[pincemob]

I said I thought his handling of those issues was questionable.  I just don't know if I can blame him entirely.  Nelson came from the Adidas "Pump and Run" program.  I would guess Howland was required to keep Nelson around.  Also, Nelson seemed really unstable and maybe Howland was thinking of bigger picture life & death type issues with Nelson.  Net-net, I do think he handled it poorly but it's hard from the outside to say with certainty Howland was fully responsible, let alone deserved to be fired for that without knowing the whole story. 

[pincemob]

I said I thought his handling of those issues was questionable.  I just don't know if I can blame him entirely.  Nelson came from the Adidas "Pump and Run" program.  I would guess Howland was required to keep Nelson around.  Also, Nelson seemed really unstable and maybe Howland was thinking of bigger picture life & death type issues with Nelson.  Net-net, I do think he handled it poorly but it's hard from the outside to say with certainty Howland was fully responsible, let alone deserved to be fired for that without knowing the whole story.