Who considers Salazar a good/successful coach?

Regardless of what one thinks of him as a coach, I think your premise that "he fizzled out as a runner, why would he be a good coach" is dead wrong. There are plenty of great coaches who were never national or world class runners, and relatively few national or world class runners have gone on to be great coaches.

I consider him a good coach, I would say one of the top 5 coaches in the world right now,and certainly in the top 2 in the US.

I see no reason why a coach needs to have a spotless athletic career of their own to be qualified. Even if that were the case, Salazar held the World Record for a while. That's good.

50+ athletes have been a part of NOP over the years, and approximately two of those athletes have said somethign negative about their experience. 4% is not "most athletes."

Most of the best coaches in the US especially are antisocial. When is the last time you saw Wetmore chuckling it up with other coaches? Schumacher - You wouldn't even recognize him walking down the street because he is so elusive. Salazar does countless interviews, and is in the spotlight much more than normal coaches.

Please enlighten us on how you've managed to avoid fizzling out. I'm surprised you didn't sell your methods to Tergat, Haile, Bekele, Mutai, Kimetto, etc. There must be a market for your genius.

How do you not mention Centro as one of the athletes he's had success with? Or Rowbury? They've both had unbelievable success under him. He's turned both of them into all-time greats. I also wouldn't say that Jenkins has underperformed under Salazar.

I think he's good and has improved/progressed as a coach over the years. You can clearly see the NOP improving since the Dan Browne days. Galen was #1 in the 10k last year! I remember reading about the NOP when they were first starting out and getting excited about a serious pro training group.

Galen has the best distance training available. Hopefully Salazar publishes a training book with his methodology.

Peruvian Elite wrote:

Most athletes he works with, apart from Galen, have negative things to say about Salazar.

The negative things they say about him are almost all with regards to him pushing right to the edge of doping, or even that they think he is doping his athletes. Some have also criticized him for using his 2nd tier of athletes only as training partners for his 1st tier athletes. Very little of their criticism is for his ability to coach in terms of his actual training strategies, workouts, etc.

If I were a elite athlete, I would not choose him as my coach, but it has nothing to do with his abilities, which I think rank him among the best.

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Peruvian Elite wrote:

Most athletes he works with, apart from Galen, have negative things to say about Salazar.

The negative things they say about him are almost all with regards to him pushing right to the edge of doping, or even that they think he is doping his athletes.

What you said is true. But then if a coach is doping his or her athletes, then is that coach deemed a success, or a cheater? I was hoping that there would be some type of interview with Browne about Salazar's coaching since Dan is here with his own athletes. Maybe even some questions that ask him to reflect on how he employs things he learned from Alberto. Most of Salazar's former athletes are fairly hushed-lips when it comes to talking about him/praising him after they leave or retire.

Obviously I've never ran for him, but he's brought alot of success to many athletes he's trained. It seems like he's got a very meticulous, scientific approach to training, who pushes his runners VERY hard, and that may work better for some and not for others. It would be foolish to say he isn't a good coach just because not all of his runners' careers aren't panning out like they wanted. If they don't like his training style and aren't seeing the success they'd like, they should find a coach who better suits them. Not every coach is meant to click with every athlete. If I were a serious pro runner, I'd probably consider him as a coach, but either go with Jerry Schumacher, Jason Vigilante, or Danny Mackey.

Despite the drugs accusations, what American coach do you consider MORE successful? No other coach has produced an Olympic medal winner. Mo Farah, the most successful distance runner in the world the last few years, is indeed coached by Salazar, despite your attempt to confuse the issue.

Les wrote:

Despite the drugs accusations, what American coach do you consider MORE successful? No other coach has produced an Olympic medal winner. Mo Farah, the most successful distance runner in the world the last few years, is indeed coached by Salazar, despite your attempt to confuse the issue.

Schumacher is a far superior coach without the shit stain Salazar leaves on all his athletes when it comes to drug suspicions.

There are so many bad things in your post that I am not going to spend my time addressing them all. When someone cherry picks the bad and ignores the good, I can only suspect the motives are personal, which ends a rational discussion. In a couple of weeks, AlSal maybe able to lay claim to being the coach of the world's greatest distance runner. - Of course AlSal is good coach, perhaps one of world's greatest coaches. AlSal coached athletes have won championships at every level and he has been exceptionally open and forthcoming is sharing his training to the betterment of the sport. This is not to say everything has gone perfectly or ignoring doping suspicions, but you can't choose to ignore the good things as well.

USATF and the IAAF do.

Well said. The OP asks a question and you have answered it. Said the night wind to the little lamb...do you hear what I hear?

Excellent question! I am going to say a great coach with a large BUT thrown in. Hasay and Cain have been a disappointment and let's throw Levins in too.

My impression is that he is overtraining the younger athletes (Hasay and Cain). He clearly has some excellent results with Farah, Rupp and Rowbury so I will have to give him the nod as great coach.

Show me a coach who has more athletes at the top end of the scale. There are none.