Brosnan was a guest on the podcast on Tuesday. He told us he that he personally recorded the audio version of the book. This week only, if you join our Supporters Club, we'll send you a copy of the book and a free t-shirt as Rojo's college roommate Chris Lear is a co-author.
I personally know two people who already picked up the book. One bought it at Barnes & Noble, and another ordered 15 copies online for his staff. So it’s definitely moving through multiple outlets, not just Amazon. And on Amazon it’s been hitting best seller status, though the rank shifts hourly. I think you’re forgetting that. Brosnan himself has even been reposting people on Instagram who are sharing positive reviews, which just shows how much the book is connecting with readers. He most of posted a dozen random people in the last 24 hours.
The book is selling like hotcakes. It's exciting to see.
His amazon sales rank has been between 1500 and 3k for the first week.
This means on the high end he’s selling 90 books a day and the low end 40.
You can do the math and decide if that’s hotcakes or not.
People can talk all the trash they want, that always happens when someone reaches huge success. The truth is, Brosnan built not just the best cross-country team ever, but arguably the greatest high school sports team of all time. His book was even better than I expected, and unlike the anonymous haters out there, I choose to take the higher road and recognize greatness when I see it.
People can talk all the trash they want, that always happens when someone reaches huge success. The truth is, Brosnan built not just the best cross-country team ever, but arguably the greatest high school sports team of all time. His book was even better than I expected, and unlike the anonymous haters out there, I choose to take the higher road and recognize greatness when I see it.
The hatred seems to come more from people who believe that because NB runners were special, Brosnan is special, too, against those who believe he was a decent coach, who was in the right place at the right time.
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People can talk all the trash they want, that always happens when someone reaches huge success. The truth is, Brosnan built not just the best cross-country team ever, but arguably the greatest high school sports team of all time. His book was even better than I expected, and unlike the anonymous haters out there, I choose to take the higher road and recognize greatness when I see it.
The hatred seems to come more from people who believe that because NB runners were special, Brosnan is special, too, against those who believe he was a decent coach, who was in the right place at the right time.
Agree. To me, the most compelling part of the argument is, he never did it anywhere else, at any other time in his life. If he was that great, wouldn't you expect him to have shown how great he is with some other team, somewhere else, some other time?
Even at NP, the first 2 years, they were really pretty average. It wasn't until the Sahlmans and Nico's brothers showed up that they really dominated.
You can say he did well at UCLA (debatable), but he certainly wasn't "all time great".
The hatred seems to come more from people who believe that because NB runners were special, Brosnan is special, too, against those who believe he was a decent coach, who was in the right place at the right time.
Agree. To me, the most compelling part of the argument is, he never did it anywhere else, at any other time in his life. If he was that great, wouldn't you expect him to have shown how great he is with some other team, somewhere else, some other time?
Even at NP, the first 2 years, they were really pretty average. It wasn't until the Sahlmans and Nico's brothers showed up that they really dominated.
You can say he did well at UCLA (debatable), but he certainly wasn't "all time great".
In just one year at UCLA with him, they went from having zero distance qualifiers to suddenly producing multiple indoor and outdoor NCAA qualifiers and All-Americans. The years before he arrived? None. The years after he left? None again. And on the LetsRun podcast, he even pointed out that he hadn’t coached the girls at Newbury Park for four years — yet they still had a national relay record and the top girls in the nation. The truth is, the kids at Newbury Park were the lucky ones. They struck gold when he showed up to coach them.
Agree. To me, the most compelling part of the argument is, he never did it anywhere else, at any other time in his life. If he was that great, wouldn't you expect him to have shown how great he is with some other team, somewhere else, some other time?
Even at NP, the first 2 years, they were really pretty average. It wasn't until the Sahlmans and Nico's brothers showed up that they really dominated.
You can say he did well at UCLA (debatable), but he certainly wasn't "all time great".
In just one year at UCLA with him, they went from having zero distance qualifiers to suddenly producing multiple indoor and outdoor NCAA qualifiers and All-Americans. The years before he arrived? None. The years after he left? None again. And on the LetsRun podcast, he even pointed out that he hadn’t coached the girls at Newbury Park for four years — yet they still had a national relay record and the top girls in the nation. The truth is, the kids at Newbury Park were the lucky ones. They struck gold when he showed up to coach them.
It definitely turns to gold when Brosnan gets involved. When that happening the trolls try to find a purpose and just make things worse
I just saw on Brosnan’s Instagram that The LA Times ran a large excerpt from the book in their Sunday paper. It’s great to see the book getting that kind of attention. I’m going to have to break down and read it.
I just saw on Brosnan’s Instagram that The LA Times ran a large excerpt from the book in their Sunday paper. It’s great to see the book getting that kind of attention. I’m going to have to break down and read it.