USA Track & Field defends CEO’s $4.2 million 2018 salary number

Roger Goodell's latest accomplishments are the $2B So Fi Stadium in Inglewood, $2B Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and magnificent, state-of-the-art NFL Network TV Studio in West Los Angeles. Max Siegel hasn't one single accomplishment.

kmaclam wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF1_v8EvcOo

Well she open the books n Oiselle? Has she even offered to show us some of their contracts? Doesn’t she try to exploit people with her “ambassador” program to require people pay the company to be advertisers and marketers.

ohia wrote:

lotta anti-capitalists in here...

Saying this like it's the 1980s & that's a dirty phrase. Yeah, surprise surprise some people want to do what's best in the interests of thousands of athletes over 1 person who is profiting off of the whole thing. Call it anti-capitalist but it's just logical & pro worker/working class.

To keep this issue in perspective, most of the grass-roots level work done under the auspices of USATF is by people who willingly volunteer their time, or who are paid very modest honoraria. The top comp for USATF is insanely out of whack with what anyone else associated with the organization is paid. No matter what Siegel has or hasn't done to earn several million dollars, to me it is immoral to take all that for yourself and continue to ride on the backs of volunteers. This is a business model, that, even for a 501(c)3, is destined for change or failure.

I wouldnt get so hysterical over 4 mil. When you look at salary of NCAA Head coaches and NCAA CEO its about the same imbalance. The athletes get a paid a 7-11 frozen burrito. Thats normal these days.

No limit is the America way.

This whole thing is a joke. NFL agents get 4% of the contracts they negotiate for their clients. That would put the USATF Nike fee at $20 million for a $500 million deal.However this was a no bid, no competition deal. No one in their right mind can say the former Nike executives did work to merit that much of a pay out, even spread out over 20 years. Either Max and USATF were grossly incompetent in negotiating this deal, or the fix was in. It's a lot of money for USATF, but USATF is essentially Nike's bit**until this deal runs out. And where the hell is all this money going besides Max? Not to the athletes and not to any significant promotion of the sport. Maybe the travel budget for all of Max's cronies. This whole thing stinks. NIKE shills can say how wonderful this is, but it is all a corrupt pile of you know what.

After Max is gone, USATF will cancel, and Max is out the remainder.

Like so many others, I received the salary list of the USATF top staffers last week. No one should be surprised at these numbers, with or without the Corona virus. For the many who are crying foul, I can only say they need to get a grip on reality in USATF. The reality is most of the USATF membership has been asleep at the wheel for years.

A few years ago 1.5 million was spent on a stupid lawsuit, which they lost, against the then leaders of the youth division. Few said a word back then, so why all the comments now? This is how the organization is normally run.

Don't get me wrong, I feel for the starving athletes who will need to quit the sport and get a job, while staffers eats steak in Indy. However, elite athletes have 20% of the votes on the USATF board of directors, and they aren't saying a word about these salaries, so I can't bring myself to cry for them.