Serious question for coaches: It's kind of WEIRD that Brosnan was at this track meet, right?

My kid could only wish for a coach like this! one that cares about them after they have graduated and comes to celebrate college success! what a dream. Our high school coach never cheered for anyone on the team and wished them nothing but failure after leaving. Total Narcissist! I WISH more high school coaches were like Brosnan! I’ll never fault a guy who actually cares about his athletes.

why is it weird a track coach is at a track event to support some of his former athletes as they try to break records?

Sean Brosnan isn't Pete Rose. It's not like he was banned from track after getting fired from UCLA.

Sadly, this is more the norm than the opposite. Good for Brosnan for caring about the sport. The OP seems to have the problem here, not the former coach. As long as Mike Smith at NAU doesn't have a problem (maybe Santos at Stanford might, but that is a different story and HE has got problems with his athletes as it is), then there isn't a problem. Like Fisher recently has as mentioned above, maybe they go back to Brosnan after College - God knows Smith has enough people to coach as it is, and will continue to do so. The worst thing is a greedy coach, who feels that athletes are now their property - that is for the athlete to decide, and ONLY the athlete, I don't care if they are on a scholarship or not. Just because they are is no license to ruin an athlete's career, as frankly, too many NCAA (and HS as well) coaches seem to do all too often.

Of course there are any number of great HS and NCAA coaches who do care about their athletes, during and after the time they coach them - but they are a minority.

Thanks Sean for your thoughts

Sean Brosnan experienced an unprecedented miscarriage of justice. Still, he goes forward and stays opportunistic about his runners. Good things will happen for him.

If I'm a college runner and I was competing near my hometown and my old high school coach showed up, I'd think, "that's cool he took time out of his Saturday to drive over and watch me run." If he flew coast-to-coast to watch me, I'd think, "that's very weird."

You're confused. Sean Brosnan was not in Boston just because he wanted to watch his former athletes run.

He was trying to network to get a pro group going and were lots of the right people to talk to at the BU meet. Whether or not he'll succeed is a totally different topic. But he didn't fly all the way to Boston just to watch the Youngs and the Sahlmans.

What if you were on the greatest high school team of all time, and you were going for an NCAA record and historic first sub-13, and several teammates from your old team were also there and going for big PRs, and also several top pros going for fast times, and there were lots of top athletes and coaches he could network with? Would that still be weird?

Why does a post get removed asking why it was a miscarriage of justice? Is it documented somewhere that is the case? Why not remove the posts that say it was a miscarriage of justice. That is more likely not true.

Not weird, good for L&L to actually have a coach there for them. Ready for them to transfer to NAU, think about bringing Cole Sprout with them.

Zero chance that Lex and Leo transfer to NAU. They have interests outside of track that Stanford can help them pursue.

If they transferred there, NAU would stand for Newbury Arizona University