USATF killing Track & Field

did you see their restrictions with social media. They suc

let’s give max another raise

Let's get Lananna out. What has he done since being named president ?

Vin Lananna has been a dumpster as president. Complete garbage

Nike dumped Lanana log ago when Vin allegedly bought favors from USATF convention goers by paying down their airfare to UO meets.

Vin Lananna should have retired years ago. He was breaking NCAA rules back in the 90’s and continues that today. Let’s not pretend people don’t know. The man should be gone from USATF and the NCAA.

The anti-Vin trolls are hilarious. He was kneecapped from doing his job as USATF President. If anyone actually had the goods on the guy his career would’ve ended thirty years ago. Yet, he keeps on producing results. UVA will be a contender.

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The heart of Track & Field is still beating.

If USATF credentialed every athlete's social media team, can you imagine the clusterfk when athletes go through the mixed zone when one athlete's social team starts a fight with another team because they don't have the right angle or they can't get to their athlete?

Can you imagine the USATF staff in the mixed zone along with the guys in the yellow security polos trying to to establish some kind of decorum?

Think about this before you jump on USATF not credentialing athletes' social media teams. I'm personally disappointed at USATF, but at the same time, there's gotta be some common sense involved.

So true. After getting kneecapped as you say in 2018, he destroyed USATF and the Max, Conley, Steve Miller troika at CAS. The tried to run him out because the bylaws would make him chair. He was reinstated by CAS order, as Pres and chair, and the Board went on to make temporary bylaws changes to remove him. He’s little more than a dissident. The haters have no facts. And douche nozzles like fanboi would say what? Keep paying Max and his staff 25% of revenue to keep working miracles for the sport?

There were bylaws that auto appointed him chair?

Yea, approved in 2016 or so to give the membership the power to elect the president and the Chair - a check on Max and Miller abuses. After they illegally removed Lananna, Miller actually tried to sell back to Vin reinstatement in exchange for supporting bylaws changes that would extend his and Conley’s terms and revoke the bylaw that made the president the chair. Read the complaint - it’s out there in the wild somewhere. Vin went on to win the CAS Arb and the Board majority - who support Max - then adopted bylaws under the fiction of a “USOPC mandate” that the Board has to pick its chair. Fair enough but the VA corporate law gives tremendous power to the membership to select board and officers unless the membership cedes it. The membership ceded it. So maybe it’s not Max’s fault that he pillages 10 % of flat year over year revenue - the membership and the Board majority let them. And there’s another 6 or so staff members that pull down another $3 mil in compensation combined. Flat revenue yoy for almost the entirety of Max’s tenure. Read the 990s. I’m not a member anymore. stopped paying dues to that train wreck.

Every time I read threads like this, or threads complaining about Siegel et al., I think, "What's keeping the athletes from taking over?"

I don't know enough about the structure and rules of USATF (nor am I a member), so that's a sincere question. There are tons of athletes in the country; what's keeping them from voting together, working their way up and through the organization (and/or ejecting Siegel et al.) and taking over USATF and operating it in a way that aligns more closely with their interests?

If anything they should feel for him. Usatf president is a scapegoat figurehead job that they con arrogant people into doing. Vin is arrogant but all dominate winners are...(saben, Brady, Centro, Pre, Carl , etc)

It’s time to remember about Vin and all the NCAA violations at Stanford he committed and he continues to abuse now. He only takes a job as a coach at a school that will give him an associate AD title in order to abuse more of his power. UVA was clueless and did just that. This was why Vin had to move across the country and take a job in Virginia. He was kicked out of every other job. This is Including Nike and the world championships.
Anyone that knows Lananna well, knows all the violations he committed and how they were never put in the public’s eye on purpose.
Think long and hard about his departure at Stanford. Did he really leave Stanford to go work at a DIII school by choice? This one is the most obvious. The list goes on and on and so does Lananna’s lies.
I’m not a Vin Lananna hater posting nonsense, but speak actual truth many know about. Yes, Vin is very power hungry and uses that to inflate his own ego. However, he’s getting older now and he should have walked away from the Track & Field years ago. Now he’s going to end up like Lance Armstrong because he’s so power hungry and missed his clean break. It’s starting to bite him back as more facts will come out.

Not a single fact in this rant. You reference “more facts”? Supply a single fact. The entire post is conclusory BS. Name the violation, name the ruling by the NCAA or any other sanctioning authority.

$$$. Few have any. Most have none.

Vin left Stanford in a roundabout way to take over at Oregon, as he did a year later.