Rupp does the 30-40

As a compliance officer at a major D1 university in this country and having looked at all the rules and researched all that is going on at Oregon, and I can tell you that they are borderline playing with compliance violations. Rupp and Salazar are going to bring down the entire university in this Nike/oregon/rupp charade. no other D1 male or female athlete has the opportunities that are being given to Mr. Rupp. this is similar to Michigan basketball and other major infractions caused by other schools. I'm assuming Nike is paying off both the NCAA and the PAC-10 to do nothing about it. I just can't see how Vin is allowing this to happen.

If you are truely a compliance officer and I have no doubt that you may be, please explain specifically what violations you see.

Obviously he IS an NCAA Compliance Officer.

I mean, check out the username.

Yeah, exactly how is this a violation? I agree that there probably are some things that are sketchy but you can't throw out an accusation without some sort of substance. What do you see that is an actual violation?

Rupp not running a course b/c it has ruts is totally a Prima Donna move. He is a professional athlete straight up. Competing for Oregon is perfunctory. Hope Chelenga outkicks him.

My idiot HS track coach apparently read about this workout, thought it would be a great idea, and tried to make us run it without making ANY modifications or whatsoever.

So one day at practice:

IC (idiot coach): "Guys, we are going to try something new today, you guys will run a 30 second 200 meters with a 40 seconds 200 meters as "rest" ... do this 8 times"

Me: "Coach, what's the rest?"

IC: "uh... the 40 second 200 is your rest"

Me: "Great, so today our entire team will break the county record for the 3200 by 5 seconds"

IC: "Uhh..."

So, how many of you ended up breaking the record?

i am confused...referencing the original article...are they 30-40's or 40-30's?

NCAA compliance officer wrote:

I just can't see how Vin is allowing this to happen.

Vin was hired to play along with/ play down the situation.

Vin knows full well what a scumbag Salazar is, and is paid quite well to look the other way.

What's funny is that most everyone actually believes that rupp ran this workout, I don't.

Rupp totally wussed out on running a short, flat, easy course, with virtually no competition. Realizing that the "too many ruts" excuse made him look like the giant pansy that he is, the brilliant AlSal fabricates this nonsense.

I hope rupp gets canned in the coming weeks, collegiate running will be far better off.

cah87 wrote:

ehhhh wrote:

Alright, now 4lapsx5miles is... don't tell me, don't tell me, i'll get it...

"Most guys stop at 8 laps," says Dellinger. "Alberto Salazar did 16 laps. Pre still holds the record at 18." ~ Run with the Champions.

Since I hadn't read that I relied on the article presented in THIS thread:

"The record was five miles, by Steve Prefontaine," said Alberto Salazar, Rupp's coach and a former Oregon star. "I think the furthest I ever made it was four miles."

Either way, we know that Pre did more than the 4 miles (16 laps) this guy presented to us as the record...

shaggy da wrote:

What's funny is that most everyone actually believes that rupp ran this workout, I don't.

Rupp totally wussed out on running a short, flat, easy course, with virtually no competition. Realizing that the "too many ruts" excuse made him look like the giant pansy that he is, the brilliant AlSal fabricates this nonsense.

I hope rupp gets canned in the coming weeks, collegiate running will be far better off.

It amazes me how cynical some people on this board are

just cynical, not naive, right?

What is this place? The church of the immaculate rupp?

I was involved in Compliance at a major NCAA Division I university in the South and do not see violations in regards to Rupp. That being said, however, I am not involved with the program nor assume to know everything that does or does not go on. Every coach in every program bends rules. Everyone.

I want to try... wrote:

I wonder how one would adjust the 30/40 for less fit runners. My numbers would reflect a 2:55 marathoner or 1:24 half, any ideas on appropriate paces?

Or you could just do the same workout and see how far you can go, since that is the point of it.

This was an incredible workout, and for some reason people feel the need to shit on Rupp. Shut up and grow up.

If Salazar wanted to fabricate an imaginary workout (and why would he do that, to intimidate other NCAA XC runners?) does it make sense that he would invite an Oregonian newspaper reporter to watch the workout? Since nearly all of Rupp's workouts are NOT seen by reporters, why wouldn't Salazar, if he needed to lie about what Rupp's capable of, just say Rupp did it when nobody was around to verify it?

Also, why is it so impossible to believe Rupp could cover 6 miles in just under 28 minutes?

I can see being skeptical when there's a reason, but some people on this topic are just being a-holes because it's Rupp we're talking about.

Truffe wrote:

Rupp not running a course b/c it has ruts is totally a Prima Donna move. He is a professional athlete straight up. Competing for Oregon is perfunctory. Hope Chelenga outkicks him.

Yeah, I would hate for an American to win the NCAA championship.

I'm a hater of the "Ballerness" persuasion, but holy eff that is an incredible workout. Maybe 10k AR this spring?

For the record:

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