Centro to UW

Another retiring professional NOT joining the US Army...

Hi Centro!! You’re slow and haven’t picked the distance and day for our race. I can beat you at any distance any day. You pick. That gold medal will go down in history as the easiest gold in the history of the Olympic Games. The special Olympics masters athletes could have beaten you.

Hsjajdjsjajs wrote:

When Centro’s contract is up will he go to Adidas?

That will never happen. When you win an Olympic Gold Medal you have the opportunity to be

"Nike For Life," aka an Ambassador for the company.

Centro is set for life, after all his medals and Olympic Title.

I think the poster who said he's doing this to help a friend...and get easy parking at UW, is probably spot on. He's a pragmatist. Doubt he'll be their that often. Pep talks, helping out some. Test the waters to see if he wants to begin his education to be a coach some day. Take over NOP, perhaps.

longjack wrote:

the exit of names from oregon continues....

you gotta love oregon tradition,

and you gotta love the decline, given the nike corruption and filthy ethics.

back in the day hayward was such an organic thing, a real phenomena,

fast forward, now they're bickering, there are lawyers, and big budgets, mercenary

they can stick it.

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We got a turdy pour sport here, CLEAN UP.

You sound like a real baby.

brown stain clean up, ailse, lrc wrote:

longjack wrote:

the exit of names from oregon continues....

you gotta love oregon tradition,

and you gotta love the decline, given the nike corruption and filthy ethics.

back in the day hayward was such an organic thing, a real phenomena,

fast forward, now they're bickering, there are lawyers, and big budgets, mercenary

they can stick it.

We got a turdy pour sport here, CLEAN UP.

You sound like a real baby.

let's go little buddy.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

Rife with fools wrote:

Olympic GOLD MEDAL in his signature event. He doesn't ever need to do another thing in athletics to be validated. Not one. Armchair quarterbacks and judgement attitudes of a person that you've never even met, let alone know, is the epitome of ignorance. Seems this forum is the birthplace of such.

Hi Centro!! You’re slow and haven’t picked the distance and day for our race. I can beat you at any distance any day. You pick. That gold medal will go down in history as the easiest gold in the history of the Olympic Games. The special Olympics masters athletes could have beaten you.

How about you get into some of the races Centro is in?

Also, aren't you one of the guys who was sure Kiprop's name would be cleared? How's that working out?

i'm always up for bashing corporations like nike, monsanto, bayer, etc. thanks for giving me an excuse to rant.

i've been on the ground in poor places for many years and worked beside, seen the real heroes of this world, most often the women, slave away for little money, in terrible conditions and support their family and even take on orphans, after the long day, they have a 4 hour shift cooking, cleaning and do the homework with the kids.

then you see nike and the pros and their egos and their legacy ,and they take a knee, etc.

and you guys just buy the nike sheit and do nothing what so ever for your fellow man.

and nike in oregon is dispicable, the only reason they are behaving at all is bad press.

oregon is rotten MF.

of course no one is doing anything, except leaving, nike's brand is smelling more like vomit all the time.

its going in the right direction.

if i had a magic wand, i'd sentence each and every nike pro to hard labor in a nike factory, the sentence is in direct proportion to their income. that includes Mike.

a year or two. maybe a track buy getting 100k a year, he gets six months.

such is the nature of justice here.

picture not from nike factory, but the type of kids mom supports on the super crappy but better than nothing salary.

http://www.pacforkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/02LaoPencils.jpg

closing: those factory mom's are my olympic heros, you'll be forever blessed to know these kind of people.

these people will keep the human race going in the face of rampant idiocy, and money grubbers galore, and what not.

I think it’s great. What a great runner and career. He not done yet but knows he needs to have a plan when he retires. Picking something he loves the do. Smart.

grumpyoldman wrote:

Are they aware of his little police call charade at USAs? They might want to give him a psych eval before letting him near students.

Shouldn't you be outside shaking your fist at a cloud?

We all know he got flyer on the day and it got him a medal. Good for him.

Maybe for you, you can be content , I don't think so for Jr., he wants to be at the top one more time.

Sr. would have liked to seen him run the 5k, Jr. is just to lazy to train for the distance plain and simple.

I spent a lifetime in the sport and have seen it all. And yes I know Sr. and Jr..

People like you in this forum hate the truth when its stated.

Shadow Lurker wrote:

lets hear wrote:

Care to share what comments and interviews he has made against women?

I'm not going to waste my time...it's easy for you to google. And I wouldn't consider them "against" women...but certainly objectifying & sexualizing them...which could have flown just a couple years ago but not anymore.

His IG/twitter comments are hilarious. If you take that as "objectifying & sexualizing them" you need to grow up.

Shadow Lurker wrote:

lets hear wrote:

Care to share what comments and interviews he has made against women?

I'm not going to waste my time...it's easy for you to google. And I wouldn't consider them "against" women...but certainly objectifying & sexualizing them...which could have flown just a couple years ago but not anymore.

Huh? You make some inflammatory statement, but aren't going to "waste your time" to back it up? What a schlep.

Someday someone will sue concerning free speech rights and win the case and we can all be Americans again.

Centro is the GOAT's GOAT wrote:

Shadow Lurker wrote:

I'm not going to waste my time...it's easy for you to google. And I wouldn't consider them "against" women...but certainly objectifying & sexualizing them...which could have flown just a couple years ago but not anymore.

His IG/twitter comments are hilarious. If you take that as "objectifying & sexualizing them" you need to grow up.

I personally don't care. I know it's just a kid being a kid (at what, like 27 now?) and he's an olympic gold medalist. He should be having some fun. But an AD will care. And I bet the fathers of the women UW is recruiting will care as well...any savvy recruiter they're recruiting against would find a way to get that stuff into their hands. If he wants to continue coaching for real, watch his online presence be sanitized in a hurry...but can he keep his d1ck in his pants working with college women? That's the real question...

This is an interesting development. Centro sr. resigned from his coaching job at American University in DC to get more involved with coaching Centro jr. and managing his career. I think Centro jr. also had a preference to live on the East coast again. This indicates that he now wants to continue working with Andy Powell and whoever Andy Powell will be coaching in Seattle.

There are strict NCAA limits on paid and unpaid assistant coaching positions, and part of this is to prevent the "celebrity/former pro" volunteer assistant who is listed on the staff to help with recruiting but has minimal coaching responsibilities. This is more of a factor in the revenue sports of football and basketball, but the NCAA rules apply to all sports. So, it's highly unlikely that Andy Powell would hire Centro jr. as a "celebrity" volunteer assistant at the "opportunity cost" of someone who would really work as a coach.