This comes up several times a year for most post college training groups. By and large, the impression I get is that the bashing is generated by runners who have lost their support and have no where else to turn but to the message boards to vent their situations. I can't find one runner who left/was cut, other than Krifchin, who went to another training group. To me, this indicates that they were cut because they just weren't good enough, but were given support and a good opportunity, something they wouldn't have been given anywhere else. In Krifchin's case, it appears as though she should have stayed where she was, as she was a power on the elite stage while with Stotan. In all other cases, it looks to be that runners with low potential have run very well, relative to where they were when they were taken in. If you're being bashed on lrdc, you're doing something right. enough so that you generate some bad press, which is really good press anyway.