Frerichs = officially out of BTC!

And they’ll ultimately fail at Oregon too. Then what?

Does this mean frerichs will leave nike for puma? I cant imagine karissa will stay. I guess the question now is does btc bring in a completely new generation or will it be boareded up. The glory days of infeld/flanagan/cragg/houlihan/quigly/frerichs/grace/hall all in their prime and making teams seems sooo far away

You're sick over this lol? Control your emotions, man.

BTC is not appealing when all your coaches priority is U of O. Everyone coaching BTC has to put Oregon first. What Pro would want that!?!

I really feel that there should be almost equal blame placed on Flanagan. She’s as much a part of this as Schumacher.

This is the dilemma that every graduating collegiate has when going pro. The college coach will always see the college as their employer. Same situation with Mike Smith.

In her Insta post, she says she will be supported by Nike through this year and will be given guidance by Pascal (and I guess Amy/Alisstair). But if it goes well, I would expect her to leave in 2025 or whenever her Nike contract is up and join Puma Elite. She also says her husband has been hired by Puma Elite to help coach the team so....

But all pros being coached by Mike Smith signed up knowing NAU is his top priority and that he is based in a less populated area.

I'm in a few running/track and field groups on facebook. One of them RunBlogRun had a link to an article about Nike slumping and cutting budgets and laying off workers.

If this is true, I WISH the other major shoe companies would step in and support the sport like they have.

I coached high school for over 20 years- Nike had hold on the middle school/high school market. Others can take their place.

I don't know if the slump and people leaving are related or just coincidence but they're both happening.

Karissa might be close to done. A couple of surgeries, IIRC; I just don't see how she comes back to her old self that 1500/5000/10000 attempt at the trials that seems to have did herself in.

At least with Mike Smith, you know what you're getting yourself into, and you have the running community and altitude of Flagstaff to fall back on when his attention isn't enough.

She should join Shelby's group for sure. Just saying...

Who is the bodybuilder running on the track in the first pic?

LOL

But seriously, the whole BTC "move" is part of the planned shutdown for PR reasons:

dissolve, and then build new from scratch without the burrito PR catastrophe looming over the new athletes. That's a more elegant way than just renaming it like they did with NOP.

I know im alone on this one, but i just dont see how coaching at U of O somehow makes it impossible to coach a few middle distance runners as well? Slightly different work outs/needs. It's running for god's sake. It's 10X more time consuming to be a college football or basketball coach.

Your response is perfect to never winning a medal. Like the original poster said, it’s not appealing. Especially if you want a chance at a medal one day.

Pro’s deserve coaches to focus on them

Don’t trust crooked foreign governing bodies like WADA/AIU. They’re self-interested (in European medals) - not interested in the truth.

Shelby 100% did not use nandrolone. And no I’m not trolling. It may take 20 years for people to know and fully understand that Shelby was clean, while Galen and Alberto broke rules.

I think WADA should be extinguished - the only problem is that bureaucratic, power hungry, people like Christiane Ayotte will always take the hasty lead in “doing the right thing,” regardless of who runs an anti-doping organization.

The photos smell like a pharmacy.

Ever since Nike replaced Mark Parker with the Wall Street CEO Nike stopped caring about running. The bottom line is all that matters now.

Its no surprise that they pushed Jerry & Shalane's contracts off onto U of O and are letting their premier pro team disintegrate. If it doesnt lead directly to sales, its gone.

by the looks of McGorty's social media it appears he's been spending a considerable amount of time over in the UK