Confirmed by LRC: UCLA track coach, Sean Brosnan, won't return to UCLA for year #2

the reality is he got away with shaddy recruiting in hs, was turned into the state but states don't care that much. He did the same thing here but it is the NCAA and coaches, schools and the NCAA care.

"I want to coach 4:00 1500 runners" great quote at the end of the article. I just need a job that will let me do that lol

That's a serious accusation. Do you have any evidence of it happening?

That’s a head coach not assistant

Hopefully Nike will jump on this. DUMP PETE JULIAN AND HIRE SEAN BROSNAN

recruiting against the rules is not a nothing thing. Rules need to be enforced.

I was in the CIF Southern Section in the mid-80s and Hawthorne HS had a massively talented sprint corps year after year after year. They'd find fake addresses for their student-athletes. Then my HS got a totally legit transfer, kid moved, but CIF DQd him because of some transfer technicality. And Hawthorne recruited a different kid out of my league.

As a 17 year old I then learned that if you are powerful and famous you could break the rules. If you were a regular person you could not.

This is a terrible lesson to each adolescents, especially when sports are the way the lesson was taught. You were supposed to learn fair play and how to win and lose gracefully via sports. Not how to cheat in life.

I feel bad for the guy

He was investigated

Proved to be innocent

But in this Metoo age, you are simply proven to be guilty by internet trolls and that a life sentence without parole

For a first-year coach to piss off multiple coaches at other schools, to me, as a UCLA alum, sounds like a black eye on the school and a good reason to say good riddance. Interesting word choice in Rojos article that one of his accomplishments at UCLA was that he "nabbed" several athletes in the transfer portal. Ok, not a violation according to the investigation, but Brosnan's pompous comments: "Nothing was found. I’m 100% confident in that …" sound, well, completely overconfident. It is 100% clear that the UCLA administration and the other coaches found that he was making UCLA look bad and behaving inappropriately to the extent that they believes there was reasonable grounds to show him the door/ a likely violation of the rules. Does anyone know if there was a public report on the investigation? Was any of it made public. Especially for a college coach, you should should determine the (often unclear) rules and take a couple steps back, to ensure that you are not violating the rules.

Trolls photoshopping his instagram posts to fuel rumors of NCAA violations and constantly spreading rumors online. Congrats letsrun no-life trolls, you have gotten Sean Brosnan fired even though he is innocent. You happy now? Does it help you sleep at night knowing that he isn't out there coaching and helping kids?

Shady recruiting habits, egotistical, loves the "gray area", and his peers almost unanimously disrespect him.

He's the perfect Nike coach.

Welcome to the Big10

Idk. We heard Brosnan's side of the story. I'm not convinced. I don't trust that guy. I'm sure there was more going on there than Brosnan lets on.

I slept great last night, thank you.

But for real, I believe in his video he made a clear inference that the photoshopping was being done by other coaches. If he could have gotten his ego in check and just not posted pictures that were essentially just bragging that he was still coaching the high schoolers, that wouldn't have happened.

The thing is, if he really cared about helping kids, he would focus on helping his kids and nothing else. Not coaching high schoolers, not focusing on courting transfers that border on NCAA violations, and staying out the spotlight to devote as much time to helping them as possible.

Entirely driven by ego and he created this situation himself.

He referenced fellow coaches that he respected and now does not. He used to follow Mike Smith of NAU on Instagram and discussed how close they had become and now doesn't. I wonder if he had anything to do this as he is everything Sean Brosnan isn't: Humble, kind, empathetic, athlete-focused, and respectful. Somehow my respect and admiration for Mike Smith would have reached a new high.

Who cares about a 1st year coach getting fired who didn't have great success in college coaching.

Next.

Why does he claim 2022 NPHS stats? Wtf this guy has issues.

Onto byu to coach 25 year olds who cheat the system!

This was predictable.

Sean is a good coach if running fast is all that matters. But he is me-focused. It’s about him. And that leads him to do somewhat shady things.

The NCAA is a stickler for compliance. Go look at Harbaugh likely getting suspended for relatively minor recruiting violations. And if you piss off established coaches, they are going to report you. He essentially dared people to with his constant posting. The tall poppy got whacked.

If you are an AD at UCLA and you have a minor sport causing potential violations, it’s not with the headache.

He will land somewhere else. But it’ll be the same story. I think his only hope is the pro scene. He’d be a good match for Nike, as he’d do whatever it took to succeed.

Sean will have no problem finding a job in the SEC.

It's mostly open enrollment in California. Just ask Dana Hills, Clemens, Great Oak, etc. So nothing really shady about it if the parents are willing to send the kid to the school.

What is crazy to me in all this is genuinely I am not that sure he is really this amazing coach.

I know that probably sounds like a awful Letsrun take BUT....

He obviously has built this massive HS empire but that is a far cry from developing a competitive college runner.

Idk maybe he just needs more time to develop his resume but I am not really impressed.