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actually the feeder program that the Youngs and Sahlman's came from was NOT coached by him.

Yet the faster group of kids coming into high school, were the faster group of kids in high school, right?

None of them were coached by Brosnan before high school.

it’s mind boggling that the Brosnan disciples just refuse to acknowledge he was dealt a royal flush, because it takes away from claiming he is the greatest high school of all time. He did a really good job getting a lot of really talented kids to mostly progress (not all) through high school. It seems impossible to deny there was a larger group of more talented kids during his time than what is there now, although there is still a solid group at NP.

I'm not denying that Brosnan was given the deck of talent, but it wasn't talent alone. There were kids running faster than that deck in Youth Track that went to other high schools and went on to do nothing special in High School. Not saying my a Brosnan fan, but it takes both to have accomplished what they did.
The current crop of kids at NP seem to be doing well and progressing. If you removed the Young's and Sahlman's from the bell curve everyone would be saying that, but those two group of kids reset everyone's idea of "Good" for better or worse.

He might have burned the brightest, but nobody has even come close to Aris in terms of pure dominance. 11 nxn wins in 12 years ( the one loss they came in second) from a smaller school is absurd. Thats completely different groups of runners. In fact the 2010 FM girls even had a lower team score at NXN than the 2021 NP boys did at runninglane.

Brosnan is top tier, but definitely not the best xc coach in US history.

And look the FM roster now. Still coached by Aris. They only have 9 boys and 9 girls on the team. FM boys team wasn’t close to qualifying for state this year, but the FM girls team is top 5 in NY

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Thanks for the rational response. Of course there are multiple factors and coaching is one of them. There is no question NP was the greatest team in history and obviously that wouldn’t be possible without solid coaching. Unfortunately we’ll never really find out where Brosnan would stack up against the all time greats because the dominance was so short lived. If he could replicate similar results with a completely different group of kids or at a different school, it would erase doubt. Until he does that, it’s hard to put him in the class of Aris, Soles, Newton, Tyson and some others who were on top for much longer.

Brosnan took a below average UCLA team and broke school records and saw many All-Americans in one year. Something that UCLA had not seen on a long time on the distance side.
Taking a 4:01 guy to 3:54 in the mile and taking a women’s DMR to running 10:48 ( altitude con) at indoor NCAA’s. Indoor 13:36, 7:54 indoor PRs for the men. Multiple Women running under 4:20 in the 1500m and top women running 4:08. Steeplechase men 8:35, and women’s 9:52. A few low 3:40’s in the 1500m for men.
That’s a damn impressive coach in one year all with the team having no all-Americans the year before. I’m sure I missed some. That’s was a quick 10min search.
My guess is Brosnan is a leader and creates and elite environment. This is obvious with his teams. The man gets results and I would say he’s the best High School coach in history and knows how to get his athletes to run fast at all levels.

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He had some bright spots with a couple individuals making some nice improvements. He also had quite a few people not improve or get worse and ended up getting 2 of his top 3 injured and unable to finish the year. Without adding Mia Barnett (which got him in trouble) his women's DMR wouldn't have done anything of note.

From top to bottom the team was basically the same as it was the year before he showed up and top it all off, he got fired. His employer wasn't nearly as impressed with his performance in his one year of coaching. In cross, when the team was average and didn't improve from the year before, it was because the 6 months was not enough to make an impact, but when Mia Barnett drags their DMR to relevance after being on campus for a few weeks, it's his coaching that made it possible.

What strikes me about the Brosnan fan club is that anything good that happens is because of him and anything bad that happens is not his fault.

Brosnan a very good coach and when people try to say the opposite you’re going to get slack for it. His accomplishments as a coach are unprecedented. Hating is the sincerest form of flattery.

His accomplishments as a coach are unprecedented? Are you new to track and field? There are a few other coaches (the list is a bit too long) that would like to have a word with you.

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Getting fired in less than a year is certainly unprecedented. Not sure getting someone to run 3:51 is unprecedented.

The winner gave him the same portion. I noticed that also

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