God,
Alan's columns really bothers me.
Yes. Every criticism of Max Siegel is racist. Please.
Has Alan ever heard of Dennis Kozlowski?
Alan compares Siegel to a business CEO.
Let me answer that - and it has nothing to do with Siegel's race. Siegel is the head of a non-profit. Ritz Carlton? No. If Siegel wants to stay there or fly first class, he should have enough in his own bank account to pay for it since USATF paid him $1.7 million but I'm not sure if he does as the article reveals he was being evicted from NY a few years ago apparently.
The biggest problem I have is it reveals that Siegel's biggest accomplishment - - the Nike deal (one which I think is a bad deal) - was done by others. And again, people forgot this is a non-profit. You don't pay them $23 million to negotiate it. Anyone with good business sense, would have a cap on their commission.
All of the other deals that Alan has hyped up in past columns appear to be nothing of note - just as I expected. Rosetta stone.
Does Alan Abrahamson really believe that Max Siegel is why Team USA won 32 medals in Rio? I hope not. We won 25 in 2015. What changed? Nothing really. Russia got banned and the US distance squad had an amazing meet. Please don't tell me USATF has anything to do with US distance medals. Maybe field events but not distance.
He acts like breaking 30 medals is some amazing accomplishment. We won 29 in 2012 and would definitely have had 30 if Russia had been banned (Montano would get a medal in the 800 for sure).
Some of Alan's arguments are laughable. He points out that the entire Team USA swim team flew on a charter to Rio. What is that supposed to prove? Yes, we wouldn't have a problem if they were flying the athletes in a charter to the Olympics.
He also complains that the Post doesn't mention that Siegel has allegedly received racist emails and that the Post doesn't mention that 10 of the 15 people on the board are people of color. What does that have to do with any of the allegations in the article? What do those emails have to do with flying first class, paying out $23 million in commissions, possibly violating state sales tax laws, doing business with close associates, etc?
Nothing.
It strikes me that if The Post did mention the diversity of the board they'd probably be accused of being racist since the Board has apparently approved of all of these actions and the board's race has nothing to do with any of this (so if they mentioned it people would view it as a needless take down on minorities).