Former Brooks Athlete & 1500m runner arrested in Charlotte

Law enforcement clearly found a reason to charge and arrest him, if she wasn't a minor that would have been unlikely. Even if she was 18 and "legally" a consenting adult, monsters like this don't need to be anywhere near children. But I guess his and your morals are likely different than the rest of civilized society that has deemed this type of predatory behavior disgusting and vile.

He actually was on the cover of Runner's World.

1. 17 is underaged. He is 39

2. He was her teacher and coach

3. He could have (and probably was) grooming her for years before he exposed himself, kissed her twice, and sent her lewd messages (read the Charlotte observer article, it is all outlined in there).
4. He’s don’t it with another underaged athlete

he is a psychopath and serial abuser of young women. Lock him up and throw away the key

Unfortunately in North Carolina the age of consent is 16... So likely he is arrested for the lewd expose and that's probably all they can try him for. Crazy the school didn't fire him after the first sketchy acts. He always gave off sketchy baptist preacher vibes to me. It was a cool story to keep grinding but this yet another great example to not worship a person or their accomplishments.

Was expecting this to be houser but horribly let down. Need an update on houser

sweat elite matt?

According to the Affidavit the charge is 2 counts of Indecent Liberties with a student. In NC that's a class G felony that if convicted the sentence can be anywhere from 8 to 31 months. It will be interesting to see if there are others that come forth and whether those end up as civil cases. Or heaven forbid the statue of limitations expires on previously unreported cases.

It will be interesting to see how he pleads as well. Unless he's got family money I don't see him getting a good attorney on a substitute teacher and coaching salary.

Former coach and former teacher*

He better not be employed as either of those again

He waived his right to counsel, per an update on Thursday.

God going to defend him?

Give me a break.

Teachers dating HS girls went on all the time back in the day.

Inappropriate? For sure.

Disgusting? Please.

It was disgusting in the past, it’s disgusting now. Don’t ever have a daughter.

This happened at least twice in my NC high school a few decades ago. Both times it was a recent college grad teacher in their early/mid-20s dating a senior girl. People generally disapproved and thought it was inappropriate, but I don't recall any threats of legal action. It did cost one teacher his job at least. 39 would have been a different story.

Maybe you can defend Matt in court. I'm sure the conservative christian judge in NC would agree with you and toss this charge out. That way they can get back to locking up real criminals.

Thou shall not fraternize with young schoolgirls, especially if they are cheerleaders, gymnasts, dance team members, and baton twirlers.

MLK did it, so it's ok. People did it in the past, so I guess we just have to let it keep happening?

Why strive to be better than previous generations at all?

It’s gross he should have made better choices.

are all the girls at these high schools innocent. Heck no. As a former HS male teacher I got many advances but to me it always felt very very weird/awkward but it’s up to you to set the tone that it’s not that kinda party whatsoever.

I can imagine now, as I did then, that many of these girls are very promiscuous with the male counterparts at their school who are their age of course but girls tend to date older(18 dating a 22 yr old) in college in certainly common.

regardless, he knows better and lacked the correct judgement. There’s many 24/25 year old women that are very easy to find and attract if he wanted a younger woman.

I was in high school at the time he was at his peak and was super inspired by him. I reached out and chatted with him at the time and he was very nice and encouraging.

This is sad to hear, but I don’t feel bad for him if he made these choices he is accused of.