To be fair, 85% of college coaches can’t do that either.
His bio says he had a small stint coaching D2. And based on his resume, I think he’s worthy of a college job. His name and resume will get him more recruits than 85% of coaches.
I would actually argue he CAN recruit. All his athletes live over an hour away and he recruited them to the school.
The Youngs and Sahlmans live 10 minutes away in Camarillo. Ok, everyone knows Brosnan is a tool, but when people start making up ridiculous and unsupported claims about NP's team it says more about them than it does about him.
Yeah seriously. I don’t think Brosnan has ever recruited anybody.
It’s the runners that choose to attend Newbury Park.
I am not trying to argue, I just don’t think a high school coaching and teaching position pays less than a head cross-country coaching job at UCLA. I am a head xc and track coach in La and make 5k a year. Can you post links to the college coaching pay that I am free to check?
It’s obvious, especially after that last Big Bear Media video, that Sean Brosnan is desperate for a college coaching job. It’s rumored he applied for the ND and Cal Ploy jobs, sounds like he’s put his hat in the ring for UCLA and probably several others.
How many jobs has he applied for in the past 6 months and what are the guesses what jobs they were?
I would like to see him coach college because he'd get his @$$ kicked and then maybe he'd shut up.
A big, rich HS district gets a hell of a lot more talent than trying to beg fast kids to go to a crappy college. He doesn't understand how lucky he's been.
Track and field coach Petros Kyprianou is leaving UGA next month after this season ends, the Athens Banner-Herald has learned. He won 2 national titles.
Pretty much true but it helps get a foot in the door. He could get a D3 job earning $40k and he likely could get a low level D1 distance job earning g about theb same. But he is looking to go straight to a real job which won't happen.
It’s obvious, especially after that last Big Bear Media video, that Sean Brosnan is desperate for a college coaching job. It’s rumored he applied for the ND and Cal Ploy jobs, sounds like he’s put his hat in the ring for UCLA and probably several others.
How many jobs has he applied for in the past 6 months and what are the guesses what jobs they were?
SLO? It’s a really nice area but it would be next to impossible to recruit blue chip distance runners to go there.
Sean Brosnan has received a fair share of criticism, and it's up to the individual to decide if some or all of the criticism is warranted. But what I'm seeing in this thread and in other threads is the sort of pack attacks often found on social media, such as Twitter. This sort of "criticism" does not seek to engage or illuminate but rather demonize and discredit, with perhaps the intention of making Brosnan a pariah. I doubt that that will happen, but the people who do this are probably the same ones who level charges of PEDs at athletes any time they feel like it, and often without any justification. People like this do not deserve any reply.
I think you’re exaggerating a bit regarding criticism of Brosnan. Many posters believe having 5 sub 8:40 guys is a result of brilliant coaching while others consider him to be by far the luckiest coach in HS sports history.
For all those asking why he’d leave when he has the Youngs and Sahlmans still there…
He’s going to take a job at some mid tier school, convince them all to follow him, and look like a genius when he turns the program around! What else could stroke his ego more than being praised for turning a program into an XC powerhouse
I think you’re exaggerating a bit regarding criticism of Brosnan. Many posters believe having 5 sub 8:40 guys is a result of brilliant coaching while others consider him to be by far the luckiest coach in HS sports history.
I don’t know the backstory on how NP got all of these good runners but even if he was extremely lucky, he still obviously can coach. Can he recruit? I have no idea. Coaching running really isn’t that complicated. Coaches will make it out to be because of their egos but anyone can coach people to achieve their potential in running with a little bit of research and experience. Let’s not make it out like rocket science when trying to determine what workouts to do and what splits to hit. It’s pretty basic
I think you’re exaggerating a bit regarding criticism of Brosnan. Many posters believe having 5 sub 8:40 guys is a result of brilliant coaching while others consider him to be by far the luckiest coach in HS sports history.
I don’t know the backstory on how NP got all of these good runners but even if he was extremely lucky, he still obviously can coach. Can he recruit? I have no idea. Coaching running really isn’t that complicated. Coaches will make it out to be because of their egos but anyone can coach people to achieve their potential in running with a little bit of research and experience. Let’s not make it out like rocket science when trying to determine what workouts to do and what splits to hit. It’s pretty basic
Of course you can tell that he can still coach.
Newbury Park was not even close to the level they are at now when he was not their coach. They weren’t able to make state back then
But he is looking to go straight to a real job which won't happen.
This. There's a lot more to running a top-level college program than overseeing workouts. ND or UCLA are not going to hire a head coach straight out of high school so they can learn on the job about NCAA rules, recruiting, admin, setting up a staff, department politics, etc. At best you have a few years of issues and struggles behind the scenes and then it works out. At worst you have someone not capable of doing all the non-coaching things that need to be done and you end up with a program in shambles or with serious violations.
But he is looking to go straight to a real job which won't happen.
This. There's a lot more to running a top-level college program than overseeing workouts. ND or UCLA are not going to hire a head coach straight out of high school so they can learn on the job about NCAA rules, recruiting, admin, setting up a staff, department politics, etc. At best you have a few years of issues and struggles behind the scenes and then it works out. At worst you have someone not capable of doing all the non-coaching things that need to be done and you end up with a program in shambles or with serious violations.
Huh? It would take about 5 minutes to read the NCAA recruiting rules and what department politics? What would he have to that’s not related to coaching? He would not be like a new CEO at a major company.
But he is looking to go straight to a real job which won't happen.
This. There's a lot more to running a top-level college program than overseeing workouts. ND or UCLA are not going to hire a head coach straight out of high school so they can learn on the job about NCAA rules, recruiting, admin, setting up a staff, department politics, etc. At best you have a few years of issues and struggles behind the scenes and then it works out. At worst you have someone not capable of doing all the non-coaching things that need to be done and you end up with a program in shambles or with serious violations.
This! It is akin to hiring a successful retail store manager to be CEO of Fortune 500 company. Successfully managing a small high school operation does not mean that he can manage the complexities of a major program.
It’s obvious, especially after that last Big Bear Media video, that Sean Brosnan is desperate for a college coaching job. It’s rumored he applied for the ND and Cal Ploy jobs, sounds like he’s put his hat in the ring for UCLA and probably several others.
How many jobs has he applied for in the past 6 months and what are the guesses what jobs they were?
SLO? It’s a really nice area but it would be next to impossible to recruit blue chip distance runners to go there.
Untrue. Ben Bruce, Carmelo Rios, Ivan Huff, Jim Sorensen...
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