not a professional move. I stand with Zach, not a good look. But i like Cole. Yo Cole, don’t hit Send. 🤦🏻‍♂️

interesting i thought DGA would just pay for his tournament entries and his supplies like discs and what not. and also travel. i don't think they pay him weekly but not sure. but that move will potentially affect deals in the future.

what was best for him? I don't understand whyyyyyy?

It’s definitely something that happens in professional sports. Delays happen and grown-ups deal with it.

@@imopen2 umm weather delays maybe? Being stopped for 45 min is unacceptable.

@@iambfoye weather, accidents, slow play, overtime, power outage, streaker, a fight…there are many reasons that sporting events can be delayed. Delays do happen in professional sports and nothing about this particular delay means that disc golf is not a “real”professional sport

​@iambfoye to say it's unacceptable is to say it didn't have to happen. It's facts, delays are going ti happen. Also the delay being a problem was acknowledged as a separate issue. Not the issue of Ol boys behavior as a professional.

He was around 85th place, Blaming FPO for going to playoff while leaving to save his rating/average finish is a cowardly move. All DGPT MPO players know that the bottom cards play behind a fimed/spectated FPO lead card.

Amen.

That’s pretty damn valid

@@mondaysinthecosmosbut also he should’ve just dnf before the playoff even because he didn’t wanna wait after is odd because like Calvin said it barely saved him time

People absolutely shit all over him for that for like a month. That was definitely a bad look, and he got pummeled for it. Doesn't make what he's saying here wrong though.

Mr. Unprofessional complaining about someone not being professional. Oh the irony. Go play some c-tiers if you really like disc golf cromagnon man. Or better yet, if you really care about the sport volunteer to be a spotter.

Lol

Yeah except disc golf is not a team sport lol

Grow a pair and tell him he's holding up the lives of others. If his card mates won't do anything, goto the TM. If the Tam won't do anything about it, goto the PDGA.

This. Thank you.

Using others as a way to validate your actions is bs. He quit because he wanted to. If he really wanted to play and finish nothing would stop him. This is a manipulation tactic.

I also like what Calvin said. Basically 3 holes is still 3 holes to prove to yourself you can finish strong and bounce back before the next event. I did xc and track in high school and that sport of long distance running is basically just convincing yourself not to quit lol. My 3rd or 4th xc meet that first year wasn’t going too well and I went out too fast. I stopped to walk in the middle when I was all alone and far from the finish or any spectators to motivate me. Was probably less than 10 seconds before a few runners passed me and I became so disappointed in myself that I continued on running. Had a really fast finishing mile and ended up still improving on my personal best by one second.

So is mental health weak or it should be respected? Also Brodie did the same thing a few months ago. Didn’t go to tournaments because he wasn’t feeling it.

@@amitch2553 It is weak to quit in the middle of something you choose to do when it is just sports simply because you are losing. Brodie didn’t show up that is the difference. If Cole was in the top 10 he wouldn’t have left, looked more like poor sportsmanship than anything else.

@@dougs8196 how Cole did it was wrong. But to say that having a bad mental state is a poor excuse and then not showing up to events because your struggling mentally is hypocritical

@@amitch2553 not at all. they are different situations. One disrespects the field and the other doesn’t.

Yup I did

@@BrodieSmith a little hypocritical then getting on Cole’s case for quitting because of his head space then right? I don’t agree on how he did it but to say mentally not right is not a good excuse is hypocritical

@@amitch2553 these 2 things are not the same at all

@@TheDarkhorseSportsCards Brodie here”having a bad mental attitude is no excuse to not play. Brodie two months ago “I’m just not feeling it and really struggling mentally to enjoy disc golf.” But that’s not hypocritical?

@@amitch2553it is hypocritical. You’re gonna need to put it more literally if you want Brodie to concede though.

Your entire statement revolves around you and your self centered view, look at your verbiage, it’s nothing but I and me so of course you won’t understand it from another persons perspective. Everyone loves to jump on some moral high horse as if it’s their say or business how an athlete, who’s in shoes they will never be in, should conduct themselves. I’ll tell you that nobody cares how you would do things or how you think things should be done because you aren’t in that spot to be the example so if you really are what you say you are about you shouldn’t feel so offended because you aren’t that way. I get so tired of this boomer mentality of what people view as “professional” and that people have to adhere to these completely subjective standards in order for something to be taken seriously, again it’s all from an incredibly self centered way of thinking that very quickly becomes an imposing of someone’s ideas on other people and then they are expected to conform to that. The player in question has no doubt been on the road for a while and those few holes he didn’t finish were likely all that stood between him and going back home, he clearly stated he was having some mental battles and it was obviously causing him distress. Why can’t anyone on an individual level look at this situation and understand that maybe the guy had alot more going on under the hood than anyone knows and it was probably in his own personal best interest to get back as soon as possible. His score didn’t matter to anything going on and if he mentally wasn’t there then he can do whatever he sees fit, he paid for entry into the tournament and it’s his decision how he conducts his round

Realistically most of these road warriors have no money. The sport isn't that large yet.

Then I guess they can't afford to not finish

He actually called his sponsors and asked before he did this

Two garbage sentences.

@Barry_MaCockener that's hilarious. I know Brodie, and he knows me. He asks me for my autograph.