zarathustra wrote:
If I wasn't so old I'd go in there myself and kick some geezer ass!
Foley?
zarathustra wrote:
If I wasn't so old I'd go in there myself and kick some geezer ass!
Foley?
Not a CEO wrote:
I've never been a CEO myself but have I been a VP Engr & board member of hi tech companies. The current BoD should be reassigned as the Volunteer Operations Advisory Board, i.e. a "User Group" of distinguished T&F luminaries. I wouldn't recommend the job of CEO to any successful/experienced person unless it was for both the CoB and CEO position. That sole individual would have the authority to name her/his own executive team and replace the board "at will".
Totally agree. (I've also been a VP and co-founder of tech companies.) I've been thinking along the same lines, you make a GREAT point.
I'd like to see the athletes cleared out, and only people with real life BoD, exec, or C level experience be in charge.
And, of course, as many have pointed out before USATF needs to be broken into smaller bodies.
If ever a sport needed government intervention right now, it is TF.
If Steve Miller gets the job, someone should ask him about Sabrina Dornhoefer.
There is someone out there ... probably sucked at running, never made the varsity team, loves the sport, but is an a$$ kicker in the board room who could turn this around.Just because someone ran fast or held a stop watch and called out splits doesn't make them a good CEO of USATF. Ask the CEO of NASCAR.
Get Real Real wrote:
Not a CEO wrote:I've never been a CEO myself but have I been a VP Engr & board member of hi tech companies. The current BoD should be reassigned as the Volunteer Operations Advisory Board, i.e. a "User Group" of distinguished T&F luminaries. I wouldn't recommend the job of CEO to any successful/experienced person unless it was for both the CoB and CEO position. That sole individual would have the authority to name her/his own executive team and replace the board "at will".
Totally agree. (I've also been a VP and co-founder of tech companies.) I've been thinking along the same lines, you make a GREAT point.
I'd like to see the athletes cleared out, and only people with real life BoD, exec, or C level experience be in charge.
And, of course, as many have pointed out before USATF needs to be broken into smaller bodies.
If ever a sport needed government intervention right now, it is TF.
If alls we get next is some CEO who can co-exist with that existing BoD then we lose. We're competing with X-Games, Soccer, CFB, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and other major sports.
Did you know that the AVP recently went kaput even though they showed tall blond beach girls jumping up and down in bikinis, jiggling, wiggling, and screaming on TV, for hours and hours. They couldn't make money and folded up.
We need a CEO and Board of Directors that has already developed $Billion sports leagues, teams, and media products. We need BEEN-THERE-DONE-THAT types. No "on-the-job" training newbies from non-profits, athletic federations, shoe companies, fan boy websites, and running clubs.
We need USOC and/or Congress to intervene and reform USATF. There's no way we can attain what we need with the current Stalinistic junta in place.
Otherwise we will continue to be swamped by the major sports. We will be stuck with the status quo of having our top showcase meets at 1) unfinished venues, 2) venues built atop trash dumps, 3) venues that only get a Texas HS equivalent football crowd of 20,000 for the sprints, hurdles, and relay finals, 3) meets that interleaved HS races to conjure a background audience that looks good on TV for our USATF Elites, 4) cheap gimmicks like "NFL has-been" races to pack the seats, etc.
Oh yeah, because the USOC has its shit together to tell an NGB how to run its ship. You are humorous and ignorant.