What's next for Sean Brosnan?

Well, if he can’t find a college coaching or a pro coaching job, he might need to resort to being a HS coach again

Brosnan will NEVER go back to high school coaching for one very good reason. No matter what high school he coaches at he will never have the success that he did at Newbury Park. And Brosnan knows that.

Imagine if Brosnan coaches at a high school for several years that previously was average, and he improves that school a lot, and they finish say 5th in the state. That's pretty good. But it's not close to Newbury Park good.

And there are NO colleges that want to hire a high school coach whose team only finished 5th in the state. Which would mean that Brosnan will NEVER get another college coaching job.

So Brosnan is bascially permanently locked out of high school.

Brosnan eventually will take another college job, recruit like crazy, try to convince a few top high school runners that he is great, do reasonably well at that college, and then use that college as a stepping stone to a slightly better college.

Only a low level college will hure him..he will go crazy coaching a crappy team and he will get into trouble quickly as a result.

FWIW - Sean posted a picture from the track at Nike HQ yesterday.

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So did I

This quote about sums him up; "I bet if just had a decent bunch of kids, I bet I could win a state meet and be a nati..."

I could win, not the team, but I could win. Three times he says I in one sentence. We'll never know because he never had "decent" kids. He had the Sahlmans and Youngs.

Many good XC teams put 4 X 1600m relays at both Mt. Sac and Arcadia and lemme tell ya....sub 20 is no small achievement. Most boys/girls don't run their PR 1600 times and then you add all 4 up. It doesn't work that way. Looks his girls ran 19:48 and he coached them up and went faster than some great girls teams over the last 20 years. The guy can coach better than 100% of the posters high school coaches in here. He can take average kids and make them great. He can take great kids and make them historical. And no my name is not Sean Brosnan.

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No but your name is Martin and you are living in the past.

No but your name is Martin and you are living in the past. Your post no longer applies.

Remind me. Did Jay Wright coach in college after high school? Didn't he win two NCAA championships at Villanova after never winning a state championship at Lower Merion High School? Methinks your argument isn't true.

UCLA ain’t doing too well without him

#BringBrosnanBack2023

They are doing much better. You don't understand what the metric is.

All of these elite HS xc programs all follow the same model.
90% of the time is an affluent very large high school. The privileged kids don’t have a lot of outside distractions and their parents are there for support. No side jobs needed, new shoes, travel to large meets, a trip to the doctor when needed.

Then you get a large roster of 40-50 per gender and train the snot out of them. Rinse and repeat for a few years and you have yourself an awesome team.

SB is a good coach BUT, is he any better than American Fork? FM? Great Oak? York? Southlake? The Woodlands? Crater? I could name more. Pretty much all the same program

I think the times he had his HS athletes running is what made Newberry so different than everyone else. I agree the other coaches are also very good at what they do. Brosnan just got his kids to reach a level never seen in HS before. NP was ranked #1 four years straight.