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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
Bill C wrote:
On Jul 24, 8:58 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: I haven't voted in a USAC election in years. Because voting is NOT better than nothing. Not when it comes to USAC elections. Och is a miserable ****. Bob Schwartz I'm not sure of that. The change has got to come from somewhere, and everyone came back so that pressure is gone. At least we have some folks running, or already there working to fix it from the inside. The problem is they'll probably end up the same way Gerard, and Les did. Bill C Dude, Monarchies don't work that way. There does not have to be change, it doesn't have to come from anywhere. Change will come when Wiesel dies or gets tired of this particular toy. And then the change will be the installation of a new monarch. USAC governance does not mean what you think it does. Mike Plant took care of that a long time ago. Your friends on the inside will figure that out and then leave, to be replaced by other people that think they can make a difference. That is the nature of the Great Circle of Irrelevance that is USAC governance. Bob Schwartz |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Lisa's Voits were the only thing good about her. Tits? Teeth? Both? |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
On Jul 24, 10:08*am, Bob Schwartz
wrote: USAC governance does not mean what you think it does. Mike Plant took care of that a long time ago. Your friends on the inside will figure that out and then leave, to be replaced by other people that think they can make a difference. That is the nature of the Great Circle of Irrelevance that is USAC governance. Bob Schwartz- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Guess I'm too much of an optimist, or just pig headed, but you are probably right. Bill C |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
Bill C wrote:
On Jul 24, 10:08 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: USAC governance does not mean what you think it does. Mike Plant took care of that a long time ago. Your friends on the inside will figure that out and then leave, to be replaced by other people that think they can make a difference. That is the nature of the Great Circle of Irrelevance that is USAC governance. Bob Schwartz- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Guess I'm too much of an optimist, or just pig headed, but you are probably right. Bill C The biggest changes at the grassroots level has been in USAC's relationships with the local associations. Very positive changes, I might add. This was driven by people leaving, not by working within the system. Just sayin', Bob Schwartz |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
On Jul 24, 11:25 am, Bob Schwartz
wrote: Bill C wrote: On Jul 24, 10:08 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: USAC governance does not mean what you think it does. Mike Plant took care of that a long time ago. Your friends on the inside will figure that out and then leave, to be replaced by other people that think they can make a difference. That is the nature of the Great Circle of Irrelevance that is USAC governance. Bob Schwartz- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Guess I'm too much of an optimist, or just pig headed, but you are probably right. Bill C The biggest changes at the grassroots level has been in USAC's relationships with the local associations. Very positive changes, I might add. This was driven by people leaving, not by working within the system. Just sayin', Bob Schwartz Agreed Bob Putting things in local hands has been really good for us here. Now those same people are trying to bring some of that outlook to USAC. The folks out there may have well cut their own throat in the long run anyway. Similar to UCI/ASO mess, but the regional and local groups seem to be about racers and races, and making things better. If they went away tomorrow I really don't think it'd make any real difference here at all. Maybe a bit more in insurance costs, maybe not. I think everyone else would just continue to do what they have been doing, including the officials, without Colorado. Bill C |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
On Jul 24, 8:25*am, Bob Schwartz
wrote: Bill C wrote: On Jul 24, 10:08 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: USAC governance does not mean what you think it does. Mike Plant took care of that a long time ago. Your friends on the inside will figure that out and then leave, to be replaced by other people that think they can make a difference. That is the nature of the Great Circle of Irrelevance that is USAC governance. Bob Schwartz- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Guess I'm too much of an optimist, or just pig headed, but you are probably right. *Bill C The biggest changes at the grassroots level has been in USAC's relationships with the local associations. Very positive changes, I might add. This was driven by people leaving, not by working within the system. Just sayin', Bob Schwartz NCNCA re-joined by one vote. "Democracies" don't work that way either. |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
On Jul 24, 9:39*am, Bill C wrote:
Maybe a bit more in insurance costs, maybe not. I think everyone else would just continue to do what they have been doing, including the officials, without Colorado. Be careful with the terms you use. Colorado has been independent of "Colorado" for almost ten years now. Bret |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
"MagillaGorilla" wrote in message ... Frank Drackman wrote: "MagillaGorilla" wrote in message ... caffetrieste wrote: The video interview is he http://www.cycleto.com/index.php?opt...article&id=416 This guy is a piece of ****. He's a corrupt punk who fired Bisceglia because Gerard told him he can't pocket $100K of what should have been federation money for himself. Ochowicz is also part of the whole Lance/Wiesel coterie. Magilla He is a walking, talking conflict of interest. "I need to switch hats, so that I can move money from my left pocket to my right." This cycleto guy - who apparently has a website that is based upon a business model of copyright infringement, comes in here and tries to pawn off Ochowicz like some "star" of cycling. Anybody in the sport who knows anything about the sport knows Och is a corrupt piece of garbage. Bisceglia is still suing him for wrongful termination. Bisceglia - a decent guy - was fired because he caught Och using his position as USAC President to make 6-figure deals and then pocketing all the money for himself as if Och personally had made the money unconnected to his function as president. Och is also the guy who claimed that the failure of batteries in the race radio during the Sydney Olympics road race is what caused him to not be able to inform the U.S. team that the 3 doped up Telekoms had gotten off the front. You gotta ask yourself why a guy wouldn't think to carry spare ****ing batteries or radios during an Olympic road race. When I heard that excuse, I knew the guy was incompetent. That's like a SCUBA diver instructor saying his tank "accidently" ran out of air. Mistakes like that are unacceptable and a sign of bush league incompetency. Och now works for Wiesel defrauding investors out of their San Francisco hideout. Wiesel already had to pay several million in fines to stave off lawsuits from prosecutors/regulators. Unfortunately they installed their corrupt robot - Steve Johnson - as CEO. Johnson is a guy who spends 90 days a year flying all over the world on vacation junkets to various races on membership dime and then tells cyclocross racers who qualified for the worlds team they have to pay for their own airfare and accommodations. Johnson, Sean Petty....these guys spend weeks at races all over the world at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars to the membership. And there's absolutely no reason for them to be there. Magilla I think that you forgot to include Shawn Farrell. IMO he is another POS who makes his number one priority protecting his ass... and the asses of his friends. |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
"Bob Schwartz" wrote in message ... Bill C wrote: Ya know when you aren't just yanking chains you get right to the heart of the ****, and no pulled punches. Soon as Gerard got the sheeple back in line they booted his ass. Now the sheeple are happily going with the flow once again. Voting is better than nothing, and there're some people on the right page running. Yeah, but Magilla forgot about Och's role in the Mike Plant takeover in the 1990s. Och has a long history of being a piece of ****, and when the cycleto guy says that without Ochowicz, cycling in America would be a very different sport, he not kidding. Prior to that the USCF was financially stable. Plant drove it right into the ground. And they set up a structure of governance that is the reason that it doesn't matter who is running. I haven't voted in a USAC election in years. Because voting is NOT better than nothing. Not when it comes to USAC elections. Och is a miserable ****. Bob Schwartz Like many others I thought about running but quickly realized that winning would be an exercise of total frustration. The way the structure is setup TW controls everything and the board has very limited power. It seems that everyone who has tried to change the system for within has been quickly marginalized. Outside Magazine had an article a few years ago that is interesting: http://outside.away.com/outside/feat...ns-club-1.html |
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Jim Ochowicz...cycling godfather...talks about the Tour.
On Jul 24, 2:58 pm, Bob Schwartz
wrote: Bill C wrote: Ya know when you aren't just yanking chains you get right to the heart of the ****, and no pulled punches. Soon as Gerard got the sheeple back in line they booted his ass. Now the sheeple are happily going with the flow once again. Voting is better than nothing, and there're some people on the right page running. Yeah, but Magilla forgot about Och's role in the Mike Plant takeover in the 1990s. Och has a long history of being a piece of ****, and when the cycleto guy says that without Ochowicz, cycling in America would be a very different sport, he not kidding. Prior to that the USCF was financially stable. Plant drove it right into the ground. And they set up a structure of governance that is the reason that it doesn't matter who is running. I haven't voted in a USAC election in years. Because voting is NOT better than nothing. Not when it comes to USAC elections. Och is a miserable ****. Bob Schwartz I like to remember him relating to Phil Anderson, that is, when in 1992 (IIRC) when they dropped him like a dirty towel and then he made some statement to the effect that Motorola wasn't a charity and they were there to win races (Phil had won a stage of the Tour the year before) not keep on excess baggage. Nice! -ilan |
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