Former Houlihan fan wrote:
If he had no knowledge or involvement then himself and Shalane would have put a little distance between themselves and drug cheat Shelby Houlihan without entirely throwing her under the bus.
Instead they both came out promoting her innocence and claiming none of them have heard of nandrolone. For the record that is Shelby, Shalane, Schumacher and Nessa Fraser who all claim they’d never even heard of nandrolone 😂
Counterpoint: Bowerman TC is very tight-knit and there is a strong sense of guilt by association. If Shelby went "rogue" and doped, even if Jerry/Shalane had no knowledge/involvement the better move is take her at her word (assuming she'd lie to him as most dopers would) and cast doubt upon the whole system. How likely are people to believe without more facts that Shelby doped away from the team and Jerry/Shalane were none the wiser? What plays stronger to fans:
a. My athlete was railroaded, the whole system is corrupt/unfair, and everything we do is clean
b. I don't know what happened with Shelby, i know everything i do is clean, and i can't control what my athlete does away from me
a. is stronger unless the athlete is so obviously guilty that there's no plausible deniability.
You'll see with Patrick Sang he went with option b with an athlete that got popped that trained under him but was caught doping away from the camp. This situation is different because Bowerman is a closely connected training group with a smaller team and the idea that Jerry is running the show on all levels.