Max Siegel lashes out defending his $3.8 million pay: “Have you seen one gold medalist in there that’s been critical of me?"

How much does each of those pay its athletes? A track athlete making the olympics is getting less than $10k from USATF directly from placement at US championships, and then possibly some other small amounts but usually not. Again, you could still pay Siegel more than all of those other CEOs in the list and give EVERY top 8 finisher an extra $10k, or EVERY podium finisher an extra $30k.

I agree with nearly all of what you wrote, Sound Running is crushing it. Perhaps I was undercaffeinated.

One of the points I fell short in making was how does such a "generously" compensated, marketing-oriented CEO find himself incapable of creating something as impressive as what has been put together by Sound Running? I am inclined to disagree with some of the others - elite-level development should fall within the purview of USATF, especially if its CEO is hanging his hat on the lack of pushback from gold medalists.

I'm not sure if this is the right comparison, but you did the math wrong - Max's compensation is about 1.2% of revenue ($3.8M/$319M). Either way I still agree it seems pretty high (though who am I to judge).

Another mobbed up con artist:

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Stanford is investigating its OWN president over 'doctored' papers

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The school announced the probe Tuesday, announcing it would be investigating allegations of scientific misconduct involving the university's head staffer, Marc Tessier-Lavigne.

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Here is one of his two tweets.

Nice. MJ called Siegel's bluff.

The Nike deal was ridiculous, and enough on it's own to justify Siegel's removal. It's gonna actively harm the sport for years to come and was one of the most blatant forms of cronyism I've ever seen.

Then, when he received well articulated criticism for this from many athletes, Max's response was to order up a wildly sexist hit piece from that track and field "reporter" who's name I have blissfully forgotten.

He's a corrupt thin-skinned clown, and the sport would be infinitely better off with someone like Michael Johnson in charge.

Does that include stock options and bonus? USATF is competing with Fortune 100 companies to get the best CEO talent there is and since they can't pay stock options they have to up the salary. Seems sensible to me.

and Max is 100% correct. Leave him alone Rojo.

i would do it and i’m more competent (most people are)

Go to bed Max, you are loathed and loathsome: an absolutely disgusting emblem of our sport.

And if you're so g.d. "good" for anyone but yourself and those you've corrupted-- effin' leave, shmuck, and take your "talent" into the open market where an executive of your "brilliance" and "ethics" can REALLY make bank.

USATF is putting its 501c3 status at risk with this compensation package. Typically the Board of Directors has to commission a study of comparable non-profit CEO salaries when it sets its own CEO’s compensation. I’d like to see that study and how in the world they can justify this.

Stakeholders should report USATF to the IRS and also file a lawsuit against the Board and Max for breach of fiduciary duty, etc. It’s not right how this organization is being managed.

Both Max & his number 2 are embarrassingly overpaid based on the budget size of the organization. It is all about them, not the sport. Max, don’t let the door hit you on the way to your next scam……….Hopefully the Board who approved this embarrassment (the true villains here) are out the door with you.

When Max Siegel says he has heard no complaint of a gold medalist there is your first clue to what is wrong with his comment. When max siegel says that there is a racial issue to this, it is true, too but what you white folk don't understand is that this sport is made up of mostly black people in black people vote democrat.

Black people will vote for someone like Maxine Waters who lives in a $6 million dollar mansion while all her people who vote for her live in Section 8 houses and get by own food stamps. That will think being shared but black folk have come to understand that and are cool with it as long as somebody's getting theirs. I know, it's stupid but you got to understand that mindset. Mac Siegel makes $4 million dollars a year wow some female I heard her in the top 10 and making $40,000 a year and they okay with that. It's stupid but you don't understand the black mindset.

Little racist John Drummond talks about Black Folk ought to make the rules and the sport because according to him they went all the medals. He couldn't be more open and his racism but you got little nerdy white boys who like to suck up and you're going to have to deal with the max Siegles now. You had Stephanie Hightower who opened the door for him. They broke their own rules but they didn't care because they knew people like saying you richards, Michelle Carter, and every other black athlete was going to be okay with it.

A coach here…

Just making a relevant point, but I’ve produced multiple Team USA athletes that have finished seasons RANKED in the top-10 in the world (they had never achieved that prior to us working together). With those season performances, I have received a grand total of $3000 from USATF, and have NEVER had a plane ticket, meal, or hotel room comped.

Signed,

The forgotten

Some comparably-paid public company CEOs:

Company Revenue CEO_pay
Garmin $5B $4.2M
Microchip $6B $3.8M
Davita $11B $3.3M
Hasbro $6B $3.1M
Dish Network $18B $2.9M

pay numbers are total compensation including stock, benefits, etc.

Would love to know Siegel's charitable giving with all that $$$.

What a disgusting POS he is -- typical insecure con man trying to deflect that he's "persecuted."

Hey Max, your race go as zero to do with anything -- as a HUMAN BEING you are despicable, with zero true regard for the development and future of our sport.

Can someone tug on Gladwell's sleeve to help expose this fraud to a wider audience?

I think you are getting confused with numbers given that reflect multiple years. USATF's 2021 revenue was around $33 million.

Yup. USATF is never going to be the NFL. AAC is never going to be the same as a real union. The athletes know this, and many attempts have been made over the years, it is a really hard thing to pull off. You have to start with defining who is a professional athlete, that question is not an easy one for athletes to come up with any kind of agreement on.