CONFIRMED - Brosnan committed multiple NCAA violations at UCLA

Hopefully now with the report release we can all put Brosnan to bed and forget about his training group which turned out to be a rec club, the book which has never come out and just him in general. Its time. UCLA took the L from his violations and canned him and they moved on. So should we, especially since there are already so many great coaches out there doing it the right way in high school and college.

Rojo, one of your mods is unfairly covering for Brosnan. Yesterday I posted that I personally heard Brosnan admit to tampering with my own ears and one of the mods deleted my post. You should find out who that mod is and ban them from being a mod anymore, because they are clearly trying to suppress information that is harmful to Brosnan, and that's not the job of a mod to do that.

The first athlete entered the portal on December 12, 2022. Even BEFORE that date Brosnan was already going around and telling high school students that there were several female college runners that had already agreed to transfer to UCLA. He said that he couldn't name them because they weren't in the portal yet, but he was positive that they would be transferring to UCLA.

This timing was confirmed by the report that said in November 2022 his compliance department already knew about these future transfers, well before those athletes were in the portal.

The reason Brosnan was doing this was because signing day had already passed and many of the top female high school seniors had already committed to a college. Brosnan was quickly running out of time to recruit the few remaining top female high school seniors. He knew that if he waited until after those transfers were officially announced, that there might not be any top female seniors left to recruit.

So Brosnan decided to use the future transfers as an added incentive to get high school seniors to commit to UCLA, by telling the seniors that they wouldn't be the only good runner on the xc team, but that with them and the transfers, UCLA had a really good shot at an NCAA xc podium.

The crazy thing is that he was also telling this to some top females who were still juniors in high school. Not sure what was the rush was to recruit them. He could have easily waited a few more months until after the transfers were officially announced, and then talked to the high school juniors about the transfers.

Brosnan did not act as if he was breaking any rules, or act like what he was doing needed to be kept a secret. The way he was acting made it seem that he thought that as long as he didn't name any names, saying he had transfers ready to go, even though they weren't in the portal, was totally fine. Maybe at the time he really believed he wasn't doing anything wrong.

To be clear, I have nothing against Brosnan personally. I was looking forward to seeing what he could do as a coach at the college level. His main recruiting strategy of trying to convinced the top Southern California high school runners to go to college in Southern California made a lot of sense.

In addition to the 3 college women that he convinced to come back to Southern California, imagine if he had also gotten some combination of Sadie Engelhardt, Riley Blade, Holly Barker, Jaelyn Williams, Chiara Dailey, and Braelyn Combe to go to UCLA. Southern California has a ton of extremely talented 3200/5k runners but they usually leave and go to college somewhere else. Brosnan's goal was to have his female team podium at the NCAA XC Championships within just a few years and he might have been able to pull that off if he had been successful with his Southern California recruiting strategy.

But I posted this information yesterday, and now I'm re-posting it again today when I saw my post from yesterday got deleted, because I'm tired of the desperate attempts of Brosnan apologists in this thread trying to pretend that Brosnan didn't break the rules.

Rojo, please make sure that the same mod, who is obviously a biased Brosnan supporter, doesn't delete this post too.

If Brosnan just admitted it then he only would have gotten a slap on the wrist and he'd still be coaching in the NCAA (at UCLA or elsewhere). He could have just said he didn't understand the rules because he is new and agree to take full accountability. People would have understood and not cared.

But he lied over and over, denied it in every interview, and refused to cooperate with the investigation. It shows no honor and no class. If his athletes behaved the way he did, he'd scream at them until their ears fell off.

His behavior in denying it and lying is 100x worse than the actual violation itself. He has no honor and he is NOT a role model.

Factual posts regarding Brosnan are routinely deleted. It’s crazy how much he is protected while other coaches are fair game.

could be a mod. could be rojo. he's talked multiple times about meeting him in person. and we know how easily the LRC crew is biased by personal association. it's human to be that way.

anyway, doesn't sound like brosnan didn't anything that makes him a horrible person. but he clearly broke the rules and is facing the consequences. not sure if it's just arrogance, ignorance or BOTH. whatever it was, he certainly thought he could get away with it. He f'd around and found out as the kids say.

i don't keep up enough to know if this is true, but if it is, impossible to feel bad for him.

arrogant

For those of you who are surprised by this situation, remember, this is a guy who really couldn’t hold down a regular job or have any sort of career before he lucked into the 2 families at NP. For a guy, now in his late 40’s to have a half dozen years of any sort of success, it’s not surprising that he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. He was way too excited about the NP success and didn’t know how to deal with it, so the success inflated his ego beyond his capability. Sad situation.

All of his lies are documented in the report produced by the NCAA. He refused to speak to the investigators for 4 months. He even lied in the interview with Rojo about the situation.

The NCAA violations are not a great look, but people understand that people make mistakes. But his behavior, his lies, his accusations of jealousy of other coaches, and not cooperating with the investigation are an even bigger condemnation of his character, or more accurately his lack of character.

Brosnan straight up admitted it. He said he’s had friends for years before UCLA and kept those friendships going. It’s flat-out illegal under California and federal law for the NCAA to say he can’t communicate with these parents, especially when it’s not even a recruiting talk. The NCAA has dragged them into big possible lawsuit that they could have easily avoided if they weren’t so damn rigid and clueless.

He might have a case but based on the timing of the phone calls, he was 100% talking to them about recruiting. He cheated. End of story.

If only we had this same level of moral scrutiny in politics.

I had a college coach break some ncaa rules and was fired. I liked him but understood integrity and that the rules protect athletes.

I wonder what job Brosnan gets now. My fired college coach never coached again.

Job in the current administration, no doubt.

Yeah, but one is an Olympic Gold medalist and one ran some mediocre track at a couple NAIA schools. I give MJ a pass for having a big ego.

What are you talking about isn't every NCAA distance runners that is graduating (or looking to leave school early) lining up to be coached by him? And what about all those who already have a pro contact, aren't they all clocking to SB to be coached by him?

Violating the tampering rules is not smart for college coach. It’s just not smart.

One year to get fired from your job is not fast. it’s just not fast.

And if they believe that, they’re gonna start thinking …. It’s a state of mind

That’s right. don’t set limits. You’re capable of getting fired much faster if you just believe.

Out of curiosity, what was his day job (or jobs) prior to becoming a coach at UCLA?