Use your imagination. No one from BTC should be coaching in D1, including Schumacher. The BTC runners doped/are doping, and you would have to be braindead to think Solinsky, who was with Schumacher since college, did not dope to set ARs. I have never seen a pro athlete who doped in competition abandon the doping culture when they start coaching. They will spread it to their athletes. Hope this is a rare exception.
He appears to be in a great career position. I just can’t fathom why he would risk his job for that. Doesn’t make sense to me.
And my imagination doesn’t imagine it. So again, what are you imagining?
He had a great position as pro and was willing to risk it. All of them are. It is the culture. The pro runners who dope expect to get away with it and mostly do.
BTC is part of the pro landscape but it is a cancer. And it has been brought into D1. It creates doubt and uncertainty. No athlete dopes in a vacuum. It requires someone to teach them the trade. A doping tree.
Like I said, hope you are right, but how can we be sure things will be on the level with such a strong BTC connection?
I think there are a multitude of factors to consider, but you are just taking a big paint brush and splashing paint on the canvas.
Step back, dropping your biases, and think a bit. This is not a controlled Pro team, where paid athletes have the fear of NDA’s hanging over their head.
So therefore, what if one of his athlete’s were to spill the beans? A disgruntled college athlete would have nothing to lose, unlike a paid pro.
And Florida U is world’s apart in pay and stature than beanfield Huntington U. So the risk he would face in literally losing it all don’t make sense to me.
Besides that, what PED would you even be talking about?
He had a great position as pro and was willing to risk it. All of them are. It is the culture. The pro runners who dope expect to get away with it and mostly do.
BTC is part of the pro landscape but it is a cancer. And it has been brought into D1. It creates doubt and uncertainty. No athlete dopes in a vacuum. It requires someone to teach them the trade. A doping tree.
Like I said, hope you are right, but how can we be sure things will be on the level with such a strong BTC connection?
I think there are a multitude of factors to consider, but you are just taking a big paint brush and splashing paint on the canvas.
Step back, dropping your biases, and think a bit. This is not a controlled Pro team, where paid athletes have the fear of NDA’s hanging over their head.
So therefore, what if one of his athlete’s were to spill the beans? A disgruntled college athlete would have nothing to lose, unlike a paid pro.
And Florida U is world’s apart in pay and stature than beanfield Huntington U. So the risk he would face in literally losing it all don’t make sense to me.
Besides that, what PED would you even be talking about?
And here is a factor to consider before trying to answer that last question: I read (not sure if true) that one of his athletes is out with an eating disorder. Facing that additional complication, he still would mix-in doping the athletes for performance enhancement? I think that would be facing too much risk, on multiple fronts.
An nda would not prevent whistleblowing about pro doping. It is just that athletes generally don't admit it. You need a real crazy situation like Landis to get someone to talk. Again I think Riis is the only one who free admitted it without coercion. I doubt it would be program wide or indiscrete. But regarding a star athlete or protege who the coach thinks can go all the way? That might be diferent. Just this past cycle a college sprinter got caught for tampering. The instigator was his coach/father, a former Balco witness who had a prior doping ban. I think the coach went to an even bigger program, UT if I recall. And what athlete who joined BTC refused to play the game? Cranny? Schweiter? Anyone?
Anyway, it is an invasive thought. You hope better sense prevails.
Hmmm, looks like it could be an error of maybe 10sec*1000/400= 25seconds!
top 20 averaged 7 seconds per 400 faster from 2K to 3K vs the average of 1K to 2K and 3K to 4K. the low was 4.9 and the high was 8.7 (Mercy), The 1K to 2k and 3K to 4K speeds were pretty close for a lot of the field, with some slowing as you look at the non top runners.
Use your imagination. No one from BTC should be coaching in D1, including Schumacher. The BTC runners doped/are doping, and you would have to be braindead to think Solinsky, who was with Schumacher since college, did not dope to set ARs. I have never seen a pro athlete who doped in competition abandon the doping culture when they start coaching. They will spread it to their athletes. Hope this is a rare exception.
Which pro athletes have you seen who doped in competition, then continued the doping culture while coaching?
Use your imagination. No one from BTC should be coaching in D1, including Schumacher. The BTC runners doped/are doping, and you would have to be braindead to think Solinsky, who was with Schumacher since college, did not dope to set ARs. I have never seen a pro athlete who doped in competition abandon the doping culture when they start coaching. They will spread it to their athletes. Hope this is a rare exception.
Which pro athletes have you seen who doped in competition, then continued the doping culture while coaching?
Btw on that point there have been very successful sprinting coaches whose careers were not affected by doping allegations at all. Kersee comes to mind. He was directly accused. Duane Ross was banned due to Balco, clearly ran a dirty program at A&T and his own son got caught tampering. His punishment? Got hired by the Univ. of Tennessee. LOLL. College sports and ethics have never gone hand in hand. What athlete that a coach or program helped dope to glory has ever spilled the beans? Houlihan has not even done it. No one associated with Schumacher has done it. Outside of Huntington Univ. when has it ever happened? If a coach helps an athlete win a championship that athlete will not be disgruntled by any means and will never admit it, so the risk is very minimal.
Steroids to shed body fat and build endurance and recovery are the most likely candidates.
I'll need to do some research to confirm, but 18:33 seems insanely fast. On legit courses, 19:00 teens is what I recall being your top NCAA females and 19:00 single-digits on a flat or perhaps short courses. Obviously, this course could be short, which I am inclined to believe, but if not, America has its newest distance running sensation.
I'll need to do some research to confirm, but 18:33 seems insanely fast. On legit courses, 19:00 teens is what I recall being your top NCAA females and 19:00 single-digits on a flat or perhaps short courses. Obviously, this course could be short, which I am inclined to believe, but if not, America has its newest distance running sensation.
see the other thread...splits and google earth suggests 5800 m
I'll need to do some research to confirm, but 18:33 seems insanely fast. On legit courses, 19:00 teens is what I recall being your top NCAA females and 19:00 single-digits on a flat or perhaps short courses. Obviously, this course could be short, which I am inclined to believe, but if not, America has its newest distance running sensation.
Obviously the course was short. Just 2 weeks ago Valby ran 18:58 on a course that the coach in charge of the meet admitted was short.
There is no way Valby went from 18:58 on a short course to 18:25 on an accurately measured course.