Sean Brosnan to Miami?

Miami's program problems don't start or end with the coach. Extremely expensive private school with no scholarships for track, and you're trying to convince walk-ons to stop snorting coke in the club at 2 am on Saturdays. It's a losing situation all around, never mind the terrible training environment of south Florida. They don't even field a cross country team for conference, they just send sprinters that they think can probably run an 8k without collapsing.

I've never seen so much buzz here for a high school turned assistant college coach. Maybe his big ego everyone is talking about is serving him well.

...that everyone is moving to, and away from the Communist states.

I think he would be a great sales person at Benyon. They're like the halfway house for recently banished coaches.

And here we go...

You just don't know when to STFU!...As usual.

That’s because he is one of the best distance coaches in the country and when you’re at the top people talk.

I don't think more true words have been said. I did a 5th year in Florida and a few teammates, and I went down to Miami during the off season, I couldn't imagine succeeding there in any distance over 800 meters. Its not just the partying down there but its also extremely hot, even significantly hotter than most of the state of Florida other than like Key West.

Brosnan posted a picture from Oregon and the Portland area on his IG story. Anyone else see that ? Then took it down 10min later.

lolz

Has Miami ever been good at cross country. I'm going with no

I'm no salesman for Florida. Aside from the insanely corrupt and ideological politics in a state that is in actuality exceedingly close to a 50-50 place in statewide elections (just look at the winning margins for Scott over Nelson and DeSantis over Gillum), the nice weather that everyone elsewhere talks about is confined to the winter and the weather is absolutely unbearable outside for seven months a year or more now. The traffic is terrible; there is no public transportation to speak of outside of Miami; you can't get housing insurance outside of Citizens anymore, and car insurance rates are among the highest in the country because of stratospheric accident rates and insane drivers in Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville; and pay is lousy. All that being said and the weather and lack of trails in Miami being obvious facts, Belen Jesuit dominates the state from 800m up, so it's obviously possible to have a strong distance program in that weather. If nothing else, you're going to be acclimated for hot weather races at the NCAA Outdoor meet.

and yet, their coach just got the FSU job which seems like a big step up to me.

Miami OK: Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College

Probably has a better team...

hired Damon Griffiths

He was hired as a recruiting coordinator; not a coach.

Because running 13:40 is hard enough in constant high humidity, let alone when you're a 6ft8, 400lb polynesian brother

Yeah that dude trash and a half

So they hired a recruiting coordinator before a coach? Griff makes sense as he's a former athlete and coach, but what other intel do you have on coaching staff?