Willi? Damn? How to fire your coach...

[Karl]

How to fire your coach

Published on June 2, 2015 | by Alan Abrahamson


Track and field

In December, 2004, David Oliver, just 22, graduated from Howard University, a star in football and track. He moved the very next month to Florida, intent on becoming a star on the professional track circuit, and started working with coach Brooks Johnson.

Oliver is now 33, the 2008 Beijing Games bronze medalist in the 110-meter high hurdles, the 2013 world champion. He is a father, a family man. He is the same guy and yet very different from that 22-year-old. “I do owe the man a ton of credit,” Oliver said. “I learned everything from him.”

This was after David Oliver fired Brooks Johnson — in response to a profanity-laced text message Johnson had sent after Oliver’s run Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.

http://www.3wiresports.com/2015/06/0...re-your-coach/

[Mosiah]

Hmmm...Oliver's response seems a bit over the top. Maybe there is more going on there, as he hinted.

[Gamma]

I think its classy actually.

if you read it you can see that it is stemming from a lack of respect by his coach who seems to thinks that he is still 22 and can style him any old way ..

[Islandman]

He has clearly felt disrespected for a while and has sucked it up for the greater good. However things have changed and he doesn't see the point of taking all that any more.

Sounds to me like a separation was the right thing for both of them, just a shame it couldn't have been handled in a more amicable way but that is life sometimes.

[Mosiah]

True dat!