Marc announces his departure from Bowerman in December, woody on his way out next. Heard it here first.
Clearly people are not happy with Jerry spreading his attention out to 70+ athletes plus the move to Eugene is something no one wanted. I give bowerman 12 months before they dissolve to individual Nike athletes.
Some very telling quotes from Marc Scott in JG article today…
First this: One, I didn’t want to move to Eugene. It’s not a place where I wanted to live and call home, especially being from the UK and being so far away. I know it’s not a big difference from Portland but we were pretty settled in Portland and I was happy with the environment there. Secondary, I didn’t think we’d really get as much time and effort from Jerry. I just thought he was going to be run off his feet with a lot of college athletes as well. So I wasn’t really in favor of the move to Eugene to start with.
Then this: There was a lot of hesitancy about moving to Eugene. Just with it being so close to Portland, we thought maybe we could commute to Eugene for workouts, essentially, and live in our houses which we had all established in Portland. So people were definitely were upset. Probably more upset than happy, on the whole for the team. If it was a big out-of-state move, I think people would have been more on board, but a little change in scenery to Eugene wasn’t really what we would have been expecting.
Scott, who is in Kenya now and hoping to work with coach Patrick Sang, reveals why he left BTC and reflects on his five years with the group that produced a 12:57 European indoor record and a World Indoor medal.
First this: One, I didn’t want to move to Eugene. It’s not a place where I wanted to live and call home, especially being from the UK and being so far away. I know it’s not a big difference from Portland but we were pretty settled in Portland and I was happy with the environment there
Marc announces his departure from Bowerman in December, woody on his way out next. Heard it here first.
Clearly people are not happy with Jerry spreading his attention out to 70+ athletes plus the move to Eugene is something no one wanted. I give bowerman 12 months before they dissolve to individual Nike athletes.
First this: One, I didn’t want to move to Eugene. It’s not a place where I wanted to live and call home, especially being from the UK and being so far away. I know it’s not a big difference from Portland but we were pretty settled in Portland and I was happy with the environment there
Not Eugene but Kenya is okay?
Making a choice about where to live is different from your job telling you to move
Would it have been smarter to keep the team in Portland and hire Solinsky to be the on the ground coach there and Jerry commute up to Portland up for the big workouts that he wants to be part of
Would it have been smarter to keep the team in Portland and hire Solinsky to be the on the ground coach there and Jerry commute up to Portland up for the big workouts that he wants to be part of
I feel like the general attitude there is "get in line or leave". Im sure BTC still has just about every top athlete prospect begging to join (and get a Nike contract). I don't think they are too worried about it.
