Nike's Global Director of Athletics John Capriotti Threatened To Kill Brooks Beasts Head Coach Danny Mackey At 2015 USAs

Nike employees are a fvvkking train wreck waiting to happen.

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2014/02/nike-coaches-alberto-salazar-jerry-schumacher-heated-exchanged-separated-mens-3000-2014-usa-indoors/

This will get deleted pretty quickly I'm sure, but Cap and his tactics don't belong in the sport.

After 2012 when Jager was resigning with Nike Cap gave him a major salary reduction and if he didn't resign he threatened to let Chris Solinsky and Matt Tegenkamp go as his punishment. Pretty much he used Jager's friends as pawns against him in order to resign their top steepler for a major reduction.

There are many many more stories that current/former Nike athletes have shared with me that create a very clear picture of how Cap works and it's truly sad. I understand business is business, but when you are using an athletes friends against him to save money that is too far.

If this comment gets deleted I'll just keep posting more.

Trust me, it's much much worse in sports like the NFL. The headlines are what we see and only barely scratch the surface. Track is tame to what goes on there.

Two thoughts:

The Nike - USATF relationship needs to be brought to an end somehow, some way.

"Will Leer, a Nike-sponsored athlete" is about to become an athlete formerly sponsored by Nike.

p.s. How does Llewellyn Starks STILL have a job with Nike?!

inside info wrote:

This will get deleted pretty quickly I'm sure, but Cap and his tactics don't belong in the sport.

After 2012 when Jager was resigning with Nike Cap gave him a major salary reduction and if he didn't resign he threatened to let Chris Solinsky and Matt Tegenkamp go as his punishment. Pretty much he used Jager's friends as pawns against him in order to resign their top steepler for a major reduction.

There are many many more stories that current/former Nike athletes have shared with me that create a very clear picture of how Cap works and it's truly sad. I understand business is business, but when you are using an athletes friends against him to save money that is too far.

If this comment gets deleted I'll just keep posting more.

Don't stop there. You're anonymous dude and this site isn't exactly pro Nike

malmo wrote:

[Have any of you ever worked for a company that wouldn't fire Salazar and Capriotti on the spot for their violent outbursts? I've worked in offices if you even raised your voice you were gone. No questions. No second chances. Out the door. When boundaries are firmly understood, it makes it easy to have a productive, cooperative, and pleasant work environment.

I've worked in offices where people have had fist-fights, smashed computers and set someone on fire but no-one got fired as long as they made money. That's Investment Banking for you.

inside info wrote:

This will get deleted pretty quickly I'm sure, but Cap and his tactics don't belong in the sport.

After 2012 when Jager was resigning with Nike Cap gave him a major salary reduction and if he didn't resign he threatened to let Chris Solinsky and Matt Tegenkamp go as his punishment. Pretty much he used Jager's friends as pawns against him in order to resign their top steepler for a major reduction.

There are many many more stories that current/former Nike athletes have shared with me that create a very clear picture of how Cap works and it's truly sad. I understand business is business, but when you are using an athletes friends against him to save money that is too far.

If this comment gets deleted I'll just keep posting more.

Anyway to confirm this?

The line from the article seems to be spot on that Nike operates much like the mafia. And people still think that T&F is still better off with Nike controlling things.

I just googled Llewellyn Starks.

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

inside info wrote:

This will get deleted pretty quickly I'm sure, but Cap and his tactics don't belong in the sport.

After 2012 when Jager was resigning with Nike Cap gave him a major salary reduction and if he didn't resign he threatened to let Chris Solinsky and Matt Tegenkamp go as his punishment. Pretty much he used Jager's friends as pawns against him in order to resign their top steepler for a major reduction.

There are many many more stories that current/former Nike athletes have shared with me that create a very clear picture of how Cap works and it's truly sad. I understand business is business, but when you are using an athletes friends against him to save money that is too far.

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I'd love to hear what Josh Rowe has to say about all of this.

malmo wrote:

inside info wrote:

This will get deleted pretty quickly I'm sure, but Cap and his tactics don't belong in the sport.

After 2012 when Jager was resigning with Nike Cap gave him a major salary reduction and if he didn't resign he threatened to let Chris Solinsky and Matt Tegenkamp go as his punishment. Pretty much he used Jager's friends as pawns against him in order to resign their top steepler for a major reduction.

There are many many more stories that current/former Nike athletes have shared with me that create a very clear picture of how Cap works and it's truly sad. I understand business is business, but when you are using an athletes friends against him to save money that is too far.

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I'd love to hear what Josh Rowe has to say about all of this.

I'm guessing you mean this Josh Rowe -

- but I'm not familiar with his story. Can you bring those of us who don't know about Josh up to speed?

hart crane wrote:

T&F is in a sad state. Every day it seems like something worse pops up.

It's always darkest before dawn.

I'd much rather have all of the doping and corruption come to light now and have the sport look "bad" for a period of time than have it continue.

Steve Prefontaine would be disgusted by how the company he helped build is conducting itself. Bullying coaches and athletes, even their own, playing politics with the whole sport just because they can, enabling drug cheats like Lance Armstrong, Justin Gatlin, and allegedly Salazar's group.

Nike and the USATF are turning our sport into a toxic and corrupt playground for bullying clowns like John Capriotti, and frankly it sucks.

This is the last straw for me, I'm doing something I should have done long ago and ditching my Nike gear. This is not a company I want to support in any shape or fashion.

Lotta people gonna get beat up now that the fires been ignited lol. Nike's a joke.

Kansas State fired Cap for less.

inside info wrote:

After 2012 when Jager was resigning with Nike Cap gave him a major salary reduction and if he didn't resign he threatened to let Chris Solinsky and Matt Tegenkamp go as his punishment. Pretty much he used Jager's friends as pawns against him in order to resign their top steepler for a major reduction.

I'm not a Nike fan at all, but this sounds like a normal negotiation tactic. You say, hey, I only have so much money to spend on this group, so if I give it all to you then the others have to go. Jager could have called the bluff, if he was willing to walk out.

Randy Oldman wrote:

malmo wrote:

[Have any of you ever worked for a company that wouldn't fire Salazar and Capriotti on the spot for their violent outbursts? I've worked in offices if you even raised your voice you were gone. No questions. No second chances. Out the door. When boundaries are firmly understood, it makes it easy to have a productive, cooperative, and pleasant work environment.

I've worked in offices where people have had fist-fights, smashed computers and set someone on fire but no-one got fired as long as they made money. That's Investment Banking for you.

That doesn't sound very productive, cooperative or pleasant to me... Sounds more like the law of the jungle.

Nike: do what we say or else

Putting a face to the name of this D-Bag

http://www.imageofsport.com/search/keywords/John%20Capriotti

Rumor was the confrontation was over the signing of Hannah Fields (ended up with brooks Beasts) and Shelby Houlihan (ended up with Nike Bowerman) which with all due respect to those two talented young ladies, doesn't seem like anyone should be getting that worked up over.

Although I am a mildcat hater, firing Capriotti was one of the few things KSU has done right with their track program.