Confirmed by LRC: UCLA track coach, Sean Brosnan, won't return to UCLA for year #2

Brosnan was caught lying. He posted an instagram story that clearly showed he was coaching the Young brothers. He then deleted it and reposted something that was less obvious about him coaching the youngs.

There are rules that a college coach can coach club athletes within a certain radius. But there were no legit clubs that the Youngs ran for and obviously Brosnan was not named an official coach of any club. He tried to create his own club that conveniently only included the Youngs, and was not open to any and all athletes within a 50 mile radius regardless of of talent or ability.

give him a break. within 2 hours of a big name college coach getting fired, Rojo interviewed him and posted the article online at 11:10pm on a Sunday night (Rojo is in Baltimore which is eastern time).

First off- Admins don't fire assistant coaches... lmao. especially in 2nd tier sports like xc and track.... to say Avery had no call in the matter is a bold faced lie. Avery is the boss.

That's like saying the president of the university fired a teachers assistant. it never happens - anywhere, anytime, in any sport. These quotes by SB are a scream for help and I'm left with more questions than answers.

I initiated it and texted him after people complained the thread was deleted. He said I could call him and so I did. Then I had to type up the story. I wasn't sure how much he said to me was on or off the record so I had to confirm that. Then I had to make sure there were no errors in it as the rest of the staff isn't working at 11 pm on a Sunday.

He never told me he was going live on IG.

And he missed out the part where Brosnan clearly said “I think my next adventure will be coaching Spencer Brown onto the podium at the Paris Olympics”

Impressive journalism!

To be honest, what kind of shocks me about this is the moral outrage.

In the NCAA, you now can literally pay people to come to your school - and you have nothing to worry about as long as the boosters do it.

But if the coach calls up a stud and says, "Hey if you transfer, you'll get a full ride" then you get canned?

And If I was still coaching in the NCAA, I get it. I"d be irate if a kid was tampering with my guys, but don't kids know they could get a full ride if they are scoring at NCAAs and what not?

IT's just funny so many people are up in arms about this. The Tennesse coach can rise to the top thanks to having a team full of sprinters that get banned by WADA. No biggie.

You tell the 4:10 girl from UVA she's got a full ride if she wants it and you must immediatey go? I mean I get it. Harbaugh is getting a 4 game suspension for calling kids at the wrong time. Rules are rules but it's kind of wild.

And that's assuming he did do it, which he says he didn't do.

Sure.

Bummer. He seems like a passionate coach who can get results. Those are the ones who can win. I was looking forward to see how UCLA would do this year. Good luck to him.

For current UCLA SAs, yes. Are the transfers matriculated UCLA students? Don't be dumb <3

You are talking about two different things. But, yes, NIL as it is being executed is dumb.

However, just because they have no control over NIL doesn't mean we should let coaches do whatever they want. Silly argument.

I spoke to Brosnan months about about the Youngs. He openly told me he would be coaching them and had it approved and it wans't an NCAA violation. WHy in the world wouldn't he be allowed to coach the Newbury Park track club with the youngs on it, particularly when they were already comitted to Stanford?

Now I told him the kids on UCLA may not like it. Hell if I was his boss at UCLA, I wouldn't want him to do it. But that's another story. i'm 99% certain it was all approved. He didn't try to hide the fact he was coaching them.

HE did say today that someone photoshopped an instagram post and reported it to the NCAA but I didn't really understand that. But who cares. We are going to get upset that he continued to coach the guys he coached last year when his wife is the head coach? Find something else to faux outraged about.

We’ll said Worser. Nod to Rojo for getting Brosnan to talk quickly, for what that’s worth, which ain’t much. Brosnan’s crew did demonstrate some success and that just makes the one year flame out weirder. I do not buy that a UCLA Assoc. AD (or the AD) would act without a well investigated basis, especially where the head coach allegedly wants to retain the guy - again, solely according to Brosnan. might not ever get the real details because the stakes are so low - short term assistant coach in a revenue negative sport. That may mean that the school just didn’t want the brain damage of taking on the defense of an upstart high school coach they took a flier on.

UCLA is not renewing a contract after 1 year. That seems to mean he had a 1 year deal which signals that UCLA was being careful with a known risk. IMHO - he did some gun jumping in the portal. End of day, UCLA saw downside that couldn’t be counterbalanced by upside. Unstable isotope.

Why do you blindly believe everything that Brosnan says? He has proven to be not trustworthy - to his AD and other NCAA coaches.

He's not on the staff of the Newbury Park Track Club:

Somehow the Youngs don't hold any club records...were they ever in that club?

Did the Young family pay the 200 dollar fee to join the club? Where is the receipt?

“Politics” is a frequent excuse given from fired employees.

Good job getting the story Rojo. Here is the deal. The Brojos and many of us act as if we are sort of libertarians although I am further to the left than most libertarians. However, don’t we want the free market to just keep chugging along? If UCLA doesn’t want Brosnan, and Brosnan has a valuable service he can offer, then this is a blessing for Brosnan to get out now. Am I missing something?

I think we found our photoshop guy.

I'm not aware of the Youngs ever wearing a Newbury Track Club uniform.

There is no proof that the Youngs ever officially joined that club or that Brosnan ever officially coached it.

It was a farce.

*para olympics