CONFIRMED - Brosnan committed multiple NCAA violations at UCLA

Your are a cruel and evil person for mocking cancer. This report I've read every line is a classic case of institutional bullying athletes into staying somewhere they clearly didn't want to be with serious life challenges. Most won't read it, but NCAA acknowledged there were significant reasons to return home especially Participant #2. There is the letter of the law and there's life hardships. People need to be home for reasons of safety and protection. Once again, the powerful coach and powerful NCAA pick on the one's who suffer rather than take on the real problems facing the sport. Probably because this is an easy win for them. It appears the panel has sympathy for the athletes and for that reason it appears they lessened the charge against Mr. Brosnan. However, the harassment they received was not warranted.

Honestly didn’t read the report, won’t be surprised if SB did some violations… but, it’s very ironic that Vin, one of the biggest violators of them all, was the one who called this in. Back in his Stanford days (you know, the job he had to quietly leave), he had well north of 20+ rides for women and around 18 for men… Don Sage was on zero athletic money, but was receiving 90+ % academic. I don’t begrudge a single one of those athletes, as many were friends of mine, but vin is a freaking slimy bast***, one who will turn on you in a second if he’s not getting something from you. That attitude seems very present here in his complaining about SB, and it’s impressively hypocritical. Doesn’t necessarily make SB’s sins less “wrong” but it is a tough swallow, considering the source…

This is why you don't hire high school coaches to work at a power 4 school lol

What a mess. He probably didn't even know the rules and justified it by saying "everyone else was doing it!"

Makes you wonder what rules he broke at the high school level.

Karma will not be kind to Mr. V.

I've long heard the rumor that he 'quietly had to leave' but have never seen any proof of it. I'd love to hear what people think actually happened but if you are going to throw out accusations - at least be factual.

They don't have academic scholarships at Stanford.

If Vin was smart enough to let the poor kids get need-based aid and the fast ones get athletic, then he was simply doing his job. I think I heard once he was combining academic and need-based which may not have been allowed but now is? Anyone?

As this thread has made clear, the NCAA is full of stupid rules. I once was recruiting a transfer to Cornell. His mom was in prison. He had nowhere to live. He asked to live with me as I had an empty basement. I let him live there and he attended Cornell but we didn't let him run for me as it would be some massive violation.

No one is mocking cancer. I'm not the one who used it as an excuse to cover up violations.

I sympathize with their situation. And everyone has the right to return home or do whatever they want.

But, the point isn't whether they wanted to come home or not. There was a very easy way to do this. Put yourself in the portal and then reach out to the coach at UCLA or USC or whatever other schools are close to home.

If Brosnan simply would have told his "friend" the parents, "Hey, I can't talk about this until she enters the portal, and then we can talk."

She would have been free to transfer home. And Brosnan would have had zero issues. He didn't.

They only played up the return home to try and give Brosnan an out because they didn't enter the portal and do things by the book. Plus, if returning home was so important for these two that they couldn't wait to enter the portal before talking to Brosnan, they wouldn't have returned home for 5 months and then transferred thousands of miles from home right after.

Direct your anger at those who broke the rules and then had to get parents and athletes to try to cover for him because he couldn't do the simplest thing and ask his friends to refrain from talking about transferring until they were in the portal.

Sounds like you knew to follow the rules. SB isn't so smart, or ethical.

Why do you keep repeating this lie? They absolutely do not claim zero tampering. They plainly say there was tampering.

Bingo. Good post.

1- mute button on TV

2- waffle house

3- nap after exercise

There are so many dumb ncaa rules.

but transferring has never been easier. All the athletes and SB had to do was wait for the portal to open. Easy.

if your parents are sick let the current coach and compliance know you want to go home. And day 1 be in the portal with an no contact tag and then talk to SB.

if you truly want to go home you’ll do that. You want need a sneaky guarantee.

it is all dumb though. I had a kid trying to grad transfer, we didn’t have try program. Obviously he was in contact with coaches early as he was applying to their schools. Against the rules yes but also he needed to get into the right grad program

The idiocy of the collective Newbury Park mafia is astounding! The kids, their parents, and the former coach did not use any thought here.

All the students needed to do was explain that they wanted to transfer closer to home. They would have been released without any real fuss and the current school’s compliance department would have aided their portal entry. “Do Not Contact” was the stupid move. Tell me you already have a deal in place without telling me that you have a deal in place. This makes the tampering charge a slam dunk. Highly recruited former high school runner doesn’t want to be recruited by P4 programs? Committed to a most mediocre program within minutes? Fishy AF. Then again, those kids and their families knew full well that the calls weren’t social in nature. Funny that they also knew that UCLA admissions wasn’t going to be an issue.

They were sloppy dumb and they got caught because of it. Reading the Brozzie Fan Club posts are comedy gold!

Nobody seems to want to talk about the report that there was a relationship between an investigator and a coach from UVA. Hopefully, ROJO will investigate this matter as swiftly as he ran to Mr. V's defense on issue decades ago.

Also Mr. V holding up the transfer process and delaying it was a NCAAA violation. But don't let facts get in the way.

Sounds more like Karma paid a visit to Sean. After years of shady behavior, breaking rules and pissing off other coaches, he’s finally being held accountable.

His Karma was hosting cross country nationals and falling apart hosting with AD Carla Williams standing by his side. As well as indoor nationals in Virginia Beach. Two meltdowns on home soil. His Karma is endless.

Nobody seems to want to talk about it because it wasn’t a real thing. HE BROKE THE RULES! It is so obvious if you read the report. Maybe you don’t like the rules, but that report is as clear as can be. His rebuttals in this thread (yes, we all know it’s you Sean), show his complete inability to take any responsibility for his actions and his warped sense of right and wrong.

Apologies Robert, I was just trying to avoid being verbose and not explain the difference between athletic and non-athletic money. But yes, tell me that he is really able to bring in 4:00 milers (back when 4:01-4:02 was as fast as it gets) and pay them nothing out of his athletic allotment, cleanly… nope, he played the game and I don’t blame him, but the point is that he’s no angel himself, and so I just find it very ironic/hypocritical that he whines about something that I see as a minor transgression.

not true

he tampered. everyone knows it.

all he had to do was follow the rules like the rest of us do. simple.