Oregonian Examination of John Capriotti: Capriotti: "Nike's hot-tempered track chief makes waves"

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  • wejo
    cofounder
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 12:32pm CDT
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    Jeff Manning has the piece. Worth a read.
    http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2016/07/post_242.html

    Summarizes a lot of what we know, has more background on Capriotti, and new stuff like Steve Magness saying Cap brushed off his concerns about Alberto Salazar, Manning talking to the police detectives in the Starks incident in Indianapolis, and revealing the Capriotti hired a law firm that investigated the Danny Mackey incident last year and found he did not threaten to kill Mackey. While I've never put much stock into the idea that Cap really wanted to kill Mackey I do believe he said it. Jon Gault's piece on LRC talked to more non Nike witnesses than law firm did: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/08/police-report-nike-global-director-of-athletics-john-capriotti-threatened-to-kill-brooks-beasts-head-coach-and-former-nike-employee-danny-mackey-at-2015-usas/
  • malmo
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    3 years ago 07/06/2016 1:14pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    Capriotti exemplifies the Nike corporate culture since day one. He is no rogue employee. From top to bottom he is who they are.
  • STheriot
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 1:32pm CDT
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    Nike, and especially Phil Knight, who set the tone from the top, never figured out the line between being aggressively focused on being number one in their industry, and being boorish bullies who always have to win regardless of the cost. Like a lot of successful companies, they point to their results as justification that they are doing things right, and their arrogance won't allow them to change.
  • Two Steps Back
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 1:39pm CDT
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    malmo wrote:

    Capriotti exemplifies the Nike corporate culture since day one. He is no rogue employee. From top to bottom he is who they are.

    Blanket Generalizations = Zero Credibility
  • Myrtle
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 1:45pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    Top to bottom Nike are vile sc*um; if ya'll choose to 'support' or 'tolerate' that, groovy. But the more they're vilified, on every level, the better all sports will be. Thanks.
  • Thedirty
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 1:45pm CDT
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    He's in such a position of power that he can do no wrong. Whatever he does era swept under the rug because he essentially writes the athletes cheques.
  • What Goes around, ...
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 1:56pm CDT
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    Cap must be dipping into the Centro Sauce at the secret lab on their corporate campus to boost his testosterone.

    Interesting that a no-name reporter wrote that story and not Ken Goe...who wouldn't ever risk losing his access to the U of O/Nike track & shoe mafia.
  • me gusta so much lol
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 2:33pm CDT
    re: malmo
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    malmo wrote:

    Capriotti exemplifies the Nike corporate culture since day one. He is no rogue employee. From top to bottom he is who they are.

    Yep. How can anyone be surprised that Nike has douchey leaders like this? The company and its culture are terrible.
  • NIKE -- NOT a fan here
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 2:39pm CDT
    re: STheriot
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    STheriot wrote:

    Nike, and especially Phil Knight, who set the tone from the top, never figured out the line between being aggressively focused on being number one in their industry, and being boorish bullies who always have to win regardless of the cost. Like a lot of successful companies, they point to their results as justification that they are doing things right, and their arrogance won't allow them to change.

    so much this
  • Let's be fair
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:03pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    "I try to just laugh it off," said Mark Bossardet, sports marketing chief at Saucony. "But at some point, is it still a laughing matter? Is this the conduct of an executive of one of the most powerful brands in the world?" This is a quote from the guy who had John Capriotti"s job before he got "fired" from Nike. Of course no mention of this important "fact" in the article. Just another bias article against everything Nike.
  • it is good
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:07pm CDT
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    Bias??? This is the paper that produced the propaganda for Nike and the NOP.

    Take away everything anyone said, and stick with the evidence.

    Would Cap have a job at a normal business?

    He threatened to kill someone. His subordinate physically assaulted someone.

    Stop there and you have enough to say, this guy would be fired or at least reprimanded.


    the Nike Shills will be all over this thread, but take away the bias, and he's got some damning things that we know happened, before we even get to the conjecture.
  • poootty pie
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:08pm CDT
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    I found it interesting Ken Goe was nowhere near the piece.

    Mostly a nike hit job. little facts, mostly circumstantial and interviewed the usual nike haters.
  • asdfgh
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:12pm CDT
    re: What Goes around, ...
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    What Goes around, ... wrote:

    Interesting that a no-name reporter wrote that story and not Ken Goe...who wouldn't ever risk losing his access to the U of O/Nike track & shoe mafia.

    Jeff Manning is the lead investigative reporter for the Oregonian. He's not a no-name reporter. But unlike Goe, he doesn't need to have a good relationship with track sources.
  • snike
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:33pm CDT
    re: Two Steps Back
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    Two Steps Back wrote:

    malmo wrote:

    Capriotti exemplifies the Nike corporate culture since day one. He is no rogue employee. From top to bottom he is who they are.

    Blanket Generalizations = Zero Credibility



    No.
    He is specifically speaking about Capriotti and then Nike's corporate culture. That is NOT a blanket statement.
    If Nike allows this type of behavior, or maybe encourages it, then it is their culture. That does not mean that every single employ at Nike acts like Capriotti but that Nike will allow it. Large companies like Nike take culture seriously and will spend money cultivating the culture they want.
  • Zero Credibility
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:38pm CDT
    re: Two Steps Back
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    Two Steps Back wrote:
    Blanket Generalizations = Zero Credibility

    Zero Credibility = Nike Shills, like you
  • Broseph Meattles
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:39pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    People like dat should be punched.

    Seriously, though, I assumed the guy would be some big Italian hothead, not a little suburban pvssy man. He looks like someone who hires bigger guys to do his punching.
  • In Sum This
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:44pm CDT
    re: Broseph Meattles
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    I'm still trying to ascertain why Llewelyn Starks isn't in jail.
  • tripleG
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 3:53pm CDT
    re: In Sum This
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    The fact is you have the governing bodies USATF and USOC who are supposed to be in the best interest of the athletes who come from various backgrounds and have various sponsors. But unfortunately these governing bodies are working in the interest of themselves and their sponsorship partners to the detriment of the athletes. All about the money and staying in power.
  • AW Pharmacy
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 4:05pm CDT
    re: In Sum This
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    If you read his book, Knight and many of the other early Nike employees were introverted skinny distance runners who were treated poorly by the banks, their suppliers, and competitors, which seems to have generated a huge corporate chip on the shoulder. Then they became successful, got rich, and started rubbing shoulders with all these alpha sports icons they signed, and started adopting the same swagger. And of course now they are the ones writing the biggest sponsorship & endorsement checks in all of sports, so now everyone grovels to them, including the athletes, teams, leagues, and media, which feeds the egos even further.
  • Lawrence R
    3 years ago 07/06/2016 4:10pm CDT
    re: Two Steps Back
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    Two Steps Back wrote:
    Blanket Generalizations = Zero Credibility

    If I were the brojos, I'd take a closer look at this guy's posting history.