BBD wrote:
It seems as though you need to be corrected.
Yes Salazar originally brought the Schumacher group out to Portland and set them up after his heart attack to make sure Rupp had a good coach in case he had another heart attack.
The relationship worked for a little while until Schumacher would not conform to Salazar's extreme and questionable practices and the whole Solinsky v. Rupp thing was the final nail in the coffin.
This is when the groups split, Salazar tried to undo all the things he had set up for them, which included trying to end Schumacher's contract (firing him). Luckily Nike saw through this and set up Schumacher and his group on their own, much smaller than Salazar's group, but still standing behind the group. Salazar is crazy enough to try and keep the Schumacher group out of meets to prevent them from out shining the Golden Boy.
Salazar has a history of this, why else would there be such a carousel of coaches and athletes coming in and out of his group each year. The only constant is the Golden Boy.
Non-sense. These guys are all friends. If you follow their twitter feeds they are always joking with each other and wishing each other good luck before races, and in life situations.