Salazar and Capriotti are nothing but common thugs -threaten Magness's professional future

Thuggery goes back a long way with Salazar.

John Gotti wrote:

“As Magness grew more disillusioned with the Oregon Project, his relationship with Salazar became less collegial. According to another email Magness shared with ProPublica and the BBC, Salazar disagreed with an altitude-training decision Magness made. At the close of the email Salazar warned Magness: “We really want to give you a positive recommendation to wherever you apply for collegiate positions but you are going to make it very hard for [Nike director of global athletics John Capriotti], Ben and I to do so when a Nike school Athletic Director calls us to ask about you if you go this route. Think this over very carefully.” A “Nike school” typically refers to a college that has an apparel sponsorship deal with Nike.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/more-athletes-say-track-coach-alberto-salazar-broke-drug-rules

Exhibit #53208 of Salazar being a despicable excuse for a human being.

John Gotti wrote:

“As Magness grew more disillusioned with the Oregon Project, his relationship with Salazar became less collegial. According to another email Magness shared with ProPublica and the BBC, Salazar disagreed with an altitude-training decision Magness made. At the close of the email Salazar warned Magness: “We really want to give you a positive recommendation to wherever you apply for collegiate positions but you are going to make it very hard for [Nike director of global athletics John Capriotti], Ben and I to do so when a Nike school Athletic Director calls us to ask about you if you go this route. Think this over very carefully.” A “Nike school” typically refers to a college that has an apparel sponsorship deal with Nike.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/more-athletes-say-track-coach-alberto-salazar-broke-drug-rules

This is ridiculous. These threads need to be bumped more often. Al Sal is the Armstrong of track and field.

Smart of BBC/ProPublica to come out with stories today, keeping Salazar down and preventing him to come out with his side of the story.

17 total people talking about the same things. What's USADA waiting for???

Sister Slide wrote:

Smart of BBC/ProPublica to come out with stories today, keeping Salazar down and preventing him to come out with his side of the story.

17 total people talking about the same things. What's USADA waiting for???

He has come out with his side of the story.

Sister Slide wrote:

Smart of BBC/ProPublica to come out with stories today, keeping Salazar down and preventing him to come out with his side of the story.

17 total people talking about the same things. What's USADA waiting for???

Do you think they are not investigating? Do they have to check in wth you first?

John Gotti wrote:

“According to another email Magness shared with ProPublica and the BBC, Salazar disagreed with an altitude-training decision Magness made. At the close of the email Salazar warned Magness: “We really want to give you a positive recommendation to wherever you apply for collegiate positions but you are going to make it very hard for [Nike director of global athletics John Capriotti], Ben and I to do so when a Nike school Athletic Director calls us to ask about you if you go this route.”

What kind of "altitude-training decision" might Magness have made that pissed Salazar off that much?

John Gotti wrote:

“As Magness grew more disillusioned with the Oregon Project, his relationship with Salazar became less collegial. According to another email Magness shared with ProPublica and the BBC, Salazar disagreed with an altitude-training decision Magness made. At the close of the email Salazar warned Magness: “We really want to give you a positive recommendation to wherever you apply for collegiate positions but you are going to make it very hard for [Nike director of global athletics John Capriotti], Ben and I to do so when a Nike school Athletic Director calls us to ask about you if you go this route. Think this over very carefully.” A “Nike school” typically refers to a college that has an apparel sponsorship deal with Nike.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/more-athletes-say-track-coach-alberto-salazar-broke-drug-rules

This is despicable behavior by any measure, much worse than last years meltdown at indoor nationals, which was, in my eyes, grounds for immediate termination. Salazar and Capriotti should resign now, if not, be fired.

Salazar should retire because the negative PR he has been giving NIKE for the last several years are signs that it is time to hang up the blood charts. But, Salazar will fight to the end. It is up to NIKE to step up and put an end to Salazar's show.

Magness landed at a Nike school, so the rec letter must have been pretty good. It will be interesting to see if Houston remains as a Nike school after all this.

pre841 wrote:

Magness landed at a Nike school, so the rec letter must have been pretty good. It will be interesting to see if Houston remains as a Nike school after all this.

I'd flip that around and ask if Magness will continue to have a job at Houston.

Magness is a Houston alum. Most likely didn't need a rec letter from anyone. Probably one of the reasons he went there

dkny64 wrote:

John Gotti wrote:

“According to another email Magness shared with ProPublica and the BBC, Salazar disagreed with an altitude-training decision Magness made. At the close of the email Salazar warned Magness: “We really want to give you a positive recommendation to wherever you apply for collegiate positions but you are going to make it very hard for [Nike director of global athletics John Capriotti], Ben and I to do so when a Nike school Athletic Director calls us to ask about you if you go this route.”

What kind of "altitude-training decision" might Magness have made that pissed Salazar off that much?

Wondering this too.

Why can't we see the printed version of this email? If this email exists you could just as well interpret it as you are screwing up so much and such an incompetent how could we recommend you without tarnishing Nike and our credibility, get your stuff together.

I think you are correct in that Magness is delusional his scientific theories that made sense on paper didn't make practical sense in execution with the athletes. Magness works hard to push his agenda of knowledge.

anacondarunner wrote:

dkny64 wrote:

What kind of "altitude-training decision" might Magness have made that pissed Salazar off that much?

Wondering this too.

In a deteriorating relationship, any one incident is usually minor. It's a steady accumulation of this-person-pisses-me-off events that drives the wedge a little deeper each day, until the rift can't be repaired.

Prison life wrote:

Why can't we see the printed version of this email? If this email exists you could just as well interpret it as you are screwing up so much and such an incompetent how could we recommend you without tarnishing Nike and our credibility, get your stuff together..

Who are you to think that you get to receive a copy of every note that a journalist has?

what is it? wrote:

Sister Slide wrote:

Smart of BBC/ProPublica to come out with stories today, keeping Salazar down and preventing him to come out with his side of the story.

17 total people talking about the same things. What's USADA waiting for???

Do you think they are not investigating? Do they have to check in wth you first?

Don't know about 'Sister Slide' but they should certainly be checking in with me first.

anacondarunner wrote:

dkny64 wrote:

What kind of "altitude-training decision" might Magness have made that pissed Salazar off that much?

Wondering this too.

wasn't the chart Magness saw with the "currently on...." statement a chart showing results from some altitude training? Maybe "altitude training decision" was the euphemism for that chart and Magness' questioning of it.

what is it? wrote:

Sister Slide wrote:

Smart of BBC/ProPublica to come out with stories today, keeping Salazar down and preventing him to come out with his side of the story.

17 total people talking about the same things. What's USADA waiting for???

Do you think they are not investigating? Do they have to check in wth you first?

No, I don't think USADA is investigating. Or if they are, they aren't investigating very hard. They've had the Magness photo since August of 2012. If they haven't gotten anywhere by now, I don't think they're likely to get anywhere anytime soon unless significant new evidence along the lines of the Magness photo comes to them.

Perhaps the ultimate goal of USADA isn't so much to eliminate doping as to keep it within limits. So, for example, they have reason to be concerned that Galen Rupp has used testosterone in the past, and they're now testing him roughly every 2 weeks [28 times in 2013, according to Epstein, and presumably that frequency continues.] Rupp can still potentially dope, but I would think that frequency of testing puts limits on how aggressive he can be.