Breaking: Josh Hoey has parted with Justin Rinaldi, the man who took him from 1:47 also-ran to 1:42 World Champ!!

The Hoey's moving to Chat-GPT as their coach. What can go wrong?

Nah, Hoey's should go to Swoosh TC in Flag. Nike doesn't seem to give a rat's ass. What's one more non-Nike guy at this point?

not sure why he did this especially after having such an amazing season. He likely just raced too much and that was why he failed in the end - he also went out way too fast the first lap at USAs. Maybe there were just some disagreements

No matter how many coach’s no matter how many drugs, this dude is always gonna do something like this. It’s amazing.

wow, the narcissism. he's gonna run out of options, who would take that on knowing they'd be fired in 1 year.

Holts dad seems like to have a mentality that’s so toxic for a runner. Was shocked to hear it.

I don’t think Rinaldi looks for payment

ngl I thought Hoey was fully coached by his dad this whole time...

Any season where you go from 1:47 to 1:42 is a massive unprecedented success, regardless of whether or not you blow up at the end of the season. Hoey clearly expected a US title and a world championship medal.

Hoey was stuck at 1:47+ for a while not for a lack of trying. I could see him improving or holding steady with Mike Smiths MD group, but unless that’s where he’s going I think this move jeopardizes his career more than he realizes

LRC reply. He can't go to Mike Smith's group. They are a Nike group and Hoey is with adidas. Smith was allowed to continue to coach his non-Nike athletes until their current contracts are up, he isn't allowed to pick up non-Nike athletes.

I believe that: probably didn’t want the speculative rumors to taint his reputation.

Was it Josh or his brother that went to 4 different high schools? This is silly but unsurprising

Soooo many similarities here. It’s really a good comparison. Raducanus career has been a nothing burger since she won Wimbledon. In fact sometimes she appears to hate the sport that made her all this money. Wonder if Josh will never hit the 1:42 mark again and continue to feel frustrated and eventually bitter about it. Typically these types of people have a very hard time looking inward at how their actions are the cause of some of these problems. And I say that as a fair weather Hoey fan. I personally suspect he has some internal struggles going on.

I’ll spill the tea—

I used to work at a running store the Hoey’s used to frequent. Their dad is downright mentally abusive. One time, Josh wanted a pair of Brooks shoes, and he basically barked at him to be quiet. “You’re getting Nikes. Be quiet.” Built them their own track. Used to buy them new running watches every Christmas.

Jaxson was a state champion, and Josh went to three high schools in four years. Everything is a package deal for them so the dad can be in control. The second someone says something he doesn’t agree with, that’s it. He’s volatile. One of my favorites is that he told me “his kids were leaving Oregon (Josh was committed there after Jaxson transferred in) because they’re bringing in Virginia Tech’s coach, Ben Thomas. He doesn’t know how to coach and makes his mid-d guys run cross country.” The next year or so, Hocker and Teare were tearing up the NCAA under Thomas.

The thing that bothers me the most is the Hoeys will say “it’s God’s plan” when they leave programs. No— THEY’RE the problem. Josh is so talented but stuck under dad’s control. Here are all of the programs they’ve left: Malvern Prep, Downingtown West, Shanahan, Penn State, Oregon, Tennessee (decommitted), Lee LeBadie, Terrance Mahon, Matt Centrowitz, Sr., Tommy Nohilly, Rena Reiner, Justin Rinaldi (plus, these are just the ones we know about. The father begged Marcus O’Sullivan to coach them, and he said no).

They’re the Ball Family of track, and that might even be an insult to Lamelo & co.

They should ask Kersee

So, training and racing all year long, especially indoor has a downside to it? Is this news?

Yikes.

Tom Thibodeau, anyone?

I just heard a story about an athlete getting recruited for an Ivy school. Not sure if it was for soccer or tennis.

The kid was fine but this coach scouts the parents, too. The parents failed their "tryout" so the kid didn't get to go to that school.

Actually it is more like firing a coach who led a 9-8 team in 2024 that barely lost in the first round of the playoffs that year (4th place in the Olympic Trials) to a 15-2 record in 2025, but then they were unpredictably upset in the first round of the playoffs again by a Wildcard runner named Cooper.

Hoey did not get a chance to compete in the rest of the playoffs (rounds of Olympics/ World Championships) and was nowhere near competing in the Super Bowl (Olympic/World Championship Final).

Hoey was much better than '2-15' in 2024, as he made the Olympic Trials Final and finished a strong fourth in a personal best 1:44:12 (.15 behind third). A 2-15 equivalent runner would not have even qualified to compete in the first round of the Trials.

The Denver Nuggets fired their long-time coach Mike Malone (who led them to the NBA Title in 2023) with only a ew games left in the season, and then stretched the eventual champions OKC Thunder to 7 games in the playoffs last year.