Exactly! There is absolutely ZERO proof of its existence despite 125+ posts on here. Where are the pictures of it?
It's time to put up or shut up. Unless someone can provide solid visual evidence of its existence, this is like discussing what weapons unicorns would use to invade Mars.
Exactly! There is absolutely ZERO proof of its existence despite 125+ posts on here. Where are the pictures of it?
It's time to put up or shut up. Unless someone can provide solid visual evidence of its existence, this is like discussing what weapons unicorns would use to invade Mars.
There was a picture of the shirt posted either on Brosnan's or Newbury Park's Instagram story the other day. It said that the shirts will be available soon.
I checked both Instagrams and could not find any pictures of that shirt:
They already gave out stickers that had the same slogan on it. I am sure the shirts are on the way after all the talk they are getting.
Stickers aren't shirts. And speaking of that, does anyone have any pictures of those stickers, or should we assume that they are just as imaginary as the shirts?
You got to love this strategy. Talk about an imaginary shirt, get everyone all hyped up, see everyone's reaction, and THEN produce the actual product.
They already gave out stickers that had the same slogan on it. I am sure the shirts are on the way after all the talk they are getting.
Stickers aren't shirts. And speaking of that, does anyone have any pictures of those stickers, or should we assume that they are just as imaginary as the shirts?
You got to love this strategy. Talk about an imaginary shirt, get everyone all hyped up, see everyone's reaction, and THEN produce the actual product.
The stickers are real. They were handing them out at the California State Meet, and people were eating it up. I assure you that most of them were not sub 4:20 milers.
It seems like most of the complaints here are from coaches worried that their athletes' fragile egos might get bruised. But I've never heard any high schooler complain that these shirts and stickers made them feel inadequate or slow. Everyone knows 4:20 is a good mile time, and one person saying that it's not fast isn't going to change that. High schoolers look up to the Newbury Park team for pushing the boundaries of what is considered to be "fast", rather than being put down because their 4:35 mile isn't as good as they might've thought.
It's not a system, it's a group of kids. Look at the roster beyond the 2023 class and who looks like they even have a hail Mary chance of being close to 9:00? Maybe Doshi? Then who? Unless he recruits a handful of the top tier runners, it's not looking promising. The current group were world beaters as freshman. Both Youngs, both Sahlmans and Cantu were all faster as freshmen than Doshi is as a sophomore. Who looks even remotely capable of 9:00 as seniors? Jonah Sloan, Nathan Porter, Jack Watson or Arnav Shetty? That crew looks to more of the lucky to get close to 9:30 crowd.
I think all of them could run a sub 9:00 mile let alone a 9:30.
For Shetty it will be a tall task to run a sub 9. His PR is only a 10:52. The rest of them have a good shot. Porter only ran a 10:53 this year but his freshman year he ran a 10:45. He also ran a 4:26. Watson ran a 4:39 in the 1600 but only a 11:35 in the 3200. Not sure what’s up with that.
Also, they have a few freshmen coming in that have already broken 10:40 in the 3200.
How many high school kids work their butts off to break 4:30 in the mile? And now you’re just diminishing their accomplishment?
Just irks me. Some kids don’t develop until after high school and it shouldn’t be frowned upon. You wanna keep the kids in the sport and hey some special things can happen in college and beyond. Don’t tell them they’re slow in high school.
I don’t think Sean specifically said that above 4:20 is slow for a high school mile.
He said 4:20 isn't fast but somehow isn't saying 4:30 is slow? I don't follow. If I tell yout that you aren't fast, that us the same as saying that you are slow.
I think all of them could run a sub 9:00 mile let alone a 9:30.
For Shetty it will be a tall task to run a sub 9. His PR is only a 10:52. The rest of them have a good shot. Porter only ran a 10:53 this year but his freshman year he ran a 10:45. He also ran a 4:26. Watson ran a 4:39 in the 1600 but only a 11:35 in the 3200. Not sure what’s up with that.
Also, they have a few freshmen coming in that have already broken 10:40 in the 3200.
10:52 isn't a bad time for the mile. Good for him.
I agree that is complete disrespect to like 95% of high school runners. I grinded my ass off for 4 years just to run 4:36. My best friend couldn’t even break 5:30 and put in just as much time and effort as the rest of my high school team. Brosnan seems out of touch with reality. Your average runner isn’t going to be breaking 4:20, complete disrespect to his own runners who can’t run under 4:20 too and work just as hard as the Youngs/Sahlmans but just don’t have the natural talent
His point, and it is a good one, is that if you set goals that are nowhere near competitive on the top high school or college level, you will limit yourself. To be competitive on the national and international level, our runners need to set much higher goals, and by doing so, many will rise to meet them, just as so many Kenyans and Ethiopians do, and just as five of his own athletes have already done, running 3:56, 4:00, 4:02, 4:04, 7:56.97, 7:57, 8:03, 8:33, 8:39, ....
I agree that is complete disrespect to like 95% of high school runners. I grinded my ass off for 4 years just to run 4:36. My best friend couldn’t even break 5:30 and put in just as much time and effort as the rest of my high school team. Brosnan seems out of touch with reality. Your average runner isn’t going to be breaking 4:20, complete disrespect to his own runners who can’t run under 4:20 too and work just as hard as the Youngs/Sahlmans but just don’t have the natural talent
And thats why you or your team will never be any good. It's all prospective and 4:20 is not fast for High School.
Truth hurts and no one wants to hear it…it’s why we have a dozen Americans running 3:36 and none running 3:30 while Great Britain, Australia and Spain kick our butts.
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