Scott Simmons Police Report

This guy has been a snake oil salesman wherever he has been. He was using funds from grants for ADP to support his bar. Why do you think such a large portion of his team has left? NYRR and USATF and Running USA should all suit his butt for misuse of funds. Trust me when I tell you that not one athlete ever benefitted a penny from those grants.

Ian Burrell is a smart guy - isn't he a lawyer? Is he still working with Simmons?

Is this roster current?

http://www.americandistanceproject.com/Index/roster.html

Bent and crooked wrote:

This guy has been a snake oil salesman wherever he has been. . . . Trust me when I tell you that not one athlete ever benefitted a penny from those grants.

I have no comment on the current situation.

That said, there are a lot of runners who dramatically improved under his tutelage. The guy may be a scheister but he could flat out coach. Maybe, the two things are more related than they seem. The best coaches, ultimately, are con artists (c.f. Mark Wetmore).

This is easy to figure out.

1. Tenant like to drink beer.

2. Tenant observes bartender taking money from him. Sees lots money in cash machine. With that information, comes to the conclusion that it is better to own a bar then drink at a bar.

3. Tenant decides to start a bar, but doesn't know how and doesn't have any money.

4. Tenant finds desperate landlord with empty church, so desperate that he even willing to finance the lease security deposit in monthly installments.

5. Tenant does bar build-out off-permit, no doubt with the implicit knowledge of landlord.

6. (no idea if tenant had money to purchase inventory)

7. Tenant opens bar. Doesn't make money. Doesn't make any lease payments to landlord.

8. WTF moment for desperate landlord. Not only is he short income, he also does not have the ability to show the building to other prospective tenants.

9. Landlord files suit, knowing full well that tenant has no money to satisfy judgement, which would take months even years for eviction. Landlord switches strategy and uses the tenants illegal build-out to justify an immediate remedy, which includes eviction and possession of assets and fixtures.

10. Tenant is fvcked now. Desperate for cash he breaks into locked bar, removes taps and sell them on Craigslist. Not a good move. Situation has now escalated from merely Fvcked, to Fvcked Level 2.

11. Tenant still likes to drink beer, only won't have any more hair-brained ideas of opening another bar in the immediate future..... that is, until he can find another desperate landlord with a vacant property. If so, repeat steps 1 through 11.

Well done, Malmo. This has 60 minutes local edition all over it.

His annual coaching clinic was still scheduled for June 19-21 the last time I checked but today I saw this:

http://distancesummit.com/Summit/Home.html

It looks like he's still taking registrations without a date confirmed.

Love it

You forgot the part where Tenant floods basement, allows mold to grow, and then tries to claim that its the landlord's fault.

Scott Simmons is a bad person. He will throw anyone under the bus to make himself look good.

DO NOT TRUST HIM. I'll say it again, DO NOT TRUST HIM!

I have no insight to add to the situation with GreenMan in terms of lease and such, but I went there several times and the following are my impressions. Keep in mind that I have visited just about every craft brewery in El Paso county (there are over a dozen).

First, I liked the idea of a tap room that offered lots of beers. It opened right when the craft breweries in town were taking off which may have been part of the problem.

My take:

To make it here I think the staff has to be outgoing and personable AND MUST KNOW THEIR BEERS! Green Man failed miserably. Scott was not very outgoing to me the times I went in and he was there. I went out of my way to talk with him because of my love of beer and running and even with that I felt brushed off.

The biggest sin was that the staff knew nothing about beer. Many of them were runners who never drank. Sorry, but if you are going to sell close to 50 beers your staff needs to be able to explain to the customer about the beers. Once a girl working there grabbed the beer list when I asked about a beer---sorry, but that is just not acceptable at a tap room IMHO. I should never know more about the beers than the person behind the counter!

The church was a cool idea, but I did not think he really used it quite right. I cannot say what was wrong, but it seemed just "off". He just slapped a rectangular bar in the middle of the sanctuary. I thought it would be something more creative.

As I said, he launched at the start of the boom which also may have worked against him. Other places were brewing there own stuff and other places hosted rotating taps (Brewer's Republic) that had been here longer and had better staff. With the local scene being very competitive, I think the market was thinned out a bit.

After a while I think he would eventually settle down with fewer beers and a few rotating taps.

In the end there were far better places to get beers in Colorado Springs.

I found this update about this older issue with the Greenman Taproom in Colorado that was owned by Scott Simmons what ever became of him?

thoughts wrote:

http://posting.csindy.com/media/pdf/order__proposed_order_granting_possession_and_related_relief.pdf

I found this update about this older issue with the Greenman Taproom in Colorado that was owned by Scott Simmons what ever became of him?

Is this a new police report, or a follow up document? Was Simmons arrested again?

Scott Simmons is still in Colorado Springs, and he's the coach of American Distance Project

This should be sent to the ARMY. They have some strict policies involving this type of thing.

Nice summary ... but it's "hare-brained", not "hair-brained".

Your welcome (little joke)

Same filing--look at the date.

I am curious why the military would care. Simmons is not in the military.

I wonder what the outcome was. My guess is the landlord and Simmons came to an agreement.

As an aside, the location is set to become another brewery. This time by someone who has a clue about beer.

Corrector of stuff wrote:

Nice summary ... but it's "hare-brained", not "hair-brained".

Your welcome (little joke)

Put yer commas and periods inside the quotation marks, momma!

Yer welcome.

This belongs on the first page.

After getting to learn about scott further, he rarely attends his runners own practices, besides catching some workout reps here and there, I am wagering he works maybe 5 hours a week.

The guy has zero intuition, and has shown to just spit out numbers when giving out training.

Scott use to be an NAIA coach, and was a mediocre one at that.