What crack are you smoking? Neither of those teams ran amazing. Colorado is slightly above average at best, and UCLA is somehow even worse than their football team which, if you follow football, is saying something.
Who coaches at UCLA ? It’s says Joanna Hayes is head cross country coach
Carlson may not enjoy telling kids that they can't run for CU but his quote here, "we got the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus," comes across as callous and unprofessional to me. Maybe the latest cuts were self-evident given talent/results but to the extent that "attitude" had anything to do with it, better to keep that in-house. Either way, anyone can figure out who he might have been talking about, and all of them are young people who are maturing as athletes and human beings. Just feels like he is punching down.
And maybe all P4 D1 is this kind of vibe, but it's disappointing to see him (indirectly) take a dig at runners on their way out the door when, presumably, he once liked them enough to recruit and/or roster them
Carlson may not enjoy telling kids that they can't run for CU but his quote here, "we got the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus," comes across as callous and unprofessional to me. Maybe the latest cuts were self-evident given talent/results but to the extent that "attitude" had anything to do with it, better to keep that in-house. Either way, anyone can figure out who he might have been talking about, and all of them are young people who are maturing as athletes and human beings. Just feels like he is punching down.
And maybe all P4 D1 is this kind of vibe, but it's disappointing to see him (indirectly) take a dig at runners on their way out the door when, presumably, he once liked them enough to recruit and/or roster them
What you’re saying is honestly fair frustration from a coaching lens. UCLA has the name, resources, and location to at least be competitive in cross country , yet they keep sliding deeper into irrelevance. Finishing 25th and 28th overall while the men winning a JV race isn’t remotely acceptable for a Big Ten program. They would get hosed by Chico State at this point, WTF! Whoever is posting this from UCLA should be fired. I hope to God the UCLA isn’t this dumb to post this was an achievement
Coach Ferris has managed to drag UCLA distance further downhill every single year he’s been in charge of distance( it’s not Hayes like some assume ), and anyone watching can see it. He tries to pass himself off as some sort of science driven coach, constantly talking about lactate levels and threshold training, but it’s all smoke and mirrors, he doesn’t actually understand the physiology he’s preaching. The result is monotonous, one dimensional training that leaves athletes stagnant or broken down. My former athlete who ran for him described the experience as miserable. There is no real development, no sense of team identity, just empty jargon and long mediocre sessions. To make matters worse, he constantly brings up Letsrun to his team, like online chatter matters more than actual performance on the course, and he even seemed proud of finishing outside the top 25 in the open race, which is an embarrassing standard for a Big 10 program. A quick look back at his stints at Iona and Wake Forest shows similar red flags and troubling patterns, nothing in his history suggests he knows how to run a successful program. Under Ferris, UCLA hasn’t just failed to improve, they’ve lost recruits, alienated athletes, and turned what should be a respectable distance program into a complete non factor. Instead of building a competitive culture, he’s created one of confusion, low standards, and wasted potential and it shows in every result sheet.
As a UCLA alum who’s seen plenty of ups and downs with the distance program, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it this bad.
Maybe those 15:01 kids could head to UCLA. They need the help
Posts that point out Brosnan left behind a mess are being deleted, while posts that flat out call Hayes a "moron" or that trash Ferris are allowed to remain. WHY???
Why does this site protect Brosnan while allowing Brosnan and his ilk to insult other coaches???
We've received a complaint from a parent asserting what you are asserting.
I've now restored virtually every post in this thread except for any posts about Sean Carlon's dating life. If you have a problem with whom Sean is or isnt' dating, I suggest you contact the AD - don't post about it on on anonymous forum.
It appears most of the posts were deleted by an automatic deletion that we have working behind the scenes. I have no idea if the posts were so bad that they triggered this or if someone was taking advantage of our auto delete feature by using a VPN.
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Posts that point out Brosnan left behind a mess are being deleted, while posts that flat out call Hayes a "moron" or that trash Ferris are allowed to remain. WHY???
Why does this site protect Brosnan while allowing Brosnan and his ilk to insult other coaches???
We've received a complaint from a parent asserting what you are asserting.
I've now restored virtually every post in this thread except for any posts about Sean Carlon's dating life. If you have a problem with whom Sean is or isnt' dating, I suggest you contact the AD - don't post about it on on anonymous forum.
It appears most of the posts were deleted by an automatic deletion that we have working behind the scenes. I have no idea if the posts were so bad that they triggered this or if someone was taking advantage of our auto delete feature by using a VPN.
What do you mean a parent ? The parent of Carlson assistant ? What are you talking about ?
Brosnan was there for 1 season, hired in August, way late for recruiting. Not sure there was much chance for him to recruit for the future. Especially since he left anyway.