Pete Julian taking over the reigns at NOP. Salazar will work only with Galen in Portland from here moving forward. This is from a source VERY close to the fact.
Pete Julian taking over the reigns at NOP. Salazar will work only with Galen in Portland from here moving forward. This is from a source VERY close to the fact.
goodbye usa distance running.
If true, I would bet the real story is that Nike is pushing Salazar in that direction. He's just not cut out to coach any large volume of athletes and establish trust with all of them. Salazar will likely be vindicated with the doping allegations. But you can't ignore the basic fact that so many athletes and trainers left NOP on negative terms. That's got to be unacceptable to Nike.
ryan, why do you make stuff up? Nike loves Alberto Salazar. He has given them his life and his health. He is the most commanding voice about running on campus. All projects with equipment are run through him for his insights. They named a building after him and have made him a millionaire. That is love of a brand. Phil Knight, Mark Parker, and Trevor Edwards all speak highly of him. Have you ever been to a sales meeting?
ryan foreman wrote:
If true, I would bet the real story is that Nike is pushing Salazar in that direction. He's just not cut out to coach any large volume of athletes and establish trust with all of them. Salazar will likely be vindicated with the doping allegations. But you can't ignore the basic fact that so many athletes and trainers left NOP on negative terms. That's got to be unacceptable to Nike.
Yeah, 4 olympic medals is totally unacceptable.
Peruvian Princess wrote:
ryan foreman wrote:If true, I would bet the real story is that Nike is pushing Salazar in that direction. He's just not cut out to coach any large volume of athletes and establish trust with all of them. Salazar will likely be vindicated with the doping allegations. But you can't ignore the basic fact that so many athletes and trainers left NOP on negative terms. That's got to be unacceptable to Nike.
Yeah, 4 olympic medals is totally unacceptable.
LOL. Seriously. Punishment for being the greatest coach on planet earth is retirement. Not believable. At all.
Salazar not only coaches his own athletes but was a big factor in establishing the U.S. Army program in Portland that is coached by Dan Browne
http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2016/03/distance_runner_paul_chelimo_h.html
Centro? Rowbury?
Salazar is retiring before getting a lifetime ban from USADA.
Thank you for sharing your fabulous running and coaching career with the rest of us. May your life continue to be long and prosperous.
Coach Cookie wrote:
Salazar is retiring before getting a lifetime ban from USADA.
Kara finally got him on the hats.
NOPe wrote:
Salazar not only coaches his own athletes but was a big factor in establishing the U.S. Army program in Portland that is coached by Dan Browne
http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2016/03/distance_runner_paul_chelimo_h.html
Cool. Didn't know that. Respect to AlSal.
Read my post. I didn't say Nike didn't like him. Just that I don't think they feel he is cut out to run a whole track club the way Nike demands it should. I have no doubt that Nike would love to retain Salazar to coach Rupp and probably Centro. Continue to give him all the resources Nike has and perhaps advise other coaches. Its just a matter of taking Salazar for what he is. He is a great coach and visionary in some ways. But he doesn't have the required temperament to build up trust with lots of new athletes. I think that has been demonstrated multiple times over.
People need to realize that Salazar is crazy. Literally. His obsessiveness is off the charts. Everything you have ever heard about NOP makes sense when you accept that.
Its great in some ways. But he is blind to the art of establishing trust with athletes that any coach needs to have. Rupp and Centro are unique. Rupp built a relationship with Salazar as a young kid. His parents were involved and it was before NOP ever existed. Centro has a dad who happens to be good, long time friends with Salazar. Because of those unique situations their relationship with Salazar works. Other athletes like Farah and Ritz have worked well with Salazar but only out of sheer maturity and drive to succeed. And even then it seems they end up having an arms length relationship with Salazar.
But if you take some random prodigy athlete like Mary Cain barely out of their parents house and new to the world, working with Salazar doesn't tend to end well. Obviously Nike wants to cultivate and develop new young talent and lots of it. To do that I think Salazar has become more of a hindrance.
The fact is that he's a hard-driver. That's why he almost killed himself by running and training so hard en route to world records and (according to him) limited talent. He's brash at times and an outlier in many respects, but you can't be a cupcake and be the same as everybody else.
It's like when people asked Tiger to quit his tantrums. Well, you can take all of him or none of him. Now he acts like someone he's not and loses. So my point is any one with that drive will inevitably rub people with less drive the wrong way.
Next, PLENTY OF ATHLETES TRUST HIM. That's why freaking KG says she loves him and trusts him so much. So that's a bad point on your part.
How about you quit making up gossip a la that failed coach in Houston over THIS RUMOR which someone may be BASELESS. The OP is probably laughing at us for even commenting.
xbxnup wrote:
goodbye usa distance running.
You're kidding right?
American medals produced by US coaches at the 2016 Olympics.
Mark Wetmore - 2
Alberto Salazar - 2
Jerry Schumacher - 1
Lee LaBadie - 1
Dan Browne - 1
Salazar said his mission was to make *US* distance running more competitive. He did that by encouraging shoe companies to take the sport seriously by forming training groups and sponsoring other things. I'd explain the rest, but you already know it and enjoy making money off trying to destroy Salazar's career. (And that won't happen, sorry to tell you!)
rojo wrote:
xbxnup wrote:goodbye usa distance running.
You're kidding right?
American medals produced by US coaches at the 2016 Olympics.
Mark Wetmore - 2
Alberto Salazar - 2
Jerry Schumacher - 1
Lee LaBadie - 1
Dan Browne - 1
Salazar said his mission was to make *US* distance running more competitive. He did that by encouraging shoe companies to take the sport seriously by forming training groups and sponsoring and other things. I'd explain the rest, but you already know it and enjoy making money off trying to destroy Salazar's career. (And that won't happen, sorry to tell you!)
rojo wrote:
xbxnup wrote:goodbye usa distance running.
You're kidding right?
American medals produced by US coaches at the 2016 Olympics.
Mark Wetmore - 2
Alberto Salazar - 2
Jerry Schumacher - 1
Lee LaBadie - 1
Dan Browne - 1
GJK wrote:
ryan, why do you make stuff up? Nike loves Alberto Salazar.
Only Uncle Phil loves AlSal. Once Phil is gone AlSal is gone.
He raised the level of competition. Now everyone has a paradigm to copy. And those other coaches only established groups BECAUSE of him. Learn your history. Use those bought Ivy league educations.
End Of An Era wrote:
Pete Julian taking over the reigns at NOP. Salazar will work only with Galen in Portland from here moving forward. This is from a source VERY close to the fact.
I love when these posts are floated.
Salazar went on record months ago, that he might not be coaching much longer. I think it was on the Oregonian website.
Salazar has like two heart stents, pacemaker, whatever. A wife who might want some quality time. Etc.
This "news" ain't news.