let me revise my previous statement...
If Maurice Green doped, it didn't do a dam thing for him.
8 years of running sub-10. 52/8=6.5 sub 10's a year.
during Championships he often ran 3-4 sub-10 races to qualify and in the heats. So remove the 3 U.S championships he won (check me), and the 2 Olympics, and 2 World Champs, which was (check me) about 12 sub-10's.
That leaves about 40 spread between 8 years, shaped more or less in a bell curve. Basically put you have a very good picture of what a naturally trained, and gifted athlete's performance profile would look like.
52 sub 10 100's isn't really that impressive when we look at what Justic Gatlin would have done (if you believe him) and Asafa will do.
Asafa will probably run ~65 sub 10's. Gatlin might have been good for 45-55. You don't get that kind of consistency dodging drug tests, and he only ran 10 sub 9.90 100's, which to me says he was clean. If he was doped he would have run those every race in Europe for the money, which is hardly the case.
Maurice Green's career resembles a bell curve- either he was using drugs his whole career, and somehow wasn't caught, somehow magically avoiding every test thrown at him, even before Balco. And then when Balco comes around and becomes a big deal, his performance drops off the face of the earth. Explain that. I'd love to hear the explanation. With BALCO drugs in him he would have been a fricken Cyborg running unbelievable times for years, resembling more or less a straight line of performance for ~6 years (Regina Jacobs), instead of a bell curve. In other cases of doping, the performance resembles an awkward spike from mediocrity to greatness (Rashid 'hashy' Ramzi).
We have evidence right in front of us of athletes performances who have been caught doping. Montgomery's performances resemble a fricken spike. More or less if we look at almost every pro-athletes performance, it resembles a bell curve appx. So either every athlete is doped, or Maurice Green had the most advanced doping methods possible, even before BALCO existed.
Too me, it just doesn't make any sense. This may be a case of everyone else doing something illegal, and someone who was far above them was automatically assumed to be doing that when no proof existed, and instead was simply believed as proof. In addition Professional athletes spend 100's of K's a year on coaching expenses. Like Maurice knows where the money is always going. Dirty Coach tells athlete, hey write a check to so and so, so I don't have too, athlete busy training agree's. Dirty Coach tells lesser athletes, hey look, here's the GOAT using this same method, everyone's doing it. As sad as I hate to say it is, Trevor Graham is the dirtiest bastard ever to have screwed this sport. How many athletes he screwed directly through convincing them cheating was the only way, or indirectly through lying about it is up for debate. But he seems to have been very good at it, to rise to the position he did. Should he be called a mastermind? Of course... did he abuse his position? of course. Did he screw some unsuspecting athletes, and seperately desperate athletes? Of course.
Maurice Green does not appear to be guilty, but he might, maybe, might be.
Trevor Graham beyond a shadow of a doubt is quilty, and he appears to be trying to bring down the entire sport in the process, and he planned for this outcome all along. If he goes down, he's taking all of T&F with him. Few of the athletes had that intent.