Johnathan Marcus to PSU

In the wake of this announcement, the Soad industry is in FREEFALL. SELL NOW!

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I met JM back in 2011-2012 when he was first at UP I believe and later PSU. Eccentric dude, but more passionate than 99.9% of coaches I’ve ever met. Good news for him and the Vikings.

I thought PSU meant Penn State. You know, a university that matters.

Am I reading the quotes right? Was Jerry … actually available for comment??

They deleted the old thread about his tweet accusing Nuguse of doping. They also deleted a thread asking why the old thread was suddenly deleted. Are they going to delete this one too?

Is it good for a school to hire a coach who has tweeted a baseless accusation that the US’s top miler is doping?

Congrats, bro!

Look at his stellar references dumba$$. Mike Smith, Rob Conner, Jerry Schumacher. Maybe they're smarter than you.

I've got nothing against Marcus (though the Nuguse stuff was inane) and wish him the best, but man he was terrible on the podcasts he used to do with Steve Magness. Poor guy babbled endlessly and had a difficult time stringing together a cogent point. Reminds me A LOT of Rojo on his podcasts. Rojo has something to say, but is incapable of saying it without listeners' ears bleeding from the verbal diarrhea. Not everyone is meant to do podcasts, that's for sure.

“No but dude, I read Letsrun, follow pro runners on instagram and like have read running with the buffaloes. I know that this guy isn’t smart and knowledgeable about running, because I’m a self-centered, know it all, who thinks that anyone who critiques my favorite runner I knob slob over because they seem like a nice person, is a terrible bad person and bad coach.”

talk talk talk, talk is fake. Actions speak larger than words. We’ll evaluate how good of a coach this guy is in 3 years- after development and recruitment takes place, since this program went downhill really fast this past year.

Not even mike smith could bring this program together to what they were in the likes of 2 years, they really took some heavy hits. All the best of luck to this guy.

In 2016 Jmar claimed he'd be doing anything other than coaching in 5 years, lol.

What a loser.

The Rob Conner quotation is the best… rob told his assistant “don’t take the job, it’s wack” but now endorses this dude hahahahahahaha

LETSRUN carries zero influence.
They bash this guy on the daily but he still lands a job.
They bash Nike and top athletes continue to sign with them.
They bash UAC and BTC and top athletes flock to run with them.
If Salazar came back to Coach he would have top athletes flocking to be with him.

This board is a great place for people to come and scream about something but no one in any influential position pays any attention.

Definitely not Jonathan.

Do you want to discuss why Nike is bashed daily but signs every athlete they want?

Zero influence on the people that matter.

Not to derail the thread, but this is the sole reason I don't listen to the Letsrun podcasts. I think he needs speech therapy, or at least some heavy coaching. And it's disappointing because I really want to be able to listen to a well-informed podcast about running.

Maybe because they are a multinational juggernaut? Would you prefer that they simply go unquestioned and unopposed? I’m not sure what your point is.