Doug Logan named USATF CEO

Have covered both track and field and soccer (rare combination) at the professional level for years and dealt with Logan a bit at the start of MLS, learning much about him and his background, and getting a very firm grasp on the inner workings of Major League Soccer.

I will only say this: bad move by USATF.

Give it a few years. you will all see.

Compare Doug\'s vision to what we have today, which is a Red Chinese shoe company (with a Stanford MBA pale face as surrogate) in Portland as the major sponsor of our sport.

We need to be on broadcast no-pay TV during prime time. Some IAAF GP and SGP meetings and EAA meetings are on held on weekday nights because of the crowded sports TV schedule. They hold the GL meets on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. The Roma GL meeting goes til 11:00 P.M. Sunday night.

What is sooo bad about him?? The last CEO ran really fast back in the day. It\'s all relative.

It will not take long to see what this man is made of.

Problems are known , people who have kept the sport behind are known and the power grabbers are known.

A strong leader will hit this hard early and set a standard of quality,direction,purpose and leadership.

Lets look at the first 100 days and see what gets been done or not.

Compare it to now wrote:

We need to be on broadcast no-pay TV during prime time. Some IAAF GP and SGP meetings and EAA meetings are on held on weekday nights because of the crowded sports TV schedule. They hold the GL meets on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. The Roma GL meeting goes til 11:00 P.M. Sunday night.

Any major network that broadcasts track in prime time would be pissing money away. Just because it would be good for the sport doesn't mean it's remotely realistic.

Too much free time wrote:Fresh New Face. Make everything fresh. Start by cleaning house. Obviously people like Chaplin and Hightower and Latimer are all volunteer positions that have been voted in. You don't need to get rid of them. JUST GET RID OF THEIR POWER. It would be rather easy for a new guy that has orders from USOC to minimize the amount of decision makers, to cut back.

One possibly positive outcome of this hire: this was not Chaplin's pick for CEO - he was politicking for Bill Schmidt all around Eugene. Not sure how that fits into the big picture, but maybe Chaplin's power is starting to erode.

Any major network that broadcasts track in prime time would be pissing money away. Just because it would be good for the sport doesn't mean it's remotely realistic.

That's what they told the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960's when they moved their headquarters to Hollywood and turned it into the 1st entertainment company in professional sports. The Rams became a huge TV draw. The L.A. Rams' president, Pete Rozelle, went on to the NFL and made it the multi Billion dollar empire that it is today. Logan should move USATF headquarters from Indianapolis to Hollywood, leaving all of the salaried employees that work their to find new jobs. Logan should then transform USATF into a new sports league/entertainment company, hiring his own staff, whose job it is to get us on prime time TV. Regional associations would then be empowered to handle youth, masters, etc. USATF elite track meets should be on TV in the evenings for the whole nation to watch. Have the heats in the daytime, finals at prime-time.

How do the xenophobes feel about this guy being namesd CEO. Spanish is his 1st language too.

Why not have a Tuesday night elite meet in the USA and broadcast it on TV, like they do in Sweden.