I’m not sure why so many here think that Brosnan won’t be successful at ucla. He is the best distance coach in history. All top high school runners will want to be a bruin. He won’t even need to make any recruiting efforts. Kids will need to recruit him.
I'm one who is saying he won't be successful. I'm one saying it will not be easy. It sucks running in Westwood. If you can do it at all. Concrete jungle with lots of stoplights. You really have to get in a van and drive somewhere to run. That's very inconvenient for college students to do with time constraints. Good luck to him...but just another thing to worry about.
Average ACT is 31. Out of state cost is $68k. He will have about 2 scholarships.
Even if he isn't recruiting out of state, CA has 10-15 guys every year in the 8:5x - 9.0X range. He may not be able to draw the most elite of that crop right away, but there is still plenty of in state talent for him to work with. In the past many of these kids have gone to UCLA only never to be heard from again due to lack of development.
Don't underestimate the desire of CA kids to jump at the chance to get into UCLA, arguably the second most desired academic school in the state after Stanford. In state tuition is a pittance at $13k so even with limited athletic/academic aide money will not be a problem.
12 pages & no real talk of him getting fired by this time next year? Let me explain to you kids how this went down. Established college coaches all know Avery Anderson only has 1 year left on his contract. All college coaches also know that when that contract expires, everyone is gone. That’s why most established college coaches wanted nothing to do with this job/turned it down. They all know that Sean Brosnan could win NCAA’s on both the men’s and women’s side. He could have 7 all Americans per gender. This XC season. He could make it rain AA’s/national champions from nothing on the track. And he’s still getting fired by next June. Because UCLA will not hire him as Director (very different skills than “coaching”). And that means the new director will bring their own people. And Sean Brosnan will be fired. For the record, I don’t think this is a bad hire, and I think Brosnan is clearly a good coach who made the right decision here to get his foot in the door. But please, please, please, if you don’t believe me, bump this thread a year from now & I will reveal my identity & give you my life savings if Sean Brosnan still has a job at UCLA. Because this is how it works…for better or for worse.
12 pages & no real talk of him getting fired by this time next year? Let me explain to you kids how this went down. Established college coaches all know Avery Anderson only has 1 year left on his contract. All college coaches also know that when that contract expires, everyone is gone. That’s why most established college coaches wanted nothing to do with this job/turned it down. They all know that Sean Brosnan could win NCAA’s on both the men’s and women’s side. He could have 7 all Americans per gender. This XC season. He could make it rain AA’s/national champions from nothing on the track. And he’s still getting fired by next June. Because UCLA will not hire him as Director (very different skills than “coaching”). And that means the new director will bring their own people. And Sean Brosnan will be fired. For the record, I don’t think this is a bad hire, and I think Brosnan is clearly a good coach who made the right decision here to get his foot in the door. But please, please, please, if you don’t believe me, bump this thread a year from now & I will reveal my identity & give you my life savings if Sean Brosnan still has a job at UCLA. Because this is how it works…for better or for worse.
Stop the BS. Jarmond loves Avery and he’s going no where anytime or soon.
There is little to no chance that Nico transfers. He has been very successful at NAU and he won’t leave that just to go back to his high school coach.
Colin is also very unlikely to do anything this close to the start of semester. That would be a huge hassle and be pretty detrimental to his overall life, not just running.
L&L will probably be swayed a lot by Nico’s success, although there is probably also a chance that they’ll choose to go back to Brosnan. As for Aaron, I’m not too sure. He is probably the most different out of all of the runners in that he is much more speed and middle distance oriented than the rest of them. He could well look for a program that is more focussed on this, although if Colin has a good year at NAU then it will be hard to turn that down.
12 pages & no real talk of him getting fired by this time next year? Let me explain to you kids how this went down. Established college coaches all know Avery Anderson only has 1 year left on his contract. All college coaches also know that when that contract expires, everyone is gone. That’s why most established college coaches wanted nothing to do with this job/turned it down. They all know that Sean Brosnan could win NCAA’s on both the men’s and women’s side. He could have 7 all Americans per gender. This XC season. He could make it rain AA’s/national champions from nothing on the track. And he’s still getting fired by next June. Because UCLA will not hire him as Director (very different skills than “coaching”). And that means the new director will bring their own people. And Sean Brosnan will be fired. For the record, I don’t think this is a bad hire, and I think Brosnan is clearly a good coach who made the right decision here to get his foot in the door. But please, please, please, if you don’t believe me, bump this thread a year from now & I will reveal my identity & give you my life savings if Sean Brosnan still has a job at UCLA. Because this is how it works…for better or for worse.
Stop the BS. Jarmond loves Avery and he’s going no where anytime or soon.
Stop the BS. Jarmond loves Avery and he’s going no where anytime or soon.
UCLA just got big again!
You might want to ask the track alums about this…
People still think the alumni have a voice….. ugh…. Old has-been runners don’t define us. Those stuck in forced pronouns who claim to know who should coach us is an antiquated farce. The future of the NCAA rests in our palms. The team who is here NOW matters. We get the final say…. We will decide if Avery stays or goes.
12 pages & no real talk of him getting fired by this time next year? Let me explain to you kids how this went down. Established college coaches all know Avery Anderson only has 1 year left on his contract. All college coaches also know that when that contract expires, everyone is gone. That’s why most established college coaches wanted nothing to do with this job/turned it down. They all know that Sean Brosnan could win NCAA’s on both the men’s and women’s side. He could have 7 all Americans per gender. This XC season. He could make it rain AA’s/national champions from nothing on the track. And he’s still getting fired by next June. Because UCLA will not hire him as Director (very different skills than “coaching”). And that means the new director will bring their own people. And Sean Brosnan will be fired. For the record, I don’t think this is a bad hire, and I think Brosnan is clearly a good coach who made the right decision here to get his foot in the door. But please, please, please, if you don’t believe me, bump this thread a year from now & I will reveal my identity & give you my life savings if Sean Brosnan still has a job at UCLA. Because this is how it works…for better or for worse.
This post is certainly spells out a strong possibility. It is very possible that Avery is let go next year especially if the Bruins continue to struggle on the track. But if the new distance coach has made a name for himself on the HS level and whomever is named to replace Avery may decide to give the distance guy an opportunity... especially if they have a little success this year.
There's a lot of cronyism in the coaching world but it's not absolute that the new distance guy will be fired. It's certainly worth the gamble for him to sign on this year... it probably depends a lot on how much the distance team likes him this year.
Nope, you are amusing. You tried but you failed. Bringing up football and basketball and relating it to track shows me that you do not actually know what you are talking about. You also are skirting the truth. Those athletes on the team that you are claiming are not academically strong or whatever you used to describe them, are good students. Trust me, track does not get exceptions. And I will leave it at that
Yeah right. They have all the resources in the world and get all the best Southern Section kids to come and they're constantly getting bodied by most of the PAC 12. Even though they get a surplus of guys running 9:10-9:15 and girls running in the low fives they still suck. Most of those kids are washed and only there to say they're a UCLA athlete when what they really are is just ass
Yeah right. They have all the resources in the world and get all the best Southern Section kids to come and they're constantly getting bodied by most of the PAC 12. Even though they get a surplus of guys running 9:10-9:15 and girls running in the low fives they still suck. Most of those kids are washed and only there to say they're a UCLA athlete when what they really are is just ass
12 pages & no real talk of him getting fired by this time next year? Let me explain to you kids how this went down. Established college coaches all know Avery Anderson only has 1 year left on his contract. All college coaches also know that when that contract expires, everyone is gone. That’s why most established college coaches wanted nothing to do with this job/turned it down. They all know that Sean Brosnan could win NCAA’s on both the men’s and women’s side. He could have 7 all Americans per gender. This XC season. He could make it rain AA’s/national champions from nothing on the track. And he’s still getting fired by next June. Because UCLA will not hire him as Director (very different skills than “coaching”). And that means the new director will bring their own people. And Sean Brosnan will be fired. For the record, I don’t think this is a bad hire, and I think Brosnan is clearly a good coach who made the right decision here to get his foot in the door. But please, please, please, if you don’t believe me, bump this thread a year from now & I will reveal my identity & give you my life savings if Sean Brosnan still has a job at UCLA. Because this is how it works…for better or for worse.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing for the only high school experienced coach. He gets a year of experience at a power 5 to greatly enhance his resume. This will open doors for him to get a position at a school with the potential to be a distance powerhouse. The Pepperdine’s, Gonzaga’s, Georgetown’s… of the world. Where he can control the scholarships and put them into distance. I guess he’s only getting scrap scholarships for distance at sprint focused UCLA.
Wait…hold on a sec! School hasn’t started yet! I think you can still change school choices can’t you? Well, I doubt he would be upset if there are 2 other sub-10:40 guys coming in
Better guys joining West Ranch (Halvorsen and Duenas). Also, will Adrian Cantu also join West Ranch next year?
Not sure if West Ranch is a possibility for Dickran.
Interesting enough, class of 2025 is even worse at West Ranch than it is at Newbury Park on the boys side. Although neither have a good class of 2025.
But Newbury Park has Jack “4:39 in the 1600” Watson, but West Ranch has no one close to his level.