Patrick Henner new Distance/XC at UGA

UGA is a tough training environment because you're constantly competing with the "college experience". They regularly pull capable talent from local schools that would be enough to be competitive at a conference level, and they're in a weak region for xc. The problem is they pull 15 guys a year that are 4:20/9:30 and lose half of them to Magnolia's and football games. The number of alcohol related stress fractures leading to early retirement is extremely high. How can you coach when your guys are hungover all the time and don't stay past their sophomore year because they want to join a frat and go party.

Build a better culture. Set better expectations. You can’t tell me somehow other coaches at football/party schools get it done and the distance coach at UGA can’t? Bull💩! If the athletes don’t want to do the job, then they can go be a Chad in frat. There are so many who would take their opportunity in a second. They might be terrible for a year or two with that change in culture, but they aren’t great now, so a change needs to happen. You go to UGA and Tech to shuffle off into obscurity as a distance athlete, not win a national title. Not under the current coaches.

Henner hooking his wagon to Caryl Smith will give him job stability. Caryl Smith is not going anywhere anytime soon. ASU just doesn't seem that stable.

A smart decision on Henner part. Maybe he thought ASU would evolve. Would be surprised if Henner moves on from Georgia anytime soon, even without many distance scholarships.

Something must of been going on that he didn’t like at USC for him to leave(no one has that answer) but that may be the only way he leaves UGA the same way. Unless it was something unrelated to the program(he didn’t like LA)

It's possible that he just wanted a full, regularly competing xc team or just didn't want to live in LA... those seem to be the most likely options, do they not?

Any SID statements about Henner from ASU of Georgia ?!?

Or a better salary in a cheaper place to live.

This aged well

Then I guess you're really surprised right now, aren't you?

What happened?

Would appear he’s not coming back. Don’t know where he’s going or who’s going to replace him. Only time will tell.

The real reason he had to retire is alarming, but it was swept under the rug.

It's an anonymous messageboard. Post it. Why in the world wouldn't you post it if you know it?

Look no further than his time at JMU as the distance coach, where he coached a runner namer Julie Speights who very quickly after graduation became Julie Henner...................