Living in the Past wrote:
Pre's defiance was mostly talk. It was Frank Shorter who forced change when he acknowledged that he had received money under the table. That was a courageous move, since he risked a life-time ban. He challenged the hypocritical stance of the AAU that track was still an amateur sport. As I recall, the first step on the way to full pro status for athletes was the creation of a trust fund system that would hold an athlete's earnings until he retired. That allowed the hypocrisy of the amateur system to survive a while longer. Frank Shorter was the guy who drove the change, but he was never as full of bluster like Prefontaine.
You gotta be one of the dumbest sobs that posts on here. Pre was already dead 2-3 years by the time Shorter started to challenge the AAU and was heading to the road circut pretty much by then.