Inside a Nike Family Feud:
Inside a Nike Family Feud:
Nice. Too bad the article is short and only digs so deep. I think this could be a good book in the future if people would talk.
Schumacker should go back to Wisconsin.
The story says that he wrote that two years ago, in an email to two of his runners. I wonder who the two runners were. I'm betting that at least one of them isn't with Al anymore.
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The story says that he wrote that two years ago, in an email to two of his runners. I wonder who the two runners were. I'm betting that at least one of them isn't with Al anymore.
Possibly closer to three years ago. And given that the only way that the WSJ reporter could conceivably become privy to this e-mail, it's a good bet that one of the two runners who received it -- who just may have been and remain married to one another -- is the source of the leak.
Unless Jerry Schumacher did something dastardly to Salazar that we don't know about, calling him a "mortal enemy" is so floridly uncalled for that I'm almost surprised he included it in an e-mail even to people he clearly trusted at the time. Yet the Salazar we've come to know better as of late really would be sufficiently upset at Solinsky for "upstaging" Rupp in that 10,000 to harbor a string load of acrimony even to this day. No wonder no one liked him in the 1980s. No one even liked him in high school when he crushed everyone running around in those long black socks, even though at the time he was more admirable as a runner than suspect as a human being.
i'm a whiny and don't like mr. salazar because i'm a whinyyyyyy loserrrrrrrrr waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa pleaseee feel sorryyy for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i'm a crybaby loser wrote:
i'm a whiny and don't like mr. salazar because i'm a whinyyyyyy loserrrrrrrrr waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa pleaseee feel sorryyy for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
That's too bad, dude. Keep your chin up!
As a young runner in the early 1980's with very poor speed I always emulated Salazar's toughness and learned to run for the front and train harder than my competitors. He was my role model and I always identified with his all-out approach.
He was a hero to me and in those days I didn't know anything about Pre even though he died just 7 years before I followed the sport.
Salazar gave me hope that a runner that couldn't break 55 for the 400 could work their way to the top by training harder and be willing to be tough enough to punish themselves more than their competitors in a race could prevail.
I still have a handwritten recruiting letter he wrote for Oregon to me.
Winning at all costs was something I related to but after getting older and more reflective I realize that no winning or success is worth it if you don't keep to a ethical code of fairness.
I don't even care about the doping that I suspect he and every top track and field athlete in the world has dabbled in since the late 1970's and got away with until recently.
I'm more disappointed with his using his power to intimidate outcomes of national championship races.
I thought he was supposed to be this big time Christian. He tried to steal from people that earned and maybe he should take a time to reflect.
There are errors in the article...
None the less the competition between the two groups can only be good for USA running.
--I wouldn't want to be on Salazar's bad side.
As others have noted, Schumacher is the "reclusive" coach who hides from camera's, media, and interviews.
Also, as I predicted, Alberto would apologize, as noted in the article.
Anyway, all of this ish will play out over time and be another story we look back on faintly as we focus on the stories of the day and the over all quality of USA mid and distance running.
My favorite runner, Lomong, stunk up the joint today. I don't know who has worse tactics, Lomong or Rupp.
Maybe Will Leer is going to step up and be the next tactically sound USA runner ala Lagat or Centro.
PS, nice gold by Whiting today!
...which of course you decline to identify for two convenient reasons: one, they are either nonexistent or inconsequential, and two, your persistent and borderline pathological need to present yourself as a program insider when that gambit was long ago revealed to be a farce.
"Nonetheless" is one word. Did you go to the U. of Oregon?
Why, because it's increasingly crowded there? He's a filthy turd, a poor excuse for a human being. He may be a decent coach, but at a cost non-sociopaths have no interest in incurring.
Camera's and media's what? Oh, that's right, you went to the U. of O.
Post hoc "apologies" when they are clearly nothing than PR moves don't mean diddly shit and no unbiased party believes for a second that ALSal is any more capable of a sincere apology as he is of becoming pregnant with anything more sophisticated than his own hot air.
Wow. That's a very focused, insightful prediction. Good thing you have the inside scoop!
First of all, shut it assduck.
Second, sleazy needs a good skull thumping.
Richard Ashcroft wrote:
bad stuff
You sure are full of crap, and it reflects on you, not anyone else
Harsher than what I would have said, but not inconsistent with what I was thinking.
what comes out of your mouth wrote:
You sure are full of crap, and it reflects on you, not anyone else
Oh! Well now that you put it THAT way, I am humbled and cowed and see the error of my ways...
...or...or...you can light it on fire and shove it up your poop chute.
Before this latest round of inexcusable shit from the NOP gangsters, I could sort of understand, ever so charitably, why people would want to stand up for the project and certainly for its athletes, who deserve none of the scorn that AlSal himself has systematically attracted and continues to cultivate in his megalomaniacal way as if he thinks it's possible to channel limitless amounts of bad publicity into positive energy for his charges. Well, he may be into chemical enhancement, but he's no alchemist, and his dubious understanding of social norms is quickly coming to bite him and bite him hard. People once judged Armstrong to be absolutely untouchable. Ask those same people how they feel about that assessment now.
"A Duck" says he wouldn't want to be on Salazar's bad side. I think I'm not alone in saying that pretty soon people will be jumping from Salazar's so called good side like crackheads from a house under a DEA raid. Anyone still claiming that there is more to the story is either an idiot, in the throes of dementia, or trolling, as no other options comport with the reality of March 2014.
Alberto knows who A Duck is and has contacted him through an intermediary asking him to quit trying to speak for him, Rupp, NOP, or Nike. As you can plainly see A Duck is delusional and lives in an alternate reality.
Quit trying to send Rupp gifts. Its creepy.
I think I prefer the way Federer and Nadal treat each other...esp. the way Federer treats Nadal, as Nadal's the only thing stopping Roger from being regarded by almost everyone alive as the greatest tennis player ever (Nadal leads their rivalry 23–10):
"Mortal enemy?" There's gotta be some context for that. I have absolutely no inside knowledge, but there's just no way that a Nike coach would write, completely seriously, in an email to his athletes that another Nike coach's athletes were mortal enemies and should not be treated with respect. There are dozens of ways that he could have meant it, some as a joke, some mockingly, some ironically, whatever, but if the whole email were released, we would see it for the innocuous comment that it is.
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"Mortal enemy?" There's gotta be some context for that. I have absolutely no inside knowledge, but there's just no way that a Nike coach would write, completely seriously, in an email to his athletes that another Nike coach's athletes were mortal enemies and should not be treated with respect. There are dozens of ways that he could have meant it, some as a joke, some mockingly, some ironically, whatever, but if the whole email were released, we would see it for the innocuous comment that it is.
Your reasons for believing this appear to be entirely fictitious.
Richard Ashcroft wrote:
...or...or...
You have a mental problem - get help.
There can be only one highlander.